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State bill data last updated Oct 26, 2026, 12:09 AM.

9,112 bills

• SB 2577 In committee 114
  Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, prohibits a pharmacy benefits manager from contracting with a state department, agency, or entity if the pharmacy benefits manager has been disciplined by the department of finance and administration or the department of commerce and insurance. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3; Title 8, Chapter 27; Title 56 and Title 71.
  Mar 3, 2026: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
• SB 2588 In committee 114
  Real Property - As introduced, increases, from 10 days to 10 business days, the time that a clerk and master has to send by certified mail a copy of the notice that the clerk and master has received a complaint of claim of abandoned mineral interest identifying the recipient as the owner of the mineral interest and that the interest will lapse in 60 days after publication of the complaint once a week for three consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the county in which the mineral interest is located. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 12; Title 13; Title 29; Title 54; Title 55; Title 59; Title 60; Title 66 and Title 68.
  Mar 3, 2026: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
• SB 2046 In committee 114
  Consumer Protection - As introduced, reduces from 15 to 10 days, the time within which a person licensed to provide deferred presentment services must file a written report with the commissioner of financial institutions following the occurrence of the filing for bankruptcy or reorganization; the institution of revocation or suspension proceedings by any state or governmental authority; the denial of the opportunity to engage in deferred presentment services by any state or governmental authority; any felony indictment or conviction of the licensee or any of its directors, officers, or principals; and other events that the commissioner may determine and identify by rule. - Amends TCA Title 45 and Title 47.
  Mar 3, 2026: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
• HJR 66 Adopted 114
  General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Encourages each local education agency that operates a high school to participate in the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery Career Exploration Program and make the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery tests widely available to all high school students in Tennessee. -
  Mar 3, 2026: Signed by Governor.
• HB 2003 In committee 114
  Education, Dept. of - As introduced, enacts the "School Mental Health Transparency Act"; requires the department to consult relevant agencies to compile a list of mental health resources; requires public schools to use the department's list to compile lists of mental health resources available to enrolled students and provide the lists to students' parents; requires that lists of mental health resources be published on the website of the department and each public school. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7; Title 33 and Title 49.
  Mar 3, 2026: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Education Administration Subcommittee of Education Committee
• HB 1768 In committee 114
  Gaming - As introduced, requires a licensee offering interactive sports wagering in this state to restrict access to such wagering on certain campuses of public institutions of higher education; requires certain public institutions of higher education to restrict internet access to interactive sports wagering on campus. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 49, Part 1 and Title 49.
  Mar 3, 2026: Failed in s/c Departments & Agencies Subcommittee of State & Local Government Committee
• SB 1965 In committee 114
  Banks and Financial Institutions - As introduced, increases, from 60 to 70 days, the time within which, after the end of the calendar year, the commissioner of financial institutions must submit the department's annual report to the governor. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 35; Title 42; Title 43; Title 44; Title 45; Title 46; Title 47; Title 48; Title 49; Title 50; Title 53; Title 55; Title 56; Title 57; Title 59; Title 60; Title 61; Title 62; Title 63; Title 64; Title 65; Title 66; Title 67 and Title 68.
  Mar 3, 2026: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
• SB 2033 In committee 114
  Employees, Employers - As introduced, requires employers that condition employment or prospective employment upon an employee or prospective employee submitting to a mental health evaluation to grant the employee or prospective employee reasonable access to the results of the mental health evaluation, including any report from a mental health professional or other evaluator; provides a private right of action for an employee or prospective employee who is denied such access. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 50.
  Mar 3, 2026: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
• SB 2638 In committee 114
  DUI Offenses - As introduced, allows a person convicted of driving under the influence of an intoxicant who is eligible for a restricted license to request, and the court to order, the use of a transdermal monitoring device in lieu of the person being required to operate only a motor vehicle equipped with an ignition interlock device; requires the person to pay all costs associated with the transdermal monitoring device; specifies the person is not eligible for assistance from the electronic monitoring indigency fund. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55, Chapter 10.
  Mar 3, 2026: Deferred to Summer Study
• SB 1722 In committee 114
  Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, prohibits a health insurance issuer or managed health insurance issuer from reimbursing for testing services a medical laboratory that is eligible to participate as an in-network participating provider at a rate less than the CMS clinical laboratory fee schedule for medical labs in this state; permits a managed health insurance issuer to require such lab to meet the performance metrics required of in-network labs. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7, Part 23.
  Mar 3, 2026: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
• HB 2287 In committee 114
  Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, authorizes the issuance of a retail package store license to an operator within the general services district of a metropolitan government that has approved the retail sale of liquor for off-premises consumption by local option election. - Amends TCA Title 7 and Title 57.
  Mar 3, 2026: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Departments & Agencies Subcommittee of State & Local Government Committee
• SB 1706 In committee 114
  Taxes, Real Property - As introduced, prohibits a city or county collecting official from requiring a taxpayer to pay the full tax due for an assessment for which an appeal is pending before the county or state boards of equalization. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5.
  Mar 3, 2026: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State and Local Government Committee
• HB 2027 In committee 114
  Local Education Agencies - As introduced, allows time spent by students in a physical education class to meet physical activity time requirements if the students are physically active in the class; clarifies that physical activity may include structured movement breaks; allows a teacher to prevent a student from participating in unstructured play and to assign activities to students during periods of physical activity to improve or correct student behavior. - Amends TCA Title 49.
  Mar 3, 2026: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Education Administration Subcommittee of Education Committee
• SB 1780 In committee 114
  Unclaimed Property - As introduced, allows the treasurer to file the annual report regarding the total amount and value of abandoned or unclaimed property with certain executive and legislative branch officials electronically. - Amends TCA Title 66.
  Mar 3, 2026: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
• HJR 91 Adopted 114
  General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Expresses support for SREB Crisis Recovery Network. -
  Mar 3, 2026: Signed by Governor.
• HB 2457 In committee 114
  TennCare - As introduced, requires a managed care organization or pharmacy benefits manager that is contracted with the bureau to reimburse a claim for a long-acting injectable drug intended for treatment and prevention of human immunodeficiency virus and administered in a pharmacy, physician's office, clinic, ambulatory surgical treatment center, or hospital. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 56 and Title 71.
  Mar 3, 2026: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Tenncare Subcommittee of Insurance Committee
• SR 316 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Recognition - Associated Builder and Contractors West Tennessee Chapter, 50th anniversary -
  Mar 3, 2026: Enrolled and ready for signatures
• SR 329 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Recognition - Alpha Beta Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., 100th anniversary -
  Mar 3, 2026: Sponsor(s) Added.
• SB 2575 In committee 114
  Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, prohibits an insurer from denying, conditioning the issuance or effectiveness of, or discriminating in the pricing of a medicare supplement policy if an applicant meets certain listed requirements, including a non-age eligible person who submits an application for enrollment in a medicare supplement policy with a different insurer within 60 days of such person's birthday and makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 56.
  Mar 3, 2026: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
• HJR 794 In committee 114
  Constitutional Amendments - Proposes an amendment to Article XI, Section 5 of the Constitution of Tennessee, to allow for bingo games conducted by 501(c)(3) or 501(c)(19) organizations to meet a charitable, nonprofit, or community service purpose. -
  Mar 3, 2026: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Departments & Agencies Subcommittee of State & Local Government Committee
• SB 2574 In committee 114
  Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As introduced, prohibits a pharmacy benefits manager from certain listed actions, including modifying, restricting, or denying a medication ordered by a healthcare prescriber; requires that a request for a formulary exception or prior authorization be granted or denied by a pharmacy benefits manager within a specified amount of time or such request is deemed approved. - Amends TCA Title 53; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 71.
  Mar 3, 2026: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
• HB 2461 In committee 114
  Taxes, Sales - As introduced, exempts the sale or use of feminine hygiene products from sales and use tax; directs the department of education to ensure feminine hygiene products are placed into and made available to students for free in a public school upon the request of a public school administrator, board, or director of schools. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 49 and Title 67, Chapter 6.
  Mar 3, 2026: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Education Administration Subcommittee of Education Committee
• SR 287 Adopted 114
  General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Matt Herriman, Tennessee Board of Regents -
  Mar 3, 2026: Sponsor(s) Added.
• HB 1533 In committee 114
  Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, requires each officer who takes possession of intoxicating liquor to file within 10 days, rather than five days, a written statement with the circuit or criminal court clerk identifying the kind and quantity of the liquor taken, and from whom the liquor was taken, if known. - Amends TCA Title 57 and Title 67.
  Mar 3, 2026: Failed in s/c Departments & Agencies Subcommittee of State & Local Government Committee
• HB 179 In committee 114
  Abortion - As introduced, specifies that the offense of criminal abortion does not include an abortion that was necessary due to a medical emergency affecting the physical or mental health of the pregnant person or performed on a patient whose pregnancy was the result of rape or incest. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 15; Title 63 and Title 68.
  Mar 3, 2026: Failed in s/c Population Health Subcommittee of Health Committee
• SB 2236 In committee 114
  Codes - As introduced, revises authority of state fire marshal to prescribe rules relating to minimum statewide building construction safety standards, specifically for fire prevention for multi-family dwelling units. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 120.
  Mar 3, 2026: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
• SR 286 Adopted 114
  General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Christi Branscom, Tennessee Board of Regents -
  Mar 3, 2026: Sponsor(s) Added.
• SB 1759 In committee 114
  State Inmates - As introduced, requires the department of correction to keep a copy of each validated risk and needs assessment of each inmate under its supervision and control for the duration of the inmate's period of incarceration. - Amends TCA Title 41.
  Mar 3, 2026: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State and Local Government Committee
• SB 1092 In committee 114
  Landlord and Tenant - As introduced, changes, from three days to three business days from the date written notice is received by a tenant, the date on which a landlord may terminate a rental agreement if the tenant or another person on the premises with the tenant's consent willfully or intentionally commits a violent act; behaves in a manner which constitutes or threatens to be a real and present danger to the health, safety, or welfare of the life or property of other tenants or persons on the premises; creates a hazardous or unsanitary condition on the property that affects the health, safety, or welfare or the life or property of other tenants or persons on the premises; or refuses to vacate the premises after entering the premises as an unauthorized subtenant or other unauthorized occupant. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13; Title 56; Title 62; Title 66; Title 67 and Title 68.
  Mar 3, 2026: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
• SB 1990 In committee 114
  Trade Regulation - As introduced, enacts the "Stop Rent Rigging Act." - Amends TCA Title 47 and Title 66.
  Mar 3, 2026: Failed in Senate Commerce and Labor Committee (No second)
• SR 288 Adopted 114
  General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Miles Burdine, Tennessee Board of Regents -
  Mar 3, 2026: Sponsor(s) Added.
• SB 1765 In committee 114
  Probation and Parole - As introduced, permits a trial judge to revoke a defendant's probation for a felony or misdemeanor based on one instance of technical violation; extends the permitted terms of incarceration a court may impose for a technical violation to 90 days for a first revocation, 180 days for a second revocation, and the remainder of the sentence for a third or subsequent revocation. - Amends TCA Title 40.
  Mar 3, 2026: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee
• SB 2152 In committee 114
  Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, increases, from 15 to 20, the number of calendar days that may pass from the actual date specified in the first notice after a person responsible for excavation or demolition has given the notice of the intent to excavate or demolish before the person is required to serve additional notice if the excavation or demolition has not yet been completed; makes other changes to the Underground Utility Damage Prevention Act. - Amends TCA Title 65, Chapter 31, Part 1.
  Mar 3, 2026: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State and Local Government Committee
• HB 1276 In committee 114
  Education - As introduced, removes a provision that required the board of regents, the University of Tennessee, and the Tennessee Independent Colleges and Universities Association to provide a report by April 1, 2009, to the Tennessee higher education commission on the reasonable efforts their institutions have taken to attempt to deter infringement of copyrighted works over the school's computer and network resources. - Amends TCA Title 49.
  Mar 3, 2026: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Education Administration Subcommittee of Education Committee
• SB 1598 In committee 114
  Health Care - As introduced, enacts the "Freedom from Medical Debt Act," which requires the state treasurer to contract with a nonprofit entity to acquire and repay certain medical debts for Tennessee residents with incomes at or below 400 percent of the federal poverty level or who owe medical debt equal to 5 percent or more of their household income, and prohibits healthcare providers from reporting a patient's medical debt to a consumer reporting agency. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 9; Title 47, Chapter 18; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
  Mar 3, 2026: Failed in Senate Commerce and Labor Committee (no second)
• SB 2261 In committee 114
  Corporations, Not for Profit - As introduced, requires a nonprofit organization that receives state or federal grants to compile, maintain, and publish in a publicly available location the salaries of the nonprofit organization's employees. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 10, Chapter 7; Title 35; Title 48 and Title 50.
  Mar 3, 2026: Failed in Senate Commerce and Labor Committee (no second)
• HB 732 In committee 114
  Education, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to develop or approve a policy allowing for the retake of a TCAP test, including each end-of-course assessment, if the administration of one or more of the state-mandated TCAP tests is interrupted due to an act of God or other circumstance beyond the control of the school. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.
  Mar 3, 2026: Taken off notice for cal in s/c K-12 Subcommittee of Education Committee
• SB 1682 In committee 114
  Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, requires certain data centers to register with the Tennessee public utilities commission; requires electric and water utilities that provide service to registered data centers to report usage and rates to the commission; requires the commission's executive director to compile and publish certain information based on reports received from utilities. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 10; Title 62; Title 65; Title 68 and Title 69.
  Mar 3, 2026: Failed in Senate Commerce and Labor Committee (no second)
• HB 1732 In committee 114
  Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, compiles a list of certain training requirements and opportunities for certain school staff and volunteers; changes the required frequency for certain de-escalation training, child abuse training, and training on harassment, intimidation, bullying, or cyberbullying policies. - Amends TCA Section 37-1-408; Title 49 and Section 68-6-103.
  Mar 3, 2026: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Education Administration Subcommittee of Education Committee
• SB 2626 In committee 114
  Criminal Offenses - As introduced, prohibits a person who is convicted of a felony from running for public office, regardless of whether the person receives a presidential pardon; prohibits a public employee from receiving retirement benefits from the Tennessee consolidated retirement system, any superseded retirement system, or any other public pension system, if such employee or official is convicted of a felony. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 8; Title 39 and Title 40.
  Mar 3, 2026: Recalled from Senate State & Local Government Committee
• SB 1833 In committee 114
  Education, Higher - As introduced, prohibits imposing liability against a higher education institution for negligence in admitting, enrolling, or extending housing opportunities to a person who has been previously convicted of a criminal offense based solely upon the previous criminal conviction; prohibits use of the person's prior criminal record as evidence in a cause of action against a higher education institution for negligence in admitting, enrolling, or extending housing opportunities to the person. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 28; Title 29; Title 40 and Title 49.
  Mar 3, 2026: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee
• SB 2576 In committee 114
  Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, prohibits a pharmacy benefits manager from reimbursing a contracted pharmacy for a prescription drug or device or a pharmacy service in an amount that is less than the greatest of certain listed amounts and makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 27; Title 56, Chapter 7 and Title 71, Chapter 5.
  Mar 3, 2026: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
• HB 2644 In committee 114
  Bristol - Subject to local approval, revises election provisions for city council and the board of education to comply with changes to general election law; reduces the time after final passage for an ordinance to take effect from 17 days to seven days; changes the due dates for property taxes; creates a department of education. - Amends Chapter 84 of the Private Acts of 1991; as amended.
  Mar 2, 2026: P2C, ref. to Private Acts Committee - State & Local Government Committee
• HJR 1042 Introduced 114
  Memorials, Recognition - Philippine-American Friendship Day, 80th anniversary -
  Mar 2, 2026: Objected to on Consent Calendar.
• HJR 877 In committee 114
  General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Dewey Branstetter, Jr., Tennessee Ethics Commission -
  Mar 2, 2026: Sponsor(s) Added.
• HB 2295 Introduced 114
  Health, Dept. of - As introduced, directs the department to submit a report on the feasibility of creating and implementing a graduate physician licensure program that would allow a person who has graduated from an allopathic medical school and passed the United States Medical Licensing Examination, but who has not completed an accredited postgraduate residency program, to provide medical services within a framework of a continuous collaboration and supervision agreement with a licensed physician to the chair of the health and welfare committee of the senate and the chair of the committee of the house of representatives having jurisdiction over health-related matters on or before January 1, 2027. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.
  Mar 2, 2026: Sponsor(s) Added.
• HJR 880 In committee 114
  General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Pete Claussen, Heritage Conservation Trust Fund Board of Trustees -
  Mar 2, 2026: H. subst. & concurred in SJR 645
• SB 2098 In committee 114
  Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates an offense for a vape shop retailer, or a distributor, wholesaler, or importer, who sells or offers for sale a vapor product for retail sale in this state to sell nitrous oxides. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 57, Chapter 7 and Title 67.
  Mar 2, 2026: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee
• HJR 878 In committee 114
  General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Joshua R. Walker, Tennessee Claims Commission -
  Mar 2, 2026: H. subst. & concurred in SJR 639
• HJR 882 In committee 114
  General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Dr. Tyler Forrest, Heritage Conservation Trust Fund Board of Trustees -
  Mar 2, 2026: H. subst. & concurred in SJR 641