Tennessee bills

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State bill data last updated Oct 26, 2026, 12:06 PM.

9,112 bills

• SB 2520 In committee 114
  Gaming - As introduced, allocates 2 percent of revenue from sports gaming in this state to programs that serve rural and urban at-risk youth. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 49 and Title 67.
  Feb 5, 2026: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee
• HB 2120 Introduced 114
  Tourism - As introduced, requires each local tourism development authority to file its annual report of its business affairs and transactions with the department of tourist development. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 67.
  Feb 5, 2026: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
• SB 2036 In committee 114
  Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, enacts the "Stabilizing Healthcare Access with Reimbursement Protections (SHARP) Act." - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 56.
  Feb 5, 2026: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
• SB 2425 In committee 114
  TennCare - As introduced, requires an eligibility determination of an individual for residential facility benefits to evaluate the individual's physical condition and mental condition separately. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.
  Feb 5, 2026: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Health and Welfare Committee
• SB 2123 In committee 114
  Statutes of Limitations and Repose - As introduced, specifies that certain statutes of limitation in civil matters apply to the state and the state's political subdivisions. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 28 and Title 29.
  Feb 5, 2026: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
• HB 2590 Introduced 114
  Planning, Public - As introduced, specifies that the presiding officer of the local government planning advisory committee must promptly notify, or cause to be notified, the appointing authority of a member who fails to attend three consecutive committee meetings. - Amends TCA Title 4.
  Feb 5, 2026: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
• SB 2321 In committee 114
  Criminal Offenses - As introduced, prohibits a person or entity from distributing an electoral deepfake within 90 days of an election that the person or entity knows or should have known is a deceptive and fraudulent depiction of a candidate or political party; creates civil penalties and outlines exceptions. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 39, Chapter 17.
  Feb 5, 2026: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee
• SB 2472 In committee 114
  Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As introduced, changes from 60 days to 75 days prior to the beginning of the fiscal year the time in which the president of the metropolitan airport authority must submit the annual operating budget to the board for approval. - Amends TCA Title 42, Chapter 3 and Title 42, Chapter 4.
  Feb 5, 2026: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Transportation & Safety Committee
• SB 2564 In committee 114
  Election Laws - As introduced, repeals convenience voting; provides requirements for satellite voting locations during early voting. - Amends TCA Title 2.
  Feb 5, 2026: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee
• HB 2233 In committee 114
  Consumer Protection - As introduced, enacts the "Junk Fee Prevention Act." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 19 and Title 47, Chapter 18.
  Feb 5, 2026: P2C, ref. to Commerce Committee
• HB 2289 Introduced 114
  Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the report detailing strategies the department intends to use to increase resources for services and supports, including those funded by Medicaid, TennCare, or other public and private sources, to be submitted in an electronic format. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 34; Title 52; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
  Feb 5, 2026: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
• SB 2333 In committee 114
  Judicial Districts - As introduced, deletes the requirement that, beginning in 2028, the funding for each judicial district that has a disproportionately high number of judges, as determined by the comptroller, be reduced by 10 percent during the subsequent fiscal year if the legislature has not passed legislation reapportioning the judicial districts. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 2, Part 5.
  Feb 5, 2026: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
• SB 2217 In committee 114
  Controlled Substances - As introduced, changes from January 1 to January 15 the deadline for the medical cannabis commission to submit its annual report. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29; Title 39; Title 43; Title 53; Title 57; Title 67 and Title 68.
  Feb 5, 2026: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
• SB 2029 In committee 114
  Real Property - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Uniform Real Property Transfer on Death Act." - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 30; Title 31; Title 32; Title 35; Title 55; Title 66 and Section 67-4-409.
  Feb 5, 2026: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
• HB 2345 In committee 114
  Insurance, Motor Vehicles - As introduced, enacts the "Community Faith Transportation and Service Protection Act," which establishes secondary vehicle liability insurance provided by the state to a faith-based organization for vehicles used by the faith-based organization for community service use. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 8; Title 55 and Title 56.
  Feb 5, 2026: P2C, ref. to Insurance Committee - Government Operations for Review
• HB 2310 Introduced 114
  Public Health - As introduced, requires healthcare provider regulatory authorities to report quarterly to the department of health the number and type of disciplinary actions taken against a healthcare provider for knowingly performing or offering to perform on a minor, or administering or offering to administer to a minor, a prohibited medical procedure. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68, Chapter 33.
  Feb 5, 2026: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
• HB 2524 In committee 114
  Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates the new criminal offenses of systematic unauthorized employment and aggravated systematic unauthorized employment; establishes the tort of unfair competition. - Amends TCA Title 29 and Title 39.
  Feb 5, 2026: P2C, ref. to Commerce Committee - Judiciary Committee
• HB 2596 Introduced 114
  Election Laws - As introduced, requires a county election commission, upon receipt of a bona fide complaint of a violation of a person's right to vote in an election, to document the details of the complaint and electronically submit the complaint to the state election commission. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 4; Title 8; Title 29; Title 39 and Title 41.
  Feb 5, 2026: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
• SB 2672 In committee 114
  Public Contracts - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Businesses First Act," which requires local governmental entities to provide a 30-day local bidding period for certain contracts, during which only local businesses may submit bids; creates a bidding preference for local businesses. - Amends TCA Title 9 and Title 12.
  Feb 5, 2026: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee
• SB 2501 In committee 114
  Ethics - As introduced, requires Shelby County to create a county ethics commission. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 6 and Title 5.
  Feb 5, 2026: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Government Operations Committee
• HB 2324 In committee 114
  Taxes, Franchise - As introduced, requires the comptroller of the treasury to conduct a financial audit of all franchise tax refunds claimed and received for the prior fiscal year, with the audit results to be made available on the comptroller's website; requires all franchise tax refunds paid be open to public inspection as a public record under the public records law. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7; Title 67, Chapter 1, Part 17; Title 67, Chapter 1, Part 18; Title 67, Chapter 1, Part 8 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 21.
  Feb 5, 2026: P2C, ref. to State & Local Government Committee - Finance, Ways & Means
• HB 2134 In committee 114
  Solid Waste Disposal - As introduced, prohibits municipalities, counties, and other political subdivisions of this state from disposing, or contracting for the disposal of, solid waste in a landfill located outside their territorial boundaries unless the host county or host municipality in which the landfill is located has entered into a host community agreement approving such disposal; applies to all contracts entered into for the disposal of solid waste on or after July 1, 2026. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 68, Chapter 211.
  Feb 5, 2026: P2C, ref. to Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee
• HB 2520 Introduced 114
  Taxes, Ad Valorem - As introduced, requires the notification submitted by the director of the division of property assessments to the commissioner of finance and administration of the default by a county or city in the repayment of a loan provided by the state to finance the city's or county's real property reappraisal program to be in writing. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5.
  Feb 5, 2026: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
• SB 1575 In committee 114
  State Government - As introduced, authorizes a governmental entity to publish notices of public meetings on a secure website of the governmental body; authorizes a person to request an electronic or hard copy of an e-newsletter or notice published by the governmental body if the governmental body provides such documents electronically. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 44, Part 1.
  Feb 5, 2026: Withdrawn.
• SB 2100 In committee 114
  Consumer Protection - As introduced, requires certain data controllers to annually register with the consumer protection division of the office of the attorney general and reporter; requires the division to create and maintain a website and accessible deletion mechanism that a consumer can use at no cost to make a single deletion request that is binding on all controllers registered with the division; makes other related changes to the Tennessee Information Protection Act. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18, Part 33.
  Feb 5, 2026: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
• SB 2269 In committee 114
  County Government - As introduced, increases from 48 to 72 hours, the time within which the county legislative body must convene after the filing of an application by the county mayor for such convening based on the public necessity requiring it in the mayor's opinion. - Amends TCA Title 5 and Title 6.
  Feb 5, 2026: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee
• SB 2091 In committee 114
  Education - As introduced, authorizes, instead of requires, local education agencies and public charter schools to retain a student in the third grade if the student has not shown a basic understanding of the curriculum and an ability to perform the skills required in the subject of reading or English language arts. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1 and Title 49, Chapter 6.
  Feb 5, 2026: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Education Committee
• SB 2302 In committee 114
  Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, deletes the offense of carrying a firearm or a club with the intent to go armed, prohibits the carrying of a firearm or weapon inside of a kindergarten through grade 12 public or private school and on a school bus if the person's intent is to go armed and the school and the bus are posted in a certain manner; deletes the offense of carrying a firearm on the property of a university, college campus, and other public or private non-kindergarten through grade 12 educational institutions or property; rewrites the offense of possessing a handgun while under the influence of alcohol or any controlled substance or controlled substance analogue; rewrites the offense of carrying weapons during judicial proceedings; makes various other changes related to firearms. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 49; Title 55 and Title 65.
  Feb 5, 2026: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
• HB 2191 In committee 114
  Agriculture - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Agriculture Recovery and Investment in Family Farm (TARIFF) Relief Act," which creates a fund within the state treasury for the purpose of making grants to family farmers who have struggled with high input costs and market losses resulting from tariffs on agricultural goods, equipment, and machinery. - Amends TCA Title 9 and Title 43.
  Feb 5, 2026: P2C, ref. to Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee - Government Operations for Review
• SB 2415 In committee 114
  Civil Emergencies - As introduced, requires state agencies charged with responsibilities in connection with healthcare facilities to study emergency mitigation at the direction of the governor as part of the state and local comprehensive emergency management plans. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 13; Title 14; Title 49; Title 54; Title 55; Title 58; Title 64; Title 65; Title 66; Title 68 and Title 71.
  Feb 5, 2026: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee
• HB 2604 Introduced 114
  TennCare - As introduced, removes an obsolete reference to July 1, 2000, as the initial date after which the department of health must ensure that application forms for TennCare uninsured or uninsurable coverage under the Medical Assistance Act apprise applicants of the requirements of the act. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 8; Title 12; Title 14; Title 33; Title 47; Title 52; Title 56; Title 62; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
  Feb 5, 2026: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
• HB 2424 Introduced 114
  Taxes, Ad Valorem - As introduced, requires the notice submitted by the state board of equalization to a county mayor on whether an extension of time to complete a property reappraisal program is justified to be in writing. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 9; Title 12 and Title 67.
  Feb 5, 2026: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
• HB 2280 Introduced 114
  Education, Higher - As introduced, deletes an obsolete requirement that the governing board of each public institution of higher education submit a report on the institution's implementation of a research security policy by July 1, 2025, to the chairs of the education committee of the senate and the education committees of the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 9 and Title 49.
  Feb 5, 2026: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
• HB 2161 In committee 114
  Eminent Domain - As introduced, adds to the definition of "public use" for eminent domain a sidewalk, public greenway, bicycle lane, pedestrian way, or proper slope development associated with a road, highway, bridge, or other structure, facility, or project used for public transportation. - Amends TCA Section 29-17-102.
  Feb 5, 2026: P2C, ref. to Judiciary Committee
• SB 2274 In committee 114
  Funeral Directors and Embalmers - As introduced, authorizes the operator of a crematory facility to provide an electronic receipt, instead of a written receipt, to the person who delivers a dead human body or body parts to the facility for cremation. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 10; Title 29; Title 30; Title 31; Title 32; Title 34; Title 35; Title 36; Title 38; Title 39; Title 46; Title 50; Title 55; Title 56; Title 58; Title 62; Title 67; Title 68 and Title 71.
  Feb 5, 2026: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
• SB 2582 In committee 114
  Zoning - As introduced, prohibits the adoption or enforcement of zoning regulations that have the effect of diminishing the value of a property; authorizes property owners to seek compensation for such diminished value. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 13, Chapter 7.
  Feb 5, 2026: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee
• HB 2417 Introduced 114
  Business Organizations - As introduced, increases, from two to three, the number of days' notice that a for-profit corporation must give of the date, time, and place of a meeting to elect directors and complete the organization of the corporation or elect a board of directors to complete the organization of the corporation, if the initial directors are not named in the charter of the corporation. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 29; Title 39; Title 46; Title 47; Title 48; Title 50; Title 61; Title 62 and Title 66.
  Feb 5, 2026: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
• SB 2104 In committee 114
  Fireworks - As introduced, increases, from fewer than 90 days to fewer than 95 days, the time that a firework exhibitor licensee has after expiration of the exhibitor's license to renew the license and have it retroactive to the date the old license expired. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 12; Title 45; Title 46; Title 47; Title 48; Title 50; Title 61; Title 62; Title 63; Title 65 and Title 68.
  Feb 5, 2026: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
• HB 2242 In committee 114
  Prisons and Reformatory Institutions - As introduced, authorizes the Tennessee rehabilitative initiative in correction (TRICOR) program to operate commissary programs within state prisons. - Amends TCA Title 41, Chapter 22.
  Feb 5, 2026: P2C, ref. to State & Local Government Committee
• SB 2600 In committee 114
  Annexation - As introduced, authorizes municipalities to annex territory outside of their urban growth boundaries so long as the territory is not within another municipality's urban growth boundary. - Amends TCA Title 6, Chapter 51 and Title 6, Chapter 58.
  Feb 5, 2026: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee
• SB 2105 In committee 114
  Education - As introduced, requires each public charter school to publish the policy adopted by its governing board on the use of artificial intelligence by students, teachers, and staff for instructional and assignment purposes on its website; requires each local board of education to direct each school under its management and control to publish the policy adopted by the local board on the use of artificial intelligence by students, teachers, and staff for instructional and assignment purposes on the school's website. - Amends TCA Title 49.
  Feb 5, 2026: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Education Committee
• HB 2282 In committee 114
  Public Employees - As introduced, allows up to five days' leave for any eligible employee who is a foster parent or kinship caregiver regarding appearances in court or counseling sessions related to the placement of the foster child. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 50.
  Feb 5, 2026: P2C, ref. to State & Local Government Committee
• HB 2416 In committee 114
  Education - As introduced, requires each public charter school to publish the policy adopted by its governing board on the use of artificial intelligence by students, teachers, and staff for instructional and assignment purposes on its website; requires each local board of education to direct each school under its management and control to publish the policy adopted by the local board on the use of artificial intelligence by students, teachers, and staff for instructional and assignment purposes on the school's website. - Amends TCA Title 49.
  Feb 5, 2026: P2C, ref. to Education Committee
• HB 2230 In committee 114
  Highways, Roads and Bridges - As introduced, expands the authority for the department to set tolls to existing transportation facilities that are part of the state highway system or interstate and national defense highway system, located at the border of this state with another state, and where, on or after July 1, 2026, one or more new vehicle travel lanes are added to the facility or an HOV lane on the facility is converted to a high occupancy user fee lane. - Amends TCA Title 12; Title 54 and Title 55.
  Feb 5, 2026: P2C, ref. to Transportation Committee
• HB 2265 In committee 114
  Taxes, Real Property - As introduced, urges the comptroller of the treasury to study the feasibility and potential impacts of establishing the value of all residential property as the most recent price paid for the property in lieu of assessors of property appraising the value through the use of assessment manuals; requires a report, if the study is conducted, to be submitted to the finance, ways and means committee of the senate and the committee of the house of representatives having jurisdiction over finance matters. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5.
  Feb 5, 2026: P2C, ref. to State & Local Government Committee
• SB 2278 In committee 114
  Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, increases from quarterly to monthly, the frequency with which licensed hospitals must report claims data to the commissioner of health and adjusts the delinquency deadline to require submission within 60 days following the end of the month, rather than the end of the quarter. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 29; Title 33; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
  Feb 5, 2026: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
• SB 2573 In committee 114
  Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires each LEA to compile a list of all school buildings in the district that use natural gas for the provision of one or more utilities and to post the list on its website no later than October 1 of each year. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 49 and Title 65.
  Feb 5, 2026: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Education Committee
• SB 2315 In committee 114
  Alcoholic Beverage Commission - As introduced, requires the commission to submit its biennial report on underage drinking, drunk driving, and other harmful uses of alcohol to the governor in addition to members of the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 57.
  Feb 5, 2026: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee
• SB 2096 In committee 114
  Human Resources, Department of - As introduced, excludes a child care agency that provides child care services through a child development program and is accredited by the United States department of defense from being subject to licensure as long as such child care agency provides child care services only to an eligible patron. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 3.
  Feb 5, 2026: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Health and Welfare Committee
• HB 2342 Introduced 114
  Criminal Offenses - As introduced, allows the warden or chief administrative officer's report to the district attorney general of certain offenses that occur within a penal institution to be submitted electronically. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 55; Title 64 and Title 65.
  Feb 5, 2026: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.