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• HB 2510 Became law 114
  Taxes, Sales - As enacted, extends the deadline by which a county that borders at least three distressed rural counties must apply to be eligible to retain the sales and use tax generated from a commercial development district from December 31, 2026, to December 31, 2040; extends the deadline for the commissioner of finance and administration to approve a commercial development district from June 30, 2031, to June 30, 2041. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.
  May 27, 2026: Pub. Ch. 1038
• HB 2507 In committee 114
  Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As enacted, vacates the present board of commissioners of each existing authority for metropolitan and regional airports and reconstitutes a new governing body; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7 and Title 42.
  May 27, 2026: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 978
• HB 2668 Became law 114
  Monterey - Subject to local approval, deletes obsolete provisions authorizing the mayor to serve as the ex officio recorder for the town of Monterey; establishes the position of Town Administrator and prescribes the Administrator's powers, duties, and functions. - Amends Chapter 492 of the Acts of 1901; as amended.
  May 27, 2026: Pr. Ch. 72
• HB 2503 Became law 114
  Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, authorizes a health insurance entity to offer a short-term limited-duration plan and hospital indemnity coverage on the marketplace. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 10; Title 12; Title 29; Title 35; Title 36; Title 37; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41; Title 42; Title 45; Title 47; Title 49; Title 50; Title 52; Title 53; Title 56; Title 58; Title 63; Title 67; Title 68 and Title 71.
  May 27, 2026: Pub. Ch. 1036
• HB 2502 Became law 114
  Banks and Financial Institutions - As enacted, clarifies that the service of transmitting money from a location originating in this state to a location outside of the United States or its territories is a taxable service and that such a tax is generally levied on the amount of money transmitted; requires revenues generated from such a tax to be allocated to certain funds and purposes. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 38; Title 39; Title 45; Title 47; Title 49 and Title 67.
  May 27, 2026: Pub. Ch. 1035
• HB 2509 Became law 114
  Housing - As enacted, establishes the community workforce housing innovation pilot program to be administered by the Tennessee housing development agency; authorizes the agency to provide loans to an applicant for construction or rehabilitation of workforce housing in each of the three grand divisions; requires the housing to be affordable to natural persons or families who meet certain criteria. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 53; Title 13; Title 48, Chapter 101, Part 3; Title 56 and Title 67.
  May 27, 2026: Pub. Ch. 1037
• HB 2511 In committee 114
  Appropriations - As enacted, authorizes direct and continuing appropriations by certain airport authorities for the issuance of debt that is not a liability of the state and the payment of debt service thereon. - Amends TCA Title 9.
  May 18, 2026: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 906
• HB 2506 In committee 114
  Public Records - As enacted, requires each state governmental entity and official to maintain certain information relative to the operational enforcement of federal and state immigration laws as confidential, and provides that such information is not subject to public inspection. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 10; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41 and Chapter 253 of the Public Acts of 2021.
  Apr 27, 2026: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 686
• HB 2505 Became law 114
  Criminal Offenses - As enacted, makes it a Class A misdemeanor for a virtual kiosk operator or other person to knowingly install or allow installation of, permit, place, or otherwise operate a virtual currency kiosk in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 12; Title 13; Title 29; Title 39; Title 45; Title 47 and Title 67.
  Apr 23, 2026: Pub. Ch. 766
• HB 2504 In committee 114
  Sentencing - As introduced, requires a defendant to be sentenced to imprisonment for life as a repeat violent offender under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 41.
  Apr 15, 2026: Taken off notice for cal. in Finance, Ways and Means Committee
• HJR 1043 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Recognition - Nate Bargatze -
  Mar 18, 2026: Signed by Governor.
• HJR 862 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Death - Natalie Leach Haslam -
  Feb 12, 2026: Signed by Governor.
• HJR 728 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Death - Roy Foster Kramer -
  Feb 11, 2026: Signed by Governor.
• HB 2508 Introduced 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.
  Feb 5, 2026: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
• HB 1437 Became law 114
  Crossville - Subject to local approval, realigns salaries of mayor and city council to be set at a percentage of salary earned by the county mayor; establishes new meeting schedule for mayor and city council; creates process for holding administrative hearings by the city; increases maximum occupancy tax that may be imposed, from 2 percent to 3 percent. - Amends Chapter 519 of the Private Acts of 1953; as amended and rewritten.
  Jun 4, 2025: Pr. Ch. 28
• HB 1097 Became law 114
  Local Government, General - As enacted, sets up a process by which the attorney general and reporter may review whether a local government action violates state law or the Constitution of Tennessee. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8 and Title 9.
  May 27, 2025: Pub. Ch. 514
• HB 1089 Became law 114
  Criminal Offenses - As enacted, requires the department of mental health and substance abuse services to establish a mental health evaluation process for a community mental health center or qualified mental health professional to evaluate a defendant convicted of domestic assault, child abuse, aggravated child abuse, cruelty to animals, aggravated cruelty to animals; requires a court in which a person is convicted of any such offense to order the offender to undergo a mental health evaluation prior to the sentencing hearing. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 39 and Title 40.
  May 27, 2025: Pub. Ch. 511
• HB 1093 Became law 114
  Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, expands the definition of "machine gun" to include any part, or combination of parts, designed and intended solely for use in converting a firearm into a machine gun; increases the classification for the intentional or knowing possession, manufacture, transport, repair, or sale of a machine gun from a Class E to a Class C felony; reclassifies certain other offenses involving the possession of firearm or handgun ammunition; makes a defendant ineligible for parole if convicted of aggravated assault that involved the use of a firearm from within a motor vehicle. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.
  May 27, 2025: Pub. Ch. 513
• HB 1092 Became law 114
  Federal Aid - As enacted, establishes a process for reviewing requests for federal aid. -
  May 27, 2025: Pub. Ch. 512
• HB 1090 Became law 114
  Correction, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to study the issues associated with constructing and operating a reentry facility that would house eligible inmates who are working toward return from incarceration into the community. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 40 and Title 41.
  May 8, 2025: Pub. Ch. 351
• HJR 486 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Recognition - Elon Musk and SpaceX -
  May 5, 2025: Signed by Governor.
• HB 1094 In committee 114
  State Symbols - As enacted, designates the Southern Stars Symphonic Brass as the official brass band of the state of Tennessee. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3.
  Apr 30, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 176
• HB 1088 In committee 114
  Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires an LEA that receives credible information regarding a threat of violence or significantly disruptive behavior directed toward, or occurring on the grounds of, a public school in the LEA, and that reports the threat or disruptive behavior to a state or local law enforcement agency, to notify the parents and guardians of students enrolled in the public school of the same threat or disruptive behavior within 48 hours of the LEA making its report to law enforcement. - Amends TCA Title 49.
  Apr 29, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 215
• HJR 49 In committee 114
  Constitutional Amendments - Proposes an amendment to Article I, Section 15 of the Constitution of Tennessee to remove the right to bail for the following offenses when the proof is evident or the presumption great: act of terrorism; second degree murder; aggravated rape of a child; aggravated rape; grave torture; and any other offense, as of November 3, 2026, for which a defendant, if convicted, could not be released prior to the expiration of at least 85 percent of the entire sentence imposed. -
  Apr 16, 2025: Sponsor(s) Added.
• HJR 48 In committee 114
  Constitutional Amendments - Proposes an amendment to Article I, Section 35 of the Constitution of Tennessee to expand the rights of victims of crimes. -
  Apr 16, 2025: Sponsor(s) Added.
• HB 1096 Became law 114
  Economic and Community Development - As enacted, prohibits an employer seeking to receive an economic development incentive from the state from entering into a community benefits agreement or similar legal contract if the agreement or contract imposes obligations or conditions on the employer regarding employment practices, benefits, or operations that are not directly related to the performance of the employer’s duties under the economic development incentive. - Amends TCA Title 4.
  Apr 4, 2025: Pub. Ch. 151
• HB 1095 Became law 114
  Law Enforcement Training Academy - As enacted, requires the peace officer standards and training commission to issue a certificate of compliance to a person appointed as a private special deputy on or after January 1, 2026, if the person meets the qualifications for employment as a police officer and satisfactorily completes an approved recruit training program; requires annual in-service training sessions to retain such certification. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 38 and Title 49.
  Apr 4, 2025: Pub. Ch. 105
• HR 9 Adopted 114
  General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Ina F. Maxwell, Ph.,D., State Board of Education -
  Mar 11, 2025: Enrolled; ready for sig. of H. Speaker.
• HJR 242 In committee 114
  General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - John Hie, Tennessee Public Utility Commission -
  Mar 10, 2025: Sponsor(s) Added.