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HB 2174 In committee 114
Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, revises the exemption for judges to the offense of carrying weapons during judicial proceedings. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

May 27, 2026: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1141
HB 2175 Became law 114
Motor Vehicles - As enacted, requires a delivery network company or delivery network company driver to comply with certain automobile liability insurance requirements. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 55; Title 56 and Title 65.

May 26, 2026: Pub. Ch. 1011
HJR 1571 Adopted 114
Memorials, Personal Occasion - August Jett Cates, birth -

May 7, 2026: Signed by Governor.
HJR 1605 Adopted 114
Memorials, Public Service - Carolyn Cates -

May 7, 2026: Signed by Governor.
HJR 1350 Adopted 114
Memorials, Sports - Cade Reel, 2026 Drive, Chip, and Putt National Finalist -

Apr 30, 2026: Signed by Governor.
HB 1723 In committee 114
Child Labor - As enacted, adds regulations for content creation that involves certain minors. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 39; Title 47 and Title 50.

Apr 27, 2026: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 687
HJR 1333 Adopted 114
Memorials, Retirement - Jim Reed, Rhea County Commissioner -

Apr 24, 2026: Signed by Governor.
HB 2170 In committee 114
Health Care - As introduced, authorizes electronic filing of the annual report by a sponsoring not-for-profit corporation providing healthcare services to low income individuals pursuant to the Memphis Plan Act of 1991, with the commissioner of commerce and insurance. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7.

Mar 31, 2026: Re-ref. Insurance Subcommittee
HB 1252 In committee 114
Taxes, Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, deletes an obsolete provision relating to a tax credit for beer or ale that was destroyed in a flood occurring between May 1, 2010, and May 8, 2010. - Amends TCA Title 57 and Title 67.

Mar 17, 2026: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Departments & Agencies Subcommittee of State & Local Government Committee
HJR 941 Adopted 114
Memorials, Death - Ola Cecil Harris -

Mar 11, 2026: Signed by Governor.
HJR 942 Adopted 114
Memorials, Death - Charles Farris Dye, Sr. -

Mar 11, 2026: Signed by Governor.
HB 2176 In committee 114
Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services, Dept. of - As introduced, adds the legislative librarian to the list the department of mental health and substance abuse services must submit its quarterly report to on the implementation and impact of available suitable accommodations, including the number and length of any delayed admissions, in state owned or operated hospitals or treatment resources. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 52; Title 63 and Title 68.

Mar 10, 2026: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Population Health Subcommittee of Health Committee
HJR 911 Adopted 114
Memorials, Recognition - Allan Dale Hannah -

Feb 27, 2026: Signed by Governor.
HJR 839 Adopted 114
Memorials, Recognition - Allan Dale Hannah -

Feb 12, 2026: Signed by Governor.
HJR 837 Adopted 114
Memorials, Retirement - Rhea County Executive Jim Vincent -

Feb 12, 2026: Signed by Governor.
HJR 838 Adopted 114
Memorials, Death - Ola Cecil Harris -

Feb 12, 2026: Signed by Governor.
HB 2171 In committee 114
Cemeteries - As introduced, requires a cemetery company to include in its record of each burial in the cemetery the precise geographical location using latitudinal and longitudinal coordinates; requires the cemetery company to transmit a copy of the record to the funeral establishment responsible for the arrangements of the person buried at the interment site within 15 days after the date of burial. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 46 and Title 62, Chapter 5.

Feb 5, 2026: P2C, ref. to Commerce Committee
HB 2173 Introduced 114
Drugs, Prescription - As introduced, authorizes an owner or person in legal possession of drugs or devices deemed adulterated to request a show cause hearing electronically, rather than strictly in writing. - Amends TCA Title 47; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68.

Feb 5, 2026: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
HB 2591 In committee 114
Funeral Directors and Embalmers - As introduced, establishes organic human reduction as a legally permissible method to dispose of human remains, with oversight by and pursuant to rules promulgated by the board of funeral directors and embalmers. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 11, Chapter 6, Part 1; Title 62, Chapter 5; Title 63 and Title 68.

Feb 5, 2026: P2C, ref. to Commerce Committee - Government Operations for Review
HB 882 In committee 114
Environment and Conservation, Department of - As introduced, prohibits the department from regulating farming activities involving top soil, rock removal, or the building of a pond when the activities are conducted in an area that is less than three acres in size, and the property on which the activities occur has greenbelt classification. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 11; Title 13; Title 43; Title 44; Title 64; Title 66; Title 67; Title 68 and Title 69.

Feb 4, 2026: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee
HB 1868 In committee 114
Education, Higher - As introduced, waives, for the dependent child of a law enforcement officer or firefighter who was killed or who died as a direct result of injuries received while performing their official duties, the tuition and fees charged by the public institution of higher education at which the dependent child is enrolled as a student. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Feb 2, 2026: P2C, ref. to Education Committee
HB 1724 In committee 114
Water Pollution - As introduced, requires local approval of a tipping fee for application of sludge from water treatment plants onto agricultural lands, with proceeds earmarked for water treatment facilities, as a condition of such applications continuing in a locality; places a moratorium on certain permits in jurisdictions that do not provide such local approval. - Amends TCA Section 1-3-105; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13, Chapter 7; Title 43; Title 68 and Title 69.

Jan 22, 2026: P2C, ref. to Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee
HB 816 Became law 114
Driver Licenses - As enacted, limits to four the number of points that may be assessed to a person's driver record for the offense of operating a motor vehicle while the person's driving privilege is canceled, suspended, or revoked. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50.

May 27, 2025: Pub. Ch. 504
HB 706 In committee 114
District Attorneys - As introduced, adds an additional assistant district attorney general position and criminal investigator position in each judicial district that includes a state correctional facility. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 16 and Title 41.

Apr 14, 2025: Placed behind the budget
HB 462 In committee 114
General Assembly - As introduced, requires the board of trustees of the Tennessee consolidated retirement system to convert a person's participation in the retirement system, for service as a member of the general assembly and as a participant in the hybrid plan, from the hybrid plan to the legacy plan upon the person completing 10 years of service as a member of the general assembly if the person became a member of the general assembly on or after July 1, 2014. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 8, Chapter 34; Title 8, Chapter 35 and Title 8, Chapter 36.

Apr 9, 2025: Placed on s/c cal Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee for 4/14/2025
HB 463 In committee 114
Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, requires the board of trustees of the Tennessee consolidated retirement system to convert a person's participation in the retirement system, for service as a member of the general assembly and as a participant in the hybrid plan, from the hybrid plan to the legacy plan upon the person completing 10 years of service as a member of the general assembly if the person became a member of the general assembly on or after July 1, 2014; requires retiree health benefit coverage be made available to retired members of the general assembly with 10 or more years of service. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 8, Chapter 27, Part 2; Title 8, Chapter 34; Title 8, Chapter 35 and Title 8, Chapter 36.

Apr 9, 2025: Placed on s/c cal Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee for 4/14/2025
HJR 289 Adopted 114
Memorials, Recognition - Centennial of the Scopes Trial -

Mar 19, 2025: Signed by Governor.
HB 615 In committee 114
Traffic Safety - As introduced, requires a motor vehicle exceeding 75 feet in length and hauling a load of poles, logs, or timber to haul the load on a trailer having an extendable and retractable rear impact protection or to be followed by an escort vehicle that is signed. - Amends TCA Title 55 and Title 65.

Mar 18, 2025: Def. to Summer Study in Transportation Subcommittee
HB 1251 Introduced 114
Criminal Procedure - As introduced, exempts an applicant seeking to restore the applicant's rights of citizenship from having to pay for the cost of the application if a court orders otherwise. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 8; Title 39 and Title 40.

Feb 12, 2025: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
HB 707 In committee 114
Local Education Agencies - As introduced, allows a third grade student who achieves a performance level rating of "approaching" on the English language arts portion of the student's most recent Tennessee comprehensive assessment program test, and who has earned an overall letter grade of A or B in the student's third grade ELA class, to be promoted to fourth grade if promotion is recommended by a majority of the categories of participants in a conference convened by the student's LEA or public charter school; requires a student promoted to fourth grade through such process to receive tutoring services for the entirety of the student's fourth grade year. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

Feb 10, 2025: Assigned to s/c K-12 Subcommittee
HB 881 In committee 114
Water Pollution - As introduced, removes requirement that installers of subsurface sewage disposal systems pay a renewal fee as a condition to renewing a septic system installer license; maintains initial permit and fee requirement for such installers. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 221.

Feb 10, 2025: Assigned to s/c Agriculture & Natural Resources Subcommittee
HB 614 In committee 114
Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, requires a pharmacy services administrative organization or similar entity that receives maximum allowable cost list or related information from a contracted pharmacy to destroy the shared information within five business days of receipt of a written request for destruction from the sharing pharmacy. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 56.

Feb 5, 2025: P2C, ref. to Insurance Committee