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• HB 1733 In committee 114
  Students - As enacted, creates a criminal offense for certain school employees who intentionally engage in bullying or cyberbullying of a student; clarifies that a teacher or school employee of a local education agency who is found to have committed an act of harassment, intimidation, bullying, or cyberbullying is subject to dismissal or suspension. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 3; Title 40; Title 49 and Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 7.
  May 27, 2026: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1093
• HJR 1610 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Public Service - Colleen Curtis -
  May 7, 2026: Signed by Governor.
• HB 1679 In committee 114
  Courts, Juvenile - As enacted, expands the disposition allowed when a person under 21 is found to have unlawfully purchased, possessed, accepted receipt of, or presented fraudulent proof of age to purchase tobacco, smoking hemp, a vapor product, or a smokeless nicotine product to include requiring community service work, the successful completion of a prescribed court program, or placing the person on an informal adjustment for a period of 90 days for a first violation, and, for a second or subsequent violation, placing the person on probation for up to six months in addition to requiring community service and the successful completion of a prescribed court program focusing on the dangers of tobacco and vapor products. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 15.
  May 4, 2026: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 830
• HB 1804 Became law 114
  Mason - Subject to local approval, revises the charter of the Town of Mason to provide grounds for vacating certain offices, to prescribe the oath for office; to fix the time, place, and notice requirements for meetings of the board of mayor and aldermen, to establish the rules of procedure for meetings, to prescribe additional duties of the mayor and the board, to provide for the administration of government and personnel, to prescribe the duties of the town administrator and town attorney, to prescribe the budget process, and to make various other changes. - Amends Chapter 120 of the Private Acts of 1915; as amended and rewritten.
  May 1, 2026: Pr. Ch. 41
• HB 1645 Became law 114
  Tipton County - Subject to local approval, authorizes the legislative body of Tipton County to designate a division of the county's general sessions court as the environmental court to hear cases involving the alleged violation of any ordinance relating to health, housing, fire, land subdivision, building, or zoning. -
  May 1, 2026: Pr. Ch. 39
• HB 2275 In committee 114
  Education - As enacted, creates a safe school design advisory board to recommend to the commissioner of commerce and insurance safe school design guidelines for LEAs and public charter schools to consider when constructing or remodeling K-12 public school facilities. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7; Title 49; Title 62, Chapter 35 and Title 68.
  Apr 29, 2026: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 804
• HB 1735 In committee 114
  Tennessee Investment in Student Achievement (TISA) - As enacted, makes various changes to the TISA review committee, including, but not limited to, clarifying that the committee may convene a meeting with a majority of all members present, including one or more designees, but a quorum of all voting members of the committee is required to transact any business requiring a formal vote of the committee. - Amends TCA Section 49-3-113.
  Apr 28, 2026: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 798
• HB 181 In committee 114
  Judicial Districts - As enacted, extends the date by which the advisory task force to review composition of judicial districts has to complete its findings and publish a proposed statewide judicial redistricting plan; extends the date by which the general assembly must reapportion the judicial districts in accordance with such plan. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 2.
  Apr 27, 2026: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 681
• HJR 1328 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Recognition - Tabernacle Kinfolks Camp Meeting, 200th gathering -
  Apr 24, 2026: Signed by Governor.
• HB 1734 In committee 114
  Children's Services, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to record, by audio recording or video recording, all interviews of children conducted by department employees as part of the department's investigation of claims of abuse or dependency and neglect. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5; Title 24; Title 37 and Title 38.
  Mar 25, 2026: Taken off notice for cal. in Judiciary Committee
• HB 1422 In committee 114
  Mason - Subject to local approval, authorizes the town to appoint a town administrator; requires the town administrator to perform some of the duties previously performed by the mayor. - Amends Chapter 120 of the Private Acts of 1915; as amended and rewritten.
  Mar 16, 2026: Action def. in Private Acts Committee to 3/23/2026
• HB 2183 In committee 114
  Elder Abuse - As introduced, extends from 10 to 20 days, the time within which a court must schedule a hearing on a petition to freeze the funds of a criminal defendant charged with financial exploitation of an elderly or vulnerable adult involving the taking more than $5,000 of property while the criminal proceeding is pending for purposes of restitution to the victim. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 15.
  Mar 9, 2026: Ref. to Health Committee - Judiciary Committee
• HB 1421 Became law 114
  Tipton County - Subject to local approval, establishes litter abatement and control requirements. -
  Jun 4, 2025: Pr. Ch. 15
• HB 787 In committee 114
  DUI Offenses - As enacted, creates a distance to drive program study committee to help determine the feasibility of implementing a distance to drive program that would facilitate reinstatement of suspended and revoked driver licenses for criminal defendants based on meeting the objectives set by the court and completing all the requirements set by the department of safety. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55.
  May 15, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 451
• HB 1010 In committee 114
  District Attorneys - As enacted, authorizes a district attorney general, on the consent of the district attorney general of any other judicial district, to specially appoint another district attorney general, or an assistant to that district attorney general, to conduct specific proceedings under title 8, chapter 47, regarding removal of officers, which the district attorney general is authorized by law to conduct in that district. - Amends TCA Title 8.
  May 13, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 373
• HB 1009 In committee 114
  Taxes, Ad Valorem - As introduced, increases the amount of the reimbursement that is paid under the provisions for property tax relief for disabled veteran homeowners from the first $175,000 of the full market value of the home to the first $250,000 of the full market value. - Amends TCA Section 67-5-704.
  Apr 9, 2025: Placed on s/c cal Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee for 4/14/2025
• HB 1067 In committee 114
  State Employees - As introduced, requires an employee in the preferred service system to file an appeal regarding an adverse employment action to the board of appeals not later than 10 days rather than 14 days after the date the employee became aware, or should have reasonably became aware, of the adverse action. - Amends TCA Section 8-30-318.
  Mar 19, 2025: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Public Service Subcommittee of State & Local Government Committee
• HB 180 In committee 114
  Municipal Government - As introduced, expands the criteria for real property that is eligible for the property owner to petition a municipality to deannex. - Amends TCA Section 6-51-201.
  Mar 12, 2025: Failed in s/c Cities & Counties Subcommittee of State & Local Government Committee
• HB 345 In committee 114
  Abortion - As introduced, adds the chairs of the judiciary committee of the senate and the committee of the house of representatives with jurisdiction over criminal justice-related matters to whom the department of health shall submit a report of each abortion procedure and the disposition of the aborted fetus or aborted fetal tissue to no later than January 1, April 1, July 1, and October 1 of each year. - Amends TCA Section 39-15-203.
  Feb 3, 2025: P2C, ref. to Health Committee
• HB 147 In committee 114
  Tourism - As introduced, requires a tourism development authority to file its annual audit and report with the members of the general assembly who represent the municipality that granted permission to the authority to organize; authorizes the audit and report to be filed electronically. - Amends TCA Title 7 and Title 67.
  Jan 16, 2025: P2C held on desk pending appointment of Standing Committees