114 session

Memorials, Professional Achievement - Lindsay Weaver, Culleoka Unit School Teacher of the Year -

2025-03-11 — Signed by H. Speaker

Memorials, Professional Achievement - Rachel Lytle, Outstanding Biology Teacher -

2025-04-08 — Signed by H. Speaker

Election Laws - As introduced, makes changes to the process for voting absentee under the federal Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 6, Part 5.

2026-03-25 — Failed in Senate State and Local Government Committee

Children - As enacted, specifies that a biological father or alleged biological father who makes token financial support to or for the benefit of a child or the child's mother during the pregnancy or when the mother had physical custody of the child is not a putative father; makes various other changes regarding final orders of adoption. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 63.

2025-05-13 — Effective date(s) 05/05/2025

Livestock - As introduced, requires the commissioner of agriculture and the state veterinarian to receive prior approval from the joint government operations committee of the house of representatives and the senate to order vaccinations and tests for animals in this state; removes the requirement that an owner of a dead animal be liable for the sanitary disposition of the animal; clarifies indemnity procedures for a destroyed animal. - Amends TCA Title 44 and Title 58.

2025-03-26 — Failed in Senate Energy, Ag., and Nat. Resources Committee

Taxes, Privilege - As enacted, clarifies that all privilege taxes on litigation that clerks of certain courts fail to collect and pay to the department of revenue are debts of the clerks; adds certain reporting requirements. - Amends TCA Title 40 and Title 67.

2026-04-27 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 743

Disabled Persons - As enacted, authorizes a residential facility for persons with disabilities to operate in the eastern grand division of this state under an existing residential pilot program authorizing such facilities to operate in the western and middle grand divisions of this state that is administered by the department of disability and aging. - Amends TCA Title 33 and Title 52.

2025-05-13 — Effective date(s) 07/01/2025

Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, requires a gun dealer to ensure that three days have passed since the transaction was initiated by the purchaser before transferring a firearm to a purchaser if the purchaser is older than 17 but younger than 21. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

2026-03-24 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee

Aircraft and Airports - As introduced, requires the Tennessee Aeronautics Commission to study the laws and regulations of other states regarding restrictions on the operation of drones over private property. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 38; Title 39; Title 42; Title 56 and Title 66.

2026-03-11 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Transportation and Safety Committee

Criminal Offenses - As introduced, enacts the "Shielding Tennesseans from Oligarchic Power and Eliminating Lawless Obstruction of Necessities Act (STOP ELON Act)," which creates a new offense of interfering with an individual's or entity's receipt of a loan, grant, or financial assistance that the individual or entity is lawfully entitled to receive from the federal, state, or local government, with intent to deprive the individual of the loan, grant, or financial assistance, which is punished as theft; authorizes a victim of an offense to bring a civil action to recover the funds that the victim did not receive because of the offense. - Amends TCA Title 29 and Title 39.

2025-04-08 — Action deferred in Senate Judiciary Committee to 1st Calendar of 2026

Funeral Directors and Embalmers - As enacted, authorizes a funeral director applicant who was not previously licensed in this state to substitute one year of apprenticeship with an associate degree from a college accredited by the American Board of Funeral Service Education or completion of a program of study in funeral service education. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 5.

2025-04-28 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 198

Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, authorizes Johnson City to set the hours that licensees within a downtown district designated by the municipality are authorized to sell or give away alcoholic beverages. - Amends TCA Title 57.

2025-04-30 — Effective date(s) 04/11/2025

Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, creates a criminal offense of storing or keeping a firearm in any place if the firearm is not secured in a locked container or equipped with a tamper-resistant mechanical lock or other safety device that is properly engaged so as to render the firearm inoperable by any person other than the owner or another lawfully authorized user; punishes a violation of the offense as a Class A misdemeanor. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

2026-03-23 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee

Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, enacts "Akilah's Law," which creates the offense of selling, offering to sell, delivering, or transferring a firearm to a person knowing the person has been a patient in a mental institution at any time within the previous five years. - Amends TCA Title 33 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

2026-03-25 — Failed in Senate Judiciary Committee

Planning, Public - As enacted, revises the present law provision requiring all multi-family facilities, buildings, and structures constructed under a voluntary attainable housing incentive program to be deed-restricted to ensure that the attainable housing continues for at least 30 years, instead of in perpetuity. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 10; Title 13 and Title 67.

2025-05-08 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 348

Agriculture, Dept. of - As introduced, authorizes the commissioner to designate an existing organizational unit of the department as the office of rural prosperity and consolidate within that office some or all of the department's duties related to improving the well-being of rural communities in this state. - Amends TCA Section 1-3-105; Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 9; Title 13; Title 43; Title 44; Title 48; Title 49; Title 50; Title 61; Title 64; Title 66; Title 67; Title 68 and Title 69.

2025-02-12 — Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Energy, Ag., and Nat. Resources Committee

Bail, Bail Bonds - As introduced, permits a professional bondsman to issue and retain the required receipt for money or other consideration received in a digital format. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 11.

2026-03-17 — Failed in Senate Judiciary Committee

Oakland - Subject to local approval, establishes that the terms of office for mayor and alderman begin upon the official's swearing in on the first business day of the month following the month of the election for that office; designates five aldermanic positions, and allows for a sixth position, contingent on certain population metrics; provides for additional conditions for elected office. - Amends Chapter 167 of the Private Acts of 1994; as amended.

2025-06-04 — Comp. became Pr. Ch. 26

Criminal Offenses - As introduced, restates the criminal offense of drag racing as street drag racing; expands the offense to include acts committed on commercial property; authorizes a vehicle used in the commission of the offense or to flee after commission of the offense to be impounded for the purpose of collecting evidence; makes various other changes regarding the offense of street drag racing. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 39; Title 40; Title 55 and Title 68.

2026-04-20 — Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/21/2026

Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Interstate Compact to June 30, 2034. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 63, Chapter 17.

2026-04-06 — Effective date(s) 04/01/2026

Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the local government insurance committee to June 30, 2032. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 8, Chapter 27, Part 7.

2026-03-16 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 544

Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the state board of accountancy to June 30, 2030. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 62, Chapter 1.

2026-03-16 — Effective date(s) 03/06/2026

Lobbying, Lobbyists - As introduced, increases time an employer of a lobbyist or a lobbyist must register or update their registration with the ethics commission from not later than seven days to not later than seven business days. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 3; Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8 and Title 12.

2026-02-05 — Withdrawn.

Firefighters - As enacted, expands the applicability of the presumption that a firefighter's cancer was caused by the firefighter's employment to include arson investigators. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 8; Title 50 and Title 56.

2026-03-23 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 600

Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, prohibits public water system operators from adding fluoride to their water systems. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 221.

2026-03-11 — Failed in Senate Energy, Ag., and Nat. Resources Committee

Secretary of State - As enacted, requires the secretary of state to omit from each annual publication of agency information mailing addresses and telephone numbers of agency members. - Amends TCA Section 10-7-604.

2026-04-06 — Effective date(s) 07/01/2026

Medical Occupations - As enacted, requires the board of medical examiners to register an applicant as a registered surgical assistant if the applicant maintains current credentials as a surgical assistant issued by the American Board of Surgical Assistants and satisfies other necessary requirements; removes December 31, 2019, as the deadline by which an applicant for registration as a surgical assistant must register with the board in order to be registered on the basis of certain practical experience. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 6.

2025-04-08 — Effective date(s) 03/25/2025

Agriculture - As enacted, makes various changes relative to the regulation of hemp-derived cannabinoid products. - Amends TCA Title 1, Chapter 3; Title 39; Title 43, Chapter 27; Title 53; Title 57, Chapter 7 and Title 67, Chapter 6.

2026-04-28 — Effective date(s) 04/14/2026

Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, prohibits a utility that provides electric, water, wastewater, or natural gas services from increasing the rate charged to customers who are 65 years of age or older upon notice that the customer qualifies for such rate cap pursuant to an age verification process established by the Tennessee public utilities commission (TPUC) by rule; requires notification to customers of the rate cap program within 90 days of a final rule; authorizes TPUC to promulgate a rule to develop an age verification and notification process. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 47, Chapter 18; Title 64; Title 65; Title 67 and Title 68.

2026-03-24 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State and Local Government Committee

Health Care - As enacted, enacts the "Caring for Caregivers Act." - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 33; Title 52; Title 67 and Title 68.

2026-05-18 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 940

Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires each local school board to establish a school lunch program and a school breakfast program that provide a free breakfast and lunch to each student enrolled in a school under the board's jurisdiction; requires the state to reimburse each LEA for the cost of providing a free breakfast and lunch to each student enrolled in the LEA after all available federal funds have been applied. - Amends TCA Title 49.

2026-03-18 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Education Committee

Criminal Offenses - As enacted, enacts the "Grace Anne Sparks Coercive Suicide Prevention Law of 2026." - Amends TCA Title 39.

2026-05-27 — Effective date(s) 07/01/2026

Education - As enacted, requires public high schools to provide students who are enrolled in a United States government and civics course the opportunity to participate in three civic engagement field days and similar opportunities, one for each branch of government, to observe each branch of government. - Amends TCA Title 49.

2026-04-28 — Effective date(s) 04/14/2026

Computers and Electronic Processing - As introduced, requires high performance computing (HPC) facility operators to devote 50 percent of the computing and data processing output of the facility for a public benefit; requires HPC facility operators to produce an annual report of the facility's energy consumption and carbon footprint; requires such operators to conduct an annual internal compliance audit and submit to an audit upon request by certain governmental entities. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8 and Title 68.

2026-03-10 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Commerce and Labor Committee

Highways, Roads and Bridges - As introduced, requires the department of transportation to study the development of a new bridge crossing the Mississippi River and connecting to Arkansas. - Amends TCA Title 54.

2026-03-11 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Transportation and Safety Committee

Environment and Conservation, Department of - As introduced, requires proposed subdivision plans to be approved by a local planning commission or other agency authorized to approve such plans prior to their submission to the department for approval rather than such plans being approved by the department first. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13 and Title 68, Chapter 221.

2026-02-03 — Withdrawn.

Juries and Jurors - As enacted, requires a breastfeeding mother to be excused from jury service upon submitting to the jury coordinator a written request to be excused and a supporting medical statement from a licensed physician or a certified professional midwife. - Amends TCA Title 22, Chapter 1 and Title 22, Chapter 2.

2026-03-23 — Effective date(s) 03/18/2026

DUI Offenses - As introduced, allows a person convicted of driving under the influence of an intoxicant involving alcohol or opioids to agree to receive naltrexone injections at the person's own expense for a period of 12 continuous months in lieu of being required to operate only a motor vehicle equipped with an ignition interlock device. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55, Chapter 10.

2026-03-24 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee

Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, deletes an obsolete requirement that the department of commerce and insurance conduct a study to determine the appropriateness of a separate premium rating for medicare supplement policies for populations under 65 years of age upon the expiration of five years from May 27, 2010. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56 and Title 71.

2026-02-02 — Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Commerce and Labor Committee

Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As enacted, designates January 22 of each year as "Sanctity of Life Day." - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2.

2026-05-05 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 879

Public Utility Commission - As enacted, requires, for an electric utility providing services outside the corporate limits of the home municipality, expansion of the utility board to provide representation on the board for such outside locality. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 12; Title 13; Title 54; Title 64; Title 65; Title 68 and Title 69.

2026-05-27 — Effective date(s) 05/22/2026

Roane County - Subject to local approval, repeals act that designated the chief executive officer of the county as the county executive. - Amends Chapter 1 of the Private Acts of 2007.

2026-05-01 — Comp. became Pr. Ch. 40

Utilities, Utility Districts - As enacted, authorizes a political subdivision to enter into a cost-sharing agreement with a developer for the development of certain public infrastructure. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13; Title 65 and Title 68.

2026-05-26 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1028

Education - As introduced, requires the state to elect to participate in the federal tax credit established under federal law for individuals who make qualified contributions to scholarship granting organizations. - Amends TCA Title 49.

2026-03-18 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Education Committee

Prisons and Reformatory Institutions - As introduced, specifies that the reimbursement of travel expenses incurred by members of the inmate disciplinary oversight board must be administered in accordance with the comprehensive travel regulations promulgated by the department of finance and administration and approved by the attorney general and reporter. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 41.

2025-01-15 — Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee