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Memorials, Sports - Jerry Nichols -

2026-04-16 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Professional Achievement - Chara Rand, 2024–2025 Metro Nashville Public Schools Principal of the Year and Middle School Principal of the Year -

2025-04-04 — Signed by Senate Speaker

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Vanessa Murrey, Salutatorian, Power Center Academy High School -

2025-04-25 — Enrolled and ready for signatures

Memorials, Sports - Taquez Butler, Class 4A Mr. Basketball -

2025-04-25 — Enrolled and ready for signatures

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Ellie Clark, Salutatorian, Greenbrier High School -

2025-04-25 — Enrolled and ready for signatures

Memorials, Retirement - Trooper Jeff Webb -

2026-01-21 — Signed by Senate Speaker

Memorials, Death - Bill R. Dunlap -

2026-02-27 — Enrolled and ready for signatures

Memorials, Professional Achievement - Robert Glenn Officer, Most Excellent Great Chief of The Grand Council of Knight Masons -

2025-02-13 — Enrolled and ready for signatures

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Adriauna Jones, Salutatorian, Middleton High School -

2026-04-30 — Signed by Senate Speaker

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Emily McKell, Valedictorian, Millington Central High School -

2026-04-30 — Signed by Senate Speaker

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Mikel Van Pelt, Valedictorian, Gibbs High School -

2026-04-30 — Signed by Senate Speaker

Memorials, Personal Occasion - Lillian Dagner, 100th birthday -

2025-03-25 — Signed by Senate Speaker

Memorials, Professional Achievement - LaQuesha Anderson, Jere Baxter Middle School Teacher of the Year -

2025-04-04 — Signed by Senate Speaker

Memorials, Professional Achievement - Montrell Williams, Whites Creek High School Teacher of the Year -

2025-04-04 — Signed by Senate Speaker

Driver Licenses - As introduced, requires an enforcement officer to issue an out-of-service order to a driver issued a commercial driver license if the officer determines during a safety inspection that the driver is unable to read and speak the English language in violation of federal requirements for commercial driver license holders; applies penalties against employers of such drivers. - Amends TCA Title 55 and Title 65, Chapter 15.

2025-04-14 — Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee

Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities - As enacted, revises record retention requirements for records regarding services and supports received by persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities by the department of disability and aging's contracted providers and departmental facilities and clinics, updates outdated cross-references. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 12; Title 33; Title 34; Title 36; Title 39; Title 49; Title 52; Title 68; Title 71 and Chapter 688 of the Public Acts of 2024.

2025-03-31 — Effective date(s) 03/26/2025, 07/01/2025

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.

2025-04-29 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 215

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.

2025-04-04 — Effective date(s) 03/28/2025

Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, expands eligibility for a dual enrollment grant to include students who are sophomores in high school and admitted to an eligible postsecondary institution as a dual enrollment student. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4.

2026-03-18 — Taken off notice for cal in s/c Higher Education Subcommittee of Education Committee

Highways, Roads and Bridges - As enacted, lifts certain restrictions on temporary borrow pits used to source material for a road work construction project performed in a FEMA-certified county under a contract for construction work entered into with the state that is part of a state or local Hurricane Helene recovery effort. - Amends TCA Title 54, Chapter 1.

2025-04-29 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 230

Sewage - As enacted, establishes a deadline for consideration of certain subsurface sewage disposal system applications submitted by soil scientists. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 68, Chapter 221 and Title 69, Chapter 3.

2025-04-29 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 229

Health Care - As enacted, adds that the governor's appointee for the health facilities commission who is a representative of the assisted-care living facility industry may be appointed from lists of qualified persons submitted by interested groups, including the Tennessee Center for Assisted Living; requires the commission to submit certain reports to the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 68.

2025-04-29 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 263

Taxes, Franchise - As enacted, clarifies that the imposition of a criminal offense, penalty, or dismissal from employment does not apply to an officer or employee of the department of revenue or other employee or officer of the state who in good faith acts in accordance with present law requiring the department to publish on its website in June 2025 the names of certain taxpayers issued franchise tax refunds. - Amends TCA Section 67-1-1709.

2025-04-08 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 75

Health, Dept. of - As introduced, directs the department on or before January 1, 2026, to submit a report with a list of each drug that is psychotropic medication pursuant to current law and the side effects of each medication to the chair of the health and welfare committee of the senate and the chair of the committee of the house of representatives having jurisdiction over health-related matters. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 41; Title 49; Title 53; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

2026-03-25 — Failed in s/c Health Subcommittee of Health Committee

Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, requires the dissolution and reconstitution, upon appointments by the governor, of the board of directors of any hospital that is part of a certificate of public advantage. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68.

2025-02-12 — Assigned to s/c Health Subcommittee

Criminal Offenses - As introduced, requires the district attorneys general conference to compile a yearly report detailing convictions made pursuant to the Terrorism Prevention and Response Act of 2002 during the previous year; requires the report to be provided to the general assembly no later than January 15 each year. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 10; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 55 and Title 58.

2025-02-12 — P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.

Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As introduced, requires the annual written report submitted to legislative committees with subject matter jurisdiction over criminal matters regarding activities of narcotics investigations by the bureau and the assistant director of the narcotics investigation division be submitted by March 1 of each year. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 27; Title 29; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41; Title 53, Chapter 11 and Title 55.

2025-02-12 — P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.

State Government - As introduced, reduces from 30 to 21 days the period by which a state department or agency, prior to executing a state professional facilities management contract for services within a state legislative district that would result in the outsourcing of facilities management services to private, nonstate government entities, must notify each member of the general assembly representing such district of the contract. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 8; Title 9; Title 10; Title 12; Title 13; Title 15; Title 41; Title 52; Title 57; Title 58; Title 66 and Title 67.

2025-02-12 — P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.

Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates a Class E felony that is committed when a person exercises control over a motor vehicle knowing that the person does not have the permission of the owner of the motor vehicle; creates a Class A misdemeanor of possessing a firearm that the person knows or reasonably should know has been stolen. - Amends TCA Title 39.

2025-03-26 — Assigned to s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee

Physicians and Surgeons - As enacted, makes various changes relative to the authority of a physician or podiatrist to prescribe, dispense, or administer medication to the provider's own self or immediate family; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 39; Title 53; Title 63 and Title 68.

2026-05-15 — Effective date(s) 05/07/2026

Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, authorizes a local board of education and public charter school governing body to employ or accept as a volunteer a school chaplain to provide support, services, and programs for students, school staff, and students' parents. - Amends TCA Title 49.

2026-02-26 — Sponsor(s) Added.

Law Enforcement - As enacted, requires a prosecuting agency that maintains a Brady list to adopt a policy that meets certain requirements. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 8.

2026-04-27 — Effective date(s) 04/21/2026

Education - As introduced, requires local boards of education to notify the department of education when a board declares itself to be a high performing school district; requires the department to maintain a list of high performing school districts on the department's website. - Amends TCA Title 49.

2025-03-12 — Assigned to s/c Education Instruction Subcommittee

Children - As enacted, provides, in addition to present law, an alternative method for the voluntary surrender of parental rights if executed within the geographic boundaries of the state. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 37 and Title 68.

2026-05-15 — Effective date(s) 05/07/2026, 01/01/2027

Alcoholic Beverage Commission - As introduced, restricts the prohibition on holding an interest in or being employed by a distillery, wholesale dealer, or retail dealer, or holding an alcoholic beverage license in this state, only to family members of voting members of the commission. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 1.

2025-02-12 — Assigned to s/c Departments & Agencies Subcommittee

Public Funds and Financing - As enacted, authorizes use of the Hurricane Helene interest payment fund to pay local governments' loan charges; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 9 and Title 58.

2025-05-27 — Effective date(s) 05/21/2025

Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As enacted, requires that interest income accruing on investments and deposits as a result of the Megasite Authority of West Tennessee's collection of rates to customers of a water system or wastewater system operated by the authority be credited to a separate account and carried forward into each subsequent fiscal year. - Amends TCA Section 64-9-107.

2025-04-29 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 274

Employees, Employers - As introduced, changes the maximum penalty amount from $7,000 for each violation by an employer of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1972, and from $70,000 for each willful and repeated violation of the act, to the maximum penalty allowed by the federal occupational safety and health administration. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 3, Part 4.

2025-02-12 — Assigned to s/c Banking & Consumer Affairs Subcommittee

Tennessee Housing Development Agency - As introduced, deletes provision requiring Tennessee rural and workforce housing tax credits to be authorized by joint resolution of the general assembly. - Amends TCA Section 13-23-134 and Chapter 971 of the Public Acts of 2024.

2025-03-19 — Taken off notice for cal. in State & Local Government Committee

Employees, Employers - As introduced, enacts the "Pay Stub Protection Act," which requires an employer to provide a statement to an employee on the employer's payday that contains certain information about the employee and the employee's wages and hours worked during the applicable pay period. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8 and Title 50.

2025-03-19 — Rec. for pass. if am., ref. to Government Operations Committee

Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As introduced, requires the bureau to maintain with each investigative case file copies of all original investigative materials, including audio and video files, recordings, transcripts, documents, reports, paperwork, and other print or digital media generated by the bureau and germane to the investigation by the bureau. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5 and Title 38, Chapter 6.

2026-04-07 — No Action Taken

Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services, Dept. of - As introduced, directs the department to develop and implement a suicide prevention program; requires the department to submit a report to legislative committees with jurisdiction over health-related matters on this program and any suggestions from the department based upon the research conducted from the previous calendar year. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 63 and Title 68.

2026-02-17 — Def. to Special Calendar to be Published with Final Calendar in Population Health Subcommittee

Gallatin - Subject to local approval, authorizes the city council to impose impact fees on new development. - Amends Chapter 67 of the Private Acts of 1953; as amended and rewritten.

2025-04-08 — Failed in State & Local Government Committee

Wilson County - Subject to local approval, transfers control and governance of the Tenth Special School District of Wilson County from a board of directors and commissioners composed of three members to a Board of Education composed of five members; divides the Tenth Special School district into five districts of proportionate population; establishes staggered terms for the members of the Board of Education of four years. - Amends Chapter 330 of the Acts of 1901; as amended.

2025-05-08 — Pr. Ch. 9

Tipton County - Subject to local approval, establishes litter abatement and control requirements. -

2025-06-04 — Pr. Ch. 15