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114 session

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Subjects

  • Memorials1450
  • Memorials, Recognition1005
  • Memorials, Academic Achievement771
  • Recognition416
  • Memorials, Sports399
  • Memorials, Professional Achievement379
  • Academic Achievement354
  • Memorials, Death332
  • Criminal Offenses263
  • Education259
  • Sunset Laws256
  • Memorials, Retirement208
  • Sports173
  • Death152
  • Professional Achievement143
  • General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment

Bills

  • SB 2563Passed chamber

    Anatomical Gifts - As introduced, prohibits a procurement organization from contacting a deceased individual's family, next of kin, or authorized representative to procure an anatomical gift from the deceased unless the deceased authorized such a gift in a documented anatomical gift authorization. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 30.

    2026-02-05 — Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Health and Welfare Committee

  • SB 2606Passed chamber

    Agriculture - As introduced, under certain conditions, requires the department of agriculture to purchase and distribute round hay baling machines to applicants in the hay equipment portion of the Tennessee agricultural enhancement program in lieu of making cost-share grants associated with the purchase of the machines. - Amends TCA Title 43.

    2026-02-05 — Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Energy, Ag., and Nat. Resources Committee

  • SB 2618Passed chamber

    Computers and Electronic Processing - As introduced, requires the joint chairs of the artificial intelligence advisory council to publish their annual findings regarding the economic, labor, and ethical impacts of artificial intelligence on an appropriate page of the general assembly's website, in addition to the existing requirement to submit these reports to the governor and legislative speakers. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 10; Title 16; Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 45; Title 47; Title 48; Title 49; Title 53; Title 63; Title 67; Title 68 and Title 71.

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  • Local Education Agencies135
  • Memorials, Interns123
  • General Assembly116
  • Health Care115
  • Election Laws102
  • Taxes98
  • Dept. of93
  • Retirement92

    • 2026-02-05 — Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Delayed Bills Committee

  • SB 2681Signed into law

    Energy - As introduced, enacts the "Bring Your Own Generation Act." - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1002; Section 67-6-102 and Title 68.

    2026-04-07 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Commerce and Labor Committee

  • SB 2705In committee

    Hamblen County - Subject to local approval, abolishes the Hamblen County Road Commission, effective August 31, 2028. - Repeals Chapter 313 of the Private Acts of 1949; as amended.

    2026-05-27 — Comp. became Pr. Ch. 57

  • SB 2710In committee

    Kingsport - Subject to local approval, makes various changes to the charter, including when a vice-mayor is chosen by the board; when warrants to collect delinquent taxes may be issued; removes a requirement that a tentative appropriation ordinance must be published in a newspaper; changes from the 1st of July to the 1st of September when elected board of education members assume office and when such members must choose a president. - Amends Chapter 76 of the Private Acts of 1917; as amended.

    2026-05-01 — Comp. became Pr. Ch. 49

  • SB 276Signed into law

    Naming and Designating - As enacted, designates the National Guard Armory in Cheatham County as the "First Sergeant Charles Anderson Douglas National Guard Armory." -

    2025-05-15 — Effective date(s) 05/09/2025

  • SB 304Signed into lawRedline

    Evidence - As enacted, permits the introduction into evidence of a video recording of a child victim being interviewed by a forensic interviewer regarding sexual or physically violent contact with the child if the forensic interviewer confirms the accuracy of the recording and the child is available for cross examination; makes other changes relative to forensic interviews. - Amends TCA Title 24, Chapter 7.

    2025-05-02 — Effective date(s) 04/11/2025

  • SB 336Signed into lawRedline

    Election Laws - As enacted, revises present law that prohibits a person convicted of an infamous crime after May 18, 1981, from being eligible to have the right to vote restored unless the person meets certain requirements, including having been compliant with all child support orders for the previous 12 months, including orders related to child support arrearages. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 40.

    2026-04-06 — Effective date(s) 03/26/2026

  • SB 341In committee

    Education, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to allocate to each local education agency sufficient funds for the LEA to employ one full-time licensed professional school counselor at each high school in the LEA that enrolls at least 600 students in grades 10 through 12; requires each LEA to employ one full-time licensed professional school counselor at each high school for which the LEA receives such funding from the department. - Amends TCA Title 49.

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

  • SB 353Passed chamber

    Campaigns and Campaign Finance - As introduced, increases from 4 percent to 5 percent the percentage of general assembly candidates and their committees who will be selected for an audit by the registry of election finance. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 3 and Title 8.

    2025-02-12 — Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee

  • SB 383Passed chamber

    Courts - As introduced, specifies that certain actions for declaratory judgments or injunctive relief regarding the legality or constitutionality of a governmental action must be brought in state court and that the privileges and immunities afforded to this state, state entities, and state officials under state or federal law are not waived for purposes of such actions. - Amends TCA Title 1, Chapter 3 and Title 27, Chapter 1.

    2025-02-12 — Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee

  • SB 394In committeeRedline

    Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, requires title insurance agencies that separately represent the buyer and seller in a real estate transaction and agree to an arrangement to share the title insurance premiums, commissions, or other fees paid by the buyer and seller, to provide written notice to the buyer and seller of such sharing arrangement and to receive signed, written acknowledgement from the buyer and seller confirming that they were so notified in writing; makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 35 and Title 66.

    2026-04-27 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 769

  • SB 442In committee

    Business and Commerce - As enacted, requires that, in order to resign an agency appointment, a registered agent file a certification with the secretary of state that the agent has mailed written notice of the agent's resignation, instead of a copy of the original statement of resignation, to the principal office of the entity employing the agent. - Amends TCA Title 43, Chapter 38, Part 1; Title 48, Chapter 15; Title 48, Chapter 208; Title 48, Chapter 249; Title 48, Chapter 25; Title 48, Chapter 55; Title 48, Chapter 65; Title 61, Chapter 1; Title 61, Chapter 2 and Title 61, Chapter 3.

    2025-04-04 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 97

  • SB 447Dead

    Boats, Boating - As introduced, prohibits certain activities, such as fishing, near public boat launches, docks, boats, and marinas so as to interfere with the use of such facilities. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 102, Part 6; Title 69 and Title 70.

    2025-02-25 — Withdrawn.

  • SB 448Signed into law

    Criminal Offenses - As enacted, removes a definition of "content harmful to minors" from the Protect Tennessee Minors Act. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17.

    2025-05-13 — Effective date(s) 05/08/2025

  • SB 501Signed into law

    TennCare - As introduced, authorizes the governor to expand medicaid eligibility solely for the purpose of providing treatment for a patient with a diagnosis of sickle cell disease in accordance with the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and to negotiate with the centers for medicare and medicaid services with respect to the terms of such expansion. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 71, Chapter 5.

    2025-03-26 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Health and Welfare Committee

  • SB 509In committee

    Purchasing and Procurement - As enacted, authorizes a local government to execute a cooperative purchasing agreement with other local, state, and federal governmental entities for purposes of purchasing materials, labor, and services used for maintenance, operations, component replacement, or repairs of existing facilities and grounds owned or operated by a local education agency or by a local government agency. - Amends TCA Section 12-3-1205.

    2025-04-04 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 98

  • SB 515Signed into law

    Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As enacted, extends by four years to June 30, 2029, the current 125-bed limitation on the number of new nursing home beds for which the health facilities commission may issue a certificate of need per fiscal year. - Amends TCA Section 68-11-1619.

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

  • SB 561Signed into lawRedline

    Boats, Boating - As enacted, removes the monitoring requirement for boating safety examinations; replaces statutory fees for boating safety certificates and replacement cards with authorization for TWRA to set such fees. - Amends TCA Title 69, Chapter 9.

    2025-04-29 — Effective date(s) 04/15/2025

  • SB 564In committeeRedline

    Sewage - As enacted, makes revision to present law concerning sewerage systems using land application; exempts Hamilton County from the provisions requiring the developer of a subdivision or neighborhood that proposes to construct a treatment works to submit an application to the utility serving the area in which the system is located. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 62, Chapter 2; Title 65; Title 68, Chapter 221 and Title 69.

    2026-05-05 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 876

  • SB 568Signed into lawRedline

    Food and Food Products - As introduced, prohibits the importation, sale, and distribution of cell-cultured food products in this state. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40; Title 44; Title 47 and Title 53.

    2026-04-01 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Health and Welfare Committee

  • SB 599Signed into lawRedline

    State Government - As enacted, terminates the James K. Polk Memorial Association and requires the Tennessee historical commission to enter into good faith negotiations for the purchase and transfer of the James K. Polk Home in Columbia. - Amends TCA Title 4.

    2026-05-27 — Effective date(s) 05/22/2026, 07/01/2026

  • SB 626Signed into lawRedline

    Election Laws - As enacted, revises present law relative to voting and county election commissions, such as requiring the commission to publish a notice of the location of the provisional counting board, prohibiting the commission from tabulating any marked ballots submitted via the internet, prohibiting voting machines from being connected to the internet, and making other changes. - Amends TCA Title 2.

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

  • SB 63Signed into law

    Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the department of economic and community development to June 30, 2029. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 4, Chapter 3.

    2025-04-29 — Effective date(s) 04/24/2025

  • SB 664In committeeRedline

    Water Pollution - As enacted, expands from wetlands to all areas that an aquatic resource alteration permit may apply to the areas for which the department of environment and conservation is required to exempt from compensatory mitigation an amount of area equal in size to the area for which mitigation would not be required if the permit applicant qualified for coverage under a general permit, if the only factor that disqualifies an applicant for an aquatic resource alteration permit from having the activities for which a permit is sought covered under a general permit is the size of the area that the permit will apply to. - Amends TCA Title 69, Chapter 3.

    2025-05-08 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 342

  • SB 800Passed chamber

    Tort Liability and Reform - As introduced, increases the amount of medical, hospital, or doctor bills that are presumed in a civil action to have been necessary and reasonable if the bills are itemized in the complaint or civil warrant with an attached copy of the bills attached as an exhibit to the complaint or civil warrant, from a total of $4,000 to a total of $25,000. - Amends TCA Title 20, Chapter 1; Title 24, Chapter 5; Title 55, Chapter 12 and Title 56, Chapter 7.

    2025-02-12 — Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee

  • SB 807Passed chamber

    Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, creates the Class C misdemeanor offense of storing a firearm or firearm ammunition in a motor vehicle while the person is not in the motor vehicle unless the firearm or firearm ammunition is kept from ordinary observation and locked within the trunk, utility or glove box, or a locked container securely affixed to the motor vehicle; requires the owner of a firearm to report the loss or theft of the firearm to law enforcement within 24 hours of the discovery of the loss or theft. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

    2025-02-12 — Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee

  • SB 815In committeeRedline

    Economic and Community Development - As introduced, increases, from 30 to 45, the number of days within the end of a fiscal year, for which a municipality is requesting an allocation of sales and use taxes revenues, that a municipality may submit a summary of the cost of an economic development project through to the end of that fiscal year, with supporting documentation certified by the chief financial officer of the municipality. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 40.

    2026-04-22 — Re-refer to Senate State & Local Gov't Committee

  • SB 82In committee

    Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the standards committee, department of human services to June 30, 2031. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 71, Chapter 3.

    2025-03-24 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 31

  • SB 821Signed into lawRedline

    Education, Curriculum - As enacted, establishes a pilot program that provides grants to local education agencies to advance substance abuse and violence prevention programs. - Amends TCA Title 49.

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

  • SB 855Signed into lawRedline

    Utilities, Utility Districts - As enacted, establishes a process for a municipality that operates a sewerage system outside of its corporate boundaries and has imposed a moratorium on new sewer connections outside of its corporate boundaries for a period of five or more consecutive years to extend sanitary sewer service or allow sewer connection only to property located within an adjacency area if the property owner or developer agrees to pay, or the municipality assesses, a housing surcharge. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 12; Title 13; Title 29; Title 54; Title 64; Title 65; Title 68 and Title 69.

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

  • SB 860Signed into law

    Anatomical Gifts - As introduced, creates a process by which an individual or terminal patient can refuse to make an anatomical gift that cannot be amended by another person; requires a procurement organization to follow certain procedures for contacting a decedent's family member or other authorized person. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.

    2025-03-26 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Health and Welfare Committee

  • SB 896Dead

    Real Property - As introduced, abolishes various estates and reversion interests in land. - Amends TCA Title 66, Chapter 1.

    2025-03-03 — Withdrawn.

  • SB 930Signed into law

    Environment and Conservation, Department of - As introduced, increases, from three to five days after receipt, the maximum time that the department has to publish on the department's website a notice of intent to appeal a final order by the board of water quality, oil and gas or an administrative judge. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 11; Title 66; Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 4; Title 68 and Title 69.

    2025-03-26 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Energy, Ag., and Nat. Resources Committee

  • SB 940Signed into lawRedline

    Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, expands the immunity from prosecution when seeking medical assistance for a person experiencing, or believed to be experiencing, an overdose to include alcohol-related offenses; clarifies that overdose includes both drugs and alcohol. - Amends TCA Title 63.

    2025-04-29 — Effective date(s) 07/01/2025

  • SJR 1046Signed into law

    Memorials, Recognition - Liz Reese -

    2026-04-22 — Signed by Governor.

  • SJR 1075Signed into law

    Memorials, Interns - Kermina Wadeh -

    2026-04-30 — Signed by Governor.

  • SJR 1090Signed into law

    Memorials, Recognition - Kelly Bales, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award -

    2026-05-01 — Signed by Governor.

  • SJR 1092Signed into law

    Memorials, Recognition - Chuck Winstead-Brown -

    2026-05-01 — Signed by Governor.

  • SJR 1120Signed into law

    Memorials, Death - Charles Richard Riggs -

    2026-05-11 — Signed by Governor.

  • SJR 1244Signed into law

    Memorials, Sports - Jackson Simmons -

    2026-05-11 — Signed by Governor.

  • SJR 167Signed into law

    Memorials, Retirement - Jeff Kelly -

    2025-03-13 — Signed by Governor.

  • SJR 189Signed into law

    Memorials, Death - Teresa Allie Johnston Johnson -

    2025-03-13 — Signed by Governor.

  • SJR 190Signed into law

    Memorials, Death - Sheriff Wayne M. Potter -

    2025-03-04 — Signed by Governor.

  • SJR 202Signed into law

    Memorials, Recognition - Tennessee State University Speech and Debate Team -

    2025-03-25 — Signed by Governor.

  • SJR 235Signed into law

    Memorials, Death - Meredith Ann Stokes -

    2025-04-02 — Signed by Governor.

  • SJR 248Signed into law

    Memorials, Academic Achievement - Olivia Free, Valedictorian, Frank Hughes School -

    2025-04-10 — Signed by Governor.

  • SJR 249Signed into law

    Memorials, Academic Achievement - Kaitlyn Beasley, Salutatorian, Fayette Ware High School -

    2025-04-10 — Signed by Governor.

  • SJR 268Signed into law

    Memorials, Professional Achievement - Jordan Chitwood, Gateway Elementary School Teacher of the Year -

    2025-04-10 — Signed by Governor.

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