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Memorials, Recognition - Jobs for America's Graduates Tennessee (JAGTN) -

2026-02-27 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Todd Anderson, Top Ten Senior, Santa Fe Unit School -

2026-03-11 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Sports - Eric Gregory -

2026-03-11 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Sports - Chase Kee, Elmore Park Middle School basketball team -

2025-04-21 — Signed by H. Speaker

General Assembly, Review Or Ratification of Rules - Ratifies and approves the amendments and revisions to the Tennessee Rules of Appellate Procedure, as promulgated by the Supreme Court. -

2025-04-14 — Signed by H. Speaker

Memorials, Sports - Malachi Hill, Elmore Park Middle School basketball team -

2025-04-21 — Signed by H. Speaker

Memorials, Sports - Head Coach Jevonte Holmes, Elmore Park Middle School Eagles -

2025-04-22 — Signed by H. Speaker

Memorials, Recognition - Dyersburg State Community College, SOAR Awards College of the Year -

2025-04-22 — Signed by H. Speaker

General Assembly, Review Or Ratification of Rules - Ratifies and approves the amendments and revisions to the Tennessee Rules of Appellate Procedure, as promulgated by the Supreme Court. -

2026-03-10 — Signed by H. Speaker

Memorials, Interns - Sophia Brenn Myers -

2026-03-19 — Signed by H. Speaker

Memorials, Personal Occasion - Reverend Al Green, 80th birthday -

2026-04-20 — Signed by H. Speaker

Memorials, Professional Achievement - Jennifer Huffman, Spring Hill High School Teacher of the Year -

2025-03-11 — Signed by H. Speaker

Memorials, Sports - Dickson County High School girls' bowling team, TSSAA Division I, Region 6 champions -

2026-04-21 — Signed by H. Speaker

Memorials, Professional Achievement - Carolyn Keysaer, Virtual Academy Teacher of the Year -

2025-03-11 — Signed by H. Speaker

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Landon Bruce Tompkins, Valedictorian, Alvin C. York Agricultural Institute -

2026-04-21 — Signed by H. Speaker

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Raylee Kay Jordan Werner, Salutatorian, Alvin C. York Agricultural Institute -

2026-04-21 — Signed by H. Speaker

Memorials, Professional Achievement - Melissa Joslin, Wright Elementary School Teacher of the Year -

2025-03-11 — Signed by H. Speaker

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Amelia Anne Hefner, Valedictorian, Cosby High School -

2026-04-22 — Signed by H. Speaker

Memorials, Professional Achievement - Caitlyn Flaherty, Battle Creek Elementary School Teacher of the Year -

2025-03-11 — Signed by H. Speaker

Memorials, Recognition - Memphis Community Against Pollution (MCAP) and President KeShaun Pearson -

2026-04-23 — Sponsor(s) Added.

Memorials, Professional Achievement - Jessica Cooper, Mt. Pleasant Middle School Teacher of the Year -

2025-03-11 — Signed by H. Speaker

Memorials, Recognition - Lily Claire Savery, Good Neighbor Award -

2025-03-11 — Signed by H. Speaker

Memorials, Sports - Kenwood High School unified bowling team, TSSAA Unified State Champions -

2025-02-13 — Signed by H. Speaker

Memorials, Professional Achievement - Megan Fleer, Scales Elementary School Teacher of the Year -

2025-04-08 — Signed by H. Speaker

Memorials, Sports - Macklin Freund, 2024 WILLCO Awards Cheer Athlete of the Year -

2025-04-08 — Signed by H. Speaker

Expunction - As enacted, reorganizes present statutes concerning expunction and specifies that facilitation, attempt, or solicitation of an offense that is presently eligible for expunction is also eligible for expunction. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 16; Title 38; Title 40; Title 55 and Title 57.

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

Education - As enacted, prohibits a local board of education or public charter school governing body from removing a material from a library collection for the sole reason that the material is religious. - Amends TCA Title 49.

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

Drugs, Prescription - As enacted, requires a county medical examiner to test for, and obtain certain information concerning, the presence of any drugs in a decedent in certain situations; requires the health science center to conduct certain studies regarding drug interactions and submit quarterly reports to the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 53; Title 63 and Title 68.

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

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 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 935

Sports - As introduced, requires each student who participates in a school youth athletic activity to file with the local education agency (LEA) or public charter school a preparticipation medical evaluation or an exemption; creates the safe stars advisory committee. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 36 and Title 68, Chapter 6.

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

Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services, Dept. of - As enacted, revises present law relative to recovery residences and alcohol and drug prevention or treatment facilities under certification by the department. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13; Title 33; Title 47; Title 63 and Title 68.

2025-05-13 — Effective date(s) 05/08/2025, 01/01/2026

Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, requires, if the respondent on an order of protection dispossesses firearms by transferring possession to a third party who is not prohibited from possessing firearms, the respondent to specify the third party and the physical address where all firearms are located on the affidavit of firearms dispossession form; requires the third party to sign the affidavit of firearms dispossession form to acknowledge receipt of the firearms. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6.

2025-04-08 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee

Recreational Areas - As introduced, changes from January 8 to January 31 the date by which the executive director of the Tennessee wildlife resources agency must submit an annual report on the administration of Reelfoot Lake natural area. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 11; Section 28-3-117; Title 39 and Title 70, Chapter 5.

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

Professions and Occupations - As enacted, makes various changes relative to the practice of chiropractors, including animal chiropractic practice. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 63.

2025-05-13 — Effective date(s) 05/02/2025, 01/01/2026

Taxes, Privilege - As introduced, specifies that the privilege tax exemption for subsidiaries of agricultural cooperatives applies without regard to whether the subsidiary was formed as a corporation, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, or other legal entity, association, or body vested with the power or function of a legal entity. - Amends TCA Title 43, Chapter 16, Part 1 and Section 67-4-102.

2025-02-04 — Withdrawn.

Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates a civil and criminal action for individuals who are the subject of an intimate digital depiction that is intentionally disclosed without the individual's consent under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 28 and Title 39, Chapter 17.

2025-05-15 — Effective date(s) 07/01/2025

Lobbying, Lobbyists - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Foreign Adversary and Chinese Military Company Disclosure and Accountability Act." - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 6; Title 4; Title 39, Chapter 16, Part 5 and Title 58, Chapter 2.

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

Hardeman County - Subject to local approval, requires the school board in Hardeman County to submit its budget specifying the funds that the school board estimates will be necessary to fund the upcoming school year on or before the first Monday in May rather than the first Monday in April. - Amends Chapter 68 of the Private Acts of 1937.

2025-06-04 — Comp. became Pr. Ch. 11

Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As introduced, revises various provisions of the Real Estate Infrastructure Development Act of 2025. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 9; Title 12; Title 13; Title 66; Title 67 and Title 68.

2026-01-21 — Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee

Auditing - As enacted, clarifies that, as of November 1, 2026, a non-governmental entity receiving in-kind funding from the state or a political subdivision of the state pursuant to the federal Public Health Service Act is eligible to qualify as a 340B entity, only if the entity is also a recipient of one or more state or federal grant awards that are subject to audit, reporting, and oversight requirements under state and federal law; authorizes the comptroller of the treasury and any state agency or political subdivision providing in-kind funding to verify eligibility and enforce compliance. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 4; Title 9; Title 47, Chapter 18; Title 56 and Title 63.

2026-04-27 — Effective date(s) 11/01/2026

Local Government, General - As enacted, makes changes to the process by which local governments may issue and sell grant anticipation notes; authorizes the comptroller to approve certain notes issued by a local government if the local government demonstrates that a natural disaster has caused economic distress. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 13, Part 2 and Title 9, Chapter 21, Part 7.

2026-04-27 — Effective date(s) 04/13/2026

Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, exempts the retail sale of food and food ingredients from the sales and use tax when sold on the fifth day of any month. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.

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

State Government - As introduced, requires governor to cause proposed legislation that transfers functions between state departments be forwarded to the chairs of the government operations committees of both houses. - Amends TCA Title 4.

2026-01-22 — Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee

Health Care - As enacted, adds clinical informatics, lifestyle medicine, and medical virtualist to the list of words or abbreviations that a person may attach to a name to indicate or induce another person to believe that the person is engaged in the practice of medicine or osteopathic medicine. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 6 and Title 63, Chapter 9.

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

Open Meetings - As enacted, requires a local governing body subject to the open meetings laws to reserve a period of public comment to provide the public with the opportunity to comment on any matter germane to the jurisdiction of the governing body, regardless of whether the matter is listed on the agenda for the meeting. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 44.

2026-03-30 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 620