114 session

Human Services, Dept. of - As introduced, enacts the "Workers Need Child Care Act"; establishes the child care infrastructure fund from which the department disperses grants to nonprofit entities for establishing new licensed child care agencies in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 37 and Title 71.

2025-02-12 — Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Health and Welfare Committee

State Employees - As enacted, classifies as state employees for purposes of defense and other related provisions, soil and water conservation district board of supervisors, employees, officers, and agents, and persons designated by a soil and water conservation district as participants in volunteer programs authorized by such districts. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 42 and Title 9, Chapter 8.

2025-05-15 — Pub. Ch. 425

Workers Compensation - As introduced, decreases from 10 business days to 10 calendar days, the amount of time the advisory council on workers' compensation has to provide a summary of a meeting after it has been conducted to each member of legislative committees with jurisdiction over commerce. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 50.

2025-03-18 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Commerce and Labor Committee

TennCare - As introduced, requires the bureau of TennCare to reimburse certain public or private ground-based ambulance services that bill for transports at a rate not less than 67.5 percent of the federal medicare program's allowable charge for participating providers for emergency services and 100 percent of the federal medicare program's allowable charge for participating providers for nonemergency services. - Amends TCA Title 71.

2026-04-20 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee

Lottery, Corporation - As introduced, requires each county to levy a tax at the rate of 5 percent of the sales price of lottery tickets or shares when sold at retail within the jurisdiction of the county; requires the state to administer the collection of the tax. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 9; Title 49 and Title 67.

2025-02-21 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State & Local Government Committee

Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates the Class B misdemeanor of intentionally refusing a law enforcement officer's request to exit from a motor vehicle during a lawful traffic stop. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 16.

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

Criminal Offenses - As introduced, specifies that a person using force intended or likely to cause death or serious bodily injury from within the person's residence or dwelling is presumed to have acted in self-defense when that force is used against an individual armed with a deadly weapon who is unlawfully present on the person's property and outside of the enclosed structure of the person's residence or dwelling. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 11 and Title 40.

2025-03-11 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee

Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, prohibits the possession, manufacture, transport, repair, or sale of a switch or auto sear device designed, made, or adapted for the purpose of converting a weapon to shoot automatically more than one shot, without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger unless certain exceptions apply. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

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

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Harshita Nagar, Valedictorian, L&N STEM Academy -

2026-05-11 — Signed by Governor.

General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Authorizes the Speaker of Senate to appoint a committee to meet with a like committee from the House of Representatives to consider the removal of Steven J. Mulroy from the office of District Attorney General for the Thirtieth Judicial District by the Tennessee General Assembly acting pursuant to Article VI, Section 6 of the Constitution of Tennessee. -

2025-01-27 — Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee

Memorials, Professional Achievement - Brittney Hannah, Granbery Elementary School Teacher of the Year -

2025-04-10 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Recognition - George McDonald -

2025-04-16 — Transmitted to Governor for action.

Memorials, Death - Minister Michaele Anne Byers -

2026-02-11 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Death - James Rufus "JR" Armstrong -

2026-02-12 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Retirement - Steve Borden -

2026-02-12 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Personal Occasion - Frank and Barbara Greene, 60th wedding anniversary -

2025-03-04 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Personal Occasion - Ken Nelson, Sr., 90th birthday -

2026-03-18 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Professional Achievement - Jackie Lopp, David Crockett Elementary School Teacher of the Year -

2026-02-27 — Signed by Senate Speaker

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Lily Seaton, Valedictorian, Austin-East High School -

2026-04-30 — Signed by Senate Speaker

Forfeiture of Assets - As enacted, removes the requirement for a claimant to post a bond when filing a claim to seized property. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 33.

2025-05-13 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 319

Tourist Development, Dept. of - As enacted, creates a marketing division within the department to replace the tourism division; authorizes the department to enter into agreements with the department of transportation to assist with maintenance of welcome center facilities; creates a welcome centers division within the department to oversee such centers throughout the state; directs the commissioner of finance and administration to transfer from highway user taxes allocated to the highway fund an amount sufficient to support the annual appropriation for implementation and administration of all welcome centers in the state. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 22.

2025-05-27 — Pub. Ch. 523

Education, Dept. of - As enacted, extends the school turnaround pilot program for priority schools administered by the department and that is scheduled to conclude at the end of the 2024-2025 school year to a permanent school turnaround program for priority schools; increases, from five to 15, the maximum number of priority schools that may participate in the school turnaround program. - Amends TCA Title 49.

2025-05-27 — Pub. Ch. 525

Putnam County - Subject to local approval, sets the salary of general session court judges at an amount equal to the amount received annually by the circuit court judges and chancellors as of September 1, 2030. - Amends Chapter 125 of the Private Acts of 1949; as amended.

2025-06-04 — Pr. Ch. 19

Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As enacted, designates November 2nd of each year as "James K. Polk Day." - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2.

2026-03-30 — Pub. Ch. 623

Sexual Offenders - As enacted, requires sexual offenders and violent sexual offenders to notify the owner or operator of any campground on which the offender intends to stay overnight of the offender's status as a sexual offender or violent sexual offender prior to beginning the stay; creates the offense of knowingly staying overnight at a campground without providing the required notice, which is punished as a Class E felony. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 39, Part 2.

2026-05-18 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 972

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Evelyn Ramsey Waltman, Top Ten Senior, Zion Christian Academy -

2026-03-18 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Recognition - Club America, Page High School -

2026-04-20 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Sports - Coach Chad Hall, 500th career win -

2026-04-16 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Interns - Sheeva Chourazghi-Azad -

2026-04-24 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Dannielle Joanna Risner, Top Ten Senior, Collinwood High School -

2026-05-07 — Signed by Governor.

General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - David Watson, University of Tennessee Board of Trustees -

2025-03-25 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Death - Reverend Dr. Walter Womack -

2025-03-12 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Retirement - Pat Nolan -

2025-03-25 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Professional Achievement - Stephanie Tillman, Cornersville Elementary School Teacher of the Year -

2025-04-01 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Recognition - 250th anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord -

2025-04-15 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Death - Don Kelley -

2025-04-15 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Sports - Jaden Evans, state wrestling champion -

2025-04-24 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Sports - University of Memphis Tigers -

2025-04-24 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Recognition - Allan Dale Hannah -

2026-02-12 — Signed by Governor.

Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires LEAs and public charter schools to adopt a policy to prohibit students from using wireless communication devices during instructional time except in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 49.

2026-02-18 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Education Committee

Search & Seizure - As introduced, requires officials who are employed or contracted by the federal government, the state government, or a local government within this state, or an agency or department thereof, to obtain a search warrant that identifies the person or property that is the subject of the search before entering private property, unless a judicially recognized exception to the warrant requirement exists. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 44.

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

Assessors - As enacted, expands the duties of the division of property assessments to supervise and direct all reappraisals and revaluation programs beyond the cost of which the state contributes. - Amends TCA Section 67-1-202(a)(1).

2026-03-16 — Pub. Ch. 583

Law Enforcement - As introduced, requires law enforcement agencies and officials to communicate with federal officials regarding the immigration status only for an individual who has been arrested for a criminal offense; sets a civil penalty of up to $1,000 for a law enforcement agency that does not comply to be enforced by the attorney general and reporter. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 40 and Chapter 716 of the Public Acts of 2024.

2025-03-17 — Failed in Senate Judiciary Committee

Public Health - As introduced, requires healthcare provider regulatory authorities to report quarterly to the department of health the number and type of disciplinary actions taken against a healthcare provider for knowingly performing or offering to perform on a minor, or administering or offering to administer to a minor, a prohibited medical procedure. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68, Chapter 33.

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

Energy - As introduced, authorizes the state energy policy council to submit electronically its annual comprehensive reports on its assessment of the state's energy sector and comprehensive state energy policy plan to the governor, the speaker of the senate, and the speaker of the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2; Title 4, Chapter 3 and Title 68, Chapter 204, Part 1.

2026-03-04 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Energy, Ag., and Nat. Resources Committee

District Attorneys - As enacted, authorizes the district attorneys general conference to pay the licensing fees for software applications used by the office of the district attorney general within a judicial district, regardless of whether the district attorney general office staff member using the application has a position funded by the state or another entity. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 9; Title 16 and Title 40.

2026-04-29 — Pub. Ch. 807