114 session

Memorials, Sports - Jayden Jarnigan -

2026-03-18 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Sports - Brylee Catron -

2026-03-18 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Sports - Coach Derrick Davis -

2026-03-12 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Professional Achievement - Amanda Nealon, North Springs Middle School Teacher of the Year -

2026-03-24 — Withdrawn.

Memorials, Recognition - Jerry Beavers -

2026-04-16 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Recognition - Jan McNally -

2026-04-16 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Professional Achievement - Dr. Miriam Harrington, Metro Nashville Public Schools Principal of the Year finalist -

2025-04-04 — Signed by Senate Speaker

Memorials, Professional Achievement - Dr. Angela McShepard-Ray, Metro Nashville Public Schools Principal of the Year finalist -

2025-04-04 — Signed by Senate Speaker

Memorials, Professional Achievement - Callie Longmire, Cane Ridge Elementary School Teacher of the Year -

2025-04-04 — Signed by Senate Speaker

Memorials, Sports - Upperman Bees, TSSAA Division I, Class 3A state champions -

2025-04-15 — Withdrawn.

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Akeelah Phillips, Salutatorian, Memphis Academy of Science and Engineering -

2025-04-25 — Enrolled and ready for signatures

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Olivia Balyeat, Valedictorian, Brighton High School -

2025-04-25 — Enrolled and ready for signatures

Memorials, Academic Achievement - James Nguyen, Salutatorian, Arlington High School -

2025-04-25 — Enrolled and ready for signatures

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Anthony Tran, Valedictorian, Arlington High School -

2025-04-25 — Enrolled and ready for signatures

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Anna Harchfield, Valedictorian, Tipton Christian Academy -

2025-04-25 — Enrolled and ready for signatures

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Janet Nino-Martinez, Valedictorian, Maplewood High School -

2025-04-25 — Enrolled and ready for signatures

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Zuleyka Lizeth Fuentes Diaz, Valedictorian, Cane Ridge High School -

2025-04-25 — Enrolled and ready for signatures

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Ivy Estelle Miller, Salutatorian, Big Picture High School -

2025-04-25 — Enrolled and ready for signatures

Memorials, Congress - Urges Congress to rename Dogwood Lane on federal property at Mountain Home VA the "Congressman Phil Roe Boulevard." -

2026-04-09 — Enrolled and ready for signatures

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Zali Daniels, Valedictorian, Collinwood High School -

2026-03-19 — Enrolled and ready for signatures

Memorials, Interns - Teria Tibbs -

2026-04-09 — Enrolled and ready for signatures

Memorials, Recognition - Lauren Milam, Dennis Washington Leadership Graduate Scholarship -

2026-04-30 — Signed by Senate Speaker

Memorials, Recognition - Emily Griffis, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award -

2025-03-27 — Signed by Senate Speaker

Foster Care - As enacted, expands the provision of voluntary extended foster care services by the department of children's services to include young adults between 20 and 23 who were in the custody of the department at the time of the young adult's eighteenth birthday and young adults who were adopted from, or approved for subsidized permanent guardianship by, the department of children's services at 16 or older. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 49 and Title 55.

2025-05-08 — Effective date(s) 07/01/2025

Economic and Community Development - As introduced, enacts the "Employee Ownership, Empowerment, and Expansion Act" to support the growth and expansion of employee-owned businesses. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 9; Title 12, Chapter 3; Title 45; Title 50; Title 56, Chapter 1 and Title 67.

2026-01-21 — Taken off notice for cal in s/c Business and Utilities Subcommittee of Commerce Committee

Welfare - As enacted, removes the requirement that a parent or caretaker enter a personal responsibility plan that requires a child to attend school and receive immunizations and health checks; removes certain requirements for a parent or caretaker regarding personal responsibility plans; removes a 20 percent reduction in temporary assistance payments for failure to comply with certain personal responsibility plan requirements. - Amends TCA Title 71.

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

Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, expands the definition of "machine gun" to include any part, or combination of parts, designed and intended solely for use in converting a firearm into a machine gun; increases the classification for the intentional or knowing possession, manufacture, transport, repair, or sale of a machine gun from a Class E to a Class C felony; reclassifies certain other offenses involving the possession of firearm or handgun ammunition; makes a defendant ineligible for parole if convicted of aggravated assault that involved the use of a firearm from within a motor vehicle. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

2025-05-27 — Effective date(s) 07/01/2025

Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, creates a pathway for a person to obtain an alternative instructional leader license for purposes of serving as a principal, an assistant principal, or an instructional supervisor. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5.

2026-03-10 — Taken off notice for cal in s/c Education Administration Subcommittee of Education Committee

Taxes, Sales - As enacted, sets the end date at June 30, 2027, for the exemption from sales and use tax for purchases and leases of equipment and infrastructure used to produce broadband communications services or provide internet access. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 3.

2025-05-15 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 449

Drugs, Prescription - As introduced, deletes an obsolete provision that required the comptroller of the treasury, in conjunction with any appropriate TennCare drug utilization review committees, to study the use of prescription drugs in nursing homes and the costs of those prescription drugs for residents of nursing homes; to examine prescription use overall; to focus on any practices that would improve the quality of resident care while reducing costs to the TennCare program; and to report by January 1, 2005, to the speaker of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33 and Title 71.

2025-02-26 — Sponsor change.

Education, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to conduct a landscape analysis of teacher evaluation practices in this state and other states; requires the department to convene a teacher evaluation advisory committee to review and evaluate current teacher evaluation practices in this state; requires the department and the state board to provide the education committee of the senate and committee of the house of representatives having jurisdiction over teacher evaluations a final report on the landscape analysis, teacher evaluation advisory committee's recommendations, and any department or state board recommendations by January 31, 2026. - Amends TCA Title 49.

2025-05-13 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 325

Education, State Board of - As introduced, requires the state board to publish the curriculum implemented for the statewide drug abuse resistance education (DARE) program on the state board's website. - Amends TCA Title 49.

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

Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, permits the largest municipality in Shelby, Davidson, Knox, or Hamilton county to regulate the manner of storage of firearms, firearm ammunition, and firearm accessories by ordinance, resolution, policy, rule, or other enactment. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

2025-04-02 — Taken off notice for cal in s/c Civil Justice Subcommittee of Judiciary Committee

Criminal Procedure - As introduced, exempts an applicant seeking to restore the applicant's rights of citizenship from having to pay for the cost of the application if a court orders otherwise. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 8; Title 39 and Title 40.

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

Water - As enacted, authorizes municipal water and sewer systems to undertake certain projects on private property. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 63; Title 65; Title 68 and Title 69.

2026-05-27 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1055

Criminal Offenses - As introduced, makes it an offense for farmers to keep breeding pigs and veal calves in certain small enclosures, subject to certain exceptions, effective July 1, 2030. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14; Title 40, Chapter 39; Title 43; Title 44 and Title 53.

2025-04-01 — Taken off notice for cal in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Judiciary Committee

Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As introduced, increases, from 15 to 20, the number of background investigations that the speaker of the senate and speaker of the house of representatives may request a year for persons under consideration for appointment to a position of trust and responsibility. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39 and Title 67.

2025-03-26 — Action Def. in s/c Civil Justice Subcommittee to 4/2/2025

Correction, Dept. of - As introduced, prohibits the department from denying the dissemination or availability of books and materials donated by book vendors to state inmates, with certain exceptions for depictions of nudity and sexually explicit material. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3; Title 40 and Title 41.

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

Agriculture, Dept. of - As enacted, establishes June 30 as the expiration date for certain licenses issued by the department. - Amends TCA Title 43, Chapter 1, Part 1; Section 43-10-118; Section 43-11-405; Section 43-8-104; Section 44-10-203; Section 44-11-105; Section 44-6-104; Section 47-26-1010; Section 53-1-204; Section 53-3-105; Section 53-3-106; Section 53-7-216 and Section 53-8-106.

2025-04-28 — Effective date(s) 04/11/2025

Education - As enacted, makes various changes to reporting requirements, school and district accountability, the accumulation of excess instructional time, remote instruction, the immunization status of students in state custody, the individualized education account program, public virtual school enrollment, and certain course access program requirements imposed on the department of education. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 50, Part 8; Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 6; Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 9; Title 49, Chapter 10, Part 14; Title 49, Chapter 16, Part 2; Title 49, Chapter 18, Part 1; Title 49, Chapter 2, Part 1; Title 49, Chapter 3, Part 1; Title 49, Chapter 3, Part 3; Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 10; Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 30; Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 31; Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 41; Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 50; Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 2 and Chapter 1005 of the Public Acts of 2024.

2025-04-29 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 235

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 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 181

Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services, Dept. of - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Mental Health Volunteer Alliance Act." - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 49; Title 63 and Title 68.

2025-02-25 — Taken off notice for cal in s/c Population Health Subcommittee of Health Committee

Museums - As introduced, requires the state to enter into good faith negotiations for the purchase of the Cotton Museum in Memphis, subject to approval by the state building commission. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 9; Title 10; Title 11 and Title 12.

2025-02-26 — Failed in Public Service Subcommittee

Salaries and Benefits - As introduced, increases, from $7.25 to $20, the minimum hourly wage for employees within this state. - Amends TCA Section 8-23-203; Title 12 and Title 50, Chapter 2.

2026-02-11 — Failed for lack of second in: Banking & Consumer Affairs Subcommittee

State Government - As enacted, enacts the "Recognizing Judea and Samaria Act." - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4 and Title 8.

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