114 session

Sunset Laws - As introduced, extends the Tennessee board of court reporting to June 30, 2027. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 20, Chapter 9.

2025-02-03 — P2C, ref. to Government Operations Committee

Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the Tennessee board of judicial conduct to June 30, 2031. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 17, Chapter 5.

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

Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the Tennessee board of utility regulation to June 30, 2029. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 7, Chapter 82.

2025-03-24 — Effective date(s) 03/14/2025

Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the Tennessee bureau of investigation to June 30, 2029. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 38, Chapter 6.

2025-04-29 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 240

Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the Tennessee claims commission to June 30, 2031. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 9, Chapter 8.

2025-03-24 — Effective date(s) 03/14/2025

Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the Tennessee code commission to June 30, 2033. - Amends TCA Title 1, Chapter 1 and Title 4, Chapter 29.

2025-03-21 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 14

Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the Tennessee community resource board to June 30, 2031. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 41, Chapter 10.

2025-03-24 — Effective date(s) 03/14/2025

Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the Tennessee emergency management agency to June 30, 2029. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 58, Chapter 2.

2025-04-29 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 241

Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the Tennessee emergency medical services board to June 30, 2029. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 68, Chapter 140, Part 3.

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

Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the Tennessee film, entertainment and music commission to June 30, 2031. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 50.

2025-03-21 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 15

Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the Tennessee historical commission to June 30, 2029. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 11, Part 1 and Title 4, Chapter 29.

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

Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the Tennessee medical examiner advisory council to June 30, 2029. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 38, Chapter 7, Part 2.

2025-03-24 — Effective date(s) 03/14/2025

Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the Tennessee monuments and memorials commission to June 30, 2029. - Amends TCA Section 4-1-412 and Title 4, Chapter 29.

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

Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the Tennessee opioid abatement council to June 30, 2029. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 33, Chapter 11.

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

Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the Tennessee peace officer standards and training commission to June 30, 2031. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 38, Chapter 8, Part 1.

2025-03-24 — Effective date(s) 03/14/2025

Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the Tennessee public television council to June 30, 2030. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Section 49-50-905.

2025-03-24 — Effective date(s) 03/14/2025

Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the Tennessee Technological University, board of trustees, to June 30, 2030. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 49, Chapter 8.

2025-04-29 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 242

Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the Tennessee technology development corporation to June 30, 2027. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 14, Part 2 and Title 4, Chapter 29.

2025-05-15 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 410

Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the Tennessee wars commission to June 30, 2029. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 11, Part 3 and Title 4, Chapter 29.

2025-03-24 — Effective date(s) 03/14/2025

Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the Tennessee wine and grape board to June 30, 2031. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 57, Chapter 3, Part 11.

2025-03-24 — Effective date(s) 03/14/2025

Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the transportation modernization board to June 30, 2029. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 54, Chapter 3, Part 1.

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

Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the traumatic brain injury advisory council to June 30, 2029. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 68, Chapter 55.

2025-03-24 — Effective date(s) 03/14/2025

Administrative Procedure (UAPA) - As enacted, generally establishes that permanent rules filed in the office of the secretary of state on or after January 1, 2024, that are in effect on the effective date of this act, and that are scheduled for expiration on June 30, 2025, do not expire on June 30, 2025, but remain in effect until repealed or amended by subsequent rule of the appropriate rulemaking agency or until otherwise superseded by legislative enactment. -

2025-05-13 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 307

Administrative Procedure (UAPA) - As introduced, requires each state agency head to complete periodic training for purposes of complying with the requirements of the Regulatory Flexibility Act of 2007. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 5.

2025-02-03 — P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.

Correction, Dept. of - As introduced, reduces from 10 to five business days after a death, the time within which the commissioner must report the death of a person in custody to members of the general assembly representing the legislative districts where the deceased person resided; requires that the information contained in the report include the name of the department facility where the death occurred. - Amends TCA Title 4.

2025-02-06 — Withdrawn.

State Government - As enacted, removes obsolete statutory references to the defunct joint select committee on veterans services of the general assembly; makes revisions to entities listed in the Tennessee Governmental Entity Review Law; revises present law provisions relative to the retirement incentive bonus for public service commission employees; removes an expired report. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8, Chapter 34, Part 2; Title 52; Title 58, Chapter 7; Title 63, Chapter 6, Part 4; Title 68, Chapter 142, Part 1; Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 2 and Title 69, Chapter 10.

2025-05-13 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 308

Health, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to submit a report to certain legislative committees concerning the practice of anesthesiology. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 62; Title 63 and Title 68.

2025-02-06 — Withdrawn.

Education - As introduced, converts the school safety alert grant pilot program to a statewide two-year school safety alert grant program; removes the limit on the number of grants that may be awarded in a fiscal year. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Chapter 944 of the Public Acts of 2024.

2025-02-03 — Withdrawn.

Education, Higher - As introduced, requires the institute of American civics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, to develop materials and curricula for a course in a baccalaureate degree program including American government or American history; requires each student enrolled in a public institution of higher education to complete a course of instruction that includes such curricula prior to the student obtaining a baccalaureate degree. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, Chapter 8 and Title 49, Chapter 9.

2026-04-15 — Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee

Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As introduced, requires the department of economic and community development to submit an annual report to certain legislative committees that includes the names of the municipalities involved in the creation of an authority in the prior calendar year, the amount of land acquired and improved, specific details about the financing of the project, and any other information the department deems relevant. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 49 and Title 64.

2025-02-03 — P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.

Zoning - As introduced, prohibits the construction of correctional facilities, hospitals, and nursing homes in areas designated as 100-year flood plains; applies to all applications for construction permits submitted on or after July 1, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 13.

2025-02-12 — Failed in s/c Cities & Counties Subcommittee of State & Local Government Committee

Highways, Roads and Bridges - As introduced, authorizes surveillance cameras to be installed on federal interstate highways and operated by a state entity to aid in the investigation and prevention of terrorism and state criminal offenses other than traffic violations; authorizes surveillance cameras to be installed on public roads and highways other than federal interstate highways and operated by local law enforcement agencies to aid in the investigation and prevention of terrorism and state criminal offenses other than traffic violations. - Amends TCA Section 55-8-198.

2025-02-03 — Withdrawn.

Health Care - As introduced, adds doula services performed by a person with a verification of certification to the list of services that may be provided as medical assistance under the TennCare program; directs the department of health to establish by rule a process for the verification of certification to a person who demonstrates that the person has completed a doula training program that meets certain requirements. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 71.

2026-02-11 — Sponsor(s) Added.

Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, requires TACIR to conduct a study on the feasibility of implementing and potential effects of enacting the insurance coverage requirements proposed in Senate Bill 231 of the 114th General Assembly, as originally filed; requires TACIR to publish a report of its findings and recommendations. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

2025-05-15 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 416

Real Property - As enacted, clarifies that property that is qualified as agricultural, forest land, or open space land, owned by two individuals, and held under the titles of tenancy by the entireties or of joint tenancy with right of survivorship, is deemed to have unchanged ownership upon the death of an owner if the property is retained by the other owner through a right of survivorship or upon the divorce of the owners if the property is retained by either owner through division and distribution of property in the divorce proceeding. - Amends TCA Title 11, Chapter 14, Part 2; Title 11, Chapter 15 and Title 67, Chapter 5.

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

Housing - As introduced, enacts the "Homes not Hedge Funds Act"; prohibits certain business entities from purchasing more than 100 single-family homes in certain counties in this state for purposes of renting the purchased properties; establishes a state and private cause of action and establishes damages for violations. - Amends TCA Title 13; Title 47 and Title 66.

2026-03-11 — Failed for lack of second in: Cities & Counties Subcommittee

Education, Higher - As introduced, extends to the dependent children and spouses of veterans who sustained a permanent and total service-connected disability during a qualifying period of armed conflict the same waiver of all tuition and fees at public institutions of higher education being provided to the dependent children and spouses of veterans who were killed, died due to injuries received, or reported as prisoners of war or missing in action during a qualifying period of armed conflict. - Amends TCA Title 49.

2025-02-03 — Assigned to s/c Higher Education Subcommittee

Traffic Safety - As enacted, authorizes a law enforcement officer to seize or impound a motor vehicle that is found with an installed license plate flipper; requires that the owner or operator of the motor vehicle, if present, be provided the opportunity to promptly remove the license plate flipper if it can be removed safely. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 40 and Title 55, Chapter 10.

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

Milk, Dairy Products - As introduced, repeals the Unfair Milk Sales Act; removes the prohibition against selling milk below cost. - Amends TCA Title 53, Chapter 3, Part 2.

2025-01-28 — Assigned to s/c Agriculture & Natural Resources Subcommittee

Adoption - As enacted, changes from 21 to 18 the age at which certain adoption records must be made available to certain adopted persons; makes various other changes regarding adoption records. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 1, Part 1.

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

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

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

Children - As enacted, removes the requirement that grants under the child care improvement pilot program be provided explicitly to nonprofit organizations in order to establish or make improvements to a child care agency. - Amends TCA Title 71.

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

Human Services, Dept. of - As enacted, makes various changes to the licensing exemption categories for programs and activities that fall within the definition of a child care agency; makes related changes, such as exempting home schools from licensure. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 71, Chapter 3, Part 5.

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

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

State Employees - As enacted, requires the pay period for state employees be no less than twice per month as determined by the commissioner of finance and administration; removes the requirement that the pay period be semimonthly. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 23, Part 2.

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