114 session

Memorials, Sports - Halls High School Unified Cheerleading Team, 2025 TSSAA Unified Cheerleading Varsity Game Day State Champions -

2026-02-12 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Recognition - Chloee Stokely -

2026-03-31 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Recognition - 100th anniversary of the Education Act of Tennessee -

2025-04-10 — Adopted, Ayes 31, Nays 0

Memorials, Retirement - Lanny Selby, Sparta Fire Department -

2025-04-15 — Recalled from Senate Calendar Committee

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Justice Cook, Valedictorian, Halls High School -

2025-04-25 — Signed by Senate Speaker

Memorials, Recognition - Dr. LaDonna Boyd -

2025-03-04 — Signed by Senate Speaker

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Keily Yahaira Ortez, Valedictorian, Glencliff High School -

2025-04-25 — Signed by Senate Speaker

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Kaitlyn Smart, Salutatorian, Frank Hughes School -

2026-03-05 — Adopted, Ayes 31, Nays 0

Memorials, Academic Achievement - A'Niya Graham, Valedictorian, Whitehaven High School -

2026-04-30 — Signed by Senate Speaker

Memorials, Recognition - Arab American Heritage Month -

2026-04-23 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Finance, Ways & Means Committee

Juvenile Offenders - As enacted, requires suspension of a minor's driving privileges or ability to obtain a driver license for a period of one year as part of the disposition if a minor is adjudicated delinquent for an act that would constitute the offense of harassment by bullying or cyber-bullying. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39 and Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 7.

2025-04-28 — Pub. Ch. 292

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 — Pub. Ch. 135

Children - As enacted, enacts the "End Childhood Hunger Act." - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37.

2025-05-13 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 397

Crossville - Subject to local approval, realigns salaries of mayor and city council to be set at a percentage of salary earned by the county mayor; establishes new meeting schedule for mayor and city council; creates process for holding administrative hearings by the city; increases maximum occupancy tax that may be imposed, from 2 percent to 3 percent. - Amends Chapter 519 of the Private Acts of 1953; as amended and rewritten.

2025-06-04 — Pr. Ch. 28

Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the board of dentistry to June 30, 2031. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 63, Chapter 5.

2026-04-06 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 636

Tennessee Fish & Wildlife Commission - As enacted, authorizes the commission to promulgate rules or pass proclamations to authorize the use of drones to locate and retrieve deer that have been wounded by hunters. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 70.

2025-05-27 — Pub. Ch. 478

Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, requires a manufacturer's license for the manufacturing of alcoholic spiritous beverages or vintage alcoholic beverages issued to or renewed by a manufacturer to authorize the sale at retail a product for which a manufacturer owns the intellectual property rights and that the manufacturer received bottled as imported from Mexico; authorizes the manufacturer to serve certain samples of the product manufactured or distilled at the premises or imported and registered for distribution and sale in this state. - Amends TCA Title 57.

2026-03-30 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 603

Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the medical cannabis commission to June 30, 2029. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 68, Chapter 7.

2025-03-31 — Pub. Ch. 50

Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the megasite authority of West Tennessee to June 30, 2029. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 64, Chapter 9.

2025-03-31 — Pub. Ch. 51

Athens - Subject to local approval, sets compensation of mayor and council members by ordinance rather than specific dollar amounts; does not alter compensation amounts of current mayor or council members. - Amends Chapter 455 of the Private Acts of 1953; as amended.

2026-05-01 — Pr. Ch. 46

Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As enacted, establishes that certain public officials, including members of the general assembly, who take office on or after July 1, 2025, have mandatory membership in the Tennessee consolidated retirement system (TCRS); allows a retiree to reannuitize retirement benefits in favor of a new spouse beneficiary following cancellation of a former spouse beneficiary due to divorce; makes other revisions to provisions governing the TCRS. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 25; Title 8, Chapter 34; Title 8, Chapter 35; Title 8, Chapter 36 and Title 8, Chapter 37.

2025-05-13 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 367

Memorials, Sports - Stephen Smith -

2026-04-20 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Retirement - Jim Reed, Rhea County Commissioner -

2026-04-24 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Sasha Utter, Top Ten Senior, Marshall County High School -

2026-04-30 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Autumn Sweatt, Salutatorian, Marshall County High School -

2026-04-30 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Personal Occasion - August Jett Cates, birth -

2026-05-07 — Signed by Governor.

General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Urges Tennessee universities to adopt principles of institutional neutrality, free expression and civil discourse, and the preservation of a safe and respectful campus. -

2025-04-07 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Recognition - Aaron Summerall, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award -

2025-02-27 — Transmitted to Governor for his action.

Memorials, Academic Achievement - McCarlee Eubank, Top Ten Senior, Cannon County High School -

2025-04-15 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Recognition - Benjamin and Lauren Neale, Rural Small Business of the Year -

2025-05-07 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Recognition - Dogwood Arts Festival, 70th anniversary -

2026-02-11 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Tony Somsanith, Valedictorian, Santa Fe Unit School -

2026-03-11 — Signed by Governor.

Housing - As introduced, authorizes municipalities to create, implement, and enforce a rental property registry for all residential rental dwelling units within the municipality's jurisdiction; requires owners of residential rental dwelling units to register; requires a municipality that adopts a registry to send an annual report containing certain information to the department of economic and community development. - Amends TCA Title 13, Chapter 21.

2025-03-18 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State and Local Government Committee

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 — Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Education Committee

Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, authorizes an assisted-care living facility to comply with any requirement to post information in the facility by making such information available on an electronic screen clearly visible to residents and the public subject to approval by the board for licensing health care facilities. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.

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

Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, enacts the "Anti-Road Rage Act of 2024," which creates a Class E felony for the reckless discharge of a firearm while operating, or as a passenger in, a motor vehicle; creates a Class A misdemeanor for the reckless brandishing or display of a firearm while operating, or as a passenger in, a motor vehicle. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 55.

2026-03-23 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee

State Government - As introduced, increases membership of the information systems council by adding a state employee with experience in the field of cybersecurity, to be appointed by the governor. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3.

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

Knox County - Subject to local approval, repeals the Tennessee Technology Development Authority Act. - Amends Chapter 148 of the Private Acts of 1983; as amended.

2025-04-28 — Pr. Ch. 6

Safety - As introduced, decreases from 10 business days to 10 calendar days the amount of time the state fire marshal or another state agency, department, or entity must conduct a requested inspection for new construction or the renovation of an existing building. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 7; Title 13; Title 68 and Title 69.

2025-01-27 — Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Commerce and Labor Committee

TennCare - 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 56 and Title 71.

2026-01-22 — Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Commerce and Labor Committee

Public Funds and Financing - As introduced, requires the state treasurer to use existing resources to conduct a study of the use of public funds by neighboring states to facilitate gender transition procedures to determine what restrictions neighboring states place upon public funding of such procedures; requires the treasurer to compile the findings of the study into a report and transmit the report to the general assembly no later than December 31, 2026. - Amends TCA Title 5, Chapter 9, Part 1; Title 6, Chapter 56, Part 1; Title 7, Chapter 3, Part 1; Title 8, Chapter 27; Title 9, Chapter 4, Part 51; Title 37; Title 39; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

2026-02-05 — Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee

Public Utilities - As introduced, requires the supervisory body of municipal electric plants to make the current schedule of rates and charges and all rules and regulations relating to electric service available to the public in an electronic format online. - Amends TCA Title 6; Title 7 and Title 65.

2026-02-05 — Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee

Children's Services, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to record, by audio recording or video recording, all interviews of children conducted by department employees as part of the department's investigation of claims of abuse or dependency and neglect. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5; Title 24; Title 37 and Title 38.

2026-03-26 — Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk.

Charlotte - Subject to local approval, revises various provisions of the charter of the City of Charlotte relating to its corporate powers; the city council; the city clerk; codification of ordinances; duties of mayor; city court, judge, and court clerk; and budgeting, centralized purchasing, and taxes. - Amends Chapter 154 of the Private Acts of 1955; as amended.

2026-05-27 — Comp. became Pr. Ch. 56

Criminal Offenses - As introduced, expands the offense of unlawful exposure to include the distribution, with the intent to cause emotional distress, of an image of the intimate parts of another identifiable person or an image of an identifiable person engaged in sexually explicit conduct and the image was created or modified by means of a computer software program, artificial intelligence application, or other digital editing tools. - Amends TCA Title 39.

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