114 session

Transportation, Dept. of - As enacted, in the event of a transportation system failure or other emergency, grants the commissioner emergency contracting authority to enter into contracts for design-build, construction manager/general contractor (CM/GC), and progressive design-build (PDB) services for the delivery of transportation projects; exempts the department from having to identify such contracts exceeding $100 million in its transportation improvement program submitted annually to the general assembly in support of its annual funding recommendations, if they are issued under such emergency contracting authority; makes other revisions to the CM/GC and PDB process. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 12 and Title 54.

2025-04-08 — Pub. Ch. 110

Child Abuse - As enacted, expands the definition of child abuse to include a person under the age of 18 witnessing either the abuse of another child in the person's immediate family or household or domestic abuse of a member of the person's immediate family or household; specifies that reunification between a parent and a child placed in foster care due to abuse must not occur unless the parent has complied with the parent's statement of responsibilities in the permanency plan and the child has received mental health counseling. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 37 and Title 39.

2025-05-13 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 398

Health Care - As enacted, prohibits a person from developing or deploying an artificial intelligence system that advertises or represents to the public that such system is or is able to act as a qualified mental health professional. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 47 and Title 63.

2026-04-06 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 647

Education - As enacted, allows student performance on the Classic Learning Test to be used alongside the ACT and SAT for various purposes; makes various changes to home school testing requirements and opportunities available to home school students. - Amends TCA Title 49.

2026-05-18 — Pub. Ch. 912

Education - As enacted, requires public high schools to provide students who are enrolled in a United States government and civics course the opportunity to participate in three civic engagement field days and similar opportunities, one for each branch of government, to observe each branch of government. - Amends TCA Title 49.

2026-04-28 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 700

Courts, Municipal - As enacted, prohibits a municipality from remediating a property maintenance violation if the cost may negatively impact the municipality's financial position, or if the cost is budgetarily prohibitive; specifies that, in addition to assessing remediation costs against a property owner in the form of a lien, a municipality may recover remediation costs through all other legal means. - Amends TCA Title 6; Title 7; Title 13; Title 16, Chapter 18 and Title 29, Chapter 3.

2026-05-04 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 821

Consumer Protection - As enacted, requires a third-party booking site that includes information about ancillary hotel services available at a hotel to disclose that there are additional fees required to access the services and which services require payment of additional fees by the consumer if access to the services requires payment of such fees; establishes violations of the requirement as violations of the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act of 1977; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18.

2026-05-04 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 866

Education - As enacted, revises law concerning math education; requires the state board of education, in developing and adopting a uniform grading system for students in grades 9-12, to include in such system the high school course grades achieved by students in eighth grade; specifies that the uniform grading system for students in grades K-8 must include K-8 course work. - Amends TCA Title 49.

2026-05-18 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 901

Tennessee Investment in Student Achievement (TISA) - As enacted, requires the TISA review committee to study and include in its annual report recommendations for how this state may revise the ways in which it identifies economically disadvantaged students to ensure this state is accurately identifying the students in need of additional resources and recommendations for how this state may better support economically disadvantaged students through the TISA. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1 and Title 49, Chapter 3.

2026-05-27 — Pub. Ch. 1032

Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the statewide planning and policy council for the department of mental health and substance abuse services to June 30, 2029. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 33, Chapter 1.

2025-03-21 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 13

Opioids - As enacted, adds Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC, Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc., Sun Pharmaceutical Industries, Inc., Indivior Inc., Viatris Inc., and Purdue Pharma L.P. to the list of companies that may be released by the attorney general and reporter for pending or future claims regarding opioids. - Amends TCA Title 20 and Title 33.

2025-05-13 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 302

Memorials, Recognition - Alkebu-Lan Images Bookstore and National Black Bookstore Day -

2026-03-26 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Recognition - National Donate Life Month, April 2026 -

2026-03-26 — Received from House, refer to Senate Health & Welfare Committee

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Adyson Music, Top Ten Senior, Frank Hughes School -

2026-04-30 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Recognition - Stewarts Creek High School Band -

2025-04-24 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Recognition - Kyle Nahrebne -

2025-04-29 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Sports - Macon County High School football team, TSSAA Division I, 4A state champions -

2025-02-12 — Rules Suspended, Concurred, voice vote

Memorials, Personal Occasion - Charles and Iva Jean Cooper Endsley, 70th wedding anniversary -

2026-02-11 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Recognition - Chemours New Johnsonville -

2026-02-11 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Recognition - Taiwan -

2026-04-09 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Personal Achievement - Andrew Jason Kumm Sonnichsen, Eagle Scout -

2026-03-11 — Signed by Governor.

Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, requires an insurance company that increases its premiums to give 45 days' notice rather than 30 days' notice of the increase to a customer who has an account paid by bank draft or preauthorized check. - Amends TCA Title 56.

2025-02-12 — Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Commerce and Labor Committee

Historical Sites and Preservation - As introduced, enacts the "African American Cultural and Historical Grant Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9 and Title 13.

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

Loudon - Subject to local approval, authorizes the City to regulate construction, maintenance, and operation of public utilities, and assess fees for the use and impact of such services; authorizes the City to establish, maintain, and regulate certain infrastructure, public grounds, and public facilities, assess fees for the use of or impact upon such property and facilities, and condemn property for such purposes in accordance with state law. - Amends Chapter 74 of the Private Acts of 1975; as amended.

2025-03-17 — Passed on Second Consideration, held on desk. Local Bill

Zoning - As introduced, removes requirement that a structure rebuilt on a site must conform to the zoning regulations existing at the time of the new construction. - Amends TCA Title 13, Chapter 7.

2026-01-14 — Filed for introduction

Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, establishes a sales tax holiday on food and food ingredients and on prepared food from July 1, 2026, through September 30, 2026, if purchased by a person at least 65 years of age. - Amends TCA Section 67-6-228 and Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 3.

2026-03-30 — Placed on Senate State and Local Government Committee calendar for 3/31/2026

Taxes - As introduced, enacts the "End the Grocery Tax by Closing Corporate Loopholes Act." - Amends TCA Title 57 and Title 67.

2026-07-30 — Engrossed; ready for transmission to House

Public Utility Commission - As introduced, authorizes the commission to electronically provide to the general assembly its annual report of all matters relating to the commissioner's office for the preceding year, including practical workings of companies under its jurisdiction in this state and an abstract of the minutes of all of the commission's meetings. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 12; Title 13; Title 54; Title 64; Title 65; Title 68 and Title 69.

2026-04-07 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Commerce and Labor Committee

Tennessee Fish & Wildlife Commission - As enacted, establishes a statutory schedule of permit fees for the operation of off highway vehicles at North Cumberland Wildlife Management Area. - Amends TCA Title 70, Chapter 9.

2026-05-27 — Pub. Ch. 1120

Motor Vehicles - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Vehicle Value Protection Product Act." - Amends TCA Title 47; Title 55 and Title 56.

2026-03-03 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Commerce and Labor Committee

Children - As introduced, prohibits private schools participating in the individualized education account program, education savings account program, or that enroll recipients of an education freedom scholarship from employing an individual that has committed child abuse, severe child abuse, child sexual abuse, or child neglect; requires the department of human services to review, upon the request of certain child care agencies, an employee or potential employee to determine whether the individual has a record of perpetrating the abuse or neglect of children or adults. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5; Title 37; Title 49 and Title 71.

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

Immigration - As introduced, affords an individual detained pursuant to a federal detention agreement certain rights while detained. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 10; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40.

2026-03-24 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State and Local Government Committee

Law Enforcement - As enacted, establishes a Tennessee safe initiative task force, which is administratively attached to the Tennessee bureau of investigation. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 38 and Title 39.

2026-05-26 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1010

Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires an LEA to close a virtual school not meeting certain requirements for continued operation; requires the department of education to maintain and publish on the department's website a list of providers that operated or managed a virtual school that was closed for not meeting the requirements for continued operation; makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 49.

2026-05-18 — Pub. Ch. 905

Education - As introduced, amends the criminal offense of threatening to commit an act of mass violence on school property to apply only to a valid and credible threat; requires a local education agency's threat assessment procedures to include, when assessing a student based on dangerous or threatening behavior, a written assessment of the student by a mental healthcare provider, which may be performed via telehealth. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 49.

2026-03-11 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Education Committee

TennCare - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Medicaid Modernization and Access Act of 2025," which aligns TennCare's current Medicaid reimbursement rates for obstetrics/gynecology, primary care, outpatient mental health, and substance use disorder treatment with the Medicare fee schedule or average commercial rates, whichever is higher. - Amends TCA Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

2026-04-20 — Action deferred in Senate Finance, Ways & Means Committee to 4/21/2026

Education - As enacted, creates an advisory committee on innovations in K-12 education. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 49.

2025-05-15 — Pub. Ch. 426

Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, authorizes a county legislative body to elect not to permit persons within the county to lawfully carry a handgun without a handgun carry permit by passage of a resolution; requires a county that has passed such a resolution to provide notice to persons present within the county by posting notice of the resolution in conspicuous public locations throughout the county. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

2026-02-03 — Failed in Senate Judiciary Committee

Probate Law - As introduced, requires the personal representative to notify beneficiaries or intestate heirs of their right to file exceptions to claims of creditors filed against an estate; makes various other changes regarding wills and claims of creditors against an estate. - Amends TCA Title 30 and Title 32.

2025-03-17 — Re-refer to S. Cal Comm

Memorials, Death - Johnny Ray Aikman -

2026-05-01 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Retirement - Mary's Old Fashioned Pit Bar-B-Que -

2025-03-13 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Recognition - Austin Spangler, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award -

2025-03-25 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Kayden Hornberger, Salutatorian, Stone Memorial High School -

2025-05-07 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Retirement - Ray Daniel -

2026-02-03 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Sports - Jackson Savarese, All-Region 1-3A first team -

2026-03-18 — Signed by Governor.