114 session

Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the Upper Cumberland human resource agency to June 30, 2030. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 13, Chapter 26.

2026-03-16 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 578

Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As introduced, designates March 13 of each year as "Father Charles Strobel Day." - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2.

2025-02-27 — Received from House, Passed on First Consideration

Education, Higher - As enacted, prohibits institutions of higher education from excluding a person from benefits, activities, and employment, or making decisions, based on a person's race, color, ethnicity, or national origin; requires such institutions to provide notice of such prohibitions; authorizes injunctive and declaratory relief for violations. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7.

2025-04-29 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 245

Criminal Offenses - As enacted, expands the definition of "racketeering activity" to include committing, conspiring to commit, aiding, attempting to aid, soliciting, coercing, facilitating, or intimidating another person to commit the criminal offense of animal fighting. - Amends TCA Title 39.

2025-04-29 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 264

Taxes - As enacted, increases, by 15 cents over a 10-year period, and subject to a two-thirds vote of the county legislative body, the maximum mineral severance tax rate that may be levied by a county on all sand, gravel, sandstone, chert, and limestone severed from the ground within its jurisdiction; removes the authorization for Smith County to allocate its mineral severance tax to the county general fund or a fund other than its county road fund. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 7, Part 2.

2025-04-28 — Pub. Ch. 285

Health Care - As enacted, clarifies that an additional license for a collection station is not required, without regard to where specimens are transported, as long as the medical laboratory owner of the licensed medical laboratory retains ownership of the medical laboratory and oversight of the collection station. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 29.

2025-04-04 — Pub. Ch. 147

Criminal Offenses - As enacted, removes a definition of "content harmful to minors" from the Protect Tennessee Minors Act. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17.

2025-05-13 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 405

Education, Curriculum - As enacted, establishes a pilot program that provides grants to local education agencies to advance substance abuse and violence prevention programs. - Amends TCA Title 49.

2026-05-27 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1058

Memorials, Recognition - Siskin Children's Institute, 75th anniversary -

2026-04-09 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Professional Achievement - George McDonald, 2024 Tennessee Farmer of the Year -

2025-02-21 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Matthew Fincher, Top Ten Senior, Hampshire Unit School -

2026-04-14 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Professional Achievement - Mary Catherine Flemming, Hunters Bend Elementary School Teacher of the Year -

2026-04-20 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Death - Gayle Duncan Gilmer -

2026-04-20 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Isaiah Mitchell, Salutatorian, South-Doyle High School -

2026-05-05 — Signed by Governor.

General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Charles Traughber, Tennessee State University Board of Trustees -

2025-03-25 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Death - Carl Dean -

2025-03-19 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Tripp Robertson, Top Ten Senior, Collinwood High School -

2025-04-07 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Death - Victor Joseph Ankar -

2026-02-11 — Signed by Governor.

General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Doran Johnson, University of Tennessee Southern Advisory Board -

2026-03-18 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Brylie Blade, Top Ten Senior, Santa Fe Unit School -

2026-03-11 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Personal Occasion - Mabel Chandler Edwards, 106th birthday -

2026-03-11 — Signed by Governor.

Children and Youth, Commission on - As introduced, changes from September 1 to October 1 the date by which the commission must make budget recommendations for the following fiscal year to the governor, finance committees of the house and senate, legislative budget offices, and affected state departments. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 33; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41 and Title 49.

2025-03-31 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee

Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, removes the requirement that a student with a documented intellectual disability be admitted to, and enrolled in, an eligible postsecondary institution in an eligible postsecondary program no later than 16 months after completing high school in order to be eligible to receive a Tennessee STEP UP scholarship. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 50, Part 1; Title 49, Chapter 7 and Title 49, Chapter 4.

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

Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As enacted, requires that interest income accruing on investments and deposits as a result of the Megasite Authority of West Tennessee's collection of rates to customers of a water system or wastewater system operated by the authority be credited to a separate account and carried forward into each subsequent fiscal year. - Amends TCA Section 64-9-107.

2025-04-29 — Pub. Ch. 274

Revenue, Dept. of - As enacted, reduces from 1.125 percent to 0.75 percent the administrative fee percentage the department takes from the proceeds of the business tax, short-term rental unit occupancy tax, local tax surcharge, coal severance tax, and local option sales tax to assist in defraying the expenses of administration and collection, before remitting proceeds to the appropriate county, city, or town. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4; Title 67, Chapter 6 and Title 67, Chapter 7.

2025-05-08 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 355

Health Care - As introduced, changes from March 1 to February 1, the date by which a managed care organization that participates in the TennCare program must submit its annual report to the bureau of TennCare. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5, Part 1.

2026-01-14 — Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Health and Welfare Committee

State Symbols - As enacted, designates Lake County as the "Eagle Capital of Tennessee." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3.

2026-04-27 — Pub. Ch. 667

Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, establishes new premier type tourist resorts, restaurants, community theaters, clubs, retirement centers, premises, and commercial passenger boat companies that can offer liquor by the drink; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 57.

2026-05-27 — Pub. Ch. 1074

Human Services, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to apply, no later than January 1, 2027, for federal grants and other federal funds available to the state through the federal summer electronic benefits transfer (EBT) for children program for the purpose of providing nutrition assistance through EBT during the summer months for each eligible child. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 71.

2026-04-01 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Health and Welfare Committee

Open Meetings - As enacted, expands the requirement that state and local governing bodies make an agenda available to the public prior to regular public meetings of the body to include the governing bodies of certain nonprofit organizations, including nonprofit community organizations that receive federal funding, nonprofit organizations that receive community grant funds from this state or certain funding from local governments, nonprofit organizations created for the benefit of local governments, and nonprofit organizations that provide the metropolitan government of Nashville/Davidson County with certain utility services; requires, rather than permits, such governing bodies that maintain a website to post the agenda to the website. - Amends TCA Section 8-44-110.

2025-05-13 — Pub. Ch. 360

Taxes, Real Property - As introduced, adds an exception to the requirement that mineral and other interests in real property are assessed to the owner of the real property. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5.

2026-04-02 — Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk.

Natural Disasters - As enacted, enacts the "Local Disaster Displacement Tax Relief Act." - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 4; Title 58 and Title 67, Chapter 4.

2026-05-27 — Pub. Ch. 979

Housing - As introduced, encourages municipalities to study and assess housing affordability and inventory availability, and to adopt a pattern book for purposes of encouraging the construction of medium-density housing. - Amends TCA Title 6; Title 7 and Title 13.

2026-03-17 — Recommended for passage with amendment/s, refer to Senate Calendar Committee Ayes 8, Nays 1 PNV 0

Taxes, Sales - As introduced, applies the sales and use tax to advertising services purchased by or on behalf of a business entity that generates annual revenue in amount equal to or greater than $100 million. - Amends TCA Title 67.

2026-03-17 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate FW&M Revenue Subcommittee

County Government - As introduced, requires the offices of sheriff, register, county clerk, assessor of property, and trustee in a county that has adopted a charter form of government to independently develop the budget for such office and submit the budget directly to the county legislative body; authorizes such offices to approve transfers between line items within the total amount of each category of personnel and operational maintenance; prohibits the county legislative body from implementing any kind of personnel restriction or operational maintenance restrictions on these offices. - Amends TCA Title 5.

2025-03-31 — Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk.

Military - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee National Guard Servicemember's Medical Readiness Act." - Amends TCA Title 58, Chapter 1, Part 2.

2025-05-27 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 483

Health Care - As enacted, revises present law relative to a patient's electronic health record and requires a health insurance entity to establish and maintain a provider access API and a prior authorization API; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 47; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68.

2025-05-15 — Pub. Ch. 447

Memorials, Recognition - LaiLah Webster, Fourth Runner-Up, 2026 Mule Day Court -

2026-04-22 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Sports - Upper Cumberland 18U RAMS homeschool basketball team, NCHBC Division 5 National Champions -

2026-04-22 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Sports - Freed-Hardeman University Lady Lions, 2026 Mid-South Conference Champions -

2026-05-01 — Signed by Governor.

General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Rick Spell, University of Tennessee Health Science Center Advisory Board -

2025-04-30 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Recognition - Great American Prayer Revival -

2026-02-24 — Enrolled and ready for signatures

Memorials, Professional Achievement - Cindy Propst, Greeneville City Schools Teacher of the Year for Grades 9-12 -

2026-03-06 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Professional Achievement - Wendy Hansard, Greeneville City Schools Teacher of the Year f or Grades 5-8 -

2026-03-06 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Recognition - Leevi Hicks, National Civics Bee -

2025-04-24 — Signed by Senate Speaker