114 session

Children's Services, Dept. of - As enacted, requires a child placed in the custody of the department to remain in custody so long as necessary to complete treatment or services, which must be evidence-based and provided by a qualified provider; makes other changes to child custody law; creates a juvenile commitment review task force to examine system issues and service gaps for certain children committed to the custody of the department. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 1, Part 1.

2026-05-27 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1102

Unemployment Compensation - As enacted, removes a requirement that work be deemed suitable for a claimant if certain criteria are met and a claimant's gross weekly wages equal or exceed certain threshold percentages of the claimant's weekly wage for insured work for the quarter of the base period when the claimant's wages were greatest. - Amends TCA Section 50-7-303.

2026-05-27 — Pub. Ch. 1043

Public Utility Commission - As enacted, requires, for an electric utility providing services outside the corporate limits of the home municipality, expansion of the utility board to provide representation on the board for such outside locality. - 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.

2026-05-27 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1116

Gaming - As enacted, creates a five-day window after the effective date of this act for nonprofit organizations seeking to operate an annual event for the annual event period beginning on July 1, 2026, and ending June 30, 2027, to submit its annual event application to the secretary of state. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 17.

2026-04-13 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 680

Bail, Bail Bonds - As enacted, makes various changes regarding global positioning monitoring and the pretrial release of certain defendants. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55, Chapter 10.

2025-04-29 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 253

Correction, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to conduct a study concerning subjects related to access of family members to incarcerated persons for visitation; requires the department to report its findings to each member of the general assembly and to provide a copy of the report to the legislative librarian by no later than January 31, 2027. - Amends TCA Title 41, Chapter 51.

2026-04-28 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 783

Planning, Public - As enacted, specifies that the vesting period established for a construction project or development plan does not expire because of pending litigation challenging a permit; specifies that the vesting period is tolled while such litigation is pending. - Amends TCA Title 13, Chapter 3; Title 13, Chapter 4 and Title 13, Chapter 7.

2025-05-15 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 440

Tobacco, Tobacco Products - As enacted, requires the department of revenue to maintain a directory on its website that lists all vapor products certified as authorized to be sold in this state; levies certain privilege taxes. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5; Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 15; Title 47, Chapter 25; Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 10 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 26.

2025-05-13 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 324

Memorials, Recognition - Lieutenant Billy Atwell -

2026-04-14 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Professional Achievement - Dr. Bill Toungette,TNASSP Assistant Principal of the Year -

2026-04-20 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Mason Marchan, Salutatorian, Cordova High School -

2026-04-20 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Chloe Salvka, Salutatorian, Forrest School -

2026-04-30 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Dani Brady, Top Ten Senior, Marshall County High School -

2026-04-30 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Recognition - 196th Field Artillery Brigade Embedded Training Team (ETT 4.0) -

2026-04-30 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Sports - Reed Blankenship, Super Bowl LIX champion -

2025-03-12 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Audrey Owens, Top Ten Senior, Zion Christian Academy -

2025-04-07 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Emma Deanne Bryant, Top Ten Senior, Wayne County High School -

2025-04-09 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Public Service - Teresa J. "TJ" Sutton -

2025-04-15 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Death - Virginia Gray -

2025-04-24 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Death - Kimberley Nicole Maclin -

2025-05-05 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Recognition - Martin Kove -

2025-05-02 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Recognition - Vincent Ruiz, National Marbles Tournament winner -

2026-02-11 — Signed by Governor.

Children - As introduced, deletes obsolete language regarding initial reports submitted by zero to three court programs and safe baby courts to the department of children's services, the department of mental health and substance abuse services, the administrative office of the courts, and the council of juvenile and family court judges. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37.

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

Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact to June 30, 2034. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 63, Chapter 6, Part 4.

2026-03-16 — Pub. Ch. 563

Law Enforcement - As introduced, requires state and local criminal justice agencies to share all criminal justice data and records, including relevant personally identifying information and demographic information, held by that agency with a bona fide researcher for the purpose of facilitating and promoting criminal justice research. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 38.

2026-03-06 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee

Education, Higher - As introduced, increases, from 30 to 45 days before the start of the academic term, the time by which a state government entity that establishes a scholarship using an educational investment plan must select the scholarship beneficiary and notify the board of trustees of the college savings trust fund program of the beneficiary. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 9; Title 10; Title 12; Title 49 and Title 50.

2026-01-21 — Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Education Committee

Comptroller, State - As enacted, deletes the reports the comptroller is required to submit to the general assembly regarding the provision of broadband services in historically unserved areas and the Tennessee Helping Heroes Scholarship Program; revises the information the comptroller is required to submit to the general assembly regarding the property tax relief program. - Amends TCA Section 7-59-316; Section 49-4-938 and Section 67-5-701.

2026-04-23 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 750

Taxes, Real Property - As introduced, prohibits a city or county collecting official from requiring a taxpayer to pay the full tax due for an assessment for which an appeal is pending before the county or state boards of equalization. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5.

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

Education, Higher - As introduced, prohibits the board of regents, each state university board of trustees, and the board of trustees for the University of Tennessee from conferring any new tenure status on faculty members on or after July 1, 2026. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, Chapter 8 and Title 49, Chapter 9.

2026-02-10 — Sponsor(s) Added.

Prisons and Reformatory Institutions - As introduced, prohibits this state or a local government from entering into a new contract or renewing an existing contract for the provision of correctional services for an inmate under the custody and care of the department of correction or the local government. - Amends TCA Title 41, Chapter 24.

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

Evidence - As introduced, states that in certain civil actions a licensed nurse practitioner or licensed physician assistant who is properly qualified as an expert witness may testify as to certain medical findings. - Amends TCA Title 24; Title 29, Chapter 26 and Title 50, Chapter 6.

2026-03-16 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee

Taxes, Hotel Motel - As introduced, extends by six years the period in which Davidson County may charge an additional $0.50 privilege tax on the occupancy of a hotel room and in which such county may allocate the tax revenue for the purposes of direct promotion of tourism; extends by six years the terms of the committee members that oversee the fund in which the additional tax is deposited. - Amends TCA Section 7-4-202.

2025-01-07 — Withdrawn.

TennCare - As introduced, requires an eligibility determination of an individual for residential facility benefits to evaluate the individual's physical condition and mental condition separately. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.

2026-02-05 — Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Health and Welfare Committee

Controlled Substances - As introduced, permits a person to possess cannabis that was obtained directly from, or pursuant to a diagnosis of a qualifying medical condition by, a licensed physician; specifies the sentences permitted for possessing certain amounts of cannabis that was not obtained directly from, or pursuant to a diagnosis of a qualifying medical condition by, a licensed physician. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4.

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

Election Laws - As introduced, revises the definition of "signature" for purposes of certain election-related documents, including absentee ballot and voter registration forms, and petitions for nomination, referendum, or another purpose; revises requirements for signing such petitions. - Amends TCA Title 2.

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

Highways, Roads and Bridges - As introduced, requires TACIR to study overall road safety and submit its recommendations to the chair of the committee in the house of representatives with jurisdiction over transportation matters, the chair of the transportation and safety committee of the senate, and the legislative librarian on or before January 15, 2026. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 54 and Title 55.

2025-02-12 — Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Transportation and Safety Committee

Athletic Trainers - As enacted, expands the scope of practice for athletic trainers by authorizing them to treat conditions that limit or prevent a person's participation in certain physical activities rather than just treating injuries that limit or prevent such participation; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 24.

2026-05-18 — Pub. Ch. 884

Infectious Diseases - As enacted, directs the commissioner of health to, on or before July 1, 2025, add alpha-gal syndrome to the department of health's published list of reportable diseases and conditions, the occurrence of which must be reported to the department by a healthcare provider pursuant to existing administrative rule. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 63 and Title 68.

2025-03-31 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 56

Scholarships and Financial Aid - As introduced, adds an institution accredited by the National Accrediting Commission of Career Arts and Sciences (NACCAS) that has its primary campus domiciled in this state as an eligible postsecondary institution in which a student may be enrolled for purposes of receiving a Tennessee Promise scholarship; conditions the availability of the scholarship at such an institution on there being no available enrollment slots in a Tennessee college of applied technology in the student's county of residence for the student's desired program of study. - Amends TCA Title 49.

2025-03-19 — Failed in Senate Education Committee

Memorials, Recognition - D.T. McCall & Sons -

2026-04-24 — Sponsor(s) Added.

Memorials, Professional Achievement - Natalie Williams, Percy Priest Elementary School Teacher of the Year -

2025-04-10 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Retirement - Lt. Col. Dean Keck, US Marine Corps (ret.) -

2025-05-02 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Personal Occasion - Eleni McKinley Halkias, birth -

2025-05-05 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Recognition - Kendall Warner, Nursing Faculty Clinical Excellence Award -

2026-03-06 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Recognition - Alex Forsbach, 2026 National Conservation Legacy Award -

2026-03-25 — Signed by Governor.