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Education - As enacted, generally provides that a middle school student or high school student who transfers from one member school to another is immediately eligible to participate in interscholastic athletics at the member school to which the student transfers if certain criteria are met. - Amends TCA Title 49.

2026-03-16 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 533

Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the private probation services council to June 30, 2031. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 16, Chapter 3.

2025-03-24 — Pub. Ch. 30

Health Care - As enacted, revises law relative to gender clinics and related services. - Amends TCA Title 1; Title 4; Title 33; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

2026-05-15 — Pub. Ch. 932

TennCare - As enacted, revises present law relative to the annual coverage assessment. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.

2025-04-29 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 252

Housing - As enacted, authorizes any county having made loans in excess of the amount of funds in the initial capitalization of the loan fund pool for the county to terminate its participation in the homebuyers' revolving loan fund pool with notice to the Tennessee housing development agency and to retain all funds, including any funds used for initial capitalization or interest earnings on repayments. - Amends TCA Title 13, Chapter 23.

2025-05-15 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 442

Memorials, Recognition - Ken Tarkington, Jr. -

2026-03-18 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Death - Lawrence Richard Ahern III -

2026-04-16 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Brooks Sneed, Top Ten Senior, Cornersville High School -

2026-04-30 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Emma Boshers, Top Ten Senior, Mt. Pleasant High School -

2025-04-07 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Recognition - Rachel Ahlheit, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award -

2025-05-02 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Professional Achievement - Melanie R. Bean, 2024 – 2025 Tennessee Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (TACDL) President -

2025-02-21 — Signed by Governor.

Municipal Government - As enacted, specifies penalties for a municipality that fails to timely provide the comptroller of the treasury with copies of audits of the accounts and records of all departments, boards, and agencies under the municipality's jurisdiction that receive and disburse funds. - Amends TCA Title 6, Chapter 56, Part 1.

2025-03-21 — Pub. Ch. 18

Children - As enacted, provides, in addition to present law, an alternative method for the voluntary surrender of parental rights if executed within the geographic boundaries of the state. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 37 and Title 68.

2026-05-15 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 936

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 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 81

TennCare - As introduced, directs the governor to seek a new TennCare waiver within 180 days of the effective date of this act to provide medical assistance coverage for individuals whose gross annual income is equal to or less than 138 percent of the federal poverty level; clarifies that the amendment takes effect upon federal approval. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.

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

Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, prohibits an out-of-network ambulance service provider from balance billing an enrollee in a health benefit plan for emergency ambulance services; establishes allowable billable costs for such services. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7 and Title 68, Chapter 140.

2026-04-07 — Failed in Senate Commerce and Labor Committee

Human Services, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to establish a process by which management of a public property may submit formal complaints regarding the conduct or performance of a blind individual who has been licensed to operate a vending facility on such public property through the business enterprise program for the blind; makes other changes relative to such programs for disabled individuals. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 4.

2025-05-13 — Pub. Ch. 402

Contractors - As introduced, clarifies that an applicant for a license under the "Contractors Licensing Act of 1994" who has been advised to appear before the board at a scheduled time and place must provide notice to the board of the applicant's inability to appear three business days in advance, rather than three calendar days. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 47, Chapter 18; Title 62, Chapter 6 and Title 67, Chapter 4.

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

Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, requires certain data centers to register with the Tennessee public utilities commission; requires electric and water utilities that provide service to registered data centers to report usage and rates to the commission; requires the commission's executive director to compile and publish certain information based on reports received from utilities. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 10; Title 62; Title 65; Title 68 and Title 69.

2026-03-03 — Failed in Senate Commerce and Labor Committee (no second)

Law Enforcement - As introduced, entitles qualified law enforcement officers upon retirement or separation from service from their employing law enforcement agency to continue to maintain annual POST-certification upon meeting certain requirements. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 8.

2026-03-10 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee

Adoption - As enacted, clarifies that a court may waive the requirement for a home study in an adoption when the prospective adoptive parent or parents are not related to the child if certain requirements are met. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37.

2026-05-05 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 878

Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As enacted, designates February to be observed as "Tennessee Songwriters Month." - Amends TCA Section 15-2-129.

2026-03-23 — Pub. Ch. 593

Professions and Occupations - As enacted, specifies in various provisions that for a person to be eligible for a particular license, certificate, permit, or authorization, the person must be a citizen of the United States or a qualified alien. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 20; Title 23; Title 33; Title 37; Title 39; Title 42; Title 43; Title 44; Title 45; Title 46; Title 47; Title 49; Title 52; Title 53; Title 55; Title 56; Title 57; Title 59; Title 60; Title 62; Title 63; Title 67; Title 68; Title 69; Title 70; Title 71 and Chapter 463 of the Public Acts of 2025.

2026-05-18 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 955

Taxes, Sales - As introduced, urges the department of revenue to study the amount of revenue derived during the previous five fiscal years from the sales tax imposed on retail sales of non-prepared food, and from the general sales tax imposed on retail sales of prepared food; requires a report be submitted to the chairs of the finance, ways and means committees and the office of legislative budget analysis. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.

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

Tennessee Housing Development Agency - As introduced, enacts the "First-Time Homebuyer Assistance Program," which creates a first-time homebuyer assistance program, to be administered by the agency. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 13, Chapter 23.

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

Education - As enacted, creates an early educator workforce development resource task force. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49.

2026-05-27 — Pub. Ch. 1133

Motor Vehicles - As introduced, requires the department of safety to report to the chairs of the transportation and safety committee of the senate and the committee of the house of representatives having jurisdiction over transportation matters, the number of persons who participated in the motorcycle rider education program and the types of expenses for which the funds in the motorcycle rider safety fund were used during the last three years. - Amends TCA Title 55.

2026-03-11 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Transportation and Safety Committee

Traffic Safety - As enacted, creates the offense of an occupant of a vehicle parking, leaving standing, or stopping the vehicle on a street or highway and blocking or impeding the normal movement of traffic for the purpose of soliciting, negotiating, or consummating an employment transaction with a person standing on or in proximity to the street or highway. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17; Title 54 and Title 55.

2025-05-02 — Pub. Ch. 158

Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, lowers the county population threshold, from in excess of 500,000 to in excess of 350,000, for a sports authority facility to be eligible to obtain a liquor-by-the-drink license; prohibits a facility located in Hamilton County from being issued a license after March 1, 2030, and requires the law enforcement agency that has jurisdiction over a facility located in Hamilton County to provide an annual report to the general assembly detailing any public safety issues related to the facility. - Amends TCA Section 57-4-102.

2025-04-08 — Pub. Ch. 61

Landlord and Tenant - As enacted, generally restricts a landlord from prohibiting a residential tenant from lawfully possessing, carrying, transporting, or storing a firearm, any part of a firearm, or firearm ammunition in the tenant's residential property; a vehicle located in a parking area provided for tenants or tenants' guests; or other locations controlled by the landlord necessary to enter or exit any such location in leases entered into, amended, extended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2027. - Amends TCA Title 66.

2026-04-06 — Pub. Ch. 606

Health Care - As introduced, reduces, from 30 days to 14 days, the period of time within which a licensing board that assesses discipline or a penalty against a healthcare provider for a violation of pain management rules must notify the department of health of such discipline or penalty. - Amends TCA Title 63.

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

Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, prohibits an insurer, pharmacy benefits manager, or third-party administrator from changing or conditioning the terms of health plan coverage based on availability of financial or other product assistance for a prescription drug; establishes certain procedures for calculating an enrollee's contribution to an applicable cost sharing requirement. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 10; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

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

Education - As enacted, requires the department of education to develop guidelines and criteria for determining how long a student must have been present in a teacher's classroom before the student's record is attributable to the teacher for purposes of evaluating the teacher; authorizes an LEA or public charter school to compensate the estate of a teacher who, on the teacher's death, was in the employ of the LEA or public charter school for the teacher's unused and accrued annual and sick leave in the same manner that the estates of deceased state employees are compensated under present law. - Amends Chapter __ of the Public Acts of 2025 (1st Ex. Sess. – SB 6001 / HB 6004); and TCA Title 4, Chapter 49; Title 8 and Title 49.

2025-05-15 — Pub. Ch. 433

Motor Vehicles - As introduced, increases, to the extent permissible under federal law, the maximum gross vehicle weight of a vehicle with an axle group of three axles that can be operated on the public highways of this state to 85,000 pounds. - Amends TCA Title 55.

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

Controlled Substances - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Cannabis Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 29; Title 33; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41; Title 43; Title 45; Title 50; Title 53; Title 63; Title 67; Title 68 and Title 71.

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

Pest Control - As introduced, changes, from June 30 to July 15, the date on which a pesticide product's annual registration with the department of agriculture expires. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 28; Title 43, Chapter 8; Title 53, Chapter 1; Title 53, Chapter 7; Title 62, Chapter 21 and Title 68, Chapter 212.

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

Education - As introduced, deletes obsolete pilot program to improve parent-teacher engagement that terminated at the end of the 2020-2021 school year. - Amends TCA Title 49.

2026-03-18 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Education Committee

Memorials, Death - Dr. Richard E. Berryman -

2025-02-14 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Recognition - Glenda Akin -

2026-04-22 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Recognition - Health Information Technology Week -

2026-05-11 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Public Service - Josh Rogers -

2026-05-11 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Logan Montgomery, Salutatorian, Monterey High School -

2025-05-07 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Professional Achievement - Andrew Johnson, 2025-2026 Chester County Schools District Teacher of the Year for Grades 9-12 -

2026-02-12 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Recognition - Master Sergeant Roderick “Roddie” W. Edmonds, posthumous receipt of Medal of Honor -

2026-04-16 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Travis Houston, Salutatorian, Hamilton High School -

2026-04-30 — Signed by Senate Speaker

TennCare - As enacted, makes revisions regarding determining when the annual coverage assessment is implemented and imposed; sets limits on the expenditures for directed payments to hospitals in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.

2025-04-08 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 115

Education - As enacted, requires, if an approved universal reading screener is administered to pre-k students at an LEA or public charter school, the LEA or public charter school to allow the pre-k teacher whose students were administered the screener to use the results as an approved alternative student growth model or the pre-k/kindergarten portfolio growth model to generate individual growth scores for teachers pursuant to the evaluation guidelines developed by the department of education. - Amends TCA Title 49.

2025-05-13 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 385