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Memorials, Public Service - Tom Morton, Tennessee Registry of Election Finance -

2025-03-19 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Professional Achievement - Taylor Tucker, Grades 9-12 Novice Teacher of the Year -

2025-04-01 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Matthew Bane, Top Ten Senior, Cannon County High School -

2025-04-15 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Recognition - Moccasin Bend Mental Health Institute's Bleyzer Program -

2025-04-24 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Death - Carl Elzia Levi -

2025-04-24 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Personal Occasion - Jessie Lee Coppock, 104th birthday -

2025-02-21 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Retirement - Chief Freddy Stagnolia -

2026-04-22 — Sponsor(s) Added.

Expunction - As introduced, authorizes court clerks in certain counties to implement an automatic expunction processing program that initiates processing the expunction of public records without petition by the person, certification of eligibility from the TBI, or court order in certain limited circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 32.

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

Highways, Roads and Bridges - As introduced, requires the department of transportation to study the development of a new bridge crossing the Mississippi River and connecting to Arkansas. - Amends TCA Title 54.

2025-03-19 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Transportation and Safety Committee

Health, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the report on drug overdoses by a student enrolled in grades K-12 to be reported to the public school officials within seven business days of the diagnosis or treatment of such a student. - Amends TCA Title 28; Title 29; Title 33; Title 38; Title 39; Title 53; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

2025-02-07 — Sponsor change.

Health Care - As introduced, authorizes a patient with a severe chronic disease or terminal illness to access, and a physician to recommend, investigational stem cell treatment; requires the commissioner of health to promulgate rules to, among other things, list the medical conditions that constitute a qualifying severe chronic disease or terminal illness. - Amends TCA Title 53; Title 63 and Title 68.

2025-04-03 — Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk.

Constitutional Conventions - As enacted, revises faithful delegate laws pertaining to Article V conventions. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 18.

2026-04-28 — Pub. Ch. 689

Criminal Procedure - As introduced, prohibits a court from assessing court costs against a defendant in a criminal proceeding if the defendant is found not guilty by a jury or by a judge following a bench trial on all charges for which the defendant was accused, the prosecution is dismissed or a nolle prosequi is entered by the state, or the charges against the defendant are dismissed by the court. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

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

Marriage - As introduced, states that private citizens and organizations are not bound by the Fourteenth Amendment or the Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell v. Hodges to recognize a marriage between individuals of the same sex; prohibits the board of professional responsibility from disciplining or sanctioning an attorney for declining to officiate a marriage between two persons of the same sex. - Amends TCA Title 17, Chapter 5 and Title 36.

2026-03-23 — Action deferred in Senate Judiciary Committee to 2027

Taxes, Privilege - As introduced, removes licensed attorneys who have practiced more than 20 years from the application of the professional privilege tax. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 17.

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

Education - As introduced, requires local education agencies and public charter schools to provide all high school students, instead of only high school seniors, the opportunity to take a nationally recognized career readiness assessment; requires the board of regents to establish a framework for institutions governed by the board to provide transcribable credit to students who earned a credential on a nationally recognized career readiness assessment in high school that may be applied toward the student's attainment of a postsecondary degree. - Amends TCA Title 49.

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

Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires each LEA to submit a report to the department of education by July 31 each year that includes, for the immediately preceding school year, the number of students the LEA provided with information on the career and technical education opportunities offered by the LEA after the students were administered a career aptitude assessment in grade seven or eight. - Amends TCA Title 49.

2026-03-26 — Sponsor(s) Added.

Public Funds and Financing - As introduced, requires that monies from the opioid abatement fund that are disbursed to nonprofit organizations for statewide, regional, or local opioid abatement and remediation purposes be disbursed as a combination of advance payment and reimbursement grants. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 4, Part 13 and Title 33, Chapter 11.

2026-04-15 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Finance, Ways & Means Committee

Chiropractors - As enacted, requires certain insurers to reimburse chiropractic physicians at the same rate as physicians for the same services. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7 and Title 63.

2026-05-14 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 923

General Assembly, Directed Studies - As enacted, requires TACIR to study the availability of housing and other treatment facilities for juvenile offenders who have been adjudicated delinquent and committed to the department of children's services, and the availability of local juvenile detention centers and other facilities for the housing and treatment of juvenile offenders who have been detained by the juvenile court prior to an adjudicatory hearing; requires TACIR to report its findings and recommendations. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39 and Title 40.

2025-05-15 — Pub. Ch. 418

Commerce and Insurance, Dept. of - As introduced, increases, from 20 to 25 business days, the time within which the required inspection of an installed manufactured home must occur after the commissioner's receipt of the installer's report. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 68.

2026-02-05 — Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Commerce and Labor Committee

Local Education Agencies - As introduced, excludes materials obtained by an individual teacher that are made available in the teacher's classroom to students assigned to the teacher's class from having to be identified in a list of library collection materials posted on the school's website; requires each local board of education and public charter school governing body to adopt a policy for developing and reviewing classroom libraries. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

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

Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the advisory committee for children's special services to June 30, 2029. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 68, Chapter 12.

2025-03-31 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 48

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 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 51

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 — Pub. Ch. 264

Memorials, Professional Achievement - Allison Winston, Neely's Bend Elementary School Teacher of the Year -

2025-04-10 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Retirement - Dave Staley -

2025-04-10 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Camden Cooper, Valedictorian, Montgomery Central High School -

2025-04-24 — Signed by Governor.

General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Mike Keeney, University of Memphis Board of Trustees -

2026-03-09 — Companion HJR 903 substituted for SJR

Memorials, Professional Achievement - Tabitha H. Stevenson, Hull-Jackson Elementary School Teacher of the Year -

2025-04-04 — Enrolled and ready for signatures

General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Recognizes Black Maternal Health Week, April 11-17, 2025. -

2025-04-03 — Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Health & Welfare Committee

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Lizbeth Compean, Salutatorian, LEAD Southeast High School -

2025-04-25 — Signed by Senate Speaker

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Belen Castro-Hair, Valedictorian, Tipton-Rosemark Academy -

2026-04-15 — Enrolled and ready for signatures

Statutes and Codification - As enacted, codifies the Acts of the 2024 regular session. -

2025-03-21 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 16

Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, removes the requirement that a provider notify a patient of communication between the provider and a health insurance entity or healthcare facility concerning additional information needed to process a prior authorization request for the patient; removes the requirement that an utilization review agent notify the enrollee and the provider or healthcare facility when additional information is needed from the enrollee, provider, or healthcare facility to make a determination on the request for prior authorization. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Title 63, Chapter 1.

2025-04-08 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 125

Zoning - As enacted, authorizes certain counties to adopt a resolution prohibiting a municipality or regional zoning commission from exercising zoning authority outside of the boundaries of the municipality. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 13.

2026-05-27 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1090

Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires, beginning with the next adoption of academic standards in the subject of social studies, the standards recommendation committee to include in their final recommendations of academic standards in the subject of social studies to the state board of education, and the state board, to adopt, grade-appropriate academic standards on the history of communism. - Amends TCA Title 49.

2026-05-05 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 708

Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, enacts the "Stopping Health Insurers from Excluding Legal Decisions (SHIELD) Act." - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56 and Title 71.

2026-05-01 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 797

Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the Interstate Compact on Detainers to June 30, 2033. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 40, Chapter 31.

2025-03-21 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 10

State Government - As enacted, terminates the James K. Polk Memorial Association and requires the Tennessee historical commission to enter into good faith negotiations for the purchase and transfer of the James K. Polk Home in Columbia. - Amends TCA Title 4.

2026-05-27 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1054

Memorials, Recognition - Akilah DaSilva, DeEbony Groves, Joe Perez, and Taurean Sanderlin -

2026-05-07 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Landon David Paul Thompson, Top Ten Senior, Collinwood High School -

2025-04-07 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Sports - University of Memphis Athletics -

2025-04-24 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Jack Gilliam, Top Ten Senior, Santa Fe Unit School -

2026-03-11 — Signed by Governor.

Public Records - As enacted, deletes the automatic repeal on July 1, 2025, of a provision that authorizes records custodians to seek an injunction against a person who makes requests to view or copy public records with the intent to disrupt government operations. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5.

2025-05-13 — Pub. Ch. 392