114 session

Real Property - As introduced, enacts the "Uniform Real Property Transfer on Death Act." - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 30; Title 31; Title 32; Title 35; Title 55; Title 66 and Title 67.

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

Memorials, Personal Occasion - Charles Edward Bottens, 100th birthday -

2026-05-11 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Death - Edward Gaylon Herron -

2025-04-10 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Recognition - Bachman-McCoy Farm, National Register of Historic Places -

2025-01-27 — Introduced, Passed on First Consideration

Memorials, Sports - Greenfield Lady Yellowjackets basketball team, Class 1A state champions -

2025-04-16 — Transmitted to Governor for action.

Memorials, Sports - Tyler Williams, Coach of the Year Region 3A -

2026-03-18 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Sports - Daven Thompson, All-Region 1-3A first team -

2026-03-18 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Retirement - Hamblen County Mayor Bill Brittain -

2025-03-04 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Interns - Lillian Rose -

2026-04-16 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Dade Hutchinson, Valedictorian, Rossville Christian Academy -

2025-04-23 — Signed by Senate Speaker

Memorials, Recognition - Dr. Nakeisha Owens-Griffin -

2025-02-20 — Adopted, Ayes 32, Nays 0

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Lillie Cate Allen, Salutatorian, Hillsboro High School -

2025-04-25 — Signed by Senate Speaker

General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Tammy S. White, Tennessee Ethics Commission -

2026-03-17 — Enrolled and ready for signatures

Memorials, Sports - Adamsville High School girls' basketball team -

2026-03-26 — Adopted, Ayes 33, Nays 0

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Andrea Sena, Valedictorian, Munford High School -

2026-04-15 — Enrolled and ready for signatures

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Rakyah Watson, Salutatorian, Middle College High School -

2026-04-30 — Signed by Senate Speaker

Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates the offense for a person to knowingly travel, with intent to commit theft of another person's cash, from a commercial business; a financial institution; or an automated teller machine, on the same path or route as another person without substantial deviation from that path or route while in possession of two or more criminal instruments. - Amends TCA Title 39.

2026-05-15 — Pub. Ch. 951

Business and Commerce - As enacted, authorizes a private entity that is engaged in business with the public and accepts cash payments to round off all figures used in the transaction amount to the nearest nickel, if exact change is not available; authorizes a financial institution that provides currency in exchange for a payment instrument received to round off all figures used in the transaction amount to the nearest nickel, if exact change is not available. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 45; Title 47, Chapter 50; Title 47, Chapter 18 and Title 67.

2026-03-23 — Pub. Ch. 602

Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As enacted, designates October 11 of each year to be observed as "General Pulaski Memorial Day." - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2.

2026-04-13 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 676

Shelbyville - Subject to local approval, removes the city manager as a member of the Shelbyville Power, Water and Sewerage System Board to be replaced by an additional city council member. - Amends Chapter 62 of the Private Acts of 2016; as amended.

2026-05-01 — Pr. Ch. 45

Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the Tennessee historical commission to June 30, 2029. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 11, Part 1 and Title 4, Chapter 29.

2025-03-31 — Pub. Ch. 54

Correction, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to pay from existing budgeted funds a monthly amount to a department employee for the medical care of a retired canine that served the department if the canine is given to the care and custody of the employee. - Amends TCA Title 4.

2025-05-15 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 436

Education - As enacted, requires the department of education to establish enrollment deadlines for voluntary pre-kindergarten programs so that at-risk students who will be four years old by August 15 must be enrolled by the beginning of the school year and students who are four-year-olds who do not have a disability or who meet the qualifications for enrollment at three years of age must be enrolled by August 30. - Amends TCA Title 49.

2025-04-28 — Pub. Ch. 192

Remedies and Special Proceedings - As enacted, removes the ability to bring a civil liability action for negligence per se against a seller of a qualified product; expands "qualified products" to include knives, body armor, pepper spray, silencers, and other certain products; requires physical injury for a negligent entrustment action rather than an unreasonable risk of physical injury; specifies that a person who will be subject to an ordinance in the future or reasonably intends to be physically present in the political subdivision is an adversely affected party for purposes of filing certain actions; makes various other changes regarding civil actions against arms dealers, manufacturers, and sellers and the preemption of local regulation of firearms. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 42 and Title 39.

2025-05-13 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 329

Memorials, Recognition - Notre Dame High School, 150th anniversary -

2026-03-26 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Retirement - Brenda Wynn -

2026-04-24 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Margaret Elizabeth Rehring, Salutatorian, Ooltewah High School -

2026-04-30 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Professional Achievement - Kathryn Haurez, Grades K-6 Novice Teacher of the Year -

2025-04-01 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Recognition - Lawson Electric Company, 100th anniversary -

2025-04-07 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Public Service - Captain Barry "Butch" Wilmore -

2025-04-09 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Death - Maggie June McClard Shrum -

2025-05-02 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Recognition - Fire Chief Duane Pitts -

2026-02-11 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Death - Dorothy McCorkle Wellford -

2026-02-18 — Signed by Governor.

General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Dr. Elaine Swafford, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Advisory Board -

2026-03-18 — Signed by Governor.

Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, removes an obsolete reference to January 1, 2010, as the date by which group health plans and health insurance issuers were required to begin providing electronic health insurance claims data for state residents to the commissioner of commerce and insurance or a designated entity authorized by the commissioner each month. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

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

Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, deletes obsolete language concerning a one-time sales tax holiday that occurred in August 2020. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 3.

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

Transportation, Dept. of - As introduced, removes obsolete provision requiring the department, in consultation with the department of safety, local law enforcement agencies, and highway safety offices, to submit a report on or before February 15, 2024, of its findings and recommendations regarding the development of a strategic statewide plan to increase pedestrian safety to legislative committees. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 54.

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

Food and Food Products - As introduced, requires retail food stores and food service establishments to provide notice to consumers of whether fish is imported and whether it is farm-raised or wild fish. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18; Title 53 and Title 68.

2026-03-17 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Health and Welfare Committee

State Inmates - As introduced, requires the state to pay for autopsies of deceased inmates and for any transportation associated with the autopsy. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 7; Title 41, Chapter 21 and Title 68, Chapter 4.

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

Victims' Rights - As enacted, adds persons required by law to register as a persistent domestic violence offender to the list of persons who are not eligible to participate in the address confidentiality program; makes various other changes to the address confidentiality program. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 38, Part 6.

2026-03-16 — Pub. Ch. 582

Criminal Offenses - As introduced, defines "criminally negligent conduct,” as used in the offense of criminally negligent homicide, to include failing or refusing to render aid to another person who is unconscious or in need of medical care and the person failing to act knows or reasonably should know that the unconsciousness or need for medical care occurred after the consumption of any controlled substance. - Amends TCA Title 39.

2026-03-23 — Deferred to Summer Study

Agriculture, Dept. of - As introduced, bases indemnity payments for an animal that is destroyed to prevent the spread of disease on the fair market value of the animal, subject to available funds. - Amends TCA Title 44.

2026-04-13 — Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk.

Criminal Offenses - As introduced, removes from the offense of violation of a protective order or restraining order the requirement that the person violating the order must have had an opportunity to appear and be heard in connection with the order of protection or restraining order and that the court must have made specific findings of fact in the order that the person committed a certain offense. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 39.

2026-02-23 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee

TennCare - As introduced, requires a TennCare health benefit plan renewed or issued on or after July 1, 2025, by a health insurance carrier to provide coverage and reimbursement for biomarker testing for preeclampsia in pregnant women. - Amends TCA Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

2025-02-10 — Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Commerce and Labor Committee

Sentencing - As introduced, requires a defendant to be sentenced to imprisonment for life as a repeat violent offender under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 41.

2026-04-08 — Failed in Senate Judiciary Committee

Probate Law - As introduced, permits a petitioner or affiant to proceed pro se in the administration of a small estate if the personal property consists exclusively of one or more life insurance policies that do not exceed $15,000 in value and are intended to be used for the decedent's burial, funeral, or final expenses; specifies that a person who files for a small estate affidavit or limited letters of authority is deemed to be acting in an individual capacity; requires the court clerk to provide a standardized form for filers. - Amends TCA Title 30; Section 56-7-206 and Title 62, Chapter 5.

2026-03-17 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee

Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As enacted, vacates the present board of commissioners of each existing authority for metropolitan and regional airports and reconstitutes a new governing body; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7 and Title 42.

2026-05-27 — Pub. Ch. 978