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

2026-04-27 — Effective date(s) 04/07/2026

Firefighters - As enacted, expands the applicability of the presumption that a firefighter's cancer was caused by the firefighter's employment to include arson investigators. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 8; Title 50 and Title 56.

2026-03-23 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 600

County Government - As enacted, requires county legislative bodies to adopt local rules of procedure within 90 days of convening a newly elected county legislative body by majority vote; requires a two-thirds vote to change such rules; specifies Robert's Rules of Order as the default rules of procedure for county legislative bodies. - Amends TCA Title 5.

2026-03-23 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 599

Banks and Financial Institutions - As enacted, clarifies that if a financial institution reasonably believes a customer is deceased, then the financial institution does not have a duty to confirm service of a subpoena on the customer, the customer's estate, or the customer's heirs; makes other changes related to financial records. - Amends TCA Title 45, Chapter 10.

2026-03-16 — Effective date(s) 07/01/2026

Election Laws - As enacted, makes various changes to election laws, including, but not limited to, requiring certain reimbursements to county election commissions for primary elections to be processed in the same manner as expenses for the presidential preference primary, and eliminating authorization for certain state entities and officers to accept or expend grants, gifts, or funding from private persons, corporations, organizations, or political parties for conducting an election. - Amends TCA Title 2.

2026-04-27 — Effective date(s) 04/16/2026

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 — Effective date(s) 05/22/2026

Human Resources, Department of - As introduced, urges the department to allocate a minimum of $16,000 annually in vocational rehabilitation funds for the purpose of supporting accessible information services for blind persons in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 71.

2026-03-04 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Health and Welfare Committee

Children's Services, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the commissioner of children's services to develop a statewide quality assurance program to ensure quality control through monitoring, evaluation, and feedback on the performance of the best practices in the service delivery system and utilizing both qualitative and quantitative data in outcomes-based approaches at the regional level. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 5.

2026-05-27 — Effective date(s) 07/01/2026

Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As introduced, requires the validation or revalidation tab, sticker, or other device issued for a calendar year that is affixed to a registration plate must be a different color scheme than the color scheme of the validation or revalidation tab, sticker, or device issued for the previous calendar year. - Amends TCA Section 5-8-102 and Title 55, Chapter 4.

2026-01-15 — Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Transportation and Safety Committee

Election Laws - As enacted, requires political advertisements to include a disclaimer if the advertisements include deepfake elements impersonating or depicting a candidate engaging in activity or speech in which the impersonated or depicted candidate did not in fact engage; makes a violation of such disclaimer requirement a Class C misdemeanor; entitles candidate to damages and equitable relief for violations. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 19.

2026-03-30 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 625

Traffic Safety - As enacted, clarifies the areas in which a personal delivery device may be operated and where such devices are prohibited; authorizes local resolutions or ordinances to both regulate and prohibit such devices but only in compliance with state law. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 8.

2026-03-16 — Effective date(s) 07/01/2026

Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, requires that a health plan, or an insurer offering a health plan, include coverage for clinical genetic testing for an inherited gene mutation for an individual with a personal or family history of cancer that is recommended by a healthcare professional, and evidence-based cancer imaging for an individual with an increased risk of cancer as recommended by National Comprehensive Cancer Network clinical practice guidelines. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 56 and Title 71.

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

Education - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee School Safety Act of 2026"; requires a student who has been expelled on two or more separate occasions for the zero tolerance offense of threatening mass violence on school property or at a school-related activity to submit to a psychiatric examination conducted by a medical professional; prohibits the student from returning to school or a school-related activity until the medical professional finds that the student is no longer a threat to the school and can safely return to school. - Amends TCA Section 39-13-813 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

2026-01-15 — Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Education Committee

Handgun Permits - As introduced, extends the fee waiver for a lifetime enhanced handgun carry permit to include a retired law enforcement officer who served for less than 10 years prior to retirement, was POST-certified, or had equivalent training, on the date the officer retired, and retired from service due to an injury received in the line of duty as a law enforcement officer. - Amends TCA Title 38 and Title 39.

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

Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, deletes the criminal offenses of carrying a firearm or club with intent to go armed and carrying a weapon in a public park with the intent to go armed; prohibits a juvenile from carrying a firearm with intent to go armed except in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 37; Title 39; Title 49; Title 50 and Title 55.

2026-01-15 — Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee

Election Laws - As introduced, requires the legislative body of each municipality to change the date of municipal elections to coincide with the August primary or November general election; makes municipal elections partisan; standardizes the election timetable for referendums for the incorporation of a new municipality. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 5; Title 6 and Title 7.

2026-04-21 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee

Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases the penalty for knowingly using an unmanned aircraft over any portion of a property that includes a correctional facility from a Class C misdemeanor to a Class C felony; authorizes a correctional facility employee to disable an unmanned aircraft that is operating over property that includes a correctional facility and states that the correctional facility and the correctional facility employee are not liable for damage to the unmanned aircraft as a result of being disabled. - Amends TCA Title 39.

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

Naming and Designating - As enacted, renames the Army National Guard Armory, located on U.S. Highway 321 in Maryville, the "CSM William O. Gregory National Guard Armory." - Amends TCA Title 58, Chapter 1.

2026-04-27 — Effective date(s) 04/14/2026

Sentencing - As enacted, requires a sentencing court to order the sentences for two or more offenses involving more than one minor victim to run consecutively unless the court finds by a preponderance of the evidence that the facts of the case do not warrant the imposition of consecutive sentences and the imposition of consecutive sentences would not be in the best interest of justice. - Amends TCA Title 40.

2026-05-15 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 945

Criminal Procedure - As introduced, removes the requirement for a petitioner for restoration of citizenship or an applicant for a certificate of employability to pay the costs of the proceedings. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 29.

2026-01-14 — Withdrawn.

Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As enacted, clarifies that stuttering and other types of communication disorders are qualifying medical conditions for purposes of the "2021 Precious Cargo Act," which authorizes drivers who have certain medical conditions to apply for a designation in the Tennessee Vehicle Title and Registration System (VTRS) database of a need for assistance in communicating with first responders during traffic stops. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 21, Part 3.

2026-04-06 — Effective date(s) 07/01/2026

Guardians and Conservators - As enacted, requires a fiduciary's sworn accounting of receipts and expenditures filed annually with the court supervising a guardianship or conservatorship to include the date of the fiduciary's last contact with the person with a disability. - Amends TCA Title 34.

2026-03-23 — Effective date(s) 07/01/2026

Garnishments and Executions - As enacted, clarifies that the sheriff or other person authorized by law to serve garnishments is authorized to demand that the fee for performing service of a garnishment be paid in advance of such performance. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 21, Part 9.

2026-04-27 — Effective date(s) 04/14/2026

State Symbols - As enacted, designates "Tennessee" by Drew Holcomb as an official state song. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3.

2026-04-23 — Effective date(s) 04/07/2026

Secretary of State - As enacted, removes the filing fee that must be paid to the secretary of state to file articles of termination of corporation existence; increases the number of days after a person ceases solicitation activities after registration with the secretary of state, from 30 to 90, that the person has to notify the secretary of state; removes the requirement that a charitable organization that ceases solicitation activity and received in excess of $1 million in gross revenue during the most recently completed fiscal year include an audited financial statement and forms required to be filed by a charitable organization with the U.S. internal revenue service with the organization's notice to the secretary of state that the organization ceased solicitation activities. - Amends TCA Title 48.

2026-05-15 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 948

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 — Effective date(s) 03/06/2026

Secretary of State - As enacted, requires the secretary of state to omit from each annual publication of agency information mailing addresses and telephone numbers of agency members. - Amends TCA Section 10-7-604.

2026-04-06 — Effective date(s) 07/01/2026

Highways, Roads and Bridges - As introduced, requires 95.3970 percent, instead of 100 percent, of sales and use tax revenue generated from the sale of new or used tires to be deposited in the highway fund; adds 95.3970 percent of sales and use tax revenue generated from the sale of new or used motor vehicles to be deposited in the highway fund; requires the remaining 4.6030 percent of such revenue to be allocated to the several incorporated municipalities; allocates single article sales tax collections on the retail sale of new or used motor vehicles to the highway fund. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 54; Title 55; Title 65 and Title 67.

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

School Vouchers - As introduced, requires the department of education to submit an annual report to the general assembly on information about the education freedom scholarship program. - Amends TCA Title 49.

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

Foster Care - As introduced, enacts the "Stable Homes for Foster Youth Act." - Amends TCA Title 37.

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

Agriculture, Dept. of - As enacted, enacts the "Representative Johnny Shaw Tennessee Agricultural Innovation and Education Initiative." - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 43.

2026-05-15 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 946

Nuisances - As introduced, prohibits any cause of action for nuisance, taking, or another claim against a racing facility or racetrack by the owner of a surrounding real property if the racing facility or racetrack was built before the owner of the surrounding real property purchased the real property or built in the area of the racing facility or racetrack, regardless of the date on which the cause of action is alleged to have arisen; prohibits a political subdivision from adopting or enforcing any ordinance, resolution, or regulation that would restrict, limit, or prohibit the operation of a racing facility or racetrack in a manner inconsistent. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 29.

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

Traffic Safety - As introduced, authorizes a law enforcement officer to seize and impound a motor vehicle in any county or municipality that has passed a resolution or ordinance authorizing the seizure and impoundment of a motor vehicle observed by law enforcement to have been used to commit the offense of drag racing or to flee after commission of the offense of drag racing subject to certain restrictions. - Amends TCA Title 6; Title 7; Title 16; Title 40 and Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 5.

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

Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As introduced, revises various provisions of the Real Estate Infrastructure Development Act of 2025. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 9; Title 12; Title 13; Title 66; Title 67 and Title 68.

2026-01-21 — Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee

State Universities - As introduced, requires all gubernatorial appointments to a state university board to be confirmed by joint resolution of the senate and house of representatives prior to commencing a term of office; requires the terms of all state university board members to commence on February 1. - Amends TCA Title 49.

2026-04-13 — Sponsor(s) Added.

Real Property - As introduced, expands existing statutory authority of a masonic lodge to take real property by deed by extending the same authority to a masonic lodge-sponsored corporation or limited liability company that is created for such purpose; authorizes a masonic lodge-sponsored corporation or limited liability company to lease or rent real or personal property to a masonic lodge or other entity. - Amends TCA Title 48, Chapter 102.

2026-02-23 — Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk.

Public Funds and Financing - As introduced, expresses the legislative intent that a county in which a county-wide fire department is established, or in which a volunteer fire department provides services, direct priority for the appropriation and allocation of county funds to fund the activities of the county-wide or volunteer fire department. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 38 and Title 68, Chapter 102, Part 3.

2026-03-20 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Finance, Ways & Means Committee

Controlled Substances - As introduced, revises the definition of hemp to align with the federal definition as enacted in the Continuing Appropriations, Agriculture, Legislative Branch, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Extensions Act of 2026. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 43 and Title 57.

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

Claims Commission, Tennessee - As introduced, increases the amount for which the state may be liable for damages in causes of action arising in tort from $300,000 per claimant to $500,000 per claimant and from $1 million per occurrence to $1.5 million per occurrence. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 8 and Title 29.

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

Auditing - As enacted, clarifies that, as of November 1, 2026, a non-governmental entity receiving in-kind funding from the state or a political subdivision of the state pursuant to the federal Public Health Service Act is eligible to qualify as a 340B entity, only if the entity is also a recipient of one or more state or federal grant awards that are subject to audit, reporting, and oversight requirements under state and federal law; authorizes the comptroller of the treasury and any state agency or political subdivision providing in-kind funding to verify eligibility and enforce compliance. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 4; Title 9; Title 47, Chapter 18; Title 56 and Title 63.

2026-04-27 — Effective date(s) 11/01/2026

Criminal Offenses - As introduced, enacts "Matthew Davenport's Law," which creates a Class D felony offense of knowingly possessing Kratom; creates a Class B felony offense of knowingly manufacturing, delivering, or selling Kratom, or of knowingly possessing Kratom with intent to manufacture, deliver, or sell Kratom; punishes a violation of the offense as a Class A felony if the offense involved the delivery or sale of Kratom to a minor; requires toxicology tests in certain circumstances to include testing for Kratom; requires the commissioner of labor and workforce development to promulgate a rule to add Kratom to the definition of a drug in regard to workers' compensation claims. - Amends TCA Title 33, Chapter 2; Title 38; Title 39; Title 50; Title 63 and Title 68.

2026-02-20 — Sponsor(s) Added.

Criminal Offenses - As enacted, enacts "Matthew Davenport's Law," which creates certain criminal offenses and testing requirements related to Kratom. - Amends TCA Title 33, Chapter 2; Title 38; Title 39; Title 50; Title 63 and Title 68.

2026-05-15 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 950

Water Pollution - As introduced, requires local approval of a tipping fee for application of sludge from water treatment plants onto agricultural lands, with proceeds earmarked for water treatment facilities, as a condition of such applications continuing in a locality; places a moratorium on certain permits in jurisdictions that do not provide such local approval. - Amends TCA Section 1-3-105; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13, Chapter 7; Title 43; Title 68 and Title 69.

2026-02-11 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Energy, Ag., and Nat. Resources Committee

DUI Offenses - As introduced, adds a 30-day mandatory minimum period of incarceration for persons convicted of driving under the influence if, at the time of the offense, the person was within a marked school zone and a warning flasher or flashers were in operation. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55, Chapter 10.

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

Sentencing - As enacted, adds aggravating circumstances for a jury to consider when determining the sentence of a defendant convicted of certain offenses. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

2026-04-27 — Effective date(s) 07/01/2026

Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases the penalty for arson committed at a pregnancy resource center from a Class C felony to a Class B felony; defines "pregnancy resource center" as a nonprofit organization that provides care and resources to assist women and families facing difficult or unexpected pregnancies, including providing counseling, financial assistance, food, clothing, and medical assistance to pregnant women and reimbursing social service providers who prepare adoptions throughout the state for services and programs targeting at-risk women and families with immediate and ongoing needs related to unexpected pregnancy. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14, Part 3.

2026-03-19 — Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk.