114 session

District Attorneys - As introduced, adds an additional assistant district attorney general position and criminal investigator position in each judicial district that includes a state correctional facility. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 16 and Title 41.

2025-04-14 — Placed on s/c cal Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee for 4/14/2025

Education, State Board of - As enacted, expands the state board's power to subpoena the appearance of persons or the production of items the chair of the state board, or the chair's designee, considers material or relevant to an accountability hearing for a local education agency operating a public school, or a public charter school, receiving a "D" or "F" letter grade. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 3 and Title 49, Chapter 5.

2025-05-13 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 376

Criminal Procedure - As introduced, creates a law enforcement investigatory privilege; prohibits a subpoena from being issued for a civil or criminal proceeding for information protected by the law enforcement privilege. - Amends TCA Title 24, Chapter 1, Part 2 and Title 40, Chapter 17, Part 1.

2025-03-19 — Taken off notice for cal in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Judiciary Committee

Education, Curriculum - As introduced, requires each local education agency and public charter school to review any new family life curricula recommended by the joint task force on children's justice and child sexual abuse prior to the start of each school year. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 49.

2025-02-10 — Assigned to s/c Education Instruction Subcommittee

Memorials, Recognition - Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion, 25th anniversary -

2026-03-26 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Recognition - Alexander Keith Chapter of the DAR, 100th anniversary -

2026-05-07 — Signed by Governor.

General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Jake Almond, Forestry Commission -

2025-03-12 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Death - Mike O'Neil -

2025-02-04 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Sarah Watson, Top Ten Senior, Zion Christian Academy -

2025-04-07 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Heroism - Captain Barry "Butch" Wilmore -

2025-04-11 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Retirement - Brenda Browning, Clay County Register of Deeds -

2026-02-10 — Signed by H. Speaker

Memorials, Professional Achievement - Bryant Pratt, Woodard Elementary School Teacher of the Year -

2025-03-11 — Signed by H. Speaker

Memorials, Professional Achievement - Monica Woods, Walnut Grove Elementary School Teacher of the Year -

2025-04-08 — Signed by H. Speaker

Charitable Solicitations - As introduced, exempts a child care agency from the registration requirements for charitable organizations. - Amends TCA Title 48, Chapter 101.

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

Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, authorizes the issuance of a retail package store license to an operator within the general services district of a metropolitan government that has approved the retail sale of liquor for off-premises consumption by local option election. - Amends TCA Title 7 and Title 57.

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

Historical Commission - As introduced, provides for the purchase of the James K. Polk Home in Columbia by the commission; authorizes the commission to contract with a nonprofit corporation for the improvement, maintenance, and operation of the property for the benefit of the citizens of this state and the general public. - Amends TCA Title 4.

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

Taxes, Real Property - As introduced, requires, instead of allows, a city or county collecting official to accept the disputed portion of property tax under appeal if the taxpayer pays the full tax due before the delinquency date. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5.

2026-01-12 — Withdrawn.

Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the professional art therapist advisory committee of the board of examiners in psychology to June 30, 2031. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 63, Chapter 11, Part 4.

2026-03-16 — Effective date(s) 03/06/2026

Education - As enacted, enacts the "Charlie Kirk American Heritage Act." - Amends TCA Title 49.

2026-04-28 — Effective date(s) 07/01/2026

Orders of Protection - As introduced, increases from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony the penalty for the criminal offense of violation of an order of protection if the order violated was a lifetime order of protection and the conviction that the lifetime order of protection was based on involved the use of force against a victim. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 39.

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

School Transportation - As enacted, authorizes a school bus that is used exclusively to transport students from school to an after-school program to be used until the bus reaches the 20th year from the in-service date of the bus, or until the bus accumulates 300,000 miles of recorded travel, whichever occurs later; requires the owner of a bus that reaches the later of 20 years of service or 300,000 miles of recorded travel to, at the conclusion of the school year, discontinue use of, or replace, the bus; requires certain notice to, and inspections by, the commissioner for certain buses. - Amends TCA Title 49.

2026-04-06 — Effective date(s) 04/13/2026

Alcoholic Beverage Commission - As introduced, authorizes a retailer to deliver hemp derived cannabinoid products to a consumer, including by means of a licensed delivery service; reduces the wholesale tax on hemp derived cannabinoid products from 2 cents per milligram to 1 cent per milligram. - Amends TCA Title 57.

2026-03-30 — Placed on Senate State and Local Government Committee calendar for 3/31/2026

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 — Effective date(s) 04/07/2026

Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, deletes the offense of carrying a firearm or a club with the intent to go armed, prohibits the carrying of a firearm or weapon inside of a K-12 public or private school and on a school bus if the person's intent is to go armed and the school and the bus are posted in a certain manner; deletes the offense of carrying a firearm on the property of a university, college campus, and other public or private non-K-12 educational institutions or property; rewrites the offense of possessing a handgun while under the influence of alcohol or any controlled substance or controlled substance analogue; rewrites the offense of carrying weapons during judicial proceedings; makes various other changes related to firearms. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 49; Title 55 and Title 65.

2026-03-23 — Sponsor(s) Added.

State Government - As introduced, creates the "Tennessee Critical Infrastructure Act." - Amends TCA Title 4.

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

Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, specifies that a person does not commit an offense if the person possesses or carries a firearm into an area that is posted if, upon the request of an individual authorized to control access to the property, the person immediately leaves the property or stores the firearm in a personal vehicle in accordance with state law. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

2025-04-01 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee

Water Authorities - As enacted, expands the areas served by the West Tennessee River Basin Authority to include Perry, Stewart, Houston, and Humphreys counties. - Amends TCA Title 64, Chapter 1, Part 11.

2026-05-18 — Effective date(s) 05/13/2026

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Jayden Cole Cathey, Valedictorian, McGavock High School -

2026-05-11 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Interns - Nathan Walsh -

2025-04-24 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Death - Steve Haley -

2026-02-03 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Sports - Parker McMurry, All-Region 1-3A second team -

2026-03-18 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Sports - Taren Claridy -

2026-03-18 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Recognition - AARP Tennessee's Day on the Hill -

2026-03-25 — Withdrawn.

Memorials, Recognition - Tennessee Valley Authority and Memphis Light, Gas and Water, 90th anniversary -

2025-02-11 — Enrolled and ready for signatures

Memorials, Interns - Joel Cline -

2026-04-02 — Re-refer to Senate Calendar Committee

Memorials, Death - Fred Walton -

2026-04-30 — Signed by Senate Speaker

Education - As introduced, requires the state board of education to authorize a student who is working toward completing a career and technical education elective focus to substitute up to four career and technical education course credits for the required chemistry course credit, computer science course credit, world language course credit, and Algebra II course credit necessary to earn a full diploma upon graduation from high school. - Amends TCA Title 49.

2025-03-25 — Failed in s/c K-12 Subcommittee of Education Committee

Consumer Protection - As introduced, prohibits an online payment system from freezing the funds of a user without first providing the user with a written notice of the online payment system's intent to freeze the user's funds; designates a violation as an unfair or deceptive act or practice pursuant to the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act of 1977. - Amends TCA Title 45 and Title 47, Chapter 18.

2025-03-19 — Failed in s/c Banking and Consumer Affairs Subcommittee of Commerce Committee

Expunction - As introduced, permits the expunction of a Class E felony conviction for official misconduct. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40, Chapter 32.

2025-03-19 — Taken off notice for cal in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Judiciary Committee

Criminal Procedure - As introduced, allows certain persons deprived of the right of suffrage to apply for a voter registration card and have the right of suffrage provisionally restored if the person enters into a payment plan to become current on all child support obligations. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 29.

2026-03-25 — Taken off notice for cal in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Judiciary Committee

Traffic Safety - As introduced, raises, from 70 mph to 75 mph, the maximum statutory speed limit on a highway of the interstate and defense highway system or a four-lane controlled-access highway which are federal or state highways; raises, from 55 mph to 60 mph, the minimum statutory speed limit in the left lane of such highways; makes other related revisions. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 8.

2025-02-06 — Withdrawn.

Public Funds and Financing - As introduced, creates in the department of human services a community grant advisory board for the purpose of administering the community-based organizations grant program to financially support eligible nonprofit organizations that serve communities in the areas of education, public health, housing, social issues, and economic and workforce development. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 67 and Title 71.

2025-02-11 — Assigned to s/c Health Subcommittee

Real Property - As introduced, makes void and unenforceable a restriction in a homeowners’ association declaration that would prohibit the operation of a family child care home at a property that is the site of a proposed family child care home, if the operator of the proposed family child care home has obtained a license from the department of human services and any necessary permits or licenses from the applicable local government for the operation of the family child care home. - Amends TCA Title 13 and Title 66.

2025-03-12 — Taken off notice for cal in s/c Cities & Counties Subcommittee of State & Local Government Committee

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.

2025-02-10 — P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.

Correction, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to study the issues associated with constructing and operating a reentry facility that would house eligible inmates who are working toward return from incarceration into the community. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 40 and Title 41.

2025-05-08 — Effective date(s) 05/02/2025

Purchasing and Procurement - As introduced, authorizes local governments to purchase goods and services directly, without bid or quotations, from vendors awarded general services administration (GSA) schedule contracts at prices equal to the vendor's current GSA schedule price. - Amends TCA Title 12, Chapter 3.

2025-03-27 — Sponsor(s) Added.

Sexual Offenders - As introduced, requires sexual and violent sexual offenders to disclose the name, address, and phone number of any church, temple, or other religious group or organization in this state where the offender is a registered member; specifies that this information is considered public information; requires the TBI to provide all public information about an offender to any church, temple, or other religious group or organization in this state where the offender is a registered member when an offender registers as a sexual or violent sexual offender or updates a registration. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 39, Part 2.

2025-03-12 — Taken off notice for cal in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Judiciary Committee