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114 session

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Subjects

  • Memorials, Recognition1005
  • Memorials, Academic Achievement771
  • Memorials, Sports399
  • Memorials, Professional Achievement379
  • Memorials, Death332
  • Criminal Offenses263
  • Sunset Laws256
  • Memorials, Retirement208
  • Education205
  • General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment141
  • Local Education Agencies135
  • Memorials, Interns123
  • Health Care115
  • Election Laws102
  • Consumer Protection78

Bills

  • SB 1361Passed chamber

    Economic and Community Development - As introduced, extends, from December 1 to January 1, the date by which the office of business enterprise in the department of economic and community development must submit to the general assembly its annual report on advisements to the commissioner regarding disadvantaged businesses and the number of or amount of community block grants received by disadvantaged businesses. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9 and Title 67.

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

  • SB 1362Signed into law

    Boards and Commissions - As introduced, provides for a new definition for the term "artificial intelligence" for the Tennessee artificial intelligence advisory council act; expands, from 24 to at least 24 and at most 27, the number of members on the council; directs the council to make various other changes. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 31.

    2026-02-18 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Commerce & Labor Committee

  • SB 1363Signed into law

    Consumer Protection - As introduced, requires the office of the attorney general and reporter to submit to the chair of the house committee having jurisdiction over consumer protection and the chair of the commerce and labor committee of the senate a report on the number of investigations into violations of the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act of 1977 in which artificial intelligence was used to effectuate an unfair or deceptive act or practice affecting the conduct of any trade or commerce between January 1, 2024, and December 31, 2025; requires the report to be submitted no later than July 1, 2026; allows the report to be submitted electronically. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 12; Title 39; Title 45; Title 47; Title 48; Title 50; Title 55; Title 61; Title 62; Title 65; Title 66; Title 67 and Title 68.

  • TennCare75
  • Firearms and Ammunition73
  • Children69
  • Education, Dept. of69
  • Education, Higher67
  • Taxes, Sales67
  • Insurance, Health, Accident65
  • State Government65
  • Memorials63

    • 2026-03-10 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Commerce and Labor Committee

  • SB 1364Signed into law

    Immigration - As introduced, requires, rather than permits, each law enforcement agency to execute an agreement with the United States department of homeland security to participate in the 287(g) program and the warrant service officer program for purposes of enforcing immigration laws in collaboration with the United States bureau of immigration and customs enforcement (ICE). - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 8.

    2025-02-25 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee

  • SB 1365Signed into law

    Children - As introduced, reduces the time in which the department of children's services has to determine whether a temporary childcare licensee has complied with all regulations to receive a permanent childcare license from 90 days from the date the temporary license was issued to 80 days. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 13; Title 37; Title 49; Title 62; Title 67; Title 68 and Title 71.

    2025-03-26 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Health and Welfare Committee

  • SB 1366In committeeRedline

    Federal Aid - As enacted, establishes a process for reviewing requests for federal aid. -

    2025-05-27 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 512

  • SB 1367In committee

    Taxes, Sales - As introduced, exempts from the state sales and use tax the retail sale of food and food ingredients. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 3 and Title 67.

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

  • SB 1368Signed into lawRedline

    Tennessee Higher Education Commission - As enacted, adds the executive director of the commission to the statutorily prescribed selection process for chief executive officers of public institutions of higher education and removes the repeal date for that process; revises various reporting and other duties of the commission; allows the commission to delegate its approval authority to its executive director in certain areas; expands the quality non-degree credentials for which a student may receive the Wilder-Naifeh technical skills grant. - Amends TCA Title 49.

    2025-04-30 — Effective date(s) 04/11/2025

  • SB 1369Signed into lawRedline

    Health Care - As enacted, revises law relative to the operation of acute care hospitals. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 68; Title 71 and Chapter 985 of the Public Acts of 2024.

    2026-05-18 — Effective date(s) 07/01/2030, 07/01/2028, 05/05/2026

  • SB 1370Passed chamber

    State Government - As introduced, increases membership of the information systems council by adding a state employee with experience in the field of cybersecurity, to be appointed by the governor. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3.

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

  • SB 1371Passed chamber

    Housing - As introduced, authorizes local governments to regulate sober living homes for recovery from alcohol, drug, and substance abuse to the extent such regulation complies with the Fair Housing Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act, including prescribing a distance requirement for such homes from primary schools, preschools, and daycares, regulating the location and operation of such homes, and requiring that prospective residents receive a clinical referral for placement in a sober living home. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13 and Title 33.

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

  • SB 1372Signed into law

    Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, prohibits a health insurance entity or TennCare MCO from including an all-products clause in a network participation agreement with a healthcare provider, and makes certain other changes related to MCO network adequacy. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Title 71.

    2025-03-25 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Commerce and Labor Committee

  • SB 1173Passed chamber

    Taxes, Real Property - As introduced, revises the property tax relief program for elderly, low-income homeowners to provide tiered property tax reimbursements based on the taxpayer's age. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5, Part 7.

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

  • SB 1174Passed chamber

    Law Enforcement - As introduced, requires a law enforcement agency that uses body cameras to adopt a written policy for the use of the cameras by its law enforcement officers; establishes certain requirements for the policies. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 1.

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

  • SB 1175Signed into law

    Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires the department of education, by July 31 each year, to list on its website each LEA designated as a high performing school district for the upcoming school year and how long the LEA will be designated a high performing school district before having to meet the criteria for re-designation. - Amends TCA Title 49.

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

  • SB 1176Signed into law

    Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, permits the largest municipality in Shelby, Davidson, Knox, or Hamilton county to regulate the manner of storage of firearms, firearm ammunition, and firearm accessories by ordinance, resolution, policy, rule, or other enactment. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

    2025-04-08 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee

  • SB 1177Signed into law

    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

  • SB 1178Signed into lawRedline

    Disability and Aging, Dept. Of - As enacted, directs the commissioner and the director of TennCare to develop guidelines for service providers for hiring qualified family members as a family caregiver; specifies that the department and the bureau of TennCare shall not prohibit qualified individuals from employment as a family caregiver at a service provider agency based on certain listed criteria. - Amends TCA Title 52 and Title 71.

    2025-04-30 — Effective date(s) 04/11/2025, 07/01/2025

  • SB 1179Signed into law

    Economic and Community Development - As introduced, enacts the "Hollyssee Act." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3 and Title 64.

    2025-03-19 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Government Operations Committee

  • SB 1180Signed into law

    School Vouchers - As introduced, requires private schools that enroll recipients of an education freedom scholarship, students participating in the individualized education account program, or students participating in the education savings account program to conduct background checks prior to employing a teacher or person who will have direct contact with school children or access to school grounds when children are present. - Amends Chapter __ of the Public Acts of 2025 (1st Ex. Sess. – SB 6001 / HB 6004); and TCA Title 49, Chapter 10, Part 14 and Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 26.

    2025-03-26 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Education Committee

  • SB 1181Signed into law

    Criminal Procedure - As introduced, lowers from 20 days to 15 days the notice of a hearing on a petition for restoration of rights of citizenship that must be given to the district attorney general of the county in which the petitioner currently resides and the district attorney general of the county in which the petitioner was convicted in order that, if deemed advisable, each may resist. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 4; Title 22; Title 36; Title 39 and Title 40.

    2026-03-02 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee

  • SB 1182Signed into law

    Sentencing - As introduced, requires a local community corrections advisory board to provide its annual report to the county legislative body on the progress of community corrections programs by February 1 of each year. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 16; Title 37; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 41.

    2026-03-25 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee

  • SB 1183Signed into law

    Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, creates a criminal offense of storing or keeping a firearm in any place if the firearm is not secured in a locked container or equipped with a tamper-resistant mechanical lock or other safety device that is properly engaged so as to render the firearm inoperable by any person other than the owner or another lawfully authorized user; punishes a violation of the offense as a Class A misdemeanor. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

    2026-03-23 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee

  • SB 1184Signed into law

    Domestic Violence - As introduced, requires a person who is convicted of domestic assault or subject to an order of protection to dispossess any firearm in the person's possession by transferring the firearm to a law enforcement agency and to provide the court with an affidavit of dispossession of firearms and a receipt from the law enforcement agency. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 39 and Title 40.

    2025-04-08 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee

  • SB 1185Signed into law

    Economic and Community Development - As introduced, enacts the "Small Business Growth and Empowerment Act"; authorizes business tax credits for small businesses hiring locally or providing workforce training; creates grants for minority-owned and women-owned businesses in underserved areas. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 7 and Title 67, Chapter 4.

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

  • SB 1186Signed into law

    Children - As introduced, authorizes a juvenile court to order a child who is accused of being delinquent or unruly and released prior to a hearing to wear a global positioning monitoring system device; if the court issues such an order, requires the entity operating the global positioning monitoring system to notify the probation officer or other entity ordered to take charge of the child if the child violates the instructions issued by the court upon release; requires students who are expelled for committing a zero tolerance offense for threatening mass violence on school property or at a school-related activity to undergo counseling and a mental health evaluation before returning to school. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39; Title 40, Chapter 11 and Title 49.

    2026-03-25 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee

  • SB 1187Signed into law

    Bail, Bail Bonds - As introduced, makes various changes to criminal law, including requiring defendants accused of certain offenses to be subject to a global positioning monitoring system as condition of bail. - Amends TCA Title 10; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Chapter 969 of the Public Acts of 2024 and Chapter 1033 of the Public Acts of 2024.

    2026-03-25 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee

  • SB 1188Passed chamber

    Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, expands eligibility for a helping heroes grant to include veterans who have received any medal authorized by congress for the armed forces of the United States that is awarded for combat or heroism; allows eligible veterans to receive a helping heroes grant in pursuit of a certificate at an eligible postsecondary institution. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4.

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

  • SB 1189Passed chamber

    Abortion - As introduced, deletes the offense of criminal abortion; allows for an abortion before viability of the fetus or when necessary to protect the life or health of the pregnant woman. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 63 and Title 68.

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

  • SB 1190Signed into law

    Employees, Employers - As introduced, increases the hourly minimum wage to $20.00, or the federal minimum wage established pursuant to the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, whichever rate is greater. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 23; Title 12, Chapter 4, Part 4 and Title 50, Chapter 2.

    2025-03-25 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Commerce and Labor Committee

  • SB 1191DeadRedline

    Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, enacts "Akilah's Law," which creates the offense of selling, offering to sell, delivering, or transferring a firearm to a person knowing the person has been a patient in a mental institution at any time within the previous five years. - Amends TCA Title 33 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

    2026-03-25 — Failed in Senate Judiciary Committee

  • SB 1192Signed into law

    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

  • SB 1193In committeeRedline

    Planning, Public - As enacted, revises the present law provision requiring all multi-family facilities, buildings, and structures constructed under a voluntary attainable housing incentive program to be deed-restricted to ensure that the attainable housing continues for at least 30 years, instead of in perpetuity. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 10; Title 13 and Title 67.

    2025-05-08 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 348

  • SB 1194In committeeRedline

    Codes - As enacted, clarifies that, as of July 1, 2025, the roof solar reflectance and thermal emittance requirements of the International Energy Conservation Code for low-sloped roofs do not apply to the 2021 International Code Council adoption; authorizes the state fire marshal to promulgate rules to that effect. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 120.

    2025-04-08 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 149

  • SB 1195Passed chamber

    Health Care - As introduced, removes an obsolete provision that required, on or before January 15, 2018, the commissioner of health, in consultation with the perinatal advisory committee and with the assistance of relevant state agencies, to report to legislative committees with jurisdiction over health care concerning aspects of births involving neonatal abstinence syndrome and opioid use by women of childbearing age. - Amends TCA Title 14; Title 33; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68.

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

  • SB 1196Passed chamber

    Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, authorizes an assisted-care living facility to comply with any requirement to post information in the facility by making such information available on an electronic screen clearly visible to residents and the public subject to approval by the board for licensing health care facilities. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.

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

  • SB 1197Passed chamber

    County Government - As introduced, authorizes a county to forgo the automatic compensation increase for county officers if the department of economic and community development determines that the county experienced substantial characteristics of economic distress in the preceding fiscal year. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 24.

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

  • SB 1198In committee

    Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As enacted, declares Perry County Community Hospital in Linden and Decatur County General Hospital in Parsons to be necessary providers for the purpose of critical access hospital designation eligibility in accordance with Section 1820 of the Social Security Act. - Amends TCA Title 68.

    2025-04-28 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 196

  • SB 1199Passed chamber

    Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services, Dept. of - As introduced, adds legislative librarian to the list the department of mental health and substance abuse services must submit its quarterly report to on the implementation and impact of available suitable accommodations, including the number and length of any delayed admissions, in state-owned or -operated hospitals or treatment resources. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 16; Title 17; Title 18; Title 20; Title 21; Title 24; Title 29; Title 30; Title 32; Title 33; Title 34; Title 36; Title 37; Title 39; Title 40; Title 49; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

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

  • SB 1200Passed chamber

    Veterans Services, Dept. of - As introduced, allocates 1 percent of the revenue from sports gaming in this state to the department to be used to support veterans services in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 49; Title 58; Title 68 and Title 71.

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

  • SB 1201In committeeRedline

    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 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 351

  • SB 1202Signed into lawRedline

    Bonding, Surety and Professional - As enacted, authorizes the surety on a bail bond to petition the court for release from their obligations as surety if the principal forfeits. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 13; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41; Title 56; Title 62 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 8.

    2025-05-13 — Effective date(s) 07/01/2025

  • SB 1203Signed into law

    Criminal Procedure - As introduced, exempts an applicant seeking to restore the applicant's rights of citizenship from having to pay for the cost of the application if a court orders otherwise. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 8; Title 39 and Title 40.

    2025-03-13 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee

  • SB 1204Signed into law

    Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, enacts the "Anti-Road Rage Act of 2024," which creates a Class E felony for the reckless discharge of a firearm while operating, or as a passenger in, a motor vehicle; creates a Class A misdemeanor for the reckless brandishing or display of a firearm while operating, or as a passenger in, a motor vehicle. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 55.

    2026-03-23 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee

  • SB 1205In committee

    Taxes, Sales - As introduced, exempts the sale or use of menstrual hygiene products from sales and use tax. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.

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

  • SB 1206Passed chamber

    Environmental Preservation - As introduced, creates a grant program to facilitate green spaces in urban areas; authorizes the technical secretary of the air pollution control board to establish a program to encourage community-led programs that reduce air pollution. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 5; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 11; Title 43, Chapter 24 and Title 68, Chapter 201.

    2025-02-12 — Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Energy, Ag., and Nat. Resources Committee

  • SB 1207Passed chamber

    Lobbying, Lobbyists - As introduced, requires each lobbyist to include and maintain in the lobbyist's registration statement filed with the Tennessee ethics commission the identification of each bill and legislative measure for which the lobbyist is receiving compensation to oppose or support. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 6.

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

  • SB 1208Dead

    Health Care - As introduced, requires every year, instead of every other year, the commissioner of health, in consultation with the regulatory boards that license healthcare practitioners, to provide a letter no later than November 1 to the governor, the speaker of the senate, the speaker of the house of representatives, and legislative committees with subject matter jurisdiction over health that includes updated information on the impact and effects of the restrictions and limitations on treating patients with opioids. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 33; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

    2025-03-25 — Failed in Senate Commerce and Labor Committee

  • SB 1209In committeeRedline

    Education - As enacted, prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sex, or religion against a student or an employee in a public institution of education; requires public institutions of education to treat harassment or discrimination against students or employees, or resulting from institutional policies or programs on their campuses, motivated by or including antisemitic intent in an identical manner to discrimination motivated by race; requires Title VI coordinators to be designated to monitor antisemitic discrimination and harassment at K-12 schools and institutions of higher education. - Amends TCA Title 49.

    2025-04-28 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 293

  • SB 1210In committeeRedline

    Law Enforcement - As enacted, requires a prosecuting agency that maintains a Brady list to adopt a policy that meets certain requirements. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 8.

    2026-04-27 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 770

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