114 session

Memorials, Sports - Grassy Fork Lady Ravens, Cocke County Elementary Basketball Tournament champions -

2025-03-12 — Signed by Governor.

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

2026-03-18 — Signed by Governor.

County Officers - As enacted, revises present law relative to constables. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 10 and Title 38, Chapter 8.

2025-05-27 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 516

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

State Symbols - As introduced, designates Nashville as the hot chicken capital of this state. - Amends TCA Title 4.

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

Driver Licenses - As enacted, prohibits the use of digital driver licenses and digital photo identification licenses for voter identification purposes; regulates the use, retention, and disclosure of data submitted by persons participating in the digital driver license system, including biometric identifiers; prohibits geolocation data from being collected for purposes of the digital driver license system; revises other provisions related to driver licenses. - Amends TCA Section 2-7-112 and Title 55, Chapter 50.

2025-04-28 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 297

Courts, Municipal - As enacted, prohibits a municipality from remediating a property maintenance violation if the cost may negatively impact the municipality's financial position, or if the cost is budgetarily prohibitive; specifies that, in addition to assessing remediation costs against a property owner in the form of a lien, a municipality may recover remediation costs through all other legal means. - Amends TCA Title 6; Title 7; Title 13; Title 16, Chapter 18 and Title 29, Chapter 3.

2026-05-04 — Pub. Ch. 821

Veterans - As enacted, authorizes state veterans' homes to provide services other than skilled nursing services to honorably discharged veterans. - Amends TCA Title 58, Chapter 7.

2026-05-18 — Pub. Ch. 968

Criminal Offenses - As enacted, specifies that, in regard to the criminal offense of desecration of a venerated object, "desecrate" includes, but is not limited to, the removal of objects from a place of burial by a person other than a family member of the deceased or an authorized representative of the cemetery. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 46.

2026-03-30 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 626

Salaries and Benefits - As enacted, enacts "The Chance Carlton Act." - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7, Chapter 51; Title 8 and Title 50.

2026-05-15 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 942

Children - As introduced, establishes when a minor is engaged in the work of content creation; creates protections and requirements related to a minor engaged in the work of content creation. - Amends TCA Title 35; Title 37; Title 47 and Title 50.

2026-02-05 — Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee

Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As enacted, requires retirement credit established for a period of disability for a commissioned member of the department of safety or agent of the Tennessee bureau of investigation to be at no cost to that member; authorizes political subdivisions that pass a resolution to establish retirement credit for its employees to allow the credit for a period of disability for any member who is subject to mandatory retirements to be at no cost to such person. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 34, Part 6.

2026-05-27 — Pub. Ch. 1110

Optometry - As enacted, redefines the practice of optometry. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 8.

2026-05-05 — Pub. Ch. 714

Taxes, Sales - As introduced, exempts the retail sale of generic food products from the food retail sales tax. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.

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

Employees, Employers - As introduced, requires private-sector employers to compensate employees for accumulated paid leave upon separation from service from employment. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 50, Chapter 2.

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

Children - As enacted, revises various provisions regarding children, including requiring a parent educational seminar in certain juvenile cases. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37.

2026-05-04 — Pub. Ch. 730

Child Abuse - As introduced, adds the speaker of the senate and speaker of the house of representatives to whom the recipients of funding from the child abuse fund and its subsidiary funds, the child advocacy centers fund, the CASA fund, and the child abuse prevention fund shall report to annually regarding their use of child abuse fund moneys, their collaborative efforts to address the spectrum of child abuse issues, and their recommendations for additional improvements in the child abuse prevention and response system in this state. - Amends TCA Title 33 and Title 39.

2026-02-02 — Filed for introduction

Education, Curriculum - As introduced, requires local education agencies and public charter schools to provide age-appropriate instruction to students on how to access, utilize, and critically evaluate various artificial intelligence tools within the curriculum taught by the educator; requires the department of education to issue guidance on how to implement the required instruction; requires the department to provide a professional development program in artificial intelligence education for educators, subject to available funding. - Amends TCA Title 49.

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

Election Laws - As introduced, makes certain election documents available for public inspection after an election. - Amends TCA Title 2.

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

Health Care - As introduced, requires LEAs and public charter schools to provide free feminine hygiene products in all women's and girl's bathrooms and locker rooms used by students in grades four through 12 in certain schools; requires a public health campaign dedicated to encouraging individuals and nonprofit organizations to contribute or drop off feminine hygiene products to eligible schools. - Amends TCA Title 49; Title 63; Title 67 and Title 68.

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

Water Pollution - As enacted, requires the division of water resources in the department of environment and conservation, in collaboration with U.S. army corps of engineers, as necessary, to annually report information concerning compensatory mitigation provisions in aquatic resource alteration permits issued during the prior fiscal year to the governor, the comptroller of the treasury, and the chairpersons of the commerce committees; and to establish four categories of isolated wetlands for regulatory purposes; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 11, Chapter 14, Part 4; Title 66; Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 4 and Title 69.

2025-05-15 — Pub. Ch. 437

Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires LEAs to publish the school lunch menu on the LEA's website. - Amends TCA Title 49.

2025-03-12 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Education Committee

Firefighters - As introduced, increases from within two weeks to 15 days after the occurrence of a vacancy in the office of any commissioner caused by death, resignation, disability, or forfeiture of office, and no later than 30 days prior to the expiration of the term of office of any incumbent commissioner, the time within which the chair of the commission must notify the appropriate association of the vacancy or expiration of the term when the vacancy or expiration results in an opening for that particular association to make recommendations for an appointment. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 8; Title 49; Title 50; Title 55 and Title 68.

2025-03-18 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Commerce and Labor Committee

Taxes, Real Property - As introduced, requires half the revenue collected from recordation taxes be returned to the county in which the real property is located on a recurring basis; applies to transfers of real property on or after July 1, 2025. - Amends TCA Section 67-4-409.

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

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Christopher Scott Garber, Valedictorian, Montgomery Central High School -

2026-04-16 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Recognition - Aubri Whaley, Boys & Girls Clubs of Tennessee Youth of the Year -

2026-05-01 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Retirement - Julie Gail Adkission -

2026-05-11 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Death - Beverly Sue Ball -

2025-03-04 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Heroism - Tennessee Air National Guard 134th Air Refueling Wing, Distinguished Flying Cross -

2025-03-12 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Addie Tull, Valedictorian, McNairy Central High School -

2025-04-10 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Professional Achievement - Emma Griffin, H.G. Hill Middle School Teacher of the Year -

2025-04-10 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Recognition - Beverly Bell -

2026-01-14 — Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Calendar Committee

Memorials, Sports - Graven Wilson -

2026-03-18 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Death - Diane Jordan -

2026-02-19 — Introduced, Passed on First Consideration

Education - As enacted, requires the department of education to develop guidelines and criteria for determining how long a student must have been present in a teacher's classroom before the student's record is attributable to the teacher for purposes of evaluating the teacher; authorizes an LEA or public charter school to compensate the estate of a teacher who, on the teacher's death, was in the employ of the LEA or public charter school for the teacher's unused and accrued annual and sick leave in the same manner that the estates of deceased state employees are compensated under present law. - Amends Chapter __ of the Public Acts of 2025 (1st Ex. Sess. – SB 6001 / HB 6004); and TCA Title 4, Chapter 49; Title 8 and Title 49.

2025-05-15 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 433

Rogersville - Subject to local approval, authorizes holding of an advisory, nonbinding referenda. - Amends Chapter 519 of the Private Acts of 1911.

2025-04-23 — Pr. Ch. 2

Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the board of communications disorders and sciences to June 30, 2031. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 63, Chapter 17.

2026-04-06 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 635

Statutes and Codification - As enacted, changes all TCA references from "adult day care" to "adult day services." - Amends TCA Section 4-3-1205; Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 18; Title 52, Chapter 8; Section 68-1-904; Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 2 and Title 71.

2025-04-04 — Pub. Ch. 87

Public Records - As enacted, designates records of the office of homeland security related to critical infrastructure as confidential and exempts such records from public records requests; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5.

2026-05-05 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 837

Mason - Subject to local approval, revises the charter of the Town of Mason to provide grounds for vacating certain offices, to prescribe the oath for office; to fix the time, place, and notice requirements for meetings of the board of mayor and aldermen, to establish the rules of procedure for meetings, to prescribe additional duties of the mayor and the board, to provide for the administration of government and personnel, to prescribe the duties of the town administrator and town attorney, to prescribe the budget process, and to make various other changes. - Amends Chapter 120 of the Private Acts of 1915; as amended and rewritten.

2026-05-01 — Pr. Ch. 41

Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, revises law relative to leave for teachers. - Amends TCA Title 49.

2026-05-26 — Pub. Ch. 1022

State Symbols - As enacted, designates Nashville hot chicken as an official state food. - Amends TCA Title 4.

2025-04-29 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 273

Election Laws - As enacted, authorizes the county election commission to designate restroom facilities in each building in which the election is held that are for the use of workers or volunteers working for a campaign with certain limitations on access. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 7.

2026-05-27 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1050

Memorials, Sports - Sterling Marlin -

2026-04-01 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Recognition - Shea Jefferson -

2026-04-14 — Signed by Governor.