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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 961Signed into law

    Housing - As introduced, enacts the "Affordable Housing and Tenant Protection Act"; allows local governments to adopt ordinances and resolutions to control rent for private residential rental units; creates the increased housing program and increased housing fund; authorizes the Tennessee housing development agency to make grants from the fund to eligible developers and first-time homebuyers to assist in gap financing and down payment assistance. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 53; Title 9; Title 12; Title 13; Title 66 and Title 67.

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

  • SB 962Signed into law

    Energy - As introduced, requires an applicant and an electric utility service to perform and submit to the locality a site assessment prior to the approval of a rezoning request, special exception, or special use permit for the siting of a new high energy use facility (HEUF). - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13; Title 54; Title 65 and Title 68.

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

  • SB 963In committeeRedline

    Criminal Procedure - As enacted, increases from 11 months and 29 days to two years from the date of arrest the time within which misdemeanor charges against a defendant who has been found incompetent must be retired unless the defendant is restored to competency; adds to present law that, when a defendant whose misdemeanor charges were retired due to a finding of incompetency is released into the community, the chief officer is required to notify the court of the defendant's discharge and provide the court and the sheriff with an outpatient treatment plan that accounts for the safety of the community. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 40 and Title 52.

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

    • 2025-05-27 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 519

  • SB 964Passed chamberRedline

    Boats, Boating - As introduced, prohibits certain activities, such as fishing, near public boat launches, docks, boats, and marinas so as to interfere with the use of such facilities. - Amends TCA Title 67; Title 68, Chapter 102, Part 6; Title 69 and Title 70.

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

  • SB 965DeadRedline

    Municipal Government - As introduced, authorizes a tourism development authority to petition for deannexation of property owned by the authority. - Amends TCA Title 6, Chapter 51 and Title 7, Chapter 69.

    2025-04-09 — Withdrawn.

  • SB 966In committee

    Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, expands the period of peacetime military service of a member of the Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System (TCRS) that the member may purchase for creditable service in TCRS. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 34.

    2026-03-06 — Sponsor(s) Added.

  • SB 967Signed into law

    Landlord and Tenant - As introduced, increases, from 30 to 45, the number of days a tenant or household member and a landlord have to agree upon a date to terminate a residential rental or lease agreement, provided the tenant supplies written notice and documentation to the landlord that the tenant is a domestic abuse, sexual assault, or stalking victim. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 13; Title 20; Title 21; Title 25; Title 26; Title 28; Title 29; Title 40; Title 62; Title 66; and Title 68.

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

  • SB 968Signed into lawRedline

    Energy - As introduced, changes the administrative, reporting, oversight, and accountability of the state energy policy council from the state energy policy council to the department of economic and community development and the department of environment and conservation. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 204.

    2025-03-26 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Energy, Ag., and Nat. Resources Committee

  • SB 969Passed chamber

    Game and Fish Laws - As introduced, extends from January 1 to 15, the deadline by which the wildlife resources agency must submit to legislative committees with subject matter jurisdiction over natural resources a written report containing the estimated acreage managed by the agency that has been closed to recreational hunting and fishing during the previous fiscal year and the reasons for the closures; the estimated acreage managed by the agency that was opened to recreational hunting and fishing to compensate for the acreage that was so closed; and the estimated acreage of new public hunting and fishing lands added. - Amends TCA Title 70.

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

  • SB 970In committeeRedline

    Water Authorities - As enacted, generally authorizes the board of directors of a municipal energy authority to, as part of the transfer of a water and wastewater system, adopt and assume all or any portion of such regulatory powers, authority, duties, obligations, and oversight over the water and wastewater operations as were applicable to the municipal water and wastewater system pursuant to ordinances, resolutions, or other rules or policies that were in effect immediately prior to the transfer of such system to the authority; authorizes later amendment to such rules, regulations, and requirements. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 68.

    2025-04-28 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 283

  • SB 971Passed chamber

    Jails, Local Lock-ups - As introduced, exempts a prisoner of a county workhouse or jail who is released from custody on work release from wearing an electronic monitoring device if the prisoner was convicted of a non-violent crime and the sheriff has determined that the prisoner poses a low risk to the public and for escape. - Amends TCA Title 41, Chapter 2.

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

  • SB 972Passed chamber

    Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires an LEA or public charter school to install, maintain, and use, subject to parental request and approval, a video camera surveillance system in each special education classroom operated by the LEA or public charter school to continuously monitor students, teachers, and staff in special education classrooms while special education or related services are being provided to students. - Amends TCA Title 49.

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

  • SB 773Signed into lawRedline

    Planning, Public - As enacted, specifies that the vesting period established for a construction project or development plan does not expire because of pending litigation challenging a permit; specifies that the vesting period is tolled while such litigation is pending. - Amends TCA Title 13, Chapter 3; Title 13, Chapter 4 and Title 13, Chapter 7.

    2025-05-15 — Effective date(s) 07/01/2025

  • SB 774Passed chamber

    Taxes, Ad Valorem - As introduced, adds a 5 percent penalty on delinquent property taxes with the penalty to be used to provide tax relief for the homeowners who are elderly low-income, disabled, or a disabled veteran or widow of a disabled veteran. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5.

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

  • SB 775Passed chamber

    Taxes, Ad Valorem - As introduced, requires 10 percent of the excess proceeds from a delinquent property tax sale to be used for tax relief for homeowners who are elderly low-income, disabled, or a disabled veteran or widow of a disabled veteran. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5.

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

  • SB 776Signed into law

    Contractors - As enacted, encourages licensed contractors and subcontractors who enter into state construction contracts to employ apprentices from certified and registered apprenticeship programs. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3; Title 12, Chapter 4; Title 50, Chapter 11; Title 62, Chapter 6 and Title 66, Chapter 34.

    2025-04-30 — Effective date(s) 11/1/2026

  • SB 777In committeeRedline

    Election Laws - As introduced, specifies that the reasonable period for candidates to remove signs, posters, or placards advocating their candidacy is two weeks after the election instead of three weeks. - Amends TCA Title 2.

    2026-04-24 — Sponsor(s) Added.

  • SB 778In committeeRedline

    Driver Licenses - As enacted, limits to four the number of points that may be assessed to a person's driver record for the offense of operating a motor vehicle while the person's driving privilege is canceled, suspended, or revoked. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50.

    2025-05-27 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 504

  • SB 779Signed into law

    Environment and Conservation, Department of - As introduced, requires the department to make the catalog of materials on source reduction and recycling created by the department available on the department's website. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 68, Chapter 211.

    2025-03-19 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Energy, Ag., & Nat. Resources Committee

  • SB 780In committee

    Driver Licenses - As enacted, authorizes an honorably discharged member of the national guard to receive "veteran" designation on driver license; specifies documentation that must be provided to receive such designation. - Amends TCA Section 55-50-354.

    2025-04-04 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 148

  • SB 781Passed chamber

    Motor Vehicles - As introduced, increases, to the extent permissible under federal law, the maximum gross vehicle weight of a vehicle with an axle group of three axles that can be operated on the public highways of this state to 85,000 pounds. - Amends TCA Title 55.

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

  • SB 782In committeeRedline

    Real Property - As enacted, extends from January 28, 2025, to April 15, 2025, the date by which an assessor must have determined that property was destroyed or damaged by a qualified disaster in order for the owner to be eligible for a direct payment from the comptroller of the treasury. - Amends TCA Title 67.

    2025-05-27 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 498

  • SB 783Dead

    Taxes, Personal Property - As introduced, authorizes the county trustee or other property tax collecting official to decline to bill or refer for collection a de minimis personal property tax totaling less than $20 under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Section 67-5-2013.

    2025-02-05 — Withdrawn.

  • SB 784In committeeRedline

    Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As enacted, changes the amounts of the franchise and excise tax credits allowed to financial institutions from certain percentages of the unpaid principal balance of certain qualified loans made to eligible housing entities to certain percentages of the month-end average unpaid principal balance of such loans; makes other related revisions. - Amends TCA Section 67-4-2109.

    2025-05-27 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 496

  • SB 785Passed chamber

    Zoning - As introduced, prohibits local governments or planning commissions from requiring more than one means of ingress and egress into a proposed subdivision unless the proposed subdivision has at least 70 residential dwellings. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 13.

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

  • SB 786Passed chamber

    Psychologists - As introduced, requires that test materials and test data from psychological or neuropsychological testing be kept secure to avoid compromising the validity of the testing; makes other changes related to security of psychological or neuropsychological test materials and test data. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 11.

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

  • SB 787DeadRedline

    Labor and Workforce Development, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the chief elevator inspector to perform a final acceptance inspection upon completion of the installation, modification, or alteration of a private residence elevator prior to such elevator entering service; requires a homeowner to register a private residence elevator with the department; directs the chief elevator inspector to develop and maintain a database of private residence elevators. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 121.

    2025-03-18 — Failed in Senate Commerce and Labor Committee

  • SB 788In committee

    Taxes, Privilege - As introduced, reallocates 3 percent of revenue derived from the beer barrelage tax that is provided to the general fund to the department of agriculture for the purposes of supporting growth in the utilization of Tennessee agricultural products in brewing and in the promotion of the growth of the Tennessee brewing industry. - Amends TCA Title 57.

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

  • SB 789In committeeRedline

    Medical Occupations - As enacted, makes various changes relative to marriage and family therapist licensure. - Amends TCA Title 33 and Title 63.

    2025-04-28 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 204

  • SB 790In committeeRedline

    Law Enforcement Training Academy - As enacted, requires the peace officer standards and training commission to issue a certificate of compliance to a person appointed as a private special deputy on or after January 1, 2026, if the person meets the qualifications for employment as a police officer and satisfactorily completes an approved recruit training program; requires annual in-service training sessions to retain such certification. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 38 and Title 49.

    2025-04-04 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 105

  • SB 791Passed chamber

    Civil Procedure - As introduced, specifies that an unauthorized alien does not have standing to commence or appear as a plaintiff in certain civil actions. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 16; Title 20; Title 28 and Title 29.

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

  • SB 792Signed into law

    Criminal Offenses - As introduced, requires the district attorneys general conference to compile a yearly report detailing convictions made pursuant to the Terrorism Prevention and Response Act of 2002 during the previous year; requires the report to be provided to the general assembly no later than January 15 each year. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 10; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 55 and Title 58.

    2025-03-07 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee

  • SB 793Signed into law

    Health, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the commissioner to report to the chairs of legislative committees having jurisdiction over health-related matters on the standards and policies for assisted reproductive technology in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 29; Title 36; Title 63 and Title 68.

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

  • SB 794Signed into law

    State Symbols - As enacted, designates the Southern Stars Symphonic Brass as the official brass band of the state of Tennessee. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3.

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

  • SB 795Passed chamber

    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.

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

  • SB 796Signed into law

    Boards and Commissions - As introduced, vacates and reconstitutes the Tennessee board of water quality, oil and gas effective July 1, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 69, Chapter 3.

    2025-03-06 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Government Operations Committee

  • SB 797Signed into law

    State Employees - As enacted, clarifies that full-time employees of the general assembly are eligible for a waiver of tuition and fees for purposes of continuing education for more than one course at a time if the employees work more hours each week than typically required of full-time employment for at least four weeks per year. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 50.

    2025-04-08 — Effective date(s) 04/03/2025

  • SB 798Passed chamber

    Education, Dept. of - As introduced, specifies that the office of early learning is required, by February 1, to provide an annual report to the governor and the general assembly on the status of pre-kindergarten programs, which must include, at a minimum, the number, location, and types of providers of pre-kindergarten classrooms and the number of at-risk children served. - Amends TCA Title 49.

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

  • SB 799Signed into lawRedline

    Election Laws - As enacted, generally requires statewide political parties to nominate their candidates in primary elections for all offices for which partisan elections are held at the regular August or regular November election; authorizes, in a county in which a statewide political party nominated a candidate by a method other than a primary election in 2022 or 2024, the statewide political party in such county to continue to use such method with certain exceptions. - Amends TCA Title 2.

    2025-04-29 — Effective date(s) 04/24/2025

  • SB 800Passed chamber

    Tort Liability and Reform - As introduced, increases the amount of medical, hospital, or doctor bills that are presumed in a civil action to have been necessary and reasonable if the bills are itemized in the complaint or civil warrant with an attached copy of the bills attached as an exhibit to the complaint or civil warrant, from a total of $4,000 to a total of $25,000. - Amends TCA Title 20, Chapter 1; Title 24, Chapter 5; Title 55, Chapter 12 and Title 56, Chapter 7.

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

  • SB 801Passed chamber

    Dentists and Dentistry - As introduced, clarifies that the board of dentistry must submit the board's annual report on or before January 1 of each year; adds the legislative librarian as a recipient of the report. - Amends TCA Title 63.

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

  • SB 802Signed into law

    Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, establishes the promising futures early learning scholarship program and a fund to provide scholarships for high-quality early learning programs from excess lottery revenues. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 51; Title 37, Chapter 5, Part 5; Title 49 and Title 71, Chapter 3.

    2025-02-26 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Education Committee

  • SB 803DeadRedline

    Scholarships and Financial Aid - As introduced, adds an institution accredited by the National Accrediting Commission of Career Arts and Sciences (NACCAS) that has its primary campus domiciled in this state as an eligible postsecondary institution in which a student may be enrolled for purposes of receiving a Tennessee Promise scholarship; conditions the availability of the scholarship at such an institution on there being no available enrollment slots in a Tennessee college of applied technology in the student's county of residence for the student's desired program of study. - Amends TCA Title 49.

    2025-03-19 — Failed in Senate Education Committee

  • SB 804Signed into law

    Treasurer, State - As introduced, creates within the state treasury a fund known as the crime stoppers trust fund to be used for the purpose of grant administration to fund crime stoppers programs within the state; requires an additional fine of $10 to be imposed on offenders convicted of a felony or misdemeanor offense to be deposited in the crime stoppers trust fund. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 67.

    2025-03-25 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee

  • SB 805In committee

    Education, Dept. of - As introduced, changes the date, from October 15 to October 1, by which the department must notify local education agencies (LEAs) of all state and federal grants available to assist the LEA in expanding mental health services and resources in schools. - Amends TCA Title 49.

    2025-04-09 — Sponsor(s) Added.

  • SB 806Passed chamber

    Remedies and Special Proceedings - As introduced, requires that the trial for an unlawful detainer action be held no later than 14 days from the date the plaintiff filed the unlawful detainer motion; limits the scope of a hearing for an unlawful detainer motion based on nonpayment of rent to facts and issues related to nonpayment of rent; makes other changes related to judicial proceedings for unlawful detainer. - Amends TCA Title 29 and Title 66.

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

  • SB 807Passed chamber

    Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, creates the Class C misdemeanor offense of storing a firearm or firearm ammunition in a motor vehicle while the person is not in the motor vehicle unless the firearm or firearm ammunition is kept from ordinary observation and locked within the trunk, utility or glove box, or a locked container securely affixed to the motor vehicle; requires the owner of a firearm to report the loss or theft of the firearm to law enforcement within 24 hours of the discovery of the loss or theft. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

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

  • SB 808Passed chamber

    State Employees - As introduced, authorizes an employee who has been employed full-time with this state for at least 12 months to receive up to 15 hours of paid leave for certain qualified volunteer work. - Amends TCA Title 8.

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

  • SB 809Passed chamber

    Controlled Substances - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Cannabis Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 29; Title 33; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41; Title 43; Title 45; Title 50; Title 53; Title 63; Title 67; Title 68 and Title 71.

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

  • SB 810Signed into law

    Education, Higher - As introduced, changes the date, from October to November 1, by which a public institution of higher education that receives funds from the distribution of credit cards to students or any percentage from the use of cards bearing the college or university name or logo to report the amount of such funds or percentage that it received as well as how the funds were expended during the previous fiscal year. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8 and Title 49.

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

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