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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 711Signed into law

    Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, decreases from 30 to 21 days, the amount of time each insurer of personal risk insurance must file with the commissioner of commerce and insurance before the proposed effective date of all rates, supplementary rate information, supporting information, policy forms, and endorsements. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 56 and Title 71.

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

  • SB 712Signed into lawRedline

    Comptroller, State - As enacted, prohibits an LEA or public charter school from using public funds to initiate or maintain any civil action or proceeding against this state or an agency or officer of this state to challenge a school or district accountability measure established under state law. - Amends TCA Title 49.

    2026-05-05 — Effective date(s) 04/21/2026

  • SB 713Signed into lawRedline

    Education - As enacted, requires each public senior high school to provide official recruiting representatives of the armed forces of this state and the United States access to the high school at least once a month during student lunch periods for the purpose of informing students of educational and career opportunities available in the military and at least once every other month when school is in session to provide further information to students who have expressed interest; provides additional related access. - Amends TCA Title 49.

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

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

  • SB 714Signed into lawRedline

    Education - As enacted, requires an educational oversight board tobe created for an LEA that meets certain criteria and is established to annually conduct a comprehensive needs assessment of the LEA to determine the factors that may be contributing to the LEA meeting such criteria; requires the oversight board to develop a transformation plan that identifies performance andoperational goals for the LEA and benchmarks for assessing the LEA's progress toward meeting such goals; makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 49.

    2026-05-27 — Effective date(s) 05/22/2026

  • SB 715Signed into lawRedline

    Cemeteries - As enacted, changes the way that the fair market value of an improvement care trust fund is calculated for certain purposes; clarifies that the fee that a cemetery company charges for the memorial care of a commodity installed in the cemetery cannot exceed the fee charged by the company for installation of the commodity; makes other changes related to cemeteries. - Amends TCA Title 46.

    2025-04-08 — Effective date(s) 01/01/2026

  • SB 716Passed chamber

    Health Care - As introduced, extends from January 15 to March 1, the date by which the commissioner of health, in consultation with the department of finance and administration and any other state agency involved in the administration of the safety net program, must annually report to the general assembly on data relating to access to care and safety net adequacy related issues. - Amends TCA Title 49; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

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

  • SB 717Signed into lawRedline

    Utilities, Utility Districts - As enacted, clarifies that prior to the acquisition of assets of a natural gas utility regulated by the Tennessee public utility commission by a new owner or any other change in control of such assets, the commission has exclusive authority to approve the acquisition or change in control, including the assignment of franchise rights, upon a finding by the commission that such transfers of assets or control is in the public interest. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 65; Title 68 and Title 69.

    2026-03-16 — Effective date(s) 02/17/2026

  • SB 718Signed into lawRedline

    Courts, Juvenile - As enacted, requires a juvenile court conducting a child custody, detention, or adjudicatory proceeding to conduct the proceeding in a dedicated courtroom provided by the county that is closest in proximity to an approved detention center. - Amends TCA Title 37.

    2025-04-29 — Effective date(s) 10/1/2025

  • SB 719In committeeRedline

    Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, adds William R. Moore College of Technology as an eligible institution for receipt of the Wilder-Naifeh reconnect grant and Wilder-Naifeh technical skills grant; specifies that the amount of the scholarship for such students enrolled is the average cost of tuition and mandatory fees at TCATs less all other gift aid. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4.

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

  • SB 720In committeeRedline

    Boards and Commissions - As enacted, vacates and reconstitutes the board of ground water management effective July 1, 2025; makes related changes relative to the board. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 69.

    2025-05-27 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 507

  • SB 721Passed chamber

    Codes - As introduced, extends the period in which the fire marshal is required to provide a decision on an appeal regarding building or fire codes involving a county building located in a city when there is a conflict between city and county from 10 working days to 15 calendar days. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 102 and Title 68, Chapter 120.

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

  • SB 722Signed into law

    Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, requires the board of trustees of the Tennessee consolidated retirement system to convert a person's participation in the retirement system, for service as a member of the general assembly and as a participant in the hybrid plan, from the hybrid plan to the legacy plan upon the person completing 10 years of service as a member of the general assembly if the person became a member of the general assembly on or after July 1, 2014; requires retiree health benefit coverage be made available to retired members of the general assembly with 10 or more years of service. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 8, Chapter 27, Part 2; Title 8, Chapter 34; Title 8, Chapter 35 and Title 8, Chapter 36.

    2025-04-02 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State & Local Gov't. Committee

  • SB 723Signed into law

    Consumer Protection - As introduced, makes it a violation of the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act of 1977 for a weather-related company to conduct certain weather modification activities. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18 and Title 68, Chapter 201.

    2025-03-07 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Commerce & Labor Committee

  • SB 724Passed chamber

    Public Employees - As introduced, provides a five-day grace period for assistant district attorneys general and criminal investigators to submit expense accounts. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 7.

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

  • SB 725Passed chamber

    Parks, Natural Areas Preservation - As introduced, removes the two-mile buffer between class II scenic rivers and new and expanded landfill sites. - Amends TCA Title 11, Chapter 13 and Title 68.

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

  • SB 726Passed chamber

    Alcoholic Beverage Commission - As introduced, requires the commission to submit its biennial report on underage drinking, drunk driving, and other harmful uses of alcohol to the governor in addition to members of the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 57.

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

  • SB 727In committeeRedline

    Real Property - As enacted, revises present law relative to advertising the sale of land to foreclose a deed of trust, mortgage, or other lien securing the payment of money or other thing of value or under judicial orders or process. - Amends TCA Title 35.

    2025-05-27 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 515

  • SB 728Signed into lawRedline

    Motor Vehicles - As enacted, authorizes utility terrain vehicles to operate on county roads and state highways throughout the state, subject to certain restrictions. - Amends TCA Title 55.

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

  • SB 729Signed into law

    Local Education Agencies - As enacted, authorizes an LEA to adopt and implement a merit-based pay structure for educators to award additional compensation to high-performing educators and to incentivize educators to meet and exceed expectations. - Amends TCA Title 49.

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

  • SB 730Passed chamber

    Public Records - As introduced, authorizes records custodians to charge a fee to view records if the records requested reasonably require more than one hour of an employee's time to collect for inspection by the requestor; specifies that the hourly rate for inspection be set in proportion to the rate of pay of the employee who is collecting the records. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7.

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

  • SB 731DeadRedline

    Public Contracts - As introduced, requires a local government to send back any requested changes on a contractor's or developer's application for development site plans or inspections in a single deliverable document or set of documents, or to remit related fees back to the developer for subsequent change requests; prohibits a local government from requiring a developer or contractor to fund, develop, or contribute to the development of nonessential infrastructure, unless otherwise agreed upon by the parties. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 9; Title 12; Title 13 and Title 66.

    2025-04-01 — Failed in Senate State and Local Government Committee

  • SB 732Passed chamber

    Election Laws - As introduced, makes changes to the forms of identification used to verify a person's identity for voting purposes. - Amends TCA Title 2.

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

  • SB 733Passed chamber

    Education - As introduced, requires the department of education to submit an early grades reading report to legislative committees with jurisdiction over subject matter pertaining to education by December 31 of each year. - Amends TCA Title 49.

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

  • SB 734Signed into law

    Taxes, Hotel Motel - As enacted, extends by six years the period in which Davidson County may charge an additional $0.50 privilege tax on the occupancy of a hotel room and in which such county may allocate the tax revenue for the purposes of direct promotion of tourism; extends by six years the terms of the committee members that oversee the fund in which the additional tax is deposited. - Amends TCA Section 7-4-202.

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

  • SB 735In committeeRedline

    Advertising - As introduced, requires just compensation to be paid for the acquisition or removal of an outdoor advertising device lawfully erected; prohibits the use of amortization to provide such just compensation. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 16 and Section 54-21-107.

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

  • SB 736Passed chamber

    Scholarships and Financial Aid - As introduced, extends from March 1 to March 30, the date by which not-for-profit corporations and associations that administer an educational cooperative plan or scholarship plan must file a statement of financial condition with the commissioner of commerce and insurance. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4.

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

  • SB 737In committee

    Marriage - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Covenant Marriage Act" to create covenant marriage, which is entered into by one male and one female, who understand and agree that marriage is a lifelong relationship; permits a spouse in a covenant marriage to obtain a judgment of divorce under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 10; Title 16; Title 36; Title 39; Title 67 and Title 68.

    2026-03-23 — Action deferred in Senate Judiciary Committee to 2027

  • SB 738In committee

    State Government - As introduced, directs the state capitol commission to be responsible for the upkeep and maintenance of the monument to unborn children through funds appropriated to the commission. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 20; Title 29; Title 36; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41; Title 49; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

    2026-02-26 — Sponsor(s) Added.

  • SB 739In committeeRedline

    Consumer Protection - As introduced, increases, from 30 to 45 days, the amount of time a person who purchases, subscribes to, or receives products, services, or membership in an organization by negotiating an unsolicited negotiable instrument has from the date of the first statement or bill for the purchase, subscription, service, product, or membership to cancel the services, subscription, or membership, or return the product. - Amends TCA Title 9 and Title 47.

    2026-03-10 — Deferred to Summer Study

  • SB 740In committee

    Education - As introduced, requires local boards of education to establish a program to provide free school breakfast and lunch to disadvantaged students; subject to funding, requires the state to reimburse LEAs for providing such free breakfasts and lunches after all federal funds have been applied. - Amends TCA Title 49.

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

  • SB 741Signed into law

    Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates a criminal offense of possessing, distributing, or producing technology, software, or digital tools designed for the purpose of creating material that includes a minor engaged in sexual activity or simulated sexual activity that is patently offensive; establishes relevant factors to be considered in determining whether artificial technology, software, or digital tools are used or possessed with intent to create material that includes a minor engaged in sexual activity or simulated sexual activity that is patently offensive. - Amends TCA Title 39.

    2025-04-29 — Effective date(s) 07/01/2025

  • SB 742Signed into law

    Dentists and Dentistry - As introduced, requires the commissioner of health to create programs designed to enhance access to dental services in rural and underserved areas subject to the approval of the commissioner of finance and administration. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 5 and Title 68.

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

  • SB 743Signed into law

    Environment and Conservation, Department of - As introduced, prohibits the board of water and wastewater operator certification from delegating, by contract or other agreement, to a third-party its authority to determine minimum operator competency or to prepare examinations administered to applicants seeking operator certification; establishes requirements for such examinations and minimum scores required for issuance of a certificate. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 221, Part 9.

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

  • SB 744In committee

    Infectious Diseases - As enacted, directs the commissioner of health to, on or before July 1, 2025, add alpha-gal syndrome to the department of health's published list of reportable diseases and conditions, the occurrence of which must be reported to the department by a healthcare provider pursuant to existing administrative rule. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 63 and Title 68.

    2025-03-31 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 56

  • SB 745Signed into law

    Motor Vehicles - As introduced, creates a Class A misdemeanor for a person who is in the United States without legal authorization to operate a motor vehicle without possessing a valid driver license and evidence of financial responsibility; limits the fine for such offense to a maximum of $1,000. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 55.

    2025-03-17 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee

  • SB 746Signed into law

    Local Education Agencies - As introduced, allows a third grade student who achieves a performance level rating of "approaching" on the English language arts portion of the student's most recent Tennessee comprehensive assessment program test, and who has earned an overall letter grade of A or B in the student's third grade ELA class, to be promoted to fourth grade if promotion is recommended by a majority of the categories of participants in a conference convened by the student's LEA or public charter school; requires a student promoted to fourth grade through such process to receive tutoring services for the entirety of the student's fourth grade year. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

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

  • SB 747Signed into lawRedline

    TennCare - As enacted, extends the ground ambulance service annual assessment to June 30, 2026; makes other revisions to the Ground Ambulance Service Provider Assessment Act. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5, Part 15.

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

  • SB 748Signed into law

    TennCare - As introduced, requires the bureau of TennCare to reimburse certain public or private ground-based ambulance services that bill for transports at a rate not less than 67.5 percent of the federal medicare program's allowable charge for participating providers for emergency services and 100 percent of the federal medicare program's allowable charge for participating providers for nonemergency services. - Amends TCA Title 71.

    2026-04-20 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee

  • SB 749In committee

    Interest Rates - As enacted, removes the weighted average yield of the accepted offers of the Federal National Mortgage Association's current free market system auction and the 30-year treasury yield as the two bases upon which the maximum effective rate of interest on home loans may be set by the commissioner of financial institutions, and replaces them with the average prime offer rate. - Amends TCA Title 45 and Title 47.

    2025-04-28 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 290

  • SB 750Signed into lawRedline

    Immigration - As enacted, requires the centralized immigration enforcement division within the department of safety to provide a report to the chief clerk of each house of the general assembly and the legislative librarian regarding illegal alien criminal activity in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 8; Title 38 and Title 68.

    2025-05-13 — Effective date(s) 05/02/2025

  • SB 751In committee

    Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As enacted, adds the MidSouth development district to the list of development districts to which this state intends to assist financially; specifies an overall state funding level for the nine development districts; changes the calculation for how much funding each development district will receive. - Amends TCA Title 13, Chapter 14, Part 1.

    2025-05-08 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 332

  • SB 752In committee

    Taxes, Business - As introduced, authorizes the commissioner of revenue to change the due date of the taxpayer's business tax return to a date that is not less than 60 calendar days, rather than two calendar months, following the end of the taxpayer's business tax period for purposes of the commissioner changing a taxpayer's business tax period to correspond to the taxpayer's fiscal year. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 7.

    2025-04-17 — Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/21/2025

  • SB 753Signed into law

    Local Education Agencies - As enacted, authorizes LEAs to enroll LEAs' employees' children into the voluntary pre-kindergarten program if space is available after enrollment of at-risk children; authorizes LEAs to charge the employee tuition and fees for such enrollment. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

    2025-04-29 — Effective date(s) 04/21/2025

  • SB 754Signed into lawRedline

    Economic and Community Development - As introduced, enacts the "Courthouse Square Revitalization Act." - Amends TCA Title 6 and Title 67, Chapter 6.

    2025-04-07 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Finance, Ways & Means Committee

  • SB 755Signed into lawRedline

    Agriculture, Dept. of - As enacted, creates the Tennessee agriculture and forestry hall of fame as the successor to, and a continuation of, the Tennessee agricultural hall of fame; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 43, Chapter 1, Part 6.

    2025-04-29 — Effective date(s) 04/21/2025, 07/01/2025

  • SB 756Signed into law

    Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, authorizes a retired campus police officer to be reemployed in a position covered by TCRS as a law enforcement officer without the loss or suspension of the retired officer's TCRS benefits; extends the repeal date for the provision authorizing retired law enforcement officers to be reemployed without the loss or suspension of retirement benefits from June 30, 2025, to June 30, 2027. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 36, Part 8.

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

  • SB 757Signed into law

    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

  • SB 758Signed into law

    Industrial Development - As enacted, redefines "remediation site" to include a 501(c)(3) nonprofit entity whose main purpose is to promote industrial development and new nuclear development upon dissolution of the existing nonprofit entity. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 53, Part 3.

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

  • SB 759Signed into law

    Boats, Boating - As introduced, requires a person to purchase a permit in order to operate a vessel on the intrastate waters of this state that is exempt from being numbered for identification in this state due only to the vessel having a valid number awarded to it pursuant to a federally approved numbering system of another state. - Amends TCA Title 69, Chapter 9.

    2025-04-01 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee

  • SB 760In committeeRedline

    Newspapers and Publications - As enacted, specifies that the website where legal notices must be posted must not require a fee or a subscription for a person to view the website; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 1, Chapter 3.

    2025-05-27 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 500

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