114 session

Nurses, Nursing - As introduced, requires all hospitals licensed by the health facilities commission or by the department of mental health and substance abuse services to report annually to the department of health, on a form promulgated by the department, the number of advanced practice registered nurses who are working in the hospital for each month. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 33; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68.

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

Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires school board members to be elected at the same election beginning in 2028. - Amends TCA Title 49.

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

Health Care - As introduced, urges the human rights commission to study problems of discrimination against healthcare providers in this state because of their decision to decline to participate in a healthcare service on the basis of religious, moral, or ethical beliefs. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 20; Title 29; Title 39; Title 49; Title 50; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

2025-03-05 — Withdrawn.

Utilities, Utility Districts - As enacted, creates a process by which a utility district commissioner who becomes ineligible to serve for failing to meet training and continuing education requirements may be reinstated; reduces the number of hours of training and continuing education for utility district commissioners from 12 hours to six hours in each continuing education period following the initial 12 hours of initial training and continuing education. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 34 and Title 7, Chapter 82.

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

Public Officials - As introduced, authorizes local governments to adopt a process by which local elected officials may be removed from office in a recall election. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 8, Chapter 47 and Title 49, Chapter 2.

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

Children and Youth, Commission on - As enacted, creates the Tennessee juvenile justice review commission to review an appropriate sampling of juvenile justice cases and any critical incidents involving juveniles in order to provide the general assembly with findings and legislative recommendations. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 37.

2025-04-28 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 281

Treasurer, State - As enacted, removes the restriction that earnings in an achieving a better life experience account may only be expended for a student's education expenses; redefines "disability certification" and "eligible individual" to have the same meaning as in the Internal Revenue Code and all rules and regulations released by the United States treasury. - Amends TCA Section 71-4-803 and Section 71-4-806.

2025-05-08 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 340

General Assembly - As introduced, enacts the "Restoring State Sovereignty Through Nullification Act," which establishes processes by which the general assembly may nullify an unconstitutional federal statute, regulation, agency order, or executive order. - Amends TCA Title 3 and Title 4.

2025-03-11 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State and Local Government Committee

Real Property - As enacted, requires foreign persons who purchase land in this state and who file a report of such purchase to the United States department of agriculture under the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act to also file the report with the commissioner of agriculture. - Amends TCA Title 66, Chapter 2, Part 3.

2025-06-04 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 337

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.

2025-03-24 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee

TennCare - As enacted, makes revisions regarding determining when the annual coverage assessment is implemented and imposed; sets limits on the expenditures for directed payments to hospitals in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.

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

Campaigns and Campaign Finance - As enacted, revises present law to designate as a political campaign committee for purposes of reporting expenditures pursuant to campaign finance laws a corporation that uses corporate funds, moneys, or credits for communications expressly supporting or opposing the election or defeat of a clearly identified candidate or elected official, and such funds, moneys, or credits are not used with the cooperation or with the prior consent of, or in consultation with, or at the request of, or suggestion of, a candidate or elected official or any agent or authorized committee of the candidate or elected official. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 10.

2025-05-15 — Effective date(s) 05/09/2025

Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As introduced, designates March 3 of each year as "Sister Sandra Smithson Day." - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2.

2025-03-11 — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State and Local Government Committee

Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the department of financial institutions to June 30, 2029. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 4, Chapter 3.

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

Public Funds and Financing - As introduced, creates the medical expense relief fund to assist the next of kin and the estate of a decedent who was enrolled in TennCare at the time of death with paying the decedent's medical debt and expenses; requires the department of human services to administer the fund and the awarding of grants. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3; Title 9 and Title 71.

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

Health Care - As enacted, extends the termination date for the Alzheimer's and dementia respite care pilot program from December 31, 2025, to December 31, 2026. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 33; Title 52; Title 67 and Title 68.

2025-05-27 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 497

Election Laws - As introduced, increases the time a person may be absent from work to vote, from three hours to four hours. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 8.

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

Death - As enacted, removes the limitation that a death must have been anticipated for a registered nurse to make the actual determination and pronouncement of death if a deceased was a patient or resident at a nursing home, hospital, or assisted-care living facility. - Amends TCA Title 68.

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

Criminal Offenses - As introduced, requires the punishment for the offense of misuse of official information to include at least 30 hours of community service work to be determined by the court, in addition to any other punishment authorized by law. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 16, Part 4.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Handgun Permits - As introduced, extends the time, from 30 to 45 days, within which a person whose handgun carry permit has been suspended or revoked may petition the chancery court for judicial review of the department of safety's final determination. - Amends TCA Title 39.

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

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.

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

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

Memorials, Retirement - Melanie McDearman Minter -

2026-04-22 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Recognition - Tracy Cunningham -

2026-05-01 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Retirement - Dewey V. Woody, Jr. -

2026-05-01 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Recognition - Chansler Yarbrough, 2026 Boys & Girls Club of Jackson Youth of the Year -

2026-05-01 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Sports - Station Camp High School wrestling team -

2026-05-01 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Addison Osborne, Top Ten Senior, Lewis County High School -

2026-05-11 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Denise Balderas, Salutatorian, Hunters Lane High School -

2026-05-11 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Brady Reed, Salutatorian, Karns High School -

2026-05-11 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Death - Sergeant Rick N. Finley -

2025-02-14 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Dylan Lerner, Co-Salutatorian, McNairy Central High School -

2026-05-11 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Audrey Davidson, Valedictorian, Hickman County High School -

2026-05-11 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Recognition - Rebecca Tipton, Boys & Girls Clubs Hall of Fame -

2026-05-11 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Trystan Forehand, Valedictorian, Innovation Academy -

2026-05-11 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Death - President Jimmy Carter -

2025-04-10 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Recognition - Hurricane Helene recovery efforts -

2025-01-28 — Sponsor(s) Added.

Memorials, Professional Achievement - April Rolston, Bellevue Middle School Teacher of the Year -

2025-04-10 — Signed by Governor.

Memorials, Professional Achievement - Brittney Desch, Glendale Elementary School Teacher of the Year -

2026-03-04 — Sponsor(s) Added.

General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Establishes a definition of antisemitism and encourages departments and agencies of state government to use such definition in determining discriminatory intent for any law or policy in this state that prohibits discrimination based on race, color, religion, or national origin. -

2025-04-01 — Assigned to s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee

Memorials, Recognition - Totianya Zamora Moore, 2024-2025 Tennessee Association of School Librarians Bookmark Contest -

2025-04-10 — Signed by Governor.