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TNSB1464Intro

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As introduced, makes certain records regarding immigration enforcement actions confidential and not subject to public disclosure by state or local government entities or officials; punishes as a Class E felony the criminally negligent public release ...
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2025-06-16
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNSB1462PassSubject to local approval, repeals and replaces in its entirety the city's private act charter. - Amends Chapter 615 of the Private Acts of 1931; as amended.
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2025-06-04
Comp. became Pr. Ch. 30
TNSB0519PassAs 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 commi...
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2025-06-04
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 337
TNSB1382PassAs enacted, revises law relative to the treatment and coverage of treatment for stage 4 advanced metastatic cancer, blood cancer, metastatic blood cancer, and associated conditions; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56; Title 63; Tit...
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2025-05-27
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 505
TNSB1390PassAs enacted, directs the director to establish an additional PACE program as a pilot in one of the two grand divisions where a PACE program did not exist in 2024; permits a current PACE program in a county with a specific population to expand into con...
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2025-05-27
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 502
TNSB1381PassAs enacted, 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. - Amends TCA Title ...
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2025-05-27
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 503
TNSB1366PassAs enacted, establishes a process for reviewing requests for federal aid.
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2025-05-27
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 512
TNSB1426PassAs enacted, enacts "Lucca's Law," which addresses TennCare coverage of treatment for pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections (PANDAS) and pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome (PANS). - Amend...
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2025-05-27
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 482
TNSB1083PassAs enacted, enacts "Dismantle DEI in Employment Act." - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8 and Title 49.
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2025-05-27
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 494
TNSB0255PassAs enacted, prohibits the disqualification or removal of a municipal judge who was duly elected or appointed to office prior to March 7, 2025, and who is qualified for such office under the laws and interpretations in effect at the time of such elect...
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2025-05-27
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 487
TNSB1431PassAs enacted, makes appropriations for the fiscal years beginning July 1, 2024, and July 1, 2025.
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2025-05-27
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 530
TNSB1429PassAs enacted, authorizes, in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025, transfers from the Access Tennessee health insurance program fund, created or referenced in the Access Tennessee Act of 2006. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; T...
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2025-05-27
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 529
TNSB0861PassAs enacted, schedules the Tennessee human rights commission for termination on July 1, 2025, and transfers the commission's duties concerning discrimination in employment, housing, public accommodations, malicious harassment, the Civil Rights Act of ...
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2025-05-27
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 471
TNSB0925PassAs enacted, sets the end date at June 30, 2027, for the exemption from sales and use tax for purchases and leases of equipment and infrastructure used to produce broadband communications services or provide internet access. - Amends TCA Title 67, Cha...
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2025-05-15
Effective date(s) 05/09/2025
TNSB1359PassAs enacted, authorizes, subject to appropriation, an institution of higher education to request to redirect the institution's capital outlay funds for purposes other than those set out in the 2022 appropriations act; makes related revisions. - Amends...
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2025-05-15
Effective date(s) 05/09/2025
TNSB0288PassAs enacted, adds prostate cancer, breast cancer, and pancreatic cancer to the list of cancers for which a presumption is created that certain conditions or impairments of full-time firefighters caused by prostate cancer, breast cancer, pancreatic can...
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2025-05-15
Effective date(s) 07/01/2025
TNSB0602PassAs 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 evaluati...
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2025-05-15
Effective date(s) 05/09/2025
TNSB0392PassAs enacted, creates the offense of human smuggling; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 39.
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2025-05-15
Effective date(s) 07/01/2025
TNSB1084PassAs enacted, enacts the "Dismantling DEI Departments Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8 and Title 49, Chapter 7.
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2025-05-15
Effective date(s) 05/09/2025
TNSB0415PassAs enacted, creates an advisory committee on innovations in K-12 education . - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 49.
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2025-05-15
Effective date(s) 05/09/2025
TNSB0937PassAs enacted, prohibits a public school, LEA, or teacher, employee, or contractor of a public school or LEA from requiring a student, teacher, employee, or contractor of the public school or LEA to provide the individual's preferred pronouns; makes rel...
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2025-05-15
Effective date(s) 05/09/2025
TNSB1388PassAs enacted, requires the department to establish a process by which management of a public property may submit formal complaints regarding the conduct or performance of a blind individual who has been licensed to operate a vending facility on such pu...
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2025-05-13
Effective date(s) 05/05/2025
TNSB0750PassAs 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...
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2025-05-13
Effective date(s) 05/02/2025
TNSB0763PassAs enacted, requires the department of revenue to maintain a directory on its website that lists all vapor products certified as authorized to be sold in this state; levies certain privilege taxes. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5; Title 39, ...
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2025-05-13
Effective date(s) 05/02/2025, 07/01/2025, 08/01/2025
TNSB0158PassAs enacted, increases, from 130 minutes per full school week to 40 minutes per school day, the minimum amount of physical activity required for elementary school students; establishes additional requirements for the minimum amount of physical activit...
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2025-05-13
Effective date(s) 07/01/2025
TNSB0481PassAs enacted, removes the requirement for a claimant to post a bond when filing a claim to seized property. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 33.
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2025-05-13
Effective date(s) 07/01/2025
TNSB1360PassAs enacted, removes the ability to bring a civil liability action for negligence per se against a seller of a qualified product; expands "qualified products" to include knives, body armor, pepper spray, silencers, and other certain products; requires...
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2025-05-13
Effective date(s) 07/01/2025
TNSB0713PassAs 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...
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2025-05-13
Effective date(s) 07/01/2025
TNSB1384PassAs enacted, creates the enhanced armed guard registration that may be obtained upon completion of certain training and other requirements by an armed security guard/officer who has at least five years of full-time experience as a law enforcement offi...
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2025-05-08
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 344
TNSB1291PassAs enacted, makes various changes to the Tennessee Support, Training, and Renewing Opportunity for National Guardsmen (STRONG) Act. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 10.
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2025-05-08
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 334
TNSJR0535PassRandy Stamps
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2025-05-07
Signed by Governor.
TNSJR0473PassEleni McKinley Halkias, birth
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2025-05-05
Signed by Governor.
TNSB0248PassAs enacted, creates the offense of an occupant of a vehicle parking, leaving standing, or stopping the vehicle on a street or highway and blocking or impeding the normal movement of traffic for the purpose of soliciting, negotiating, or consummating ...
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2025-05-02
Effective date(s) 07/01/2025
TNSJR0428PassChattanooga Federal Employees Credit Union, 100th anniversary
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2025-05-01
Signed by Governor.
TNSJR0429Pass250th anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord
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2025-05-01
Signed by Governor.
TNSJR0446PassChattanooga Mocs, 2025 NIT champions
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2025-05-01
Signed by Governor.
TNSJR0427PassTennessee Department of Transportation, 2024 Southeast Roadeo champion
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2025-05-01
Signed by Governor.
TNSJR0445PassColonial Heights Athletic Commission
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2025-05-01
Signed by Governor.
TNSJR0439PassJoseph "Joe" Galbato III
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2025-05-01
Signed by Governor.
TNSB1368PassAs 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 ...
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2025-04-30
Effective date(s) 04/11/2025
TNSJR0009Enroll

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Proposes an amendment to Article I, Section 35 of the Constitution of Tennessee to expand the rights of victims of crimes.
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2025-04-30
Signed by H. Speaker
TNSB0992PassAs enacted, requires the administrative office of the courts to maintain a criminal justice information services compliant centralized statewide juvenile case management system; requires all juvenile court clerks to adopt and convert to the new juven...
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2025-04-30
Effective date(s) 04/11/2025
TNSJR0001Enroll

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Proposes additional language in Article II, Section 28 to prohibit the general assembly from levying, authorizing, or otherwise permitting a state tax on property.
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2025-04-30
Signed by H. Speaker
TNSB1385PassAs enacted, requires a medical laboratory supervisor to be readily available for consultations during all hours when tests are performed; prohibits a medical laboratory supervisor from being required to be on laboratory premises. - Amends TCA Title 6...
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2025-04-29
Effective date(s) 04/21/2025
TNSB1379PassAs enacted, allows a child care agency to lease or purchase underutilized property from local education agencies; classifies a child care family home as residential property for certain purposes, including zoning and building codes; permits a host-sc...
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2025-04-29
Effective date(s) 07/01/2025
TNSB0741PassAs 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 i...
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2025-04-29
Effective date(s) 07/01/2025
TNSB0362PassAs enacted, enacts the "Safeguarding American Veteran Empowerment (SAVE) Act." - Amends TCA Title 47 and Title 58.
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2025-04-29
Effective date(s) 07/01/2025
TNSR0157PassOwen Barnert
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2025-04-24
Enrolled and ready for signatures
TNSB1389Engross

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As introduced, prohibits a healthcare provider who participates in the TennCare or CoverKids programs from refusing to provide healthcare services to an enrollee based solely upon the enrollee’s refusal to obtain a vaccine or immunization; prohibit...
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2025-04-22
Re-refer to S. Cal Comm
TNSB0016Engross

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As introduced, prohibits a public school from using public funds to have a membership with an association that regulates interscholastic athletics and prohibits a student from participating in an interscholastic athletic competition due to the studen...
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2025-04-17
Reset on first calendar for February 2026
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