| TN | SB0134 | Pass | As introduced, requires the department to submit its early grades reading report to the education committees of the senate and house of representatives no later than October 15 of each year. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
Effective date(s) 05/02/2025 |
| TN | SB1090 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes uniformed law enforcement officers to wear decorations, medals, service medals, and badges awarded to the officers by the armed forces of the United States, the Tennessee national guard, or the state guard during the week prior...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
Effective date(s) 05/05/2025 |
| TN | SB1274 | Pass | As enacted, makes various changes related to fees set by the department for environmental regulatory programs; makes changes to the regulation of coal combustion residuals disposal units. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 203, Part 1 and Title 68, Chapt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
Effective date(s) 05/05/2025 |
| TN | SB1282 | Pass | As introduced, deletes present laws pertaining to rented premises unfit for habitation and quick fast food establishment delivery vehicles; removes the statutorily set permit fees to operate food service establishments and requires such permit fees t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
Effective date(s) 05/05/2025, 01/01/2026 |
| TN | SB1311 | Pass | As introduced, makes various changes to certain teacher licensure requirements. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5 and Title 49, Chapter 6.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
Effective date(s) 05/02/2025, 07/01/2025 |
| TN | SB0026 | Pass | As introduced, reduces, from $5 million to $1 million, the contemplated capital cost required for an infrastructure development district created by one or more host municipalities. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 9; Title 12; Title 13; Title 66; Title 67...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
Effective date(s) 05/05/2025 |
| TN | SB0503 | Pass | As enacted, designates the month of June as "Celebration of Life" month, the month of July as "Celebration of Liberty" month, and the month of August as "Celebration of the Pursuit of Happiness" month in Tennessee. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Pa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
Effective date(s) 05/05/2025 |
| TN | SB0207 | Pass | As introduced, establishes a fund for the development and implementation of programs that benefit Tennesseans by preserving farmland and forestland, including a grant program for conservation easements. - Amends TCA Title 43, Chapter 1, Part 1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-12
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SB0925 | Pass | As introduced, removes the end date of June 30, 2025, from 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-09
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SB1084 | Pass | As introduced, enacts the "Dismantling DEI Departments Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8 and Title 49, Chapter 7.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-09
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SB1089 | Pass | As introduced, increases from $1.00 to $2.00 the amount of funds from the court costs collected in municipal court cases that must be forwarded by the municipal court clerk to the state treasurer for deposit and credited to the account for the admini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-09
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SB1068 | Pass | As introduced, revises various provisions of the Modernization of Towing, Immobilization, and Oversight Normalization Act. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 39; Title 47; Title 48; Title 55; Title 56; Title 62; Title 66 and Title...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-09
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SB1233 | Pass | As introduced, specifies that the report of a warden or chief administrative officer employed by a penal institution of the commission of certain offenses that occurred within the penal institution to the district attorney general for the judicial di...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-09
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SB1273 | Pass | As introduced, extends the date, from October 1 to October 15, on which the department must file an annual report evaluating the progress of the school turnaround pilot program. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-09
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SB1265 | Pass | As introduced, revises the Tennessee Meat Inspection Act to facilitate the implementation of a state meat inspection program. - Amends TCA Title 53, Chapter 7 and Chapter 380 of the Public Acts of 2023.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-09
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SB1313 | Pass | As introduced, creates a vested property right upon the submission, rather than the approval, of a development plan or building permit; specifies that the vesting period applicable when it is based on the submission of a building permit is three year...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-09
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SB0392 | Pass | As introduced, creates the offense of human smuggling; creates the offense of harboring or hiding, or assisting another in harboring or hiding, within this state an individual who the person knows or should have known has illegally entered or remaine...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-09
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SB0288 | Pass | As introduced, 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-09
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SB1266 | Pass | As enacted, expands the provision of voluntary extended foster care services by the department of children's services to include young adults between 20 and 23 who were in the custody of the department at the time of the young adult's 18th birthday a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-08
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 333 |
| TN | SB1293 | Pass | As introduced, extends indefinitely the authority of the commissioner of revenue to require persons selling food, candy, or nonalcoholic beverages, including bottled soft drinks, to retailers to file an information report of such net sales with the d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-08
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 335 |
| TN | SB1271 | Pass | As introduced, clarifies that certain definitions concerning housing facilities and developments with regard to industrial development corporations include affordable and workforce housing; authorizes a municipality or county to approve amendments to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-08
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 353 |
| TN | SB1318 | Pass | As introduced, increases, from within 90 days to within 100 days of receipt by the department of a valid judgment of conviction, the time period within which the department must notify the victim witness coordinator of the county of conviction of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-08
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 356 |
| TN | SB1314 | Pass | As enacted, establishes a permanent criminal proceedings notification system, rather than a pilot project; removes the July 1, 2025, termination date for the criminal proceedings notification system. - Amends TCA Section 40-38-507.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-08
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 354 |
| TN | SB1291 | Pass | As introduced, makes various changes to the Tennessee Support, Training, and Renewing Opportunity for National Guardsmen (STRONG) Act. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 10.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-08
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 334 |
| TN | SB1315 | Pass | As enacted, reduces from 1.125 percent to 0.75 percent the administrative fee percentage the department takes from the proceeds of the business tax, short-term rental unit occupancy tax, local tax surcharge, coal severance tax, and local option sales...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-08
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 355 |
| TN | SB1276 | Pass | As enacted, requires a county or municipal government that receives a grant from the local parks land acquisition fund for a project located within a county designated as distressed or at-risk by the Appalachian Regional Commission at the time of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-08
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 336 |
| TN | SJR0535 | Pass | Randy Stamps
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-07
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0473 | Pass | Eleni McKinley Halkias, birth
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-05
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SB1270 | Pass | As enacted, requires a health benefit plan issuer to provide no later than 30 days after a health benefit plan issuer receives a written request for a claims experience report from a plan, plan sponsor, or plan administrator, the report to the reques...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-02
Effective date(s) 04/11/2025, 07/01/2025, 01/01/2026 |
| TN | SJR0430 | Pass | Nashville Severe Weather
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-01
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0434 | Pass | Clifford Allan Brunger
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-01
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0444 | Pass | FTD Awareness Week
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-01
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0464 | Pass | Tennessee's retailers that collect sales taxes for the State
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-01
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0427 | Pass | Tennessee Department of Transportation, 2024 Southeast Roadeo champion
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-01
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0439 | Pass | Joseph "Joe" Galbato III
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-01
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0001 | Enroll
Recessed | Proposes additional language in Article II, Section 28 to prohibit the general assembly from levying, authorizing, or otherwise permitting a state tax on property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-30
Signed by H. Speaker |
| TN | SJR0025 | Enroll
Recessed | Proposes an amendment to Article I, Section 15 of the Constitution of Tennessee to remove the right to bail for the following offenses when the proof is evident or the presumption great: act of terrorism; second degree murder; aggravated rape of a ch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-30
Signed by H. Speaker |
| TN | SB0992 | Pass | As 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-30
Effective date(s) 04/11/2025 |
| TN | SB1079 | Pass | As enacted, adds requirements for declarant access to and use of deposits made in connection with the purchase or reservation of a condominium unit; makes other similar changes. - Amends TCA Title 66.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-30
Effective date(s) 07/01/2025 |
| TN | SB1304 | Pass | As enacted, extends the Access Tennessee health insurance program from June 30, 2025, to June 30, 2030. - Amends TCA Section 56-7-2916.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-30
Effective date(s) 04/11/2025 |
| TN | SB1299 | Pass | As enacted, requires an ignition interlock provider to permit a person to appear for calibration, monitoring, or inspection of the device at any time within a two-week period; authorizes a court to order reinstatement of a person’s driver license i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-30
Effective date(s) 04/11/2025, 01/01/2026 |
| TN | SJR0113 | Pass | Rick Spell, University of Tennessee Health Science Center Advisory Board
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-30
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0095 | Pass | Todd Womack, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Advisory Board
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-30
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0118 | Pass | Lynn Richardson, Ethics Commission
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-30
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SJR0119 | Pass | Annie Dockery, Standards Recommendation Committee for English Language Arts
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-30
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | SB0113 | Pass | As enacted, requires an agreement or contract entered into between the commissioner and a county health department for the department to implement subsurface sewage disposal requirements to include authority for the commissioner to issue a variance i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-29
Effective date(s) 04/15/2025 |
| TN | SB1281 | Pass | As enacted, requires that interest income accruing on investments and deposits as a result of the Megasite Authority of West Tennessee's collection of rates to customers of a water system or wastewater system operated by the authority be credited to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-29
Effective date(s) 04/24/2025 |
| TN | SB1310 | Pass | As enacted, establishes a process by which the governing body of an existing public charter school may replicate that public charter school in the same district by applying to the local board of education or directly to the Tennessee public charter s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-29
Effective date(s) 07/01/2025 |
| TN | SB1272 | Pass | As enacted, makes various changes to reporting requirements, school and district accountability, the accumulation of excess instructional time, remote instruction, the immunization status of students in state custody, the individualized education acc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-29
Effective date(s) 04/23/2025 |
| TN | SB0955 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Medical Ethics Defense Act." - Amends TCA Title 63.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-29
Effective date(s) 04/24/2025 |
