| TN | HB0485 | Pass | As introduced, authorizes local education agencies and public charter schools to provide up to four days of the required 180 days of classroom instruction via hybrid learning in the event of dangerous or extreme weather conditions, or an emergency, a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-21
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HB1383 | Pass | As introduced, requires elections for county boards of education to be held at the same time and on the same election cycle as elections for members of the local legislative body for the county; requires members of county boards of education to have ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-21
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HB0411 | Pass | As introduced, requires TennCare coverage of treatment of pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections (PANDAS) and pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome (PANS). - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56 and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-21
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HB0780 | Pass | As introduced, requires the department of economic and community development to revise and certify the population of each county and municipality, and the aggregate population of the state, prior to July 1 each year during the interim between the reg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-21
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HB0069 | Pass | As introduced, requires the coordinator of elections, in collaboration with the department of safety and Tennessee bureau of investigation, to create two electronic portals prior to January 1, 2028, for purposes of verifying an applicant's eligibilit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-21
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HB0479 | Pass | As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee National Guard Servicemember's Medical Readiness Act." - Amends TCA Title 58, Chapter 1, Part 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-21
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HB0099 | Pass | As introduced, increases the penalties for certain violations of the offense of unlawful photography; requires the court, rather than allowing the court discretion, to order a person convicted of certain unlawful photography offenses to register as a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-21
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HB0594 | Pass | As introduced, increases, from two to four, the number of temporary sales periods that a bona fide religious institution may participate in and be exempt from registering to collect sales tax on sales directly to consumers made during such temporary ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-21
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HB0919 | Pass | As introduced, modifies the appointing authority of the governor, the speaker of the senate, and the speaker of the house of representatives to the advisory council on workers' compensation by requiring the governor's employee appointment to be from ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-15
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 452 |
| TN | HB1192 | Pass | As introduced, directs TACIR to conduct a study and prepare a report on recommendations on the continuum of care in this state and how the continuum of care can be improved; requires the study and report to survey the continuum of care in other state...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-15
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 445 |
| TN | HB0482 | 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] | 2025-05-15
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 422 |
| TN | HB0964 | Pass | As introduced, changes the standard for entry-resistant window treatment for school buildings constructed or remodeled on or after July 1, 2025; requires the state-level school safety team to issue guidelines to the state fire marshal for inclusion i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-15
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 448 |
| TN | HB0675 | Pass | As introduced, reduces the amount of state-mandated assessments for students in grades three through 12; reduces the required amount of evaluations for teachers or principals who are "at expectations" or above; requires the state board of education t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-15
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 426 |
| TN | HB1270 | Pass | As introduced, specifies that certain individuals are not required to use another's preferred name or pronoun, if the preferred name or pronoun is not consistent with the individual's legal name or sex; insulates certain individuals from civil liabil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-15
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 453 |
| TN | HB0865 | Pass | As introduced, requires the board of nursing to change certain minimum curricula standards for schools of nursing related to program course access and enrollment; requires the board of nursing to permit practical nursing program students to sit for t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-15
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 435 |
| TN | HB1307 | 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] | 2025-05-15
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 464 |
| TN | HB1299 | Pass | As introduced, creates a civil and criminal action for individuals who are the subject of an intimate digital depiction that is disclosed without the individual's consent under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 28 and Title 39, Chapter 17.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-15
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 466 |
| TN | HB0842 | Pass | As introduced, requires half the revenue collected from recordation taxes be returned to the county in which the real property is located on a recurring basis; applies to transfers of real property on or after July 1, 2025. - Amends TCA Section 67-4-...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-15
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 441 |
| TN | HB0958 | Pass | As introduced, changes from July 10 to July 20 the date by which a county trustee is required to report to the commissioner of education all receipts and expenditures of all elementary and all high school funds within the year ending June 30 precedin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-15
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 454 |
| TN | HB1163 | Pass | As introduced, requires the department to allocate the state share of the Tennessee investment in student achievement formula funds generated by student members of a public charter school in the prior school year directly to the public charter school...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-15
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 456 |
| TN | HB0322 | 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] | 2025-05-15
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 424 |
| TN | HB0085 | Pass | As 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 306 |
| TN | HB0708 | Pass | As enacted, expands the state board's power to subpoena the appearance of persons or the production of items the chair of the state board, or the chair's designee, considers material or relevant to an accountability hearing for a local education agen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 376 |
| TN | HB1193 | Pass | As enacted, requires the department to conduct a landscape analysis of teacher evaluation practices in this state and other states; requires the department to convene a teacher evaluation advisory committee to review and evaluate current teacher eval...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 325 |
| TN | HB0665 | Pass | As introduced, removes an obsolete provision that required, on or before February 15, 2019, the Tennessee higher education commission to submit a report to legislative committees with jurisdiction over education detailing progress made in formalizing...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 377 |
| TN | HB1323 | Pass | As enacted, 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
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 328 |
| TN | HB1229 | Pass | As enacted, removes the requirement for a claimant to post a bond when filing a claim to seized property. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 33.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 319 |
| TN | HB1377 | Pass | As enacted, requires each local board of education and public charter school governing body to develop and implement a policy to provide, with each K-8 student's report card, the student's score on the universal reading screener if administered to th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 330 |
| TN | HB0534 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits governmental entities or local boards of education from extending immunity granted to independent school bus contractors rather than independent school bus owners and operators for providing school-related transportation service...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 299 |
| TN | HB0968 | Pass | As 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, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 324 |
| TN | HB1003 | Pass | As introduced, prohibits the state board of education from requiring a private school that provides a fully online, self-paced educational program to comply with certain class size, school calendar, vaccination, and assessment requirements in order t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 380 |
| TN | HB1002 | Pass | As introduced, requires the state board of education to approve at least one universal screener for pre-kindergarten students as an alternative growth model to generate individual growth scores for pre-kindergarten teachers; requires, instead of auth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 385 |
| TN | HB0114 | Pass | As 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-08
Effective date(s) 05/02/2025 |
| TN | HJR0486 | Pass | Elon Musk and SpaceX
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-05
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HJR0646 | Pass | Run for the Wall Week
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-05
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HJR0662 | Pass | Heather Ayres, Giles County Rehab Unit
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-05
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HJR0051 | Pass | Designates the period of July 1, 2025, through July 31, 2025, as a time of prayer and fasting in Tennessee and seeks God’s hand of mercy healing on Tennessee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-02
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HJR0670 | Pass | Bobbie Patray
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-02
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HJR0674 | Pass | Vietnam War, 50th anniversary of its end
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-02
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HB1038 | 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
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 179 |
| TN | HB0515 | Pass | As enacted, requires an LEA and public charter school that provides parents or guardians of K-12 students with information on immunizations, infectious diseases, medications, or other school health issues to include information about Type 1 and Type ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-30
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 172 |
| TN | HB0392 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits the department of education from excluding from the calculation of a school letter grade the data of any group of students within a school if the department collects, aggregates, and reports the data, and if the group of student...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-29
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 219 |
| TN | HB0342 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Safeguarding American Veteran Empowerment (SAVE) Act." - Amends TCA Title 47 and Title 58.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-29
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 223 |
| TN | HB0918 | Pass | As enacted, makes changes relative to temporary group hunting event permits. - Amends TCA Title 58 and Title 70.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-29
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 216 |
| TN | HB0408 | Pass | As enacted, requires the Tennessee higher education commission (THEC), to serve as the governing board of directors for the Tennessee student assistance corporation (TSAC); requires THEC's review committee to aid in the development or revision of sta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-29
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 234 |
| TN | HB0579 | Pass | As enacted, adds the offense of robbery to the definition of crime of violence. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-29
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 211 |
| TN | HJR0606 | Pass | Columbia State Chargers, TCCAA champions
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-29
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HB0764 | Pass | As enacted, specifies that certain physical searches of students and searches of lockers, vehicles, and other property must be conducted by a school resource officer. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-29
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 244 |
| TN | HB0377 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits institutions of higher education from excluding a person from benefits, activities, and employment, or making decisions, based on a person's race, color, ethnicity, or national origin; requires such institutions to provide notic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-29
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 245 |
| TN | HB1322 | 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
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 275 |
