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Current trends in Tennessee legislation over the last 72 hours as measured by public interest and activity.
| Position | Bill | Status | Summary | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | SJR0025 | Introduced | 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] | 2025-03-14 Placed on Senate Regular Calendar for 3/17/2025 |
| #2 | HB0996 | Introduced | As introduced, creates prescribing authority for certain psychologists if certain conditions and prerequisites are met. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 53; Title 63 and Title 68. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12 |
| #3 | HB0945 | Introduced | As introduced, requires the commissioner to report to the chairs of legislative committees having jurisdiction over health-related matters on the standards and policies for assisted reproductive technology in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 2... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12 |
| #4 | HB0047 | Introduced | As introduced, authorizes local boards of education and governing bodies of public charter schools to display the Ten Commandments, the Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, the Constitution of Tennessee, the Bill of Rights, a ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12 |
| #5 | HB0825 | Introduced | As introduced, enacts the "Teen Social Media and Internet Safety Act," which requires the department of education to develop curricula for the instruction of social media and internet safety for students in grades 6-12 who are enrolled in a school in... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12 |
| #6 | SB0740 | Introduced | 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 aft... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12 |
| #7 | SB0168 | Introduced | As introduced, creates in the reserve for revenue fluctuations account a restricted account for the purchase and sale of precious metal bullion or specie; authorizes the state treasurer, with approval of the comptroller of the treasury, to purchase a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-13 |
| #8 | HB1250 | Introduced | As introduced, authorizes a local board of education and public charter school governing body to employ or accept as a volunteer a school chaplain to provide support, services, and programs for students, school staff, and students' parents. - Amends ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12 |
| #9 | SB1272 | Engrossed | As introduced, 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 ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-10 Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| #10 | HB0910 | Introduced | As introduced, transfers, from the human rights commission to the attorney general and reporter, the responsibility of identifying state laws, rules, programs, services, and budgetary priorities that conflict with the components, guidelines, and obje... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12 |
| #11 | HB1107 | Failed | As introduced, requires LEAs and public charter schools to provide free feminine hygiene products in all women's and girl's bathrooms and locker rooms used by students in grades four through 12 in certain schools; requires a public health campaign de... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-11 Failed for lack of second in: Education Administration Subcommittee |
| #12 | HB0025 | Introduced | 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12 |
| #13 | HB0029 | Introduced | As introduced, requires certain insurers to reimburse chiropractic physicians at the same rate as physicians for the same services. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7 and Title 63. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12 |
| #14 | HB0075 | Introduced | As introduced, allows students to use their score on the Classic Learning Test (CLT) to satisfy the eligibility requirements for certain grants and scholarships funded using net proceeds of the state lottery; requires the Tennessee student assistance... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12 |
| #15 | SB0002 | Introduced | As introduced, enacts the "End the Grocery Tax by Closing Corporate Loopholes Act." - Amends TCA Title 57 and Title 67. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-11 Placed on Senate FW&M Revenue Subcommittee calendar for 3/18/2025 |
| #16 | HB0747 | Introduced | As introduced, changes the administrative, reporting, oversight, and accountability of the state energy policy council from the state energy policy council to the department of economic and community development and the department of environment and ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12 |
| #17 | SB1134 | Introduced | As introduced, requires Tennessee advisory commission on intergovernmental relations (TACIR) to conduct an evaluation examining the frequency at which health insurers deny healthcare claims or reimbursements for policyholders and healthcare providers... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-11 |
| #18 | SB1414 | Introduced | As introduced, expands provisions prohibiting discrimination against 340B entities that are covered entities participating in the federal 340B drug discount program under section 340B of the Public Health Service Act, 42 U.S.C. § 256b. - Amends TCA ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-13 |
| #19 | HB0897 | Introduced | As introduced, decreases from 1.5 milligrams per liter to 0.4 milligrams per liter the threshold for the presence of fluoride in a public water system that requires an increase in the frequency of fluoride-level testing from quarterly to monthly; req... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12 |
| #20 | SB0420 | Introduced | As introduced, prohibits an insurer, pharmacy benefits manager, or third-party administrator from changing or conditioning the terms of health plan coverage based on availability of financial or other product assistance for a prescription drug; estab... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-13 |
| #21 | SB0727 | Introduced | As introduced, increases, from 10 business days to 12 business days, the time prior to the date of sale of land to foreclose a deed of trust, mortgage, or other lien securing the payment of money or other thing of value that a substitute trustee has ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-13 |
| #22 | HB1376 | Introduced | As introduced, provides for the regulation of the manufacturing, supplying, wholesale distribution, and retail sale of hemp-derived cannabinoid products by the commission and department of revenue; creates licenses for suppliers, wholesalers, and ret... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17 |
| #23 | HB1189 | Introduced | As introduced, renames enhanced and concealed handgun carry permits as enhanced and concealed firearm carry permits and authorizes a permit holder to carry any firearms, rather than handguns, that the permit holder legally owns or possesses. - Amends... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-05 Sponsor(s) Added. |
| #24 | HB0134 | Introduced | As introduced, requires LEAs and public charter schools to prohibit food or beverage items that contain Red 40 to be sold, offered for sale, or provided to students on school property unless the food or beverage item is sold to the student as part of... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12 |
| #25 | HB6002 | Passed | As introduced, authorizes TEMA to assist a political subdivision or local emergency management agency with recovery from disasters and emergencies on public property at the request of the political subdivision or agency; suspends certain eligibility ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 3 |
| #26 | SB0937 | Introduced | 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] | 2025-03-12 |
| #27 | HJR0175 | Engrossed | Urges Tennessee universities to adopt principles of institutional neutrality, free expression and civil discourse, and the preservation of a safe and respectful campus. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12 |
| #28 | SB0853 | Introduced | As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Healthcare Quality and Access Act of 2025." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 34; Title 42; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68; Title 71 and Chapter 985 of the Public Acts of 2024. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-13 |
| #29 | HB1153 | Introduced | 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 aft... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12 |
| #30 | HB0546 | Enrolled | As introduced, authorizes a local government to execute a cooperative purchasing agreement with other local, state, and federal governmental entities for purposes of purchasing materials, labor, and services used for maintenance, operations, componen... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-11 Enrolled; ready for sig. of H. Speaker. |
| #31 | SB0764 | Introduced | As introduced, removes an obsolete provision that required health-related boards to report to the general assembly by January 1, 2019, regarding issues relating to implementation of provisions regarding electronic prescriptions for Schedule II, III, ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12 |
| #32 | SB0997 | Introduced | As introduced, specifies circumstances in which a referendum will not be required to effectuate annexation of territory; removes repealer provision for exceptions to the referendum requirement. - Amends TCA Section 6-51-104. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-11 |
| #33 | SB0394 | Introduced | As introduced, authorizes a purchaser or borrower in a real property transaction to select the settlement agent to perform certain duties; authorizes the seller to retain a licensed attorney in this state to represent the seller's interests in such t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-13 |
| #34 | SB0602 | Introduced | As introduced, extends, from five business days to 10 business days, the period of time within which the department must include any rules, regulations, or policies of the state board of education waived by the commissioner of education upon the offi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12 |
| #35 | SB0374 | Introduced | As introduced, requires the department of children's services to study the need for a new juvenile detention facility to be constructed in the western grand division of this state that would serve the detention and treatment needs of juveniles in tha... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12 |
| #36 | SJR0009 | Engrossed | Proposes an amendment to Article I, Section 35 of the Constitution of Tennessee to expand the rights of victims of crimes. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-03 Sponsor(s) Added. |
| #37 | SB1141 | Introduced | As introduced, decreases from 1.5 milligrams per liter to 0.4 milligrams per liter the threshold for the presence of fluoride in a public water system that requires an increase in the frequency of fluoride-level testing from quarterly to monthly; req... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-13 |
| #38 | HB0703 | Introduced | As introduced, enacts the "Pot for Potholes Act"; establishes a regulatory structure for the cultivation, processing, and retail sale of marijuana and marijuana products in this state to be administered by the department of agriculture. - Amends TCA ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24 Sponsor(s) Added. |
| #39 | SB1304 | Engrossed | As introduced, extends the Access Tennessee health insurance program from June 30, 2025, to June 30, 2030. - Amends TCA Section 56-7-2916. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-13 Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| #40 | HB1414 | Introduced | Subject to local approval, authorizes the county commission to appoint a minimum of three and a maximum of seven members to the board of trustees for the Henry County Hospital District; reduces the frequency of regular meetings of the board of truste... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12 |
| #41 | SB0749 | Introduced | As introduced, 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 intere... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17 Companion House Bill substituted |
| #42 | SB1389 | Introduced | 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-13 |
| #43 | HB0612 | Introduced | As introduced, expands from wetlands to all areas that an aquatic resource alteration permit may apply to the areas for which the department of environment and conservation is required to exempt from compensatory mitigation an amount of area equal in... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12 |
| #44 | SB0763 | Introduced | As introduced, 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 a privilege tax of seven cents per milliliter of consumable material conta... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-11 |
| #45 | SB6002 | Passed | As introduced, creates within the department of safety the centralized immigration enforcement division, to be administered by the chief immigration enforcement officer; establishes a grant program for purposes of promoting the enforcement of federal... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25 Effective date(s) 02/12/2025, 07/01/2025, 01/01/2026 |
| #46 | SB0377 | Introduced | As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Procurement Protection Act." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 56. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-11 |
| #47 | HB0602 | Introduced | As introduced, enacts the "Voyeurism Victims Act," which expands the offense of unlawful photography to include an unauthorized photograph that the defendant knew would include the unclothed intimate area of the victim or the victim engaged in sexual... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-10 Sponsor(s) Added. |
| #48 | SB0836 | Introduced | As introduced, authorizes LEAs and public charter schools to refuse to enroll students who are unlawfully present in the United States. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-11 |
| #49 | HB0662 | Introduced | As introduced, changes the date, from October 31 to October 1, by which the departments of education and health must submit a report to the governor and general assembly regarding the self-administered medications and healthcare procedures for studen... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12 |
| #50 | HB0399 | Introduced | As introduced, enacts the "Protecting Tennessee Schools and Events Act." - Amends TCA Title 12 and Title 49. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-13 Sponsor(s) Added. |
