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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 | SB2690 | Passed | As enacted, makes appropriations for the fiscal years beginning July 1, 2025, and July 1, 2026. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-27 Effective date(s) 05/22/2026, 07/01/2026 |
| #2 | HB1802 | Passed | As enacted, lowers the standard for the use of deadly force to protect property. - Amends TCA Title 39. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-27 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1100 |
| #3 | HB1649 | Passed | As enacted, enacts "Matthew Davenport's Law," which creates certain criminal offenses and testing requirements related to Kratom. - Amends TCA Title 33, Chapter 2; Title 38; Title 39; Title 50; Title 63 and Title 68. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-15 Effective date(s) 07/01/2026 |
| #4 | SB1587 | Passed | As enacted, creates certain offenses for a person who is unlawfully present in the United States to operate a commercial motor vehicle in this state and a direct employer of such person; requires the law enforcement agency of an officer who arrests a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-27 Effective date(s) 07/01/2026 |
| #5 | HB7003 | Passed | As enacted, revises the boundaries for Tennessee's congressional districts. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 16 and Chapter 742 of the Public Acts of 2026. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-06-03 Effective date(s) 05/07/2026 |
| #6 | SB2133 | Passed | As enacted, adds starvation resulting in death of a livestock animal to the types of conduct that constitute the Class E felony of aggravated cruelty to a livestock animal, when done in a depraved and sadistic manner without justifiable or lawful pur... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-18 Effective date(s) 07/01/2026 |
| #7 | HJR7017 | Passed | Representative G.A. Hardaway [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-14 Signed by Governor. |
| #8 | SB2692 | Passed | As enacted, authorizes the state to issue and sell bonds. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-27 Effective date(s) 05/19/2026 |
| #9 | SB1849 | Passed | As enacted, enacts the "Essential Governmental Employee Housing Act of 2026"; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 12 and Title 67. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-27 Effective date(s) 05/22/2026 |
| #10 | HB2507 | Passed | As enacted, vacates the present board of commissioners of each existing authority for metropolitan and regional airports, and reconstitute a new governing body; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7 and Title 42. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-27 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 978 |
| #11 | SB2473 | Passed | As enacted, vacates the present board of commissioners of each existing authority for metropolitan and regional airports, and reconstitute a new governing body; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7 and Title 42. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-27 Effective date(s) 05/19/2026, 07/01/2026 |
| #12 | HB1455 | Passed | As enacted, requires TACIR to study artificial intelligence and submit a report to the governor and both speakers by January 31, 2027. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 33; Title 39 and Title 47. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-27 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1066 |
| #13 | HB0920 | Passed | As enacted, prohibits a defendant charged with certain offenses from being released on the defendant's personal recognizance or upon execution of an unsecured bond. - Amends TCA Title 40. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-15 Effective date(s) 07/01/2026 |
| #14 | SB0677 | Passed | As enacted, requires the department to provide at least one professional development course that provides asynchronous instruction on the use of artificial intelligence in the classroom and that is made available, at no cost, to teachers in grades 6-... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-27 Effective date(s) 05/22/2026 |
| #15 | SB0865 | Passed | As enacted, generally requires a group policy in this state that provides hospital, surgical, or major medical expense insurance on an expense incurred basis to an employee or member to extend such policy coverage for a period of time when the employ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-18 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 931 |
| #16 | SB1585 | Passed | As enacted, revises the assessment testing requirements for students who participate in the education savings account (ESA) program. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 12; Title 48; Title 49 and Title 67. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-27 Effective date(s) 07/01/2026 |
| #17 | SB1602 | Passed | As enacted, enacts the "James Bardsley, Jr. Life Protection Act." - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13 and Title 55, Chapter 10. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-27 Effective date(s) 07/01/2026 |
| #18 | HB1691 | Passed | As enacted, specifies that a joint board established by two municipalities and two counties pursuant to an interlocal agreement for the purpose of operating an airport is vested with all the powers, rights, duties, and privileges of a regional airpor... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-15 Effective date(s) 05/01/2026 |
| #19 | SB1822 | Passed | As enacted, requires an LEA that operates a public high school that meets certain criteria to permit certain high school students who are enrolled in private schools to participate in interscholastic athletics at the public high school. - Amends TCA ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-18 Effective date(s) 07/01/2026 |
| #20 | HB2592 | Passed | As enacted, requires, for an electric utility providing services outside the corporate limits of the home municipality, expansion of the utility board to provide representation on the board for such outside locality. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Ti... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-27 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1116 |
| #21 | SB2461 | Passed | As enacted, requires each fertility clinic operating in this state to obtain a certificate from the department of health to perform assisted reproductive technology services. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 29; Title 36; Title 63 and Title 68. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-27 Effective date(s) 05/22/2026, 01/01/2027 |
| #22 | SB2293 | Passed | As enacted, expands the definition of "consumable material" to include natural and synthetic liquid nicotine solutions and liquid nicotine analogues for purposes of the taxation of vapor products containing such material; requires the alcoholic bever... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-27 Effective date(s) 05/22/2026 |
| #23 | SB2702 | Passed | Subject to local approval, revises various provisions of the charter of the City of Charlotte relating to its corporate powers; the city council; the city clerk; codification of ordinances; duties of mayor; city court, judge, and court clerk; and bud... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-27 Comp. became Pr. Ch. 56 |
| #24 | SB2223 | Passed | As enacted, requires the sheriff of each county to enter into an agreement under an available federal 287(g) program, and expands the powers of the board of control of the Tennessee corrections institute. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 8; Title... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1015 |
| #25 | HB1372 | Passed | As enacted, provides that a person is criminally responsible for an offense committed by the conduct of another if, acting with intent to benefit in the proceeds or results of the offense, the person solicits, directs, aids, or attempts to aid anothe... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-15 Effective date(s) 07/01/2026 |
| #26 | SB0259 | Passed | As enacted, clarifies that a child's parent, legal guardian, or legal custodian may, to the extent allowable by federal law, access and review all health and medical records of the child, including those records related to treatments available to une... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-18 Effective date(s) 05/05/2026 |
| #27 | SB1814 | Passed | As enacted, creates a Class A misdemeanor offense of intentionally moving, altering, destroying, or removing a monument the person knows, or reasonably should know, is a property corner monument, historic land surveying monument, or geodetic control ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-27 Effective date(s) 07/01/2026 |
| #28 | HB2542 | Passed | As enacted, removes a requirement that work be deemed suitable for a claimant if certain criteria are met and a claimant's gross weekly wages equal or exceed certain threshold percentages of the claimant's weekly wage for insured work for the quarter... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-27 Effective date(s) 05/21/2026 |
| #29 | HB1710 | Passed | As enacted, adds local governments to the entities that must verify that each applicant for public benefits is a United States citizen or lawfully present in the United States; authorizes certain investigations of violations of requirements for verif... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-27 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1106 |
| #30 | HB2502 | Passed | As enacted, clarifies that the service of transmitting money from a location originating in this state to a location outside of the United States or its territories is a taxable service and that such a tax is generally levied on the amount of money t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-27 Effective date(s) 05/21/2026, 01/01/2027 |
| #31 | SB1847 | Passed | As enacted, lowers the standard for the use of deadly force to protect property. - Amends TCA Title 39. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-27 Effective date(s) 07/01/2026 |
| #32 | SB1868 | Passed | As enacted, requires a child placed in the custody of the department to remain in custody so long as necessary to complete treatment or services, which must be evidence-based and provided by a qualified provider; makes other changes to child custody ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-27 Effective date(s) 05/22/2026, 07/01/2026 |
| #33 | HB2317 | Passed | As enacted, provides that a person commits the offense of grooming of a minor when the person engages in a course of grooming conduct directed at a minor with the specific intent to commit, or facilitate the commission by another person of, a sexual ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26 Effective date(s) 07/01/2026 |
| #34 | HB2446 | Passed | As enacted, requires the commissioner of commerce and insurance to fulfill certain duties for the volunteer firefighter vehicle grant program, which is established to annually provide grants to select volunteer fire departments to assist with local m... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-27 Effective date(s) 05/21/2026, 07/01/2026 |
| #35 | HB1034 | Passed | As enacted, requires a court to apply rebuttable presumptions when determining the reasonableness in time of a restrictive covenant sought to be enforced after the termination of an employment or business relationship; makes related changes. - Amends... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-15 Effective date(s) 07/01/2026 |
| #36 | HB0705 | Passed | As enacted, generally requires a group policy in this state that provides hospital, surgical, or major medical expense insurance on an expense incurred basis to an employee or member to extend such policy coverage for a period of time when the employ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-18 Effective date(s) 05/07/2026, 07/01/2026 |
| #37 | SB2377 | Passed | As enacted, requires the state board of education to establish a qualified dyslexia interventionist endorsement to allow an educator to provide targeted instructional intervention, academic support, behavioral support, or related services to students... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-18 Effective date(s) 07/01/2026 |
| #38 | HB2631 | Passed | As enacted, makes appropriations for the fiscal years beginning July 1, 2025, and July 1, 2026. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-27 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1142 |
| #39 | HB0754 | Passed | As enacted, revises law relative to gender clinics and related services. - Amends TCA Title 1; Title 4; Title 33; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-15 Effective date(s) 05/07/2026 |
| #40 | HB2259 | Passed | As enacted, specifies that a good faith disclosure of information related to an activity of a quality improvement committee (QIC) made by a healthcare provider or healthcare organization to a patient or a family member of a patient is not a waiver of... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26 Effective date(s) 05/19/2026 |
| #41 | SB0145 | Passed | As enacted, extends from June 30, 2028 to June 30, 2038, the deadline by which a municipality that continues to receive an allocation of state sales tax revenue pursuant to the now-repealed Courthouse Square Revitalization Pilot Project Act of 2005, ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-14 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 926 |
| #42 | HB0162 | Passed | As enacted, authorizes, until June 30, 2041, a county or municipality that levies a property tax to pay a property tax refund owed to a taxpayer through annual installments applied as credits against the taxpayer's future property taxes if certain cr... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-27 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1049 |
| #43 | SB0198 | Passed | As enacted, authorizes, until June 30, 2041, a county or municipality that levies a property tax to pay a property tax refund owed to a taxpayer through annual installments applied as credits against the taxpayer's future property taxes if certain cr... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-27 Effective date(s) 05/22/2026 |
| #44 | SB0225 | Passed | As enacted, 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] | 2026-05-14 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 923 |
| #45 | HB0220 | Passed | As enacted, expands the areas served by the West Tennessee River Basin Authority to include Perry, Stewart, Houston, and Humphreys counties. - Amends TCA Title 64, Chapter 1, Part 11. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-18 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 966 |
| #46 | SB0254 | Passed | As enacted, requires a defendant who is ordered to wear a transdermal monitoring device or alternative device, including other alternative alcohol or drug monitoring device, or global positioning monitoring device, as a condition of pretrial release,... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-27 Effective date(s) 07/01/2026 |
| #47 | HB0354 | Passed | As enacted, grants the bureau discretion to investigate reports of suspected elder financial exploitation. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 38; Title 39; Title 45; Title 68 and Title 71. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-14 Effective date(s) 05/01/2026 |
| #48 | SB0326 | Passed | As enacted, grants the bureau discretion to investigate reports of suspected elder financial exploitation. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 38; Title 39; Title 45; Title 68 and Title 71. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-14 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 908 |
| #49 | HB0388 | Passed | As enacted, extends from June 30, 2028 to June 30, 2038, the deadline by which a municipality that continues to receive an allocation of state sales tax revenue pursuant to the now-repealed Courthouse Square Revitalization Pilot Project Act of 2005, ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-14 Effective date(s) 05/07/2026 |
| #50 | HB0338 | Passed | As enacted, authorizes the commissioner of environment and conservation, notwithstanding agreements authorized by the commissioner of general services and with approval of the state building commission, to enter into agreements contemplated for the p... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-14 Effective date(s) 05/07/2026 |
