| TN | SB2032 | Pass | As enacted, requires a public safety employer to provide an employee or prospective employee with reasonable access to the employee's or prospective employee's full employment record, including the results of any mental health evaluation or screening...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-05
Effective date(s) 04/27/2026 |
| TN | HB2074 | Pass | As enacted, requires a public safety employer to provide an employee or prospective employee with reasonable access to the employee's or prospective employee's full employment record, including the results of any mental health evaluation or screening...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-05
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 849 |
| TN | HB0427 | Pass | As enacted, allows for eligible employees to be absent 4 weeks from work following a living organ donation surgery; requires the department of health to create living organ donor informational material and make such material available on the departme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 779 |
| TN | SB0579 | Pass | As enacted, allows for eligible employees to be absent 4 weeks from work following a living organ donation surgery; requires the department of health to create living organ donor informational material and make such material available on the departme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Effective date(s) 04/23/2026 |
| TN | HB1705 | Pass | As enacted, generally requires, beginning July 1, 2026, all state and local governmental employers to verify the work authorization status of each prospective employee through the federal E-Verify program prior to employment; authorizes the attorney ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-27
Effective date(s) 07/01/2026 |
| TN | SB1922 | Pass | As enacted, generally requires, beginning July 1, 2026, all state and local governmental employers to verify the work authorization status of each prospective employee through the federal E-Verify program prior to employment; authorizes the attorney ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-27
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 772 |
| TN | SB2392 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, creates the "Anti-Retaliation for Reporting Unsafe Work Act." - Amends TCA Title 50.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-07
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SB2024 | Pass | As enacted, exempts from the requirement that wages earned by employees in private employment are due and payable no later than the fifth day of the succeeding month those employees who are employed on a piece-work or commission basis, and requires t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-06
Effective date(s) 07/01/2026 |
| TN | HB1958 | Pass | As enacted, exempts from the requirement that wages earned by employees in private employment are due and payable no later than the fifth day of the succeeding month those employees who are employed on a piece-work or commission basis, and requires t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-06
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 617 |
| TN | SB0990 | Pass | As enacted, defines for purposes of the Tennessee Lawful Employment Act, a "private employer" as any person who is required by federal law and regulations to report remuneration paid to at least one employee; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-30
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 622 |
| TN | HB1194 | Pass | As enacted, defines for purposes of the Tennessee Lawful Employment Act, a "private employer" as any person who is required by federal law and regulations to report remuneration paid to at least one employee; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-30
Effective date(s) 01/01/2027 |
| TN | HB2213 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, creates the "Anti-Retaliation for Reporting Unsafe Work Act." - Amends TCA Title 50.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-18
No Action Taken |
| TN | SB0674 | Pass | As enacted, clarifies that the general assembly preempts and occupies the entire field of regulating the terms and conditions of employment; prohibits local governments from adopting or enforcing any law, rule, or policy that requires a term or condi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-16
Effective date(s) 03/06/2026 |
| TN | HB0900 | Pass | As enacted, clarifies that the general assembly preempts and occupies the entire field of regulating the terms and conditions of employment; prohibits local governments from adopting or enforcing any law, rule, or policy that requires a term or condi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-16
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 552 |
| TN | HB2016 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires employers that condition employment or prospective employment upon an employee or prospective employee submitting to a mental health evaluation to grant the employee or prospective employee reasonable access to the results of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-11
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Banking and Consumer Affairs Subcommittee of Commerce Committee |
| TN | SB2300 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires private-sector employers to compensate employees for accumulated paid leave upon separation from service from employment. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 50, Chapter 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-10
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SB2513 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts the "Workers' Right to Live Act," which places mandatory reporting requirements on employers concerning workplace fatalities and imposes penalties on employers for workplace fatalities that were a result of employer negligence; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-10
Failed (no second) in Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | HB2004 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires private-sector employers to compensate employees for accumulated paid leave upon separation from service from employment. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 50, Chapter 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-04
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Banking and Consumer Affairs Subcommittee of Commerce Committee |
| TN | SB2033 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires employers that condition employment or prospective employment upon an employee or prospective employee submitting to a mental health evaluation to grant the employee or prospective employee reasonable access to the results of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-03
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | HB1216 | Fail | As introduced, increases the hourly minimum wage to $20.00, or the federal minimum wage established pursuant to the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, whichever rate is greater. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 23; Title 12, Chapter 4, Part 4 and Title 5...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-20
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | HB2006 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts the "Workers' Right to Live Act," which places mandatory reporting requirements on employers concerning workplace fatalities and imposes penalties on employers for workplace fatalities that were a result of employer negligence; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-04
Assigned to s/c Banking & Consumer Affairs Subcommittee |
| TN | SB0361 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires a person who employs an unemancipated minor and who knows or has reasonable cause to suspect that the minor has been subjected to child sexual abuse or attempted child sexual abuse in the course of the minor’s employment or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | HB0791 | Fail | As introduced, enacts the "Workers' Right to Live Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 29 and Title 50.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-26
Failed for lack of second in: Banking & Consumer Affairs Subcommittee |
| TN | SB1190 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, increases the hourly minimum wage to $20.00, or the federal minimum wage established pursuant to the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, whichever rate is greater. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 23; Title 12, Chapter 4, Part 4 and Title 5...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-25
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | HB0532 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires a person who employs an unemancipated minor and who knows or has reasonable cause to suspect that the minor has been subjected to child sexual abuse or attempted child sexual abuse in the course of the minor’s employment or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Banking and Consumer Affairs Subcommittee of Commerce Committee |
| TN | HB1384 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts the "Pay Stub Protection Act," which requires an employer to provide a statement to an employee on the employer's payday that contains certain information about the employee and the employee's wages and hours worked during the a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
To House Government Operations Committee |
| TN | SB0698 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits an agricultural employer from retaliating against an agricultural employee who asserts a protected right or based on the agricultural employee's immigration status; creates related protections and penalties related to agricul...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-18
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SB1257 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts the "Pay Stub Protection Act," which requires an employer to provide a statement to an employee on the employer's payday that contains certain information about the employee and the employee's wages and hours worked during the a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-18
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SB0190 | Fail | As introduced, requires an employer that terminates the employment of an employee who the employer knows to be pregnant and who is covered under an employer-sponsored health benefit plan to continue to provide coverage under the plan until the employ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-11
Failed in Senate Commerce and Labor Committee / no second |
| TN | SB0423 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, increases, from two to three, the number of conspicuous places in which an employer is required to post and maintain notices setting forth the regular pay day established by the employer. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SB1062 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, deletes obsolete language referring to the date by which a private employer was required to be in compliance with the Tennessee Lawful Employment Act to receive an economic development incentive. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8 and Title...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SB1220 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts the "Workers' Right to Live Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 29 and Title 50.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | SB1289 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, changes the maximum penalty amount from $7,000 for each violation by an employer of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1972, and from $70,000 for each willful and repeated violation of the act, to the maximum penalty allowed by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| TN | HB1313 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, changes the maximum penalty amount from $7,000 for each violation by an employer of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1972, and from $70,000 for each willful and repeated violation of the act, to the maximum penalty allowed by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
Assigned to s/c Banking & Consumer Affairs Subcommittee |
| TN | HB1042 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, deletes obsolete language referring to the date by which a private employer was required to be in compliance with the Tennessee Lawful Employment Act to receive an economic development incentive. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8 and Title...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
Sponsor change. |
| TN | HB0680 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits an agricultural employer from retaliating against an agricultural employee who asserts a protected right or based on the agricultural employee's immigration status; creates related protections and penalties related to agricul...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
Assigned to s/c Banking & Consumer Affairs Subcommittee |
| TN | HB0827 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires an employer that terminates the employment of an employee who the employer knows to be pregnant and who is covered under an employer-sponsored health benefit plan to continue to provide coverage under the plan until the employ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
Assigned to s/c Banking & Consumer Affairs Subcommittee |
| TN | HB0438 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, increases, from two to three, the number of conspicuous places in which an employer is required to post and maintain notices setting forth the regular pay day established by the employer. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt. |
