| TN | SB1847 | Pass | 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 |
| TN | HB1802 | Pass | 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 |
| TN | HB2174 | Pass | As enacted, revises the exemption for judges to the offense of carrying weapons during judicial proceedings. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-27
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1141 |
| TN | SB2469 | Pass | As enacted, revises the exemption for judges to the offense of carrying weapons during judicial proceedings. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-27
Effective date(s) 07/01/2026 |
| TN | HB2376 | Pass | As enacted, states that if the possession of a handgun is restricted or prohibited at a county courthouse, then the sheriff of the county may provide secure storage lockers for those individuals who are lawfully carrying a firearm to store the firear...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-18
Effective date(s) 05/01/2026 |
| TN | SB2352 | Pass | As enacted, states that if the possession of a handgun is restricted or prohibited at a county courthouse, then the sheriff of the county may provide secure storage lockers for those individuals who are lawfully carrying a firearm to store the firear...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-18
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 919 |
| TN | HB0985 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, removes the criminal offense of possession of a weapon in a building or on property that is properly posted; removes the requirement that the department of safety suspend or revoke a handgun carry permit for a violation of that offense...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-14
No Action Taken |
| TN | HB2064 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, repeals the criminal offenses of unlawfully carrying a firearm or club with the intent to go armed and carrying or possessing a weapon in or on public parks, playgrounds, civic centers, and other public recreational buildings and groun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-14
No Action Taken |
| TN | HB1737 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, removes certain criminal offenses relative to the possession and carrying of firearms, including the offense of carrying a firearm with the intent to go armed if the person has been convicted of stalking or DUI in certain circumstances...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-07
Reset on Final cal. 4 of Criminal Justice Subcommittee |
| TN | HB2514 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, deletes the offense of carrying a firearm or a club with the intent to go armed, prohibits the carrying of a firearm or weapon inside of a K-12 public or private school and on a school bus if the person's intent is to go armed and the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-07
Reset on Final cal. 4 of Criminal Justice Subcommittee |
| TN | HB2371 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, changes from February 1 to February 15, the date by which the Tennessee bureau of investigation must report to the judiciary committee of the senate and the criminal justice committee of the house of representatives the amount of any b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-07
Reset on Final cal. 4 of Criminal Justice Subcommittee |
| TN | HB0947 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts "Akilah's Law," which creates the offense of selling, offering to sell, delivering, or transferring a firearm to a person knowing the person has been a patient in a mental institution at any time within the previous five years. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-01
Taken off notice for cal. in Judiciary Committee |
| TN | HB1189 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2026-04-01
Taken off notice for cal. in Judiciary Committee |
| TN | HB0956 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires, subject to certain exemptions, that a sale or transfer of a firearm be done through a federally licensed gun dealer; creates a Class B misdemeanor offense for sales or transfers that are not conducted through a gun dealer. - ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-25
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Judiciary Committee |
| TN | HB0944 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits the possession of an assault weapon; directs those in possession of an assault weapon before July 1, 2025, to apply for a certificate of possession; creates the Class E felony offense of purchasing, selling, possessing, or us...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-25
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Judiciary Committee |
| TN | HB0949 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, creates a criminal offense of storing or keeping a firearm in any place if the firearm is not secured in a locked container or equipped with a tamper-resistant mechanical lock or other safety device that is properly engaged so as to re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-25
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Judiciary Committee |
| TN | HB1058 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires a gun dealer to ensure that three days have passed since the transaction was initiated by the purchaser before transferring a firearm to a purchaser if the purchaser is older than 17 but younger than 21. - Amends TCA Title 39,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-25
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1191 | Fail | As introduced, enacts "Akilah's Law," which creates the offense of selling, offering to sell, delivering, or transferring a firearm to a person knowing the person has been a patient in a mental institution at any time within the previous five years. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-25
Failed in Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB0632 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits the possession of an assault weapon; directs those in possession of an assault weapon before July 1, 2025, to apply for a certificate of possession; creates the Class E felony offense of purchasing, selling, possessing, or us...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1104 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires a gun dealer to ensure that three days have passed since the transaction was initiated by the purchaser before transferring a firearm to a purchaser if the purchaser is older than 17 but younger than 21. - Amends TCA Title 39,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1407 | Fail | As introduced, lowers the standard for the use of deadly force to protect property; specifies that deadly force does not include the display of a weapon, the brandishing of a weapon, or the use of force in circumstances that do not result in death or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-24
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB0642 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Voluntary Do Not Sell Firearms Act," which permits a person to voluntarily waive their firearm rights through filing a waiver with the clerk of the circuit court in the county of the person's residence; specifies ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB0824 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, removes the criminal offense of possession of a weapon in a building or on property that is properly posted; removes the requirement that the department of safety suspend or revoke a handgun carry permit for a violation of that offense...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB0903 | Fail | As introduced, requires, subject to certain exemptions, that a sale or transfer of a firearm be done through a federally licensed gun dealer; creates a Class B misdemeanor offense for sales or transfers that are not conducted through a gun dealer. - ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-23
Failed in Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1204 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts the "Anti-Road Rage Act of 2024," which creates a Class E felony for the reckless discharge of a firearm while operating, or as a passenger in, a motor vehicle; creates a Class A misdemeanor for the reckless brandishing or displ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1227 | Fail | 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] | 2026-03-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1183 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, creates a criminal offense of storing or keeping a firearm in any place if the firearm is not secured in a locked container or equipped with a tamper-resistant mechanical lock or other safety device that is properly engaged so as to re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1350 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, allows a court to issue an extreme risk protection order upon a finding by clear and convincing evidence that a person poses a significant danger of causing personal injury to the person or others if allowed to possess or purchase a fi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1851 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, removes certain criminal offenses relative to the possession and carrying of firearms, including the offense of carrying a firearm with the intent to go armed if the person has been convicted of stalking or DUI in certain circumstances...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB2467 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, repeals the criminal offenses of unlawfully carrying a firearm or club with the intent to go armed and carrying or possessing a weapon in or on public parks, playgrounds, civic centers, and other public recreational buildings and groun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB2382 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, changes from February 1 to February 15 the date by which the Tennessee bureau of investigation must report excess money collected pursuant to background check fees charged to gun dealers. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 10; Title ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB2478 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, deletes the offense of carrying a firearm or a club with the intent to go armed, prohibits the carrying of a firearm or weapon inside of a K-12 public or private school and on a school bus if the person's intent is to go armed and the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | HB0596 | Fail | As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Voluntary Do Not Sell Firearms Act," which permits a person to voluntarily waive their firearm rights through filing a waiver with the clerk of the circuit court in the county of the person's residence; specifies ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-18
Failed for lack of second in: Civil Justice Subcommittee |
| TN | HB1210 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires, if the respondent on an order of protection dispossesses firearms by transferring possession to a third party who is not prohibited from possessing firearms, the respondent to specify the third party and the physical address ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-18
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Civil Justice Subcommittee of Judiciary Committee |
| TN | HB1390 | Fail | As introduced, allows a court to issue an extreme risk protection order upon a finding by clear and convincing evidence that a person poses a significant danger of causing personal injury to the person or others if allowed to possess or purchase a fi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-18
Failed for lack of second in: Civil Justice Subcommittee |
| TN | SB2379 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts the "Reckless Bullet Prevention Act," which creates an offense of recklessly discharging a firearm into the air, ground, a body of water, or an object in close proximity to the person if the firearm is discharged at a place wher...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | HB2575 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts the "Reckless Bullet Prevention Act," which creates an offense of recklessly discharging a firearm into the air, ground, a body of water, or an object in close proximity to the person if the firearm is discharged at a place wher...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-18
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Judiciary Committee |
| TN | HB1082 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits the possession, manufacture, transport, repair, or sale of a switch or auto sear device designed, made, or adapted for the purpose of converting a weapon to shoot automatically more than one shot, without manual reloading, by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-11
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB1897 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, states that a person who has not been convicted of a violent, felony crime and who is lawfully able to own or to possess a firearm under the Constitution of Tennessee is considered to be individually licensed and verified by this state...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB2422 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, changes from February 1 to February 15, the date by which the Tennessee bureau of investigation must report to the judiciary committee of the senate and the criminal justice committee of the house of representatives the amount of any b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB2302 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, deletes the offense of carrying a firearm or a club with the intent to go armed, prohibits the carrying of a firearm or weapon inside of a kindergarten through grade 12 public or private school and on a school bus if the person's inten...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | HB2448 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, changes from February 1 to February 15 the date by which the Tennessee bureau of investigation must report excess money collected pursuant to background check fees charged to gun dealers. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 10; Title ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-05
P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt. |
| TN | HB1098 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, creates the offense of carrying or possessing a firearm, including a firearm that was privately assembled and does not contain a serial number or other mark that conforms with federal law, if, at the time of carrying or possessing, the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-04
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB0043 | Fail | As introduced, authorizes a county legislative body to elect not to permit persons within the county to lawfully carry a handgun without a handgun carry permit by passage of a resolution; requires a county that has passed such a resolution to provide...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-03
Failed in Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | HB1821 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, states that a person who has not been convicted of a violent, felony crime and who is lawfully able to own or to possess a firearm under the Constitution of Tennessee is considered to be individually licensed and verified by this state...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-02
Assigned to s/c Civil Justice Subcommittee |
| TN | SB1629 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, deletes the criminal offenses of carrying a firearm or club with intent to go armed and carrying a weapon in a public park with the intent to go armed; prohibits a juvenile from carrying a firearm with intent to go armed except in cert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| TN | SB0379 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires TACIR to perform a study on the impact of this state's firearm laws on each county's firearm sales, criminal offenses, and use of firearms for self-defense, as well as identifying the similarities and dissimilarities between t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-12-01
Withdrawn. |
| TN | SB1075 | Pass | As enacted, expands the definition of "machine gun" to include any part, or combination of parts, designed and intended solely for use in converting a firearm into a machine gun; increases the classification for the intentional or knowing possession,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-27
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 513 |
| TN | HB1093 | Pass | As enacted, expands the definition of "machine gun" to include any part, or combination of parts, designed and intended solely for use in converting a firearm into a machine gun; increases the classification for the intentional or knowing possession,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-27
Effective date(s) 07/01/2025 |
| TN | HB0856 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, lowers the standard for the use of deadly force to protect property; specifies that deadly force does not include the display of a weapon, the brandishing of a weapon, or the use of force in circumstances that do not result in death or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-14
Sponsor(s) Added. |
