Bill Commons

TN SB 2153

enacted

Health, Dept. of - As enacted, authorizes the department to establish and administer an early childhood mental health home visiting program as a voluntary, evidence-based and home-based intervention to promote the mental health, developmental progress, and family stability of children from birth to five years of age and their families. - Amends TCA Title 33 and Title 68, Chapter 1.

Tennessee · 114S1 · upper

Introduced
2026-02-02
Status date
Latest action
2026-05-01 — Pub. Ch. 800
Bill type
bill
Last updated

Subjects

Sponsors

  • Walleyprimary

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2026-02-02

    Introduced, Passed on First Consideration

    introduction

  2. 2026-02-02

    Filed for introduction

    filing

  3. 2026-02-05

    Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Health and Welfare Committee

    referral-committee

  4. 2026-02-18

    Placed on Senate Health and Welfare Committee calendar for 2/25/2026

  5. 2026-02-25

    Placed on Senate Health and Welfare Committee calendar for 3/4/2026

  6. 2026-02-25

    Action deferred in Senate Health and Welfare Committee to 3/4/2026

  7. 2026-03-04

    Recommended for passage, refer to Senate Calendar Committee

  8. 2026-03-10

    Placed on Senate Regular Calendar for 3/12/2026

  9. 2026-03-12

    Sponsor(s) Added.

    sponsorship

  10. 2026-03-12

    Engrossed; ready for transmission to House

    receipt

  11. 2026-03-12

    Passed Senate, Ayes 28, Nays 5

    passage

  12. 2026-03-16

    Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk.

  13. 2026-04-02

    Passed H., Ayes 71, Nays 17, PNV 5

    passage

  14. 2026-04-02

    Subst. for comp. HB.

    substitution

  15. 2026-04-06

    Signed by Senate Speaker

    passage

  16. 2026-04-06

    Enrolled and ready for signatures

    enrolled

  17. 2026-04-09

    Signed by H. Speaker

    passage

  18. 2026-04-10

    Transmitted to Governor for action.

    executive-receipt

  19. 2026-04-21

    Signed by Governor.

    executive-signature

  20. 2026-05-01

    Effective date(s) 04/21/2026, 07/01/2026

  21. 2026-05-01

    Pub. Ch. 800

Versions

Documents

Votes

Vote data is temporarily unavailable.

The Bill Commons API could not be reached. Please try again shortly.

Related bills

Official source

Attribution

Data from openstates_bulk_csv, retrieved 2026-07-24T05:32:51.339172Z

Use this data

Every field on this page is available from the free public API — no key or licence required. Fetch this bill as JSON: GET /api/v1/bills?jurisdiction=TN&identifier=SB 2153. See the API docs or the MCP server for AI assistants.

Known limitations

  • Sponsor party and chamber affiliation are not yet captured by this API.
  • Committee referrals are not yet captured.
  • Some documents have no extracted text yet, so version comparison may be limited.

See the methodology page for data sources and limitations.