TN — 114S1 | Bill Commons

9,112 bills

SB 1396 — Bail, Bail Bonds - As introduced, permits a professional bondsman to issue and retain the required receipt for money or other consideration received in a digital format. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 11.died on adjournment
Latest action 2026-03-17: Failed in Senate Judiciary Committee
SB 2170 — Jails, Local Lock-ups - As introduced, requires the monthly report of the warden of a county workhouse for each prisoner placed under a work release program to be filed with the judge by whom the prisoner was sentenced on or before the fifteenth day of the month immediately following the reporting period. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 40 and Title 41.died on adjournment
Latest action 2026-03-17: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State and Local Government Committee
SB 2322 — Zoning - As introduced, reduces from 21 to 14 calendar days, the duration of the notice that a chief governing body must provide to the public before holding a public hearing to adopt a zoning ordinance or amendment. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13 and Title 67.died on adjournment
Latest action 2026-03-17: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State & Local Gov't
SB 1406 — State Government - As introduced, requires state departments and agencies to submit annual reports on achieving economic efficiency to the governor in addition to committees of the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 8 and Title 9.died on adjournment
Latest action 2026-03-17: Failed in Senate State and Local Government Committee
SB 1039 — Controlled Substances - As introduced, prohibits a healthcare facility from authorizing a licensed healthcare professional from performing a drug or alcohol test or screen on a patient who is pregnant, less than one year postpartum, or a newborn without written and oral consent; allows for a drug or alcohol test or screen to be performed without the consent of the patient in certain listed situations. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 63 and Title 68.died on adjournment
Latest action 2026-03-17: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Health and Welfare Committee
HB 2482 — Local Education Agencies - As introduced, allows a nonprofit or for-profit entity that operates an adult high school under a contract with a local board of education to receive state and local funding in years subsequent to the first year of the adult high school's operation based on current enrollment numbers that are reported and adjusted no less than three times per year. - Amends TCA Title 49.died on adjournment
Latest action 2026-03-17: Taken off notice for cal in s/c K-12 Subcommittee of Education Committee
HB 2568 — Election Laws - As introduced, enacts the "Election Integrity Act of 2026"; creates a process by which a candidate in a local election may challenge the results of the election prior to certification of the election if the candidate has reason to believe errors were made in the adminstration of the election. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 49.died on adjournment
Latest action 2026-03-17: Failed in s/c Elections & Campaign Finance Subcommittee of State & Local Government Committee
SB 2516 — Housing - As introduced, encourages municipalities to study and assess housing affordability and inventory availability, and to adopt a pattern book for purposes of encouraging the construction of medium-density housing. - Amends TCA Title 6; Title 7 and Title 13.died on adjournment
Latest action 2026-03-17: Recommended for passage with amendment/s, refer to Senate Calendar Committee Ayes 8, Nays 1 PNV 0
HB 2094 — Highways, Roads and Bridges - As introduced, requires the department of transportation to allocate federal and state funds to rural planning organizations in parity with its allocation of such funds to metropolitan planning organizations. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 54 and Title 64, Chapter 8.died on adjournment
Latest action 2026-03-17: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Transportation Subcommittee of Transportation Committee
SB 2287 — Health Care - As introduced, requires TennCare to create a methodology to make medicaid facility fee reimbursement rates for birthing centers comparable to rates for similar services provided at a hospital; requires the department of health to give priority to allocating federal rural health transformation program grant funds to birthing centers in rural counties and urban counties that serve residents of rural counties. - Amends TCA Title 68 and Title 71.died on adjournment
Latest action 2026-03-17: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Health and Welfare Committee
HB 2036 — Election Laws - As introduced, prohibits a person from qualifying as a candidate in a primary election for federal office who holds dual citizenship or is not a natural-born citizen of the United States. - Amends TCA Title 2.died on adjournment
Latest action 2026-03-17: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Elections & Campaign Finance Subcommittee of State & Local Government Committee
HB 1889 — School Vouchers - As introduced, establishes various audit and reporting requirements for the department of education and private schools that enroll recipients of an education freedom scholarship; limits eligibility for the scholarship program to students who are members of a family with an annual household income that does not exceed 300 percent of the amount required for a student to qualify for free or reduced lunch; requires scholarship recipients to be administered the same TCAP tests administered to public school students enrolled in the same grade level or course subject. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29; Title 8, Chapter 44; Title 10, Chapter 7 and Title 49, Chapter 6.died on adjournment
Latest action 2026-03-17: Failed in s/c K-12 Subcommittee of Education Committee
SB 2290 — Probate Law - As introduced, permits a petitioner or affiant to proceed pro se in the administration of a small estate if the personal property consists exclusively of one or more life insurance policies that do not exceed $15,000 in value and are intended to be used for the decedent's burial, funeral, or final expenses; specifies that a person who files for a small estate affidavit or limited letters of authority is deemed to be acting in an individual capacity; requires the court clerk to provide a standardized form for filers. - Amends TCA Title 30; Section 56-7-206 and Title 62, Chapter 5.died on adjournment
Latest action 2026-03-17: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee
SB 2182 — Criminal Procedure - As introduced, requires the clerk of the court in which a person charged with a violent felony and for whom a biological specimen is taken for the purpose of DNA analysis to submit the clerk's notification to the TBI of the final disposition of the criminal proceeding against the person in writing. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 6; Title 39 and Title 40.died on adjournment
Latest action 2026-03-17: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee
HB 1267 — Election Laws - As introduced, requires a municipality that adopts an ordinance requiring nonresident property owners to vote by absentee ballot to file such ordinance with the county election commission no later than 75 days, rather than 60 days, before the election. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 41.died on adjournment
Latest action 2026-03-17: Failed in s/c Elections & Campaign Finance Subcommittee of State & Local Government Committee
SB 2147 — Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As introduced, authorizes the board of directors of the Tennessee Duck River Development Agency to file annual reports electronically. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 14; Title 4, Chapter 31; Title 7; Title 13; Title 64; Title 66; Title 67 and Chapter 68 of the Private Acts of 2024.died on adjournment
Latest action 2026-03-17: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State and Local Government Committee
HB 2602 — Immigration - As introduced, affords an individual detained pursuant to a federal detention agreement certain rights while detained. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 10; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40.died on adjournment
Latest action 2026-03-17: Failed in s/c Departments & Agencies Subcommittee of State & Local Government Committee
SR 346 — Memorials, Death - Martha Carolyn Swanson Sundquist -enrolled
Latest action 2026-03-17: Enrolled and ready for signatures
HB 2483 — Schools, Charter - As introduced, changes from December 11 to December 15, the date by which the state board of education is required to post the information received from each local education agency regarding the total amount of authorizer fees collected by the LEA in the previous school year and the authorizing obligations fulfilled using the authorizer fees collected on its website. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 13.died on adjournment
Latest action 2026-03-17: Taken off notice for cal in s/c K-12 Subcommittee of Education Committee
SB 2243 — Medical Occupations - As introduced, reduces from 45 to 35 days, the amount of time the board of physician assistants has to either render a decision on a licensure application submitted by an individual licensed, registered, or certified as a physician assistant in another jurisdiction or inform the licensure applicant from another jurisdiction of the need to appear before the board. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 24; Title 33; Title 38; Title 49; Title 53; Title 55; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68; Title 71 and Chapter 1042 of the Public Acts of 2024.died on adjournment
Latest action 2026-03-17: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Health and Welfare Committee
HB 1643 — Financial Responsibility Law - As introduced, changes the amount of time that proof of financial responsibility must be maintained from the period of the suspension or revocation to one year or the period of the suspension or revocation, whichever is longer, when a person's driver license or motor vehicle registration has been suspended or revoked because of the person's failure to furnish proof of financial responsibility. - Amends TCA Section 55-12-126.died on adjournment
Latest action 2026-03-17: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Transportation Subcommittee of Transportation Committee
SB 1156 — Food and Food Products - As introduced, prohibits the sale of food containing nanotechnology created by humans that is capable of collecting and transmitting data unless the food is labeled as containing nanotechnology. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18 and Title 53.died on adjournment
Latest action 2026-03-17: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Health & Welfare Committee
SB 2491 — State Government - As introduced, enacts the "Safe Access to Schools and Child Services Act," which prohibits the following entities from conditioning enrollment, attendance, or receipt of services for a child under 18 on the disclosure of the child's immigration status, except as explicitly required by federal or state law or court order: a county, municipality, or branch or agency thereof; public utility, utility district, entity created pursuant to any interlocal agreement, or any other political subdivision thereof; LEA, public school, or public charter school; and state board, commission, committee, department, office, or other unit of state government; clarifies that the prohibition does not limit compliance with federal immigration law or limit cooperation with federal authorities as required by law. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 37; Title 49; Title 68 and Title 71.died on adjournment
Latest action 2026-03-17: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State and Local Government Committee
HB 2198 — State Government - As introduced, enacts the "DEI Compliance Certification Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8 and Title 49.died on adjournment
Latest action 2026-03-17: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Departments & Agencies Subcommittee of State & Local Government Committee
HB 867 — Women - As introduced, creates a pilot program to be administered by the bureau of TennCare to provide pregnant TennCare recipients improved maternal health care through remote patient monitoring for maternal hypertension and maternal diabetes. - Amends TCA Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.died on adjournment
Latest action 2026-03-17: Sponsor(s) Added.