TN — 114S1 | Bill Commons

9,112 bills

SB 2474 — Motor Vehicles - As introduced, prohibits governmental entities that regulate entertainment transportation from denying the transfer of a permit, establishing certain noise ordinances, requiring an entertainment transportation vehicle to be enclosed, and taking other actions under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Section 7-51-1008.died on adjournment
Latest action 2026-02-05: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee
HB 2520 — Taxes, Ad Valorem - As introduced, requires the notification submitted by the director of the division of property assessments to the commissioner of finance and administration of the default by a county or city in the repayment of a loan provided by the state to finance the city's or county's real property reappraisal program to be in writing. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5.died on adjournment
Latest action 2026-02-05: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
SB 2678 — Education - As introduced, requires each elementary and secondary school to post the toll-free telephone number operated by the department of children's services to receive reports of child abuse or neglect in a conspicuous location on the school's website. - Amends TCA Title 49.died on adjournment
Latest action 2026-02-05: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Education Committee
HB 2181 — Corporations, Not for Profit - As introduced, requires a nonprofit organization that receives state or federal grants to compile, maintain, and publish in a publicly available location the salaries of the nonprofit organization's employees. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 10, Chapter 7; Title 35; Title 48 and Title 50.died on adjournment
Latest action 2026-02-05: P2C, ref. to Commerce Committee
HB 2310 — Public Health - As introduced, requires healthcare provider regulatory authorities to report quarterly to the department of health the number and type of disciplinary actions taken against a healthcare provider for knowingly performing or offering to perform on a minor, or administering or offering to administer to a minor, a prohibited medical procedure. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68, Chapter 33.died on adjournment
Latest action 2026-02-05: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
SB 2487 — State Employees - As introduced, creates a procedure for a state employee who has reasonable cause to suspect that improper government conduct or a crime has occurred to report the matter to a supervisor and for the supervisor to report that information to the attorney general and reporter. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 50.died on adjournment
Latest action 2026-02-05: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee
SB 2571 — Controlled Substances - As introduced, permits a person to possess cannabis that was obtained directly from, or pursuant to a diagnosis of a qualifying medical condition by, a licensed physician; specifies the sentences permitted for possessing certain amounts of cannabis that was not obtained directly from, or pursuant to a diagnosis of a qualifying medical condition by, a licensed physician. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4.died on adjournment
Latest action 2026-02-05: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
SB 1574 — Lobbying, Lobbyists - As introduced, increases time an employer of a lobbyist or a lobbyist must register or update their registration with the ethics commission from not later than seven days to not later than seven business days. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 3; Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8 and Title 12.withdrawn
Latest action 2026-02-05: Withdrawn.
SB 2189 — Local Education Agencies - As introduced, allows time spent by students in a physical education class to meet physical activity time requirements if the students are physically active in the class; clarifies that physical activity may include structured movement breaks; allows a teacher to prevent a student from participating in unstructured play and to assign activities to students during periods of physical activity to improve or correct student behavior. - Amends TCA Title 49.died on adjournment
Latest action 2026-02-05: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Education Committee
HJR 781 — Memorials, Recognition - Trust for Public Land -enacted
Latest action 2026-02-05: Signed by Governor.
SB 1966 — Health Care - As introduced, requires the board of medical examiners, board of nursing, and board of osteopathic examination to initiate a criminal background check for each applicant for a renewal of licensure. - Amends TCA Title 38 and Title 63.died on adjournment
Latest action 2026-02-05: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Health and Welfare Committee
SB 2496 — Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, prohibits a hospital from negotiating or entering into an anti-competitive agreement or engage in anti-competitive conduct with other hospitals in this state; prohibits state funds from being used to facilitate, or otherwise further, an activity that constitutes the active supervision of anti-competitive conduct in the healthcare sector. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 13.died on adjournment
Latest action 2026-02-05: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Health and Welfare Committee
HB 2142 — Civil Procedure - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Foreign Law Non-Recognition Act." - Amends TCA Title 20 and Title 29.died on adjournment
Latest action 2026-02-05: P2C, ref. to Judiciary Committee
HJR 713 — Memorials, Recognition - First Baptist Church of Jacksboro -enacted
Latest action 2026-02-05: Signed by Governor.
SB 2538 — Children - As introduced, establishes that children have equal protection under the law and possess fundamental rights to safety, protection from harm, and consideration of their best interests as the paramount concern in all legal proceedings, governmental actions, and policy decisions affecting their welfare. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37.died on adjournment
Latest action 2026-02-05: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
HB 2524 — Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates the new criminal offenses of systematic unauthorized employment and aggravated systematic unauthorized employment; establishes the tort of unfair competition. - Amends TCA Title 29 and Title 39.died on adjournment
Latest action 2026-02-05: P2C, ref. to Commerce Committee - Judiciary Committee
HB 2487 — Planning, Public - As introduced, requires an establishment resolution adopted by the governing body of a municipality to form an infrastructure development district to include an itemization of the funded costs for infrastructure related to each utility service that will serve the development district. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13; Title 65 and Title 66.died on adjournment
Latest action 2026-02-05: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
HB 2384 — Consumer Protection - As introduced, extends from five to 10 business days the period during which a financial service provider may refuse or delay financial transactions not involving securities due to suspected financial exploitation. - Amends TCA Title 45 and Title 47.died on adjournment
Latest action 2026-02-05: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
SB 2672 — Public Contracts - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Businesses First Act," which requires local governmental entities to provide a 30-day local bidding period for certain contracts, during which only local businesses may submit bids; creates a bidding preference for local businesses. - Amends TCA Title 9 and Title 12.died on adjournment
Latest action 2026-02-05: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee
SB 2540 — Public Records - As introduced, revises provisions relating to the assessment and collection of fees for the inspection and copying of public records. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 4, Part 6 and Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5.died on adjournment
Latest action 2026-02-05: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee
SB 2606 — Agriculture - As introduced, under certain conditions, requires the department of agriculture to purchase and distribute round hay baling machines to applicants in the hay equipment portion of the Tennessee agricultural enhancement program in lieu of making cost-share grants associated with the purchase of the machines. - Amends TCA Title 43.died on adjournment
Latest action 2026-02-05: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Energy, Ag., and Nat. Resources Committee
HB 2486 — 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 2026-02-05: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
SB 2655 — Personal Property - As introduced, extends from 10 to 100 years the initial statutory period of the postmortem right to commercial exploitation of a deceased individual's property rights in such individual's name, photograph, voice, or likeness by an executor, assignee, heir, or devisee. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 3; Title 47, Chapter 25 and Title 47, Chapter 18.died on adjournment
Latest action 2026-02-05: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
SB 2344 — Election Laws - As introduced, requires election officials to meet at the polling place at least one hour ahead of the time for opening the polls rather than 30 minutes. - Amends TCA Title 2.died on adjournment
Latest action 2026-02-05: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee
HB 2597 — 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 2026-02-05: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.