TN — 114S1 | Bill Commons

9,112 bills

SB 2087 — Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, requires the principal or the principal's designee to provide notification to the parent or legal guardian of each student who was in the classroom or instructional area at the time that a classroom evacuation occurred by the end of the day in which the classroom evacuation occurred unless the event that prompted the classroom evacuation is an ongoing emergency or is otherwise under investigation by a state or local law enforcement agency, in which case the notification must not be provided to parents and legal guardians until the emergency event is resolved or the principal or the principal's designee determines that providing the notification does not impede an ongoing investigation, as applicable. - Amends TCA Title 49.enacted
Latest action 2026-05-05: Pub. Ch. 850
HJR 1506 — Memorials, Academic Achievement - Henry Casey, Salutatorian, West High School -enacted
Latest action 2026-05-05: Signed by Governor.
SB 1981 — Workers Compensation - As enacted, adds a requirement that an award of attorneys' fees and costs incurred when an employer unreasonably denies a workers' compensation claim or unreasonably fails to timely initiate any of the benefits associated with the claim must be based on a finding by the workers' compensation judge that the employer's conduct was unreasonable; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 6.enacted
Latest action 2026-05-05: Pub. Ch. 845
HB 1671 — Local Government, General - As enacted, prohibits local governmental entities from relocating homeless individuals unless the relocation meets certain criteria; authorizes the receiving jurisdiction to seek damages and injunctive relief for violations. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 71, Chapter 5.died on adjournment
Latest action 2026-05-05: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 832
HB 2534 — Administrative Procedure (UAPA) - As enacted, precludes certain boards administratively attached to the department of environment and conservation from voting to review the initial order of an administrative law judge in an administrative proceeding, but preserves the right of a party to appeal an initial order directly to the board; reduces from 180 to 90 days the period of time from the completion of the record of a contested case hearing within which an administrative law judge must issue an initial order in a hearing involving such boards. - Amends TCA Title 60; Title 68 and Title 69.died on adjournment
Latest action 2026-05-05: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 838
SB 2139 — Education - As enacted, revises the requirements for electronic participation in school board meetings under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 49.enacted
Latest action 2026-05-05: Pub. Ch. 852
SB 1968 — Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires a director of schools to refer to juvenile court certain students who were formerly enrolled in the LEA, who were receiving certain truancy interventions, who withdrew from the LEA, and who did not transfer to another LEA; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 1, Part 1; Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 6.enacted
Latest action 2026-05-05: Pub. Ch. 844
SB 1890 — Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires, beginning with the next adoption of academic standards in the subject of social studies, the standards recommendation committee to include in their final recommendations of academic standards in the subject of social studies to the state board of education, and the state board, to adopt, grade-appropriate academic standards on the history of communism. - Amends TCA Title 49.enacted
Latest action 2026-05-05: Pub. Ch. 708
SB 375 — Criminal Offenses - As enacted, defines "seriously bodily injury" for the purposes of the present law offense of vehicular assault, which occurs when a person who, as the proximate result of the person's intoxication, recklessly causes serious bodily injury to another person by the operation of a motor vehicle or vessel subject to registration; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 55.died on adjournment
Latest action 2026-05-05: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 875
HB 2350 — Foster Care - As enacted, requires the department of children's services to provide a copy of a petition to terminate parental rights for a child in the custody of the department to the child's foster parent, if the foster parent has served as the physical placement for the child for a period of nine or more consecutive months; requires the department to provide the required copy within seven days of the filing or being served with the petition. - Amends TCA Section 36-1-113 and Section 37-2-415.died on adjournment
Latest action 2026-05-05: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 802
SB 1940 — Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As enacted, designates January 22 of each year as "Sanctity of Life Day." - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2.died on adjournment
Latest action 2026-05-05: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 879
HJR 1509 — Memorials, Academic Achievement - Isaiah Mitchell, Salutatorian, South-Doyle High School -enacted
Latest action 2026-05-05: Signed by Governor.
HJR 1484 — Memorials, Recognition - Greenfield School, Anne Dallas Dudley Award -enacted
Latest action 2026-05-05: Signed by Governor.
HB 1834 — Local Education Agencies - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Religious Freedom Act," which authorizes a local board of education to open a meeting of the board with a prayer led by a member of the board as long as the prayer does not require participation of any person in attendance at the meeting and no person is harassed or coerced to participate in the prayer. - Amends TCA Title 49.died on adjournment
Latest action 2026-05-05: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 710
HJR 1507 — Memorials, Academic Achievement - Ian Steiger, Salutatorian, West High School -enacted
Latest action 2026-05-05: Signed by Governor.
HB 1934 — Schools, Charter - As enacted, requires the department of education to annually collect and report certain data for opportunity public charter schools on the department's website; requires a director of schools, juvenile court judge, or department of children's services caseworker who has knowledge that a student is an at-risk student and is eligible to attend an opportunity public charter school to provide the student and the student's parent or legal guardian with information regarding the student's eligibility to enroll in an opportunity public charter school and the location of any opportunity public charter schools that are located in or adjacent to the student's county of residence. - Amends TCA Title 49.died on adjournment
Latest action 2026-05-05: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 842
SB 1883 — Administrative Procedure (UAPA) - As enacted, precludes certain boards administratively attached to the department of environment and conservation from voting to review the initial order of an administrative law judge in an administrative proceeding, but preserves the right of a party to appeal an initial order directly to the board; reduces from 180 to 90 days the period of time from the completion of the record of a contested case hearing within which an administrative law judge must issue an initial order in a hearing involving such boards. - Amends TCA Title 60; Title 68 and Title 69.enacted
Latest action 2026-05-05: Pub. Ch. 838
SB 2138 — Criminal Offenses - As enacted, requires a person convicted of vehicular homicide proximately resulting from the person's intoxication to be punished as no lower than a Range II offender if the person, as a result of the same course of conduct, is also convicted of leaving the scene of the accident. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55.enacted
Latest action 2026-05-05: Pub. Ch. 715
HJR 1518 — Memorials, Recognition - Barry Clingan -enacted
Latest action 2026-05-05: Signed by Governor.
HJR 1537 — Memorials, Academic Achievement - Kate Tucker, Valedictorian, Silverdale Baptist Academy -enacted
Latest action 2026-05-05: Signed by Governor.
HJR 1514 — Memorials, Heroism - Graham Tudor -enacted
Latest action 2026-05-05: Signed by Governor.
HJR 1480 — Memorials, Academic Achievement - Hiba Shahbaz, Valedictorian, Hixson High School -enacted
Latest action 2026-05-05: Signed by Governor.
HB 803 — Sewage - As enacted, makes revision to present law concerning sewerage systems using land application; exempts Hamilton County from the provisions requiring the developer of a subdivision or neighborhood that proposes to construct a treatment works to submit an application to the utility serving the area in which the system is located. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 62, Chapter 2; Title 65; Title 68, Chapter 221 and Title 69.enacted
Latest action 2026-05-05: Pub. Ch. 876
HB 2527 — Child Abuse - As enacted, requires, rather than permits, the child protective team for a case involving a human trafficking offense to include a representative from a non-governmental agency specialized in combatting the commercial sexual exploitation of minors; extends the time within which the department or child protective team must determine whether reported abuse was indicated or unfounded from 60 days to 90 days or, in cases involving a child fatality, 180 days. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 1.died on adjournment
Latest action 2026-05-05: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 723
HJR 1524 — Memorials, Academic Achievement - Kacie Chiapperini, Top Ten Senior, Gordonsville High School -enacted
Latest action 2026-05-05: Signed by Governor.