TN — 114S1 | Bill Commons

9,112 bills

SB 686 — Tennessee Higher Education Commission - As introduced, creates the Tennessee Promise completion grant special account in the state treasury for purposes of awarding completion grants to certain Tennessee Promise scholarship students; makes the four-year pilot program established by the commission to award completion grants to certain Tennessee Promise scholarship students a permanent program. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 49; Title 49, Chapter 4 and Title 49, Chapter 7.died on adjournment
Latest action 2026-04-20: Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/21/2026
HJR 727 — Memorials, Congress - Urges Congress to bring home the remains of the USS Intrepid sailors entombed in Libya. -enacted
Latest action 2026-04-20: Signed by Governor.
SB 695 — Education - As introduced, converts the school safety alert grant pilot program to a statewide two-year school safety alert grant program; removes the limit on the number of grants that may be awarded in a fiscal year. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Chapter 994 of the Public Acts of 2024.died on adjournment
Latest action 2026-04-20: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
SB 2587 — County Government - As introduced, creates a supplemental pay incentive program for local correctional officers who receive 40 hours or more of in-service training per calendar year. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 8, Part 1 and Title 41.died on adjournment
Latest action 2026-04-20: Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/21/2026
SB 1963 — Taxes, Privilege - As introduced, removes licensed attorneys who have practiced more than 20 years from the application of the professional privilege tax. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 17.died on adjournment
Latest action 2026-04-20: Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/21/2026
HJR 1256 — Memorials, Retirement - Ruthie Brawner, Macon Bank & Trust Company -enacted
Latest action 2026-04-20: Signed by Governor.
SB 2581 — County Boundaries - As introduced, increases from 90 days to 100 days the amount of time that a joint committee on county consolidation has following its receipt of a petition of consolidation to report its findings and recommendations on the feasibility of consolidation of the petitioning county with another county. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 12 and Title 67.died on adjournment
Latest action 2026-04-20: Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk.
SB 473 — Veterans - As introduced, enacts the "Veterans Assistance for Livelihood, Opportunity, and Relief (VALOR) Act," which exempts disabled veterans who have 100 percent permanent and total disability from a service-connected cause from the payment of certain taxes and fees. - Amends TCA Section 5-8-102; Title 55, Chapter 4; Title 67 and Title 70, Chapter 2.died on adjournment
Latest action 2026-04-20: Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/21/2026
SB 1837 — Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, exempts from the state sales and use tax the retail sale of food and food ingredients that are voucher-eligible under the Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.died on adjournment
Latest action 2026-04-20: Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/21/2026
SB 612 — Education - As introduced, creates a special fund to provide grants to local education agencies and public charter schools for the acquisition, retention, or expansion of digital career and technical education curricula through platforms containing comprehensive courses with lesson plans, media rich content and activities, and interactive assessments. - Amends TCA Title 9 and Title 49.died on adjournment
Latest action 2026-04-20: Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/21/2026
SB 1920 — Criminal Offenses - As introduced, prohibits the use of a telecommunication device, with intent to deprive the owner of property, to fraudulently obtain or exercise control over the property of another without the owner's effective consent, which is punishable as theft, but in no event less than a Class E felony. - Amends TCA Title 39.died on adjournment
Latest action 2026-04-20: Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/21/2026
SB 2349 — Health, Dept. of - As introduced, directs the department to create an outreach campaign regarding the ongoing research of Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease; terminates the outreach campaign on July 1, 2027. - Amends TCA Title 68.died on adjournment
Latest action 2026-04-20: Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/21/2026
SB 2430 — Criminal Offenses - As introduced, requires a posted sign or notice intended to warn violators that trespassers by motor vehicle will be prosecuted to clearly define the area in which driving, parking, standing, or otherwise operating a motor vehicle is prohibited. - Amends TCA Title 39.died on adjournment
Latest action 2026-04-20: Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/21/2026
SB 788 — Taxes, Privilege - As introduced, reallocates 3 percent of revenue derived from the beer barrelage tax that is provided to the general fund to the department of agriculture for the purposes of supporting growth in the utilization of Tennessee agricultural products in brewing and in the promotion of the growth of the Tennessee brewing industry. - Amends TCA Title 57.died on adjournment
Latest action 2026-04-20: Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/21/2026
SB 1236 — Controlled Substances - As introduced, removes Tetrahydrocannabinolic acid (THCa) and Tetrahydrocannabiphorol (THCp) from the list of authorized hemp-derived cannabinoids. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4 and Title 43, Chapter 27.died on adjournment
Latest action 2026-04-20: Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/21/2026
SB 2325 — Public Defenders - As introduced, changes from 10 days to 10 business days the number of days' written notice the president of the district public defenders conference must give before calling an at-will meeting of the conference. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 14 and Title 9, Chapter 4.died on adjournment
Latest action 2026-04-20: Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/21/2026
SB 2498 — Finance and Administration, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to promulgate rules relating to cash transaction rounding. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18 and Title 67.died on adjournment
Latest action 2026-04-20: Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/21/2026
HJR 1295 — Memorials, Academic Achievement - Dariana Sanchez Arredondo, Salutatorian, Raleigh-Egypt High School -enacted
Latest action 2026-04-20: Signed by Governor.
SB 2683 — Taxes, Sales - As introduced, exempts the sale or use of feminine hygiene products from sales and use tax; directs the department of education to ensure feminine hygiene products are placed into and made available to students for free in a public school upon the request of a public school administrator, board, or director of schools. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 49 and Title 67, Chapter 6.died on adjournment
Latest action 2026-04-20: Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/21/2026
SB 2470 — Boards and Commissions - As introduced, transfers oversight of the board of boiler rules and the elevator and amusement device safety board from the department of labor and workforce development to the department of commerce and insurance. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 62 and Title 68.died on adjournment
Latest action 2026-04-20: Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/21/2026
SB 924 — District Attorneys - As introduced, adds an additional assistant district attorney general position and criminal investigator position in each judicial district that includes a state correctional facility. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 16 and Title 41.died on adjournment
Latest action 2026-04-20: Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/21/2026
HJR 1320 — Memorials, Heroism - Firefighter Matthew McDowell, Signal Mountain Fire Department -enacted
Latest action 2026-04-20: Signed by Governor.
SB 2480 — Public Funds and Financing - As introduced, enacts the "Greenbelt Initiative Fund Transfer (GIFT) Act," which creates the rural revenue equity fund; authorizes the commissioner of economic and community development to distribute amounts from the fund to rural counties based on certain agricultural, demographic, and fiscal criteria, including greenbelt acreage. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 9 and Title 67.died on adjournment
Latest action 2026-04-20: Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/21/2026
HJR 1273 — Memorials, Professional Achievement - Kristi Coble, Brentwood Middle School Teacher of the Year -enacted
Latest action 2026-04-20: Signed by Governor.
SB 294 — Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, exempts from the sales and use tax the purchase of a motor vehicle that is registered in this state by a qualifying member of the Tennessee national guard; applies the sales tax exemption only to the first $15,000 of the sales price and only to one vehicle sold to such individual within a five-year period. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 3.died on adjournment
Latest action 2026-04-20: Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/21/2026