SB 933
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Boards and Commissions - As enacted, makes various revisions to the governing boards of public higher education institutions. -
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Feb 05 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 452
May 15 2025
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SB 890
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Health Care - As enacted, revises present law relative to a patient's electronic health record and requires a health insurance entity to establish and maintain a provider access API and a prior authorization API; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 47; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68.
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Feb 05 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 447
May 15 2025
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SB 239
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
General Assembly, Directed Studies - As enacted, requires TACIR to study the availability of housing and other treatment facilities for juvenile offenders who have been adjudicated delinquent and committed to the department of children's services, and the availability of local juvenile detention centers and other facilities for the housing and treatment of juvenile offenders who have been detained by the juvenile court prior to an adjudicatory hearing; requires TACIR to report its findings and recommendations. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39 and Title 40.
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Jan 21 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 418
May 15 2025
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SB 1313
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Real Property - As enacted, creates a vested property right upon the submission, rather than the approval, of a development plan or building permit; specifies that the vesting period applicable when it is based on the submission of a building permit is three years. - Amends TCA Title 13.
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Feb 06 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 465
May 15 2025
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SB 644
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Nurses, Nursing - As enacted, requires the board of nursing to permit a student to enroll in a practical nursing program offered by a public institution of higher education governed by the Tennessee board of regents if the student meets the qualifications for a high school diploma or its equivalent and meets other requirements; requires the board of nursing to permit a student enrolled in a practical nursing program to sit for the national council licensure exam for practical nurses (NCLEX-PN) upon completion of a practical nursing program. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 63.
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Jan 31 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 435
May 15 2025
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SB 703
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Highways, Roads and Bridges - As enacted, requires TACIR to study sustainable funding sources that meet this state's future transportation infrastructure needs and submit its recommendations. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 54 and Title 55.
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Feb 03 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 438
May 15 2025
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SB 136
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Local Government, General - As enacted, authorizes a member of a local government's legislative body to participate in a scheduled meeting by electronic means if the member is dealing with a family or medical emergency, has been called into military service, or is unable to attend in person due to inclement weather. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 8, Chapter 44.
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Jan 14 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 411
May 15 2025
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SB 925
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Taxes, Sales - As enacted, sets the end date at June 30, 2027, for the exemption from sales and use tax for purchases and leases of equipment and infrastructure used to produce broadband communications services or provide internet access. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 3.
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Feb 05 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 449
May 15 2025
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SB 416
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Education, Curriculum - As enacted, requires the state textbook and instructional materials quality commission, in consultation with the department of education, to develop a plan for the commission to review and submit to the state board of education for approval of electronic textbooks and instructional materials for use by virtual schools established by LEAs. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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Jan 28 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 427
May 15 2025
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SB 602
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Education - As enacted, requires the department of education to develop guidelines and criteria for determining how long a student must have been present in a teacher's classroom before the student's record is attributable to the teacher for purposes of evaluating the teacher; authorizes an LEA or public charter school to compensate the estate of a teacher who, on the teacher's death, was in the employ of the LEA or public charter school for the teacher's unused and accrued annual and sick leave in the same manner that the estates of deceased state employees are compensated under present law. - Amends Chapter __ of the Public Acts of 2025 (1st Ex. Sess. – SB 6001 / HB 6004); and TCA Title 4, Chapter 49; Title 8 and Title 49.
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Jan 31 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 433
May 15 2025
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SB 1138
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Sewage - As enacted, prohibits a municipal sewer system or utility district that has operated a sewerage system outside of the corporate boundaries of the city or town for 25 years or more from ceasing operation of the sewerage system outside the corporate boundaries so long as the sewerage system maintains sufficient capacity; requires a utility system that provides wastewater service to provide a connection to the owner of real property for wastewater service when the utility system meets certain requirements. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 35; Title 7, Chapter 82 and Title 68, Chapter 221.
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Feb 06 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 461
May 15 2025
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SB 869
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Licenses - As enacted, creates a bait privilege license to allow hunting or taking of whitetail deer using bait on privately owned or privately leased land. - Amends TCA Title 70.
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Feb 05 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 444
May 15 2025
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SB 931
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Food and Food Products - As enacted, prohibits labeling a cell-cultured food product as meat or a meat food product. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 39; Title 40; Title 43; Title 44; Title 47 and Title 53.
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Feb 05 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 450
May 15 2025
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SB 1359
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Education, Higher - As enacted, authorizes, subject to appropriation, an institution of higher education to request to redirect the institution's capital outlay funds for purposes other than those set out in the 2022 appropriations act; makes related revisions. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 9; Title 10; Title 12; Title 49; Title 66 and Title 67.
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Feb 06 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 467
May 15 2025
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SB 652
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Correction, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to pay from existing budgeted funds a monthly amount to a department employee for the medical care of a retired canine that served the department if the canine is given to the care and custody of the employee. - Amends TCA Title 4.
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Jan 31 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 436
May 15 2025
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SB 207
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Agriculture, Dept. of - As enacted, establishes a fund for the development and implementation of programs that benefit Tennesseans by preserving farmland and forestland, including a grant program for conservation easements. - Amends TCA Title 43, Chapter 1, Part 1.
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Jan 16 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 470
May 15 2025
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SB 28
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Criminal Offenses - As enacted, expands the criminal offense of harassment to include harassment that occurs by communicating in the physical presence of the victim, in addition to in writing, by telephone, or electronically. - Amends TCA Title 39.
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Jan 02 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 408
May 15 2025
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SB 863
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Tennessee Fish & Wildlife Commission - As enacted, directs the commission to promulgate rules to create and issue guide licenses for persons who work as guides at Reelfoot Lake. - Amends TCA Title 11, Chapter 14, Part 1 and Title 70.
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Feb 05 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 443
May 15 2025
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SB 773
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Planning, Public - As enacted, specifies that the vesting period established for a construction project or development plan does not expire because of pending litigation challenging a permit; specifies that the vesting period is tolled while such litigation is pending. - Amends TCA Title 13, Chapter 3; Title 13, Chapter 4 and Title 13, Chapter 7.
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Feb 04 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 440
May 15 2025
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SB 843
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Real Property - As enacted, expands the purposes for which monies in the wetland acquisition fund may be used. - Amends TCA Section 67-4-409.
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Feb 04 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 441
May 15 2025
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