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SB 933 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Boards and Commissions - As enacted, makes various revisions to the governing boards of public higher education institutions. -
Feb 05 2025 Pub. Ch. 452
May 15 2025
SB 288 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Firefighters - As enacted, adds prostate cancer, breast cancer, and pancreatic cancer to the list of cancers for which a presumption is created that certain conditions or impairments of full-time firefighters caused by prostate cancer, breast cancer, pancreatic cancer, or other listed cancers arose out of employment unless the contrary is shown by competent medical evidence. - Amends TCA Section 7-51-201.
Jan 24 2025 Pub. Ch. 422
May 15 2025
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.
Jan 21 2025 Pub. Ch. 418
May 15 2025
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.
Jan 02 2025 Pub. Ch. 408
May 15 2025
SB 1463 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Morgan County - Subject to local approval, establishes that the County Attorney must be a licensed practicing attorney appointed or hired subject to the vote of the Morgan County Commission to serve a four-year term and does not need to be a resident of Morgan County to serve as County Attorney. - Amends Chapter 467 of the Private Acts of 1951; as amended.
Apr 16 2025 Pr. Ch. 10
May 14 2025
SB 180 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Administrative Procedure (UAPA) - As enacted, generally establishes that permanent rules filed in the office of the secretary of state on or after January 1, 2024, that are in effect on the effective date of this act, and that are scheduled for expiration on June 30, 2025, do not expire on June 30, 2025, but remain in effect until repealed or amended by subsequent rule of the appropriate rulemaking agency or until otherwise superseded by legislative enactment. -
Jan 15 2025 Pub. Ch. 307
May 13 2025
SB 629 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Taxes, Hotel Motel - As enacted, revises present law relative to the privilege tax upon the privilege of occupancy in a hotel levied by municipalities. - Amends TCA Title 7 and Title 67.
Jan 31 2025 Pub. Ch. 372
May 13 2025
SB 1090 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Law Enforcement - As enacted, authorizes uniformed law enforcement officers to wear decorations, medals, service medals, and badges awarded to the officers by the armed forces of the United States, the Tennessee national guard, or the state guard during the week prior to Veterans Day and Memorial Day, the day of Veterans Day and Memorial Day, and the day immediately following Veterans Day and Memorial Day. - Amends TCA Title 38 and Title 58.
Feb 05 2025 Pub. Ch. 391
May 13 2025
SB 1116 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Vital Records - As enacted, requires certain records or papers for a person relating to the adoption or attempted adoption of a person in the possession of the office of the clerk of the adoption court; the offices of the department of health; the office of any child-placing agency, whether or not it is chartered or licensed; or any other information source, to be made available to the department of children's services for the purpose of searching for a kinship foster care placement. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 68.
Feb 06 2025 Pub. Ch. 393
May 13 2025
SB 713 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Education - As enacted, requires each public senior high school to provide official recruiting representatives of the armed forces of this state and the United States access to the high school at least once a month during student lunch periods for the purpose of informing students of educational and career opportunities available in the military and at least once every other month when school is in session to provide further information to students who have expressed interest; provides additional related access. - Amends TCA Title 49.
Feb 03 2025 Pub. Ch. 377
May 13 2025
SB 623 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Public Records - As enacted, requires the office of open records counsel to facilitate the convening of meetings of the advisory committee on open government, including selecting a date for the required annual meeting in the absence of co-chairs. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 4, Part 6.
Jan 31 2025 Pub. Ch. 370
May 13 2025
SB 1414 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, revises present law relative to 340B entities. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18 and Title 56.
Feb 06 2025 Pub. Ch. 404
May 13 2025
SB 503 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As enacted, designates the month of June as "Celebration of Life" month, the month of July as "Celebration of Liberty" month, and the month of August as "Celebration of the Pursuit of Happiness" month in Tennessee. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 4.
Jan 29 2025 Pub. Ch. 366
May 13 2025
SB 298 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Education, Curriculum - As enacted, makes various changes to the approval process and notice requirements for nonsectarian, nonreligious Bible courses; clarifies that public charter schools are authorized to provide nonsectarian, nonreligious Bible courses in the same manner as local education agencies. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.
Jan 27 2025 Pub. Ch. 314
May 13 2025
SB 408 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Tort Liability and Reform - As enacted, prohibits governmental entities or local boards of education from extending immunity granted to independent school bus contractors rather than independent school bus owners and operators for providing school-related transportation services; requires liability insurance coverage in a contract or agreement between a local board of education and an independent school bus contractor for such services to be in an amount sufficient to satisfy applicable law; permits evidence of such coverage to include a certificate of insurance from an insurance provider that lists the local board of education as an additional insured. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 20.
Jan 28 2025 Pub. Ch. 299
May 13 2025
SB 560 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Children - As enacted, clarifies that the economic disadvantage of a parent or guardian alone is not a ground for termination of parental rights; clarifies that, for purposes of laws relative to juvenile courts and proceedings, "neglect" does not exist solely on the basis of economic disadvantage. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 37 and Title 39.
Jan 30 2025 Pub. Ch. 322
May 13 2025
SB 111 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, authorizes a licensee that holds more than a 50 percent ownership interest in a manufacturer and a winery that are located on the same deeded property to offer product tastings and make retail sales for consumption on or off of such premises of its wine or spirits manufactured on such deeded property at a location on the overlapping premises other than on the bonded premises of the manufacturer or winery. - Amends TCA Title 57.
Jan 13 2025 Pub. Ch. 358
May 13 2025
SB 48 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Opioids - As enacted, adds Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC, Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc., Sun Pharmaceutical Industries, Inc., Indivior Inc., Viatris Inc., and Purdue Pharma L.P. to the list of companies that may be released by the attorney general and reporter for pending or future claims regarding opioids. - Amends TCA Title 20 and Title 33.
Jan 09 2025 Pub. Ch. 302
May 13 2025
SB 1202 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Bonding, Surety and Professional - As enacted, authorizes the surety on a bail bond to petition the court for release from their obligations as surety if the principal forfeits. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 13; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41; Title 56; Title 62 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 8.
Feb 06 2025 Pub. Ch. 395
May 13 2025
SB 227 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Tort Liability and Reform - As enacted, allows a charitable organization that provides housing to a person whom the charitable organization knows is unlawfully present in the United States to be held liable for a loss, damages, injury, or death resulting from a criminal offense committed by the person who is unlawfully present in the United States while the person is receiving housing services from the charitable organization if the charitable organization's conduct in providing housing constitutes negligence, gross negligence, or willful and wanton misconduct. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 34.
Jan 17 2025 Pub. Ch. 311
May 13 2025

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