SB 161
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires each board of education for an LEA that operates at least one high school to adopt and implement a policy to authorize a high school student to serve as an advisory, nonvoting representative on the board during meetings that are open to the public. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 2.
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Jan 15 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 359
May 13 2025
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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.
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Feb 06 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 395
May 13 2025
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SB 510
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As enacted, establishes that certain public officials, including members of the general assembly, who take office on or after July 1, 2025, have mandatory membership in the Tennessee consolidated retirement system (TCRS); allows a retiree to reannuitize retirement benefits in favor of a new spouse beneficiary following cancellation of a former spouse beneficiary due to divorce; makes other revisions to provisions governing the TCRS. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 25; Title 8, Chapter 34; Title 8, Chapter 35; Title 8, Chapter 36 and Title 8, Chapter 37.
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Jan 30 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 367
May 13 2025
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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.
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Jan 31 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 372
May 13 2025
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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.
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Jan 17 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 311
May 13 2025
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SB 128
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Professions and Occupations - As enacted, makes various changes relative to the practice of chiropractors, including animal chiropractic practice. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 63.
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Jan 14 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 304
May 13 2025
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SB 1237
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Bail, Bail Bonds - As enacted, requires every bondsman licensed in this state to file a quarterly report with the department of revenue detailing the total number of bonds issued by the bondsman in the preceding quarter, the number of bonds issued in each county in which the bondsman operated, and the total amount of the bondsman's liability in each county; requires each clerk of a court that admits defendants to bail to file a quarterly report with the department detailing the total number of bonds accepted from bondsmen and the total amount of the bonds accepted from bondsmen in the preceding quarter; authorizes the department to use the reports to complete audits on the bail bonding tax. - 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.
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Feb 06 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 396
May 13 2025
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SB 870
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Education, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to conduct a landscape analysis of teacher evaluation practices in this state and other states; requires the department to convene a teacher evaluation advisory committee to review and evaluate current teacher evaluation practices in this state; requires the department and the state board to provide the education committee of the senate and committee of the house of representatives having jurisdiction over teacher evaluations a final report on the landscape analysis, teacher evaluation advisory committee's recommendations, and any department or state board recommendations by January 31, 2026. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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Feb 05 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 325
May 13 2025
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SB 1400
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Criminal Offenses - As enacted, revises present law concerning driving under the influence. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 55.
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Feb 06 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 403
May 13 2025
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SB 1388
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Human Services, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to establish a process by which management of a public property may submit formal complaints regarding the conduct or performance of a blind individual who has been licensed to operate a vending facility on such public property through the business enterprise program for the blind; makes other changes relative to such programs for disabled individuals. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 4.
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Feb 06 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 402
May 13 2025
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SB 1034
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Historical Sites and Preservation - As enacted, includes in the definition of a "memorial", for purposes of Tennessee heritage protection, an official governmental seal of a city or county government that contains imagery representative of any historic conflict, historic entity, historic event, historic figure, or historic organization. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 4.
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Feb 05 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 389
May 13 2025
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SB 308
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, establishes new premier type tourist resorts, urban park centers, and museums that can offer liquor by the drink; makes certain clarifications with regard to commercial airline travel clubs that can offer liquor by the drink. - Amends TCA Title 57.
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Jan 27 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 362
May 13 2025
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SB 1114
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Public Records - As enacted, deletes the automatic repeal on July 1, 2025, of a provision that authorizes records custodians to seek an injunction against a person who makes requests to view or copy public records with the intent to disrupt government operations. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5.
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Feb 05 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 392
May 13 2025
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SB 1282
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Food and Food Products - As enacted, deletes present laws pertaining to rented premises unfit for habitation and quick fast food establishment delivery vehicles; removes the statutorily set permit fees to operate food service establishments and requires such permit fees to be set by rule; makes other revisions to present laws pertaining to food service and safety. - Amends TCA Section 53-8-103; Title 68, Chapter 110; Title 68, Chapter 111; Title 68, Chapter 14 and Title 68, Chapter 15.
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Feb 06 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 400
May 13 2025
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SB 827
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Schools, Private - As enacted, prohibits the state board of education from requiring a private school that provides a fully online, self-paced educational program to comply with certain class size, school calendar, vaccination, and assessment requirements in order to operate in this state as an approved Category III nonpublic school. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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Feb 04 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 380
May 13 2025
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SB 1003
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Education - As enacted, requires, if an approved universal reading screener is administered to pre-k students at an LEA or public charter school, the LEA or public charter school to allow the pre-k teacher whose students were administered the screener to use the results as an approved alternative student growth model or the pre-k/kindergarten portfolio growth model to generate individual growth scores for teachers pursuant to the evaluation guidelines developed by the department of education. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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Feb 05 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 385
May 13 2025
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SB 1239
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Children - As enacted, enacts the "End Childhood Hunger Act." - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37.
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Feb 06 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 397
May 13 2025
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SB 1241
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Child Abuse - As enacted, expands the definition of child abuse to include a person under the age of 18 witnessing either the abuse of another child in the person's immediate family or household or domestic abuse of a member of the person's immediate family or household; specifies that reunification between a parent and a child placed in foster care due to abuse must not occur unless the parent has complied with the parent's statement of responsibilities in the permanency plan and the child has received mental health counseling. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 37 and Title 39.
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Feb 06 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 398
May 13 2025
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SB 1311
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, makes various changes to certain teacher licensure requirements. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5 and Title 49, Chapter 6.
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Feb 06 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 328
May 13 2025
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SB 535
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Children - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Protection of Children Against Sexual Exploitation Act." - Amends TCA Title 24; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 47.
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Jan 30 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 368
May 13 2025
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