Tennessee Bills

Senate only

Bill Title Introduced Latest Action↓
SB 1430 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Bond Issues - As enacted, authorizes the state to issue and sell bonds. -
Feb 14 2025 Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 528
May 27 2025
SB 530 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Military - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee National Guard Servicemember's Medical Readiness Act." - Amends TCA Title 58, Chapter 1, Part 2.
Jan 30 2025 Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 483
May 27 2025
SB 255 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Courts - As enacted, prohibits the disqualification or removal of a municipal judge who was duly elected or appointed to office prior to March 7, 2025, and who is qualified for such office under the laws and interpretations in effect at the time of such election or appointment, due to a residency requirement during the term of office to which the municipal judge was elected or appointed. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 16; Title 17; Title 18; Title 20; Title 21; Title 24; Title 25; Title 26; Title 27; Title 28 and Title 29.
Jan 22 2025 Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 487
May 27 2025
SB 875 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Economic and Community Development, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to revise and certify the population of each county and municipality, and the aggregate population of the state, prior to July 1 each year during the interim between the regular decennial federal census to ensure equitable allocation and distribution of the local share of revenue; requires the Boyd Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Tennessee, through the Tennessee state data center, to generate annual population estimates for each county and municipality and provide the estimates to the department for review and certification. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3; Title 4, Chapter 49; Section 9-16-101; Title 54, Chapter 4; Title 55, Chapter 4; Title 57, Chapter 5, Part 2; Title 57, Chapter 3, Part 3; Title 67, Chapter 3, Part 9; Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 9 and Title 67.
Feb 05 2025 Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 501
May 27 2025
SB 1075 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, expands the definition of "machine gun" to include any part, or combination of parts, designed and intended solely for use in converting a firearm into a machine gun; increases the classification for the intentional or knowing possession, manufacture, transport, repair, or sale of a machine gun from a Class E to a Class C felony; reclassifies certain other offenses involving the possession of firearm or handgun ammunition; makes a defendant ineligible for parole if convicted of aggravated assault that involved the use of a firearm from within a motor vehicle. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.
Feb 05 2025 Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 513
May 27 2025
SB 654 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Health Care - As enacted, extends the termination date for the Alzheimer's and dementia respite care pilot program from December 31, 2025, to December 31, 2026. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 33; Title 52; Title 67 and Title 68.
Jan 31 2025 Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 497
May 27 2025
SB 1390 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
TennCare - As enacted, directs the director to establish an additional PACE program as a pilot in one of the two grand divisions where a PACE program did not exist in 2024; permits a current PACE program in a county with a specific population to expand into contiguous counties having specifically listed populations. - Amends TCA Title 71.
Feb 06 2025 Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 502
May 27 2025
SB 963 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Criminal Procedure - As enacted, increases from 11 months and 29 days to two years from the date of arrest the time within which misdemeanor charges against a defendant who has been found incompetent must be retired unless the defendant is restored to competency; adds to present law that, when a defendant whose misdemeanor charges were retired due to a finding of incompetency is released into the community, the chief officer is required to notify the court of the defendant's discharge and provide the court and the sheriff with an outpatient treatment plan that accounts for the safety of the community. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 40 and Title 52.
Feb 05 2025 Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 519
May 27 2025
SB 130 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Tennessee Fish & Wildlife Commission - As enacted, authorizes the commission to promulgate rules or pass proclamations to authorize the use of drones to locate and retrieve deer that have been wounded by hunters. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 70.
Jan 14 2025 Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 478
May 27 2025
SB 885 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Taxes - As enacted, allows nuclear energy production facilities to seek pollution control tax credits for certain machinery and equipment. - Amends TCA Title 67.
Feb 05 2025 Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 517
May 27 2025
SB 289 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Workers Compensation - As enacted, creates a presumption that the diagnosis of a law enforcement officer or emergency medical responder with post-traumatic stress disorder as the result of responding to certain incidents was incurred in the line of duty for purposes of workers' compensation coverage. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51 and Title 50, Chapter 6.
Jan 24 2025 Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 480
May 27 2025
SB 646 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Public Funds and Financing - As enacted, authorizes use of the Hurricane Helene interest payment fund to pay local governments' loan charges; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 9 and Title 58.
Jan 31 2025 Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 521
May 27 2025
SB 1139 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Utilities, Utility Districts - As enacted, makes revisions to present law relative to utilities. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 13, Chapter 7; Title 65 and Title 68.
Feb 06 2025 Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 490
May 27 2025
SB 505 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Montgomery County - As enacted, permits a court to transfer, upon motion by the defendant, a criminal case to the veterans treatment court program in Montgomery County if the veterans treatment court program would have jurisdiction over the case if the offense had been committed in Montgomery County, the defendant files with the court a written waiver of the right to be tried by an impartial jury of the county in which the crime was committed, and the district attorney general for Montgomery County agrees to accept transfer of the case. - Amends TCA Title 16 and Title 40.
Jan 29 2025 Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 489
May 27 2025
SB 1366 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Federal Aid - As enacted, establishes a process for reviewing requests for federal aid. -
Feb 06 2025 Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 512
May 27 2025
SB 324 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As enacted, enacts "Savanna's Law," which creates a registry of persistent domestic violence offenders; requires the bureau to maintain the registry. - Amends TCA Title 18; Section 38-6-103; Title 39 and Title 40.
Jan 27 2025 Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 520
May 27 2025
SB 1083 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Local Government, General - As enacted, enacts "Dismantle DEI in Employment Act." - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8 and Title 49.
Feb 05 2025 Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 494
May 27 2025
SB 944 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Criminal Offenses - As enacted, requires the department of mental health and substance abuse services to establish a mental health evaluation process for a community mental health center or qualified mental health professional to evaluate a defendant convicted of domestic assault, child abuse, aggravated child abuse, cruelty to animals, aggravated cruelty to animals; requires a court in which a person is convicted of any such offense to order the offender to undergo a mental health evaluation prior to the sentencing hearing. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 39 and Title 40.
Feb 05 2025 Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 511
May 27 2025
SB 659 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Taxes, Sales - As enacted, increases, from two to four, the number of temporary sales periods that a bona fide religious institution may participate in and be exempt from registering to collect sales tax on sales directly to consumers made during such temporary sales period. - Amends TCA Section 67-6-102.
Jan 31 2025 Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 493
May 27 2025
SB 203 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As enacted, creates new specialty earmarked license plates; extends certain specialty earmarked license plates; authorizes the funds generated from the issuance of the Historic Franklin new specialty earmarked license plate to also be used to provide financial support for the Chester Inn State Historic Site; authorizes the issuance of motorcycle plates for paratroopers. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.
Jan 16 2025 Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 479
May 27 2025

Showing 121 to 140 of 21316 bills