Tennessee Bills

sponsored by Charlie Baum

Bill Title Introduced Latest Action↓
HB 1450 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Bail, Bail Bonds - As introduced, prohibits an entity other than a defendant, a member of defendant's family, the defendant's legal guardian, the defendant's employer, or a professional bondsman from posting security for more than three defendants in any calendar year, or for a single defendant more than one time per calendar year; makes various other changes related to entities seeking to secure the release of a defendant. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.
Nov 10 2025 Filed For Introduction
Nov 10 2025
HB 1447 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Retirement Savings Plan Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 9 and Title 50.
Oct 06 2025 Filed For Introduction
Oct 06 2025
HB 691 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As enacted, changes the amounts of the franchise and excise tax credits allowed to financial institutions from certain percentages of the unpaid principal balance of certain qualified loans made to eligible housing entities to certain percentages of the month-end average unpaid principal balance of such loans; makes other related revisions. - Amends TCA Section 67-4-2109.
Feb 03 2025 Pub. Ch. 496
May 27 2025
HB 495 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As enacted, rewrites the fee limits for a party requesting a patient's medical record in either paper or electronic format from a provider or the provider's third-party release of information provider. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.
Jan 29 2025 Pub. Ch. 339
May 08 2025
HB 331 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Tennessee Housing Development Agency - As enacted, increases, from $4 billion to $5 billion, the maximum aggregate principal amount for which the agency may issue bonds and notes at any one time. - Amends TCA Section 13-23-121.
Jan 23 2025 Pub. Ch. 338
May 08 2025
HB 1036 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Education - As enacted, authorizes a state university board of trustees to conduct private meetings to discuss or deliberate on matters related to senior administration, personnel positions, and contracts, without taking action on such matters in a private meeting. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 14; Title 49, Chapter 4; Title 49, Chapter 50; Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, Chapter 8 and Title 49, Chapter 9.
Feb 05 2025 Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 267
Apr 29 2025
HB 695 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Taxes - As enacted, increases, by 15 cents over a 10-year period, and subject to a two-thirds vote of the county legislative body, the maximum mineral severance tax rate that may be levied by a county on all sand, gravel, sandstone, chert, and limestone severed from the ground within its jurisdiction; removes the authorization for Smith County to allocate its mineral severance tax to the county general fund or a fund other than its county road fund. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 7, Part 2.
Feb 03 2025 Pub. Ch. 285
Apr 28 2025
HB 424 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Taxes - As introduced, urges the department of revenue to study the potential economic impact of making all franchise and excise tax credits transferable to any person or entity other than the entity to whom or to which the credits are initially made available pursuant to the statute creating the credit; requires the department to report to the finance, ways and means committee of the senate and the committee in the house of representatives having jurisdiction over tax-related matters on or before January 1, 2026 if such study is conducted. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 20 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 21.
Jan 28 2025 Placed On S/C Cal Finance, Ways, And Means Subcommittee For 4/14/2025
Apr 09 2025
HB 693 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As enacted, makes certain changes to the practice of pharmacy, including removing the present prohibition on requiring a patient to pay an administrative fee for pharmacist-provided hormonal contraceptives when the patient is insured or covered and receives a pharmacy benefit that covers the cost of the hormonal contraceptives. - Amends TCA Title 53, Chapter 10; Title 56, Chapter 32 and Title 63, Chapter 10.
Feb 03 2025 Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 68
Apr 08 2025
HB 494 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, enacts the "Voluntary Portable Benefit Plan Act"; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 50 and Title 65, Chapter 15, Part 3.
Jan 29 2025 Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 131
Apr 08 2025
HB 18 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
TennCare - As introduced, directs the bureau to establish a temporary TennCare benefits program to provide medical assistance on a temporary basis to certain individuals who do not qualify for enrollment in TennCare, CoverKids, or a successor program; requires the bureau to submit a waiver to the federal centers for medicare and medicaid services by December 31, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.
Nov 25 2024 Failed In Insurance Committee
Mar 05 2025
HB 714 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Taxes, Sales - As introduced, requires the commissioner of revenue to establish a sales tax remittance schedule that allows dealers making sales to reasonably offset the burden of transaction fees associated with the collection of sales tax. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.
Feb 03 2025 Assigned To S/C Finance, Ways, And Means Subcommittee
Feb 10 2025
HB 692 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Education, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to publish the Tennessee investment in student achievement formula guide on the department's website. - Amends TCA Title 49.
Feb 03 2025 P2c, Caption Bill, Held On Desk - Pending Amdt.
Feb 06 2025
HB 694 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Taxes - As introduced, increases, from 10 to 12, the number of days from an action taken by the department of revenue that a person may be afforded an opportunity for a formal hearing before the commissioner for an issue in connection with an application, entitlement, or proposed revocation of or to a certificate, license, permit, privilege, or right, or for any other adverse action proposed or taken to implement any revenue regulatory or registration law. - Amends TCA Title 67.
Feb 03 2025 P2c, Caption Bill, Held On Desk - Pending Amdt.
Feb 06 2025
HB 332 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
State Government - As introduced, enacts the "Government Serves the People Act." - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 8.
Jan 23 2025 P2c, Ref. To State & Local Government Committee
Feb 03 2025
HB 17 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Retirement Savings Plan Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 9 and Title 50.
Nov 25 2024 Withdrawn.
Jan 27 2025
HB 42 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Education, Dept. of - As introduced, changes the date, from July 1 to August 1, that the department must annually report to the general assembly on receipts and expenditures for the school safety alert grant pilot fund. - Amends TCA Title 49.
Dec 18 2024 Withdrawn.
Jan 27 2025
HB 163 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Education, Higher - As introduced, increases, from 30 to 45, the number of days after which a municipal corporation must cease to prescribe and enforce traffic ordinances on the campus of a state institution after a state university and community college system or the board of trustees of the University of Tennessee requests the governing body of the municipal corporation to cease prescribing and enforcing such traffic ordinances on the campus of the state institution. - Amends TCA Title 49.
Jan 15 2025 P2c, Caption Bill, Held On Desk - Pending Amdt.
Jan 27 2025
HB 19 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee State Healthcare Cost Savings Incentive Program." - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 27 and Title 56, Chapter 7, Part 6.
Dec 02 2024 Withdrawn.
Jan 27 2025
HB 996 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Education - As enacted, clarifies that instruction in topics related to sexual activity are generally not age-appropriate for students in grades K-5 and must generally not be taught to students in grades K-5 as part of a family life curriculum; clarifies that such prohibition does not prohibit an LEA or public charter school from providing instruction to students in K-5 on the detection, intervention, prevention, and treatment of child sexual abuse and human trafficking in which the victim is a child. - Amends TCA Title 49.
Jan 30 2023 Pub. Ch. 970
May 28 2024

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