SB 1474
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Criminal Offenses - As introduced, restates the criminal offense of drag racing as street drag racing; expands the offense to include acts committed on commercial property; authorizes a vehicle used in the commission of the offense or to flee after commission of the offense to be impounded for the purpose of collecting evidence; makes various other changes regarding the offense of street drag racing. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 39; Title 40; Title 55 and Title 68.
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Nov 04 2025 |
Filed For Introduction
Nov 04 2025
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SB 1476
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Finance and Administration, Dept. of - As introduced, creates a law enforcement officer recruitment fund and grant program administered by the department for the purpose of assisting eligible law enforcement agencies in officer recruitment. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 9 and Title 38.
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Nov 04 2025 |
Filed For Introduction
Nov 04 2025
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SB 1472
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Taxes, Real Property - As introduced, requires, instead of allows, a city or county collecting official to accept the disputed portion of property tax under appeal if the taxpayer pays the full tax due before the delinquency date. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5.
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Nov 04 2025 |
Filed For Introduction
Nov 04 2025
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SB 1473
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Courts, Municipal - As introduced, allows a municipal court to order a municipality to remedy a property maintenance ordinance violation when the person or entity found to be in violation of a municipal ordinance related to property maintenance fails to remedy the violation within 30 days; requires the cost of the remediation to be assessed against the property owner in the form of a lien upon the property in favor of the municipality. - Amends TCA Title 6; Title 7; Title 13; Title 16, Chapter 18 and Title 29, Chapter 3.
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Nov 04 2025 |
Filed For Introduction
Nov 04 2025
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SB 1475
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases the penalty for aggravated cruelty to animals from a Class E felony to a Class D felony; adds aggravated cruelty to animals as an offense for which a juvenile may be classified as a serious youthful offender. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 39.
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Nov 04 2025 |
Filed For Introduction
Nov 04 2025
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SB 1466
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Public Officials - As introduced, authorizes recall elections for elected members of a local legislative body, city and county mayors, sheriffs, trustees, registers, clerks, assessors of property, and members of a school board. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 8, Chapter 47 and Title 49, Chapter 2.
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Oct 27 2025 |
Filed For Introduction
Oct 27 2025
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SB 1467
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Criminal Offenses - As introduced, enacts the "Memphis Safe Task Force Accountability Act." - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 7 and Title 39.
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Oct 27 2025 |
Filed For Introduction
Oct 27 2025
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SB 1439
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Germantown - Subject to local approval, makes the office of mayor a full-time position, with the salary of the office to be set by ordinance. - Amends Chapter 87 of the Private Acts of 1985.
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Feb 26 2025 |
Comp. Became Pr. Ch. 12
Jun 04 2025
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SB 384
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Taxes, Hotel Motel - As enacted, requires a hotel operator to remit the hotel tax to the municipality when a person has maintained occupancy for 30 continuous days and to cease collecting the tax from the person for the remainder of their stay in the operator's hotel. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 14.
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Jan 28 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 364
Jun 04 2025
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SB 1336
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Local Education Agencies - As enacted, authorizes a local legislative body for a county that has adopted a charter form of government to require elections for the county board of education to be held at the same time and on the same election cycle as elections for members of the local legislative body for the county, members of the county board of education to have successive terms of office if members of the local legislative body for the county have successive terms of office and members of the county board of education to have the same term limits as members of the local legislative body for the county. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 5; Title 7; Title 8 and Title 49.
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Feb 06 2025 |
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 527
May 27 2025
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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.
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Feb 06 2025 |
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 490
May 27 2025
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SB 670
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Water Pollution - As enacted, requires the division of water resources in the department of environment and conservation, in collaboration with U.S. army corps of engineers, as necessary, to annually report information concerning compensatory mitigation provisions in aquatic resource alteration permits issued during the prior fiscal year to the governor, the comptroller of the treasury, and the chairpersons of the commerce committees; and to establish four categories of isolated wetlands for regulatory purposes; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 11, Chapter 14, Part 4; Title 66; Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 4 and Title 69.
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Jan 31 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 437
May 15 2025
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SB 857
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Housing - As enacted, authorizes any county having made loans in excess of the amount of funds in the initial capitalization of the loan fund pool for the county to terminate its participation in the homebuyers' revolving loan fund pool with notice to the Tennessee housing development agency and to retain all funds, including any funds used for initial capitalization or interest earnings on repayments. - Amends TCA Title 13, Chapter 23.
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Feb 05 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 442
May 15 2025
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SB 221
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Juvenile Offenders - As enacted, permits a court to use juvenile court records, including the disposition and evidence, in pretrial reports used to set bond for certain criminal offenses; requires the magistrate to consider the defendant's prior juvenile record in determining the defendant's risk of danger to the community. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 40.
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Jan 16 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 414
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 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 392
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates the offense of human smuggling; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 39.
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Jan 28 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 424
May 15 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 217
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Transportation, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to develop and implement a policy regarding the removal of personal property used for camping from the shoulder, berm, or right-of-way of highways under its jurisdiction or under a bridge or overpass under its jurisdiction; prohibits the department from commencing initial clean-up activities, vegetation removal, or site securing activities until the municipal or county government whose geographic boundaries include the camping removal site has ensured that no persons are occupying the site. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 13; Title 39; Title 54; Title 55 and Title 71.
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Jan 16 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 310
May 13 2025
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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.
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Feb 03 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 377
May 13 2025
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