SB 1479
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Driver Licenses - As introduced, under certain circumstances, requires department of correction to coordinate with the department of safety to provide a driver license to an inmate who is discharged from imprisonment for a felony offense and who intends to reside in this state; requires department of safety to extend the expiration date of such inmates' driver licenses that expired while in custody or expire within six months after being discharged. - Amends TCA Section 41-51-301 and Title 55, Chapter 50, Part 3.
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Dec 10 2025 |
Filed For Introduction
Dec 10 2025
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SB 445
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Public Defenders - As enacted, creates five additional assistant district public defender positions effective July 1, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 14 and Title 9, Chapter 4.
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Jan 29 2025 |
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 485
May 27 2025
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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.
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Jan 22 2025 |
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 487
May 27 2025
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SB 246
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Education, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to convene a working group to study and develop best practices, strategies, and programming for English language learner (EL) educators in this state to utilize in educating EL students enrolled in a public school in this state in any of the grades K-12. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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Jan 22 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 419
May 15 2025
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SB 464
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Bail, Bail Bonds - As enacted, makes changes to the law relative to professional bondsmen and agents of insurance companies making appearance bonds of a criminal nature. - Amends TCA Title 40.
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Jan 29 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 318
May 13 2025
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SB 407
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Criminal Procedure - As enacted, revises the procedure for restoration of rights of citizenship. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 4; Title 22; Title 36; Title 39 and Title 40.
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Jan 28 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 298
May 13 2025
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SB 212
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Open Meetings - As enacted, expands the requirement that state and local governing bodies make an agenda available to the public prior to regular public meetings of the body to include the governing bodies of certain nonprofit organizations, including nonprofit community organizations that receive federal funding, nonprofit organizations that receive community grant funds from this state or certain funding from local governments, nonprofit organizations created for the benefit of local governments, and nonprofit organizations that provide the metropolitan government of Nashville/Davidson County with certain utility services; requires, rather than permits, such governing bodies that maintain a website to post the agenda to the website. - Amends TCA Section 8-44-110.
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Jan 16 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 360
May 13 2025
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SB 1133
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Criminal Offenses - As enacted, revises provisions of present law relative to placing certain defendants on a fugitives list for failure to appear. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 10; Title 33; Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41; Title 49; Title 50; Title 55 and Title 70.
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Feb 06 2025 |
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 352
May 08 2025
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SB 1193
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Planning, Public - As enacted, revises the present law provision requiring all multi-family facilities, buildings, and structures constructed under a voluntary attainable housing incentive program to be deed-restricted to ensure that the attainable housing continues for at least 30 years, instead of in perpetuity. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 10; Title 13 and Title 67.
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Feb 06 2025 |
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 348
May 08 2025
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SJR 429
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Memorials, Recognition - 250th anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord -
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Apr 09 2025 |
Signed By Governor.
May 01 2025
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SB 835
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Alcoholic Beverage Commission - As enacted, allows a judge, hearing officer, or administrative judge to award a person or entity that prevails in an administrative or civil action brought against the person or entity attorneys' fees and costs incurred as a result of the administrative or civil action. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 5; Title 27, Chapter 1 and Title 57, Chapter 1.
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Feb 04 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 227
Apr 29 2025
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SB 406
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Orders of Protection - As enacted, expands the courts in Shelby County that can hear a petition for an order of protection to include a criminal court when the criminal court is hearing a criminal matter involving a domestic abuse victim, sexual assault victim, or stalking victim; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 18 and Title 36.
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Jan 28 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 246
Apr 29 2025
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SB 256
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Appeal and Review - As enacted, authorizes criminal defendants who plead guilty, best interest, or no contest to also petition for a writ of error coram nobis based on evidence that was, through no fault of the defendant, unknown to the defendant at the time of the plea. - Amends TCA Title 40.
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Jan 22 2025 |
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 282
Apr 28 2025
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SR 124
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Memorials, Interns - Natalie Pyron -
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Apr 07 2025 |
Signed By Senate Speaker
Apr 23 2025
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SB 211
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Taxes, Sales - As introduced, authorizes an entity designated to operate a stadium designed to host games of an intercollegiate football team that competes in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) to receive a special allocation of state and local sales tax revenue derived from the sale of admission to events occurring within the stadium and from all sales of food, drinks, merchandise, and parking sold on the premises of the stadium to fund capital and operation expenses for the stadium. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.
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Jan 16 2025 |
Placed On Senate Finance, Ways, And Means Committee Calendar For 4/21/2025
Apr 17 2025
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SR 226
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Memorials, Recognition - Tennessee Society Sons of the American Revolution, 135th anniversary -
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Apr 16 2025 |
Filed For Introduction
Apr 16 2025
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SB 595
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Bail, Bail Bonds - As introduced, requires a sheriff to accept the surrender of a criminal defendant on pretrial release by a bail bondsman or surety for good cause, pending a hearing by a court with jurisdiction to admit to bail to determine whether there is good cause for the surrender. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 11.
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Jan 31 2025 |
Assigned To General Subcommittee Of Senate Judiciary Committee
Apr 08 2025
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SB 19
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Attorney General and Reporter - As enacted, authorizes the attorney general and reporter to conduct an investigation and initiate criminal prosecution of a judicial elected official or district attorney general whenever the attorney general and reporter has probable cause to investigate whether an official may have violated any state criminal law and either a decision to prosecute the official by the district attorney general may result in a personal, financial, or political conflict of interest or the attorney general and reporter receives a report of a violation of the prohibition on nepotism within state government entities. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 6.
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Dec 18 2024 |
Pub. Ch. 58
Apr 08 2025
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SB 213
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Motor Vehicles - As enacted, authorizes the sale or purchase of previously titled antique or unique motor vehicles without a motor vehicle dealer license through auction formats held in Hamilton County that meet certain criteria. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 17 and Title 62, Chapter 19.
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Jan 16 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 60
Apr 08 2025
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SB 418
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Tort Liability and Reform - As introduced, increases the amount that a person may recover in an action brought against a local governmental entity under the Tennessee Governmental Tort Liability Act for claims brought on or after July 1, 2025, to $750,000 for the bodily injury or death of a person, $1.5 million for the bodily injury or death of all persons in an accident, occurrence, or act, and $250,000 for the injury or destruction of property of others. - Amends TCA Title 29.
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Jan 28 2025 |
Failed In Senate Judiciary Committee
Apr 08 2025
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