HB 804
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Food and Food Products - As enacted, prohibits labeling a cell-cultured food product as meat or a meat food product. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 39; Title 40; Title 43; Title 44; Title 47 and Title 53.
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Feb 04 2025 |
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 450
May 15 2025
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SB 871
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
General Assembly, Directed Studies - As enacted, directs TACIR to conduct a study and prepare a report on recommendations on the continuum of care in this state and how the continuum of care can be improved; requires the study and report to survey the continuum of care in other states and compare such care to the continuum of care in this state; requires TACIR to submit the report. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
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Feb 05 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 445
May 15 2025
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HB 1326
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Real Property - As enacted, creates a vested property right upon the submission, rather than the approval, of a development plan or building permit; specifies that the vesting period applicable when it is based on the submission of a building permit is three years. - Amends TCA Title 13.
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Feb 06 2025 |
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 465
May 15 2025
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HB 456
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Campaigns and Campaign Finance - As enacted, revises present law to designate as a political campaign committee for purposes of reporting expenditures pursuant to campaign finance laws a corporation that uses corporate funds, moneys, or credits for communications expressly supporting or opposing the election or defeat of a clearly identified candidate or elected official, and such funds, moneys, or credits are not used with the cooperation or with the prior consent of, or in consultation with, or at the request of, or suggestion of, a candidate or elected official or any agent or authorized committee of the candidate or elected official. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 10.
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Jan 28 2025 |
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 434
May 15 2025
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HB 482
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Firefighters - As enacted, adds prostate cancer, breast cancer, and pancreatic cancer to the list of cancers for which a presumption is created that certain conditions or impairments of full-time firefighters caused by prostate cancer, breast cancer, pancreatic cancer, or other listed cancers arose out of employment unless the contrary is shown by competent medical evidence. - Amends TCA Section 7-51-201.
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Jan 28 2025 |
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 422
May 15 2025
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HB 130
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Food and Food Products - As enacted, adds certain conditions in order to produce and sell homemade food items. - Amends TCA Title 53 and Title 68, Chapter 14, Part 7.
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Jan 13 2025 |
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 431
May 15 2025
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SB 416
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Education, Curriculum - As enacted, requires the state textbook and instructional materials quality commission, in consultation with the department of education, to develop a plan for the commission to review and submit to the state board of education for approval of electronic textbooks and instructional materials for use by virtual schools established by LEAs. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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Jan 28 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 427
May 15 2025
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HB 152
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Local Government, General - As enacted, authorizes a member of a local government's legislative body to participate in a scheduled meeting by electronic means if the member is dealing with a family or medical emergency, has been called into military service, or is unable to attend in person due to inclement weather. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 8, Chapter 44.
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Jan 14 2025 |
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 411
May 15 2025
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SB 869
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Licenses - As enacted, creates a bait privilege license to allow hunting or taking of whitetail deer using bait on privately owned or privately leased land. - Amends TCA Title 70.
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Feb 05 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 444
May 15 2025
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SB 433
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Animal Cruelty and Abuse - As enacted, prohibits the abandonment of an animal in a person's custody and provides that it is not a defense to prosecution that the person abandoned the animal at or near an animal shelter, veterinary clinic, or other place of shelter if the person did not make reasonable arrangements for the care of the animal. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14, Part 2.
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Jan 28 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 428
May 15 2025
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HB 1344
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Education, Higher - As enacted, authorizes, subject to appropriation, an institution of higher education to request to redirect the institution's capital outlay funds for purposes other than those set out in the 2022 appropriations act; makes related revisions. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 9; Title 10; Title 12; Title 49; Title 66 and Title 67.
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Feb 06 2025 |
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 467
May 15 2025
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SB 899
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Education - As enacted, changes the standard for entry-resistant window treatment for school buildings constructed or remodeled on or after July 1, 2025; requires the state-level school safety team to issue guidelines to the state fire marshal for inclusion in rules. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 8.
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Feb 05 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 448
May 15 2025
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SB 1115
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Correction, Dept. of - As enacted, provides that in a facility operated pursuant to a contract to provide correctional services, or in a facility operated pursuant to a contract with a county to hold state inmates and that county has entered into a contract with a contractor to provide correctional services, if the death rate of inmates at the facility is twice the death rate of an equivalent state-operated facility, then the department must reduce the population at such facility by 10%. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 12; Title 40 and Title 41.
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Feb 06 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 460
May 15 2025
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HB 296
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, requires TACIR to conduct a study on the feasibility of implementing and potential effects of enacting the insurance coverage requirements proposed in Senate Bill 231 of the 114th General Assembly, as originally filed; requires TACIR to publish a report of its findings and recommendations. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
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Jan 21 2025 |
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 416
May 15 2025
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HB 915
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Salaries and Benefits - As enacted, grants eligible employees leave of up to six workweeks because the employee is caring for a family member with a serious health condition. - Amends TCA Section 8-50-813.
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Feb 04 2025 |
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 423
May 15 2025
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HB 1125
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Education - As enacted, requires the department of education to develop guidelines and criteria for determining how long a student must have been present in a teacher's classroom before the student's record is attributable to the teacher for purposes of evaluating the teacher; authorizes an LEA or public charter school to compensate the estate of a teacher who, on the teacher's death, was in the employ of the LEA or public charter school for the teacher's unused and accrued annual and sick leave in the same manner that the estates of deceased state employees are compensated under present law. - Amends Chapter __ of the Public Acts of 2025 (1st Ex. Sess. – SB 6001 / HB 6004); and TCA Title 4, Chapter 49; Title 8 and Title 49.
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Feb 05 2025 |
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 433
May 15 2025
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SB 1273
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Education, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to implement a transition plan to close the achievement school district (ASD) and to release all schools currently assigned to the ASD before the start of the 2026-2027 school year; requires the department to establish a different intervention system for priority schools; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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Feb 06 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 464
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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HB 958
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Education - As enacted, creates a federal education deregulation cooperation task force to prepare Tennessee for the potential of deregulation of federal laws, regulations, requirements, and guidance for K-12 education. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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Feb 04 2025 |
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 454
May 15 2025
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HB 787
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
DUI Offenses - As enacted, creates a distance to drive program study committee to help determine the feasibility of implementing a distance to drive program that would facilitate reinstatement of suspended and revoked driver licenses for criminal defendants based on meeting the objectives set by the court and completing all the requirements set by the department of safety. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55.
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Feb 04 2025 |
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 451
May 15 2025
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