SB 262
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Children - As enacted, increases the age of an infant from 14 days or younger to 45 days or younger who can be received by a facility without the mother being subject to criminal liability. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 1, Part 1 and Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 2.
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Jan 23 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 420
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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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 937
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Education - As enacted, prohibits a public school, LEA, or teacher, employee, or contractor of a public school or LEA from requiring a student, teacher, employee, or contractor of the public school or LEA to provide the individual's preferred pronouns; makes related revisions. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 9, Chapter 8; Title 29, Chapter 20 and Title 49.
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Feb 05 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 453
May 15 2025
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HB 40
(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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Dec 17 2024 |
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 418
May 15 2025
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SB 415
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Education - As enacted, creates an advisory committee on innovations in K-12 education. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 49.
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Jan 28 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 426
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 586
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Criminal Offenses - As enacted, clarifies that a person commits the offense of unlawful exposure by distributing a private, intimate image of another identifiable person with intent to cause emotional distress, regardless of whether the person who distributes the image was a party to the original agreement or understanding that the image would remain private. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17.
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Jan 30 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 432
May 15 2025
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SB 773
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Planning, Public - As enacted, specifies that the vesting period established for a construction project or development plan does not expire because of pending litigation challenging a permit; specifies that the vesting period is tolled while such litigation is pending. - Amends TCA Title 13, Chapter 3; Title 13, Chapter 4 and Title 13, Chapter 7.
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Feb 04 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 440
May 15 2025
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SB 1359
(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 |
Pub. Ch. 467
May 15 2025
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HB 541
(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 29 2025 |
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 437
May 15 2025
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HB 322
(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 22 2025 |
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 424
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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SB 276
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Naming and Designating - As enacted, designates the National Guard Armory in Cheatham County as the "First Sergeant Charles Anderson Douglas National Guard Armory." -
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Jan 23 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 421
May 15 2025
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HB 1140
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Criminal Offenses - As enacted, makes the offense of possession of a used, detached catalytic converter by an unauthorized person punishable by a term of imprisonment not greater than 11 months, 29 days; a fine not to exceed $2,500; or both, instead of only subject to a fine. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title 55 and Title 62.
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Feb 05 2025 |
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 439
May 15 2025
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HB 653
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Campaigns and Campaign Finance - As enacted, makes various changes to campaign finance laws and related laws. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 3 and Title 67.
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Feb 03 2025 |
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 415
May 15 2025
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HB 923
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Human Rights - As enacted, enacts the "Dismantling DEI Departments Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8 and Title 49, Chapter 7.
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Feb 04 2025 |
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 458
May 15 2025
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HB 1144
(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 05 2025 |
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 460
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 1420
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Driver Licenses - As enacted, requires written examinations administered to applicants for a driver license or intermediate driver license to include questions concerning hand signals used by operators of bicycles to communicate turning, slowing, and stopping. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50.
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Feb 06 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 469
May 15 2025
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