Tennessee Bills

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Bill Title Introduced Latest Action↓
HJR 123 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Memorials, Recognition - Judge Norma McGee Ogle, Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals -
Feb 05 2025 Signed By Governor.
Feb 21 2025
HB 1126 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Labor - As introduced, permits state governmental entities and local health departments to submit annual reports to the general assembly electronically regarding compliance with the Eligibility Verification for Entitlements Act. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 50 and Title 57.
Feb 05 2025 P2c, Caption Bill, Held On Desk - Pending Amdt.
Feb 12 2025
HB 1130 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Education, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to allocate to each local education agency sufficient funds for the LEA to employ one full-time licensed professional school counselor at each high school in the LEA that enrolls at least 600 students in grades 10 through 12; requires each LEA to employ one full-time licensed professional school counselor at each high school for which the LEA receives such funding from the department. - Amends TCA Title 49.
Feb 05 2025 P2c, Ref. To Education Committee- Government Operations For Review
Feb 12 2025
HB 1123 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Tort Liability and Reform - As introduced, increases the amount of medical, hospital, or doctor bills that are presumed in a civil action to have been necessary and reasonable if the bills are itemized in the complaint or civil warrant with an attached copy of the bills attached as an exhibit to the complaint or civil warrant, from a total of $4,000 to a total of $25,000. - Amends TCA Title 20, Chapter 1; Title 24, Chapter 5; Title 55, Chapter 12 and Title 56, Chapter 7.
Feb 05 2025 P2c, Caption Bill, Held On Desk - Pending Amdt.
Feb 12 2025
HB 1124 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Education - As introduced, requires LEAs to screen all students for dyslexia and use the Orton-Gillingham method to teach students who exhibit characteristics of dyslexia; adds training in the Orton-Gillingham method to in-service training subjects for educators. - Amends TCA Title 49.
Feb 05 2025 Sponsor(S) Added.
Feb 12 2025
HB 684 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Welfare - As introduced, requires the department of human services to annually identify federal waivers it deems necessary to alleviate federal regulatory limitations that inhibit the department's ability to timely review and approve applications and deliver benefits for the food assistance program and to submit, no later than October 31 of each year, as applicable, applications for such waivers; requires the department to annually submit a report describing any waiver applications submitted and the status of such applications, and including recommendations for statutory changes needed to facilitate efficient processing and delivery of such benefits. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5, Part 3.
Feb 03 2025 Sponsor(S) Withdrawn.
Feb 10 2025
HB 493 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Guardians and Conservators - As introduced, requires a hearing on a petitioner for the appointment of a guardian or conservator to be held within 90 days, rather than 60 days, from the date of service on the respondent or the date a guardian ad litem was appointed. - Amends TCA Title 24; Title 25; Title 26; Title 27; Title 28; Title 29; Title 30; Title 31; Title 32; Title 34; Title 35 and Title 36.
Jan 29 2025 P2c, Caption Bill, Held On Desk - Pending Amdt.
Feb 05 2025
HB 489 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Correction, Dept. of - As introduced, requires, by February 1 of each year, that the department submit its report regarding the effectiveness of diversion of offenders from state correctional institutions to the committee of the house of representatives with jurisdiction over subject matters pertaining to criminal justice, judiciary committee of the senate, and fiscal review committee. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55.
Jan 29 2025 P2c, Caption Bill, Held On Desk - Pending Amdt.
Feb 05 2025
HB 461 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Notary Public - As introduced, adds that a person must complete a course of instruction and pass an examination to qualify to be commissioned as an online notary public; clarifies that an application to be commissioned as an online notary public requires a certification that the applicant has reviewed, understands, and will comply with the applicable rules and requirements promulgated by the secretary of state; adds that a course of instruction for online notarization must include, at a minimum, notarial laws, technology procedures of online notarizations, and ethical requirements for online notaries. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 16, Part 3.
Jan 28 2025 P2c, Ref. To Judiciary Committee
Feb 05 2025
HB 460 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Secretary of State - As introduced, establishes a complaint process with the secretary of state for any person who contends that the person’s name or address was included on a document filed with the secretary of state without the person’s consent. - Amends TCA Title 48.
Jan 28 2025 P2c, Ref. To State & Local Government Committee
Feb 05 2025
HB 488 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Criminal Offenses - As introduced, lessens, from 90 calendar days to 60 calendar days, the time within which a clerk of court must notify the health facilities commission of a conviction for certain offenses committed against elderly or vulnerable adults for inclusion on the registry of persons who have abused, neglected, misappropriated, or exploited the property of vulnerable individuals. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 15.
Jan 29 2025 P2c, Caption Bill, Held On Desk - Pending Amdt.
Feb 05 2025
HB 2002 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Judicial Districts - As enacted, creates one additional circuit court in the 4th judicial district, creates one additional trial court in the 19th judicial district; eliminates part VII of the circuit court in the 13th judicial district; and eliminates part IX of the criminal court in the 13th judicial district. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 2.
Jan 23 2024 Pub. Ch. 977
May 28 2024
HB 1825 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Controlled Substances - As enacted, increases the limit on the amount of products containing ephedrine or pseudoephedrine base, or their salts, isomers, or salts of isomers that a pharmacy may sell or a person may purchase in a 30-day period from 5.76 grams to 7.2 grams, and from 28.8 grams to 43.2 grams in a one-year period. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4.
Jan 11 2024 Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 846
May 13 2024
HB 2244 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Taxes - As enacted, makes changes relative to the "Local Tourism Development Zone Business Tax Act." - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 9 and Title 67.
Jan 29 2024 Pub. Ch. 912
May 13 2024
HB 2001 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Healthcare Liability - As enacted, provides that in health care liability actions, the common law collateral source rule is abrogated and the damages awarded may include, in addition to others, certain actual economic losses suffered by the claimant. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 26.
Jan 23 2024 Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 852
May 13 2024
HB 2000 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Attorney General and Reporter - As enacted, empowers the attorney general to fix the attorney general's and their assistant's compensation; limits the attorney general's salary to an associate justice on the supreme court or a Class 1 official; permits the attorney general to pay salaries in periodic installments. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 6.
Jan 23 2024 Pub. Ch. 909
May 13 2024
HB 2003 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Guardians and Conservators - As enacted, makes revisions to present law relevant to an attorney ad litem. - Amends TCA Title 34.
Jan 23 2024 Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 807
May 09 2024
HB 2429 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
DUI Offenses - As enacted, states that the court, rather than the sheriff or administrative officer of a local jail, may authorize the use of alternative facilities for the incarceration of an offender convicted of a first time offense of driving under the influence. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 4.
Jan 30 2024 Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 774
May 01 2024
HJR 1287 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Memorials, Interns - Macy Provance -
Apr 02 2024 Signed By Governor.
Apr 22 2024
HJR 1332 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Memorials, Recognition - Spring Hollow Family Farm, Tennessee Century Farm. -
Apr 08 2024 Signed By Governor.
Apr 22 2024

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