SB 664
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Water Pollution - As enacted, expands from wetlands to all areas that an aquatic resource alteration permit may apply to the areas for which the department of environment and conservation is required to exempt from compensatory mitigation an amount of area equal in size to the area for which mitigation would not be required if the permit applicant qualified for coverage under a general permit, if the only factor that disqualifies an applicant for an aquatic resource alteration permit from having the activities for which a permit is sought covered under a general permit is the size of the area that the permit will apply to. - Amends TCA Title 69, Chapter 3.
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Jan 31 2025 |
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 342
May 08 2025
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SB 228
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As enacted, enacts the "Law Enforcement’s Safer Tennessee Electronic Registration (LESTER) Act," which clarifies that law enforcement is required to accept a digital copy of vehicle registration as proof of registration. - Amends TCA Title 38 and Title 55.
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Jan 17 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 157
May 02 2025
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SB 274
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
County Government - As enacted, declares that the offices of sheriff, register, county clerk, assessor of property, and trustee are the constitutional officers of a county that has adopted a charter form of government; specifies the duties for each constitutional officer. - Amends TCA Title 5.
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Jan 23 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 221
Apr 29 2025
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SB 191
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Public Funds and Financing - As enacted, redefines "local government" to include a water, wastewater, or energy authority for purposes of the present law applicable to bonds and notes issued by local governments; makes other related revisions. - Amends TCA Section 9-21-133 and Title 9, Chapter 21, Part 4.
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Jan 15 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 218
Apr 29 2025
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SB 718
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Courts, Juvenile - As enacted, requires a juvenile court conducting a child custody, detention, or adjudicatory proceeding to conduct the proceeding in a dedicated courtroom provided by the county that is closest in proximity to an approved detention center. - Amends TCA Title 37.
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Feb 03 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 254
Apr 29 2025
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SB 856
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Bail, Bail Bonds - As enacted, allows a magistrate to consider hearsay evidence when determining whether a defendant should be released on bail pending trial and the amount of bail necessary to reasonably assure the appearance of the defendant while at the same time protecting the safety of the public. - Amends TCA Title 24; Title 39 and Title 40.
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Feb 05 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 262
Apr 29 2025
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SB 238
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Bail, Bail Bonds - As enacted, specifies that venue for prosecution of the offense of knowingly violating a condition of release is generally the county in which the conduct constituting the violation of a condition of release occurred; clarifies that if one or more elements of the offense are committed in different counties, then the offense may be prosecuted in either county. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.
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Jan 21 2025 |
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 188
Apr 28 2025
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SB 714
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Education - As introduced, changes the date, from October 31 to October 1, by which the departments of education and health must submit a report to the governor and general assembly regarding the self-administered medications and healthcare procedures for students served in all public and nonpublic accredited schools in this state and recommendations for meeting the needs for comprehensive school health. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 49.
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Feb 03 2025 |
Sponsor(S) Added.
Apr 23 2025
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SR 120
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Urges Supreme Court to draft and adopt codes of conduct in the court rules for district attorneys general, district public defenders, and court clerks; urges Supreme Court to create panel to investigate current complaints of misconduct regarding three elected district attorneys general. -
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Mar 28 2025 |
Signed By Senate Speaker
Apr 23 2025
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SB 719
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, adds William R. Moore College of Technology as an eligible institution for receipt of the Wilder-Naifeh reconnect grant and Wilder-Naifeh technical skills grant; specifies that the amount of the scholarship for such students enrolled is the average cost of tuition and mandatory fees at TCATs less all other gift aid. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4.
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Feb 03 2025 |
Placed On Senate Finance, Ways, And Means Committee Calendar For 4/21/2025
Apr 17 2025
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SB 672
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases the penalty for obstruction of a highway, street, sidewalk, railway, waterway, elevator, aisle, hallway, or other place used for the passage of persons or vehicles from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony; establishes an increased penalty of a Class D felony if the offense was committed by intentionally obstructing a highway, street, or other place used for the passage of vehicles. - Amends TCA Title 39.
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Jan 31 2025 |
Placed On Senate Finance, Ways, And Means Committee Calendar For 4/21/2025
Apr 17 2025
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SB 671
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases from a Class E felony to a Class D felony the offense of burglary of a conveyance. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.
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Jan 31 2025 |
Placed On Senate Finance, Ways, And Means Committee Calendar For 4/21/2025
Apr 17 2025
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SB 676
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Health Care - As introduced, requires gender clinics accepting funds from this state to perform gender transition procedures to also perform detransition procedures; requires insurance entities providing coverage of gender transition procedures to also cover detransition procedures; requires certain gender clinics and insurance entities to report information regarding detransition procedures to the department of health. - Amends TCA Title 1; Title 4; Title 33; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
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Jan 31 2025 |
Placed On Senate Finance, Ways, And Means Committee Calendar For 4/21/2025
Apr 17 2025
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SB 674
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Employees, Employers - As introduced, clarifies that the general assembly preempts and occupies the entire field of regulating the terms and conditions of employment; prohibits local governments from adopting or enforcing any law, rule, or policy that requires a term or condition of employment that exceeds or conflicts with state or federal law. - Amends TCA Title 7 and Title 50.
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Jan 31 2025 |
Rcvd. From S., Held On H. Desk.
Apr 10 2025
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SB 351
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Local Government, General - As introduced, requires county and city attorneys to consult with and advise elected county and city officials, the officials' deputies, and the officials' employees as to the proper application and enforcement of federal and state laws that are pertinent to carrying out the duties of the officials' respective offices. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 12 and Title 13.
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Jan 28 2025 |
Rcvd. From S., Held On H. Desk.
Apr 10 2025
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SB 673
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Criminal Offenses - As introduced, enacts the "Comprehensive Assault Crime Intervention Act." - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40.
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Jan 31 2025 |
Assigned To General Subcommittee Of Senate Judiciary Committee
Apr 08 2025
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SB 715
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Cemeteries - As enacted, changes the way that the fair market value of an improvement care trust fund is calculated for certain purposes; clarifies that the fee that a cemetery company charges for the memorial care of a commodity installed in the cemetery cannot exceed the fee charged by the company for installation of the commodity; makes other changes related to cemeteries. - Amends TCA Title 46.
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Feb 03 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 119
Apr 08 2025
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SB 669
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Infectious Diseases - As enacted, deletes all references to the world health organization; requires a pandemic to be declared by the federal centers for disease and prevention control, rather than the world health organization, with a subsequent declaration of a state of emergency by the governor for the governor to have exclusive jurisdiction to issue executive orders and directives related to the pandemic until the pandemic ceases to exist. - Amends TCA Title 7 and Title 68.
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Jan 31 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 69
Apr 08 2025
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SB 224
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Athletic Trainers - As enacted, authorizes athletic trainers to use dry needling to carry out the practice of prevention, recognition, evaluation, management, disposition, treatment, or rehabilitation of athletic injuries; requires the board of athletic trainers to establish minimum competency requirements for an athletic trainer to demonstrate in order to practice dry needling. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 63.
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Jan 17 2025 |
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 76
Apr 08 2025
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SB 668
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Death - As enacted, removes the limitation that a death must have been anticipated for a registered nurse to make the actual determination and pronouncement of death if a deceased was a patient or resident at a nursing home, hospital, or assisted-care living facility. - Amends TCA Title 68.
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Jan 31 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 116
Apr 08 2025
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