HB 380
(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 27 2025 |
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 427
May 15 2025
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HB 1232
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Criminal Offenses - As enacted, makes various changes to present law concerning criminal justice. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5; Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 53.
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Feb 06 2025 |
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 462
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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SB 933
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Boards and Commissions - As enacted, makes various revisions to the governing boards of public higher education institutions. -
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Feb 05 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 452
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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HB 1440
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Morgan County - Subject to local approval, establishes that the County Attorney must be a licensed practicing attorney appointed or hired subject to the vote of the Morgan County Commission to serve a four-year term and does not need to be a resident of Morgan County to serve as County Attorney. - Amends Chapter 467 of the Private Acts of 1951; as amended.
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Apr 16 2025 |
Comp. Became Pr. Ch. 10
May 14 2025
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SB 1463
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Morgan County - Subject to local approval, establishes that the County Attorney must be a licensed practicing attorney appointed or hired subject to the vote of the Morgan County Commission to serve a four-year term and does not need to be a resident of Morgan County to serve as County Attorney. - Amends Chapter 467 of the Private Acts of 1951; as amended.
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Apr 16 2025 |
Pr. Ch. 10
May 14 2025
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HB 587
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Criminal Offenses - As enacted, adds organized retail crime and possession or employment of a firearm during the commission of or attempt to commit a dangerous felony to the definition of racketeering activity; clarifies that carjacking is a racketeering activity. - Amends TCA Title 39.
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Jan 30 2025 |
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 374
May 13 2025
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HB 492
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Child Custody and Support - As enacted, requires the court to consider any failure to pay child support, rather than failure for a period of three years or more, when making a child custody determination; clarifies that the court may preclude or limit any provisions of a parenting plan if the court finds that a parent has failed to pay child support. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37.
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Jan 29 2025 |
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 321
May 13 2025
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SB 1239
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Children - As enacted, enacts the "End Childhood Hunger Act." - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37.
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Feb 06 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 397
May 13 2025
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HB 491
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Opioids - As enacted, adds Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC, Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc., Sun Pharmaceutical Industries, Inc., Indivior Inc., Viatris Inc., and Purdue Pharma L.P. to the list of companies that may be released by the attorney general and reporter for pending or future claims regarding opioids. - Amends TCA Title 20 and Title 33.
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Jan 29 2025 |
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 302
May 13 2025
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SB 7
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Historical Commission - As enacted, prohibits the commission, and any other state entity other than the state building commission engaged in the historic preservation of real property, from regulating the renovation, alteration, or demolition of improved public or private real property that is not listed on the Tennessee register of historic places, or taking any adverse action against the owner of such real property, if the real property meets certain criteria. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 8; Title 13 and Title 66.
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Dec 02 2024 |
Pub. Ch. 301
May 13 2025
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HB 1193
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Education, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to conduct a landscape analysis of teacher evaluation practices in this state and other states; requires the department to convene a teacher evaluation advisory committee to review and evaluate current teacher evaluation practices in this state; requires the department and the state board to provide the education committee of the senate and committee of the house of representatives having jurisdiction over teacher evaluations a final report on the landscape analysis, teacher evaluation advisory committee's recommendations, and any department or state board recommendations by January 31, 2026. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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Feb 06 2025 |
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 325
May 13 2025
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SB 1360
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Remedies and Special Proceedings - As enacted, removes the ability to bring a civil liability action for negligence per se against a seller of a qualified product; expands "qualified products" to include knives, body armor, pepper spray, silencers, and other certain products; requires physical injury for a negligent entrustment action rather than an unreasonable risk of physical injury; specifies that a person who will be subject to an ordinance in the future or reasonably intends to be physically present in the political subdivision is an adversely affected party for purposes of filing certain actions; makes various other changes regarding civil actions against arms dealers, manufacturers, and sellers and the preemption of local regulation of firearms. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 42 and Title 39.
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Feb 06 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 329
May 13 2025
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HB 528
(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 |
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 318
May 13 2025
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SB 111
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, authorizes a licensee that holds more than a 50 percent ownership interest in a manufacturer and a winery that are located on the same deeded property to offer product tastings and make retail sales for consumption on or off of such premises of its wine or spirits manufactured on such deeded property at a location on the overlapping premises other than on the bonded premises of the manufacturer or winery. - Amends TCA Title 57.
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Jan 13 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 358
May 13 2025
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SB 1114
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Public Records - As enacted, deletes the automatic repeal on July 1, 2025, of a provision that authorizes records custodians to seek an injunction against a person who makes requests to view or copy public records with the intent to disrupt government operations. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5.
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Feb 05 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 392
May 13 2025
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HB 197
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Transportation, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to develop and implement a policy regarding the removal of personal property used for camping from the shoulder, berm, or right-of-way of highways under its jurisdiction or under a bridge or overpass under its jurisdiction; prohibits the department from commencing initial clean-up activities, vegetation removal, or site securing activities until the municipal or county government whose geographic boundaries include the camping removal site has ensured that no persons are occupying the site. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 13; Title 39; Title 54; Title 55 and Title 71.
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Jan 16 2025 |
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 310
May 13 2025
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HB 1003
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Schools, Private - As enacted, prohibits the state board of education from requiring a private school that provides a fully online, self-paced educational program to comply with certain class size, school calendar, vaccination, and assessment requirements in order to operate in this state as an approved Category III nonpublic school. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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Feb 05 2025 |
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 380
May 13 2025
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SB 134
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Education, Dept. of - As enacted, enacts the "The Learning Pod Protection Act." - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49.
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Jan 14 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 305
May 13 2025
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