SB 1237
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Bail, Bail Bonds - As enacted, requires every bondsman licensed in this state to file a quarterly report with the department of revenue detailing the total number of bonds issued by the bondsman in the preceding quarter, the number of bonds issued in each county in which the bondsman operated, and the total amount of the bondsman's liability in each county; requires each clerk of a court that admits defendants to bail to file a quarterly report with the department detailing the total number of bonds accepted from bondsmen and the total amount of the bonds accepted from bondsmen in the preceding quarter; authorizes the department to use the reports to complete audits on the bail bonding tax. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 13; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41; Title 56; Title 62 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 8.
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Feb 06 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 396
May 13 2025
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HB 418
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Public Records - As enacted, authorizes the comptroller of the treasury to publish certain survey data that is otherwise deemed confidential. - Amends TCA Section 10-7-504.
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Jan 28 2025 |
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 365
May 13 2025
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SB 1018
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Schools, Charter - As enacted, prohibits a county LEA or public charter school authorized to operate in a county LEA from charging registration fees, enrollment fees, or tuition for a student who resides in the county and who transfers to a public charter school authorized to operate in the county LEA from another LEA located in the same county. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 13 and Title 49, Chapter 6.
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Feb 05 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 388
May 13 2025
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SB 827
(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 04 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 380
May 13 2025
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HB 708
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Education, State Board of - As enacted, expands the state board's power to subpoena the appearance of persons or the production of items the chair of the state board, or the chair's designee, considers material or relevant to an accountability hearing for a local education agency operating a public school, or a public charter school, receiving a "D" or "F" letter grade. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 3 and Title 49, Chapter 5.
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Feb 03 2025 |
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 376
May 13 2025
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SB 688
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Education, State Board of - As enacted, expands the state board's power to subpoena the appearance of persons or the production of items the chair of the state board, or the chair's designee, considers material or relevant to an accountability hearing for a local education agency operating a public school, or a public charter school, receiving a "D" or "F" letter grade. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 3 and Title 49, Chapter 5.
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Jan 31 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 376
May 13 2025
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HB 535
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As enacted, establishes that certain public officials, including members of the general assembly, who take office on or after July 1, 2025, have mandatory membership in the Tennessee consolidated retirement system (TCRS); allows a retiree to reannuitize retirement benefits in favor of a new spouse beneficiary following cancellation of a former spouse beneficiary due to divorce; makes other revisions to provisions governing the TCRS. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 25; Title 8, Chapter 34; Title 8, Chapter 35; Title 8, Chapter 36 and Title 8, Chapter 37.
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Jan 29 2025 |
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 367
May 13 2025
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SB 1116
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Vital Records - As enacted, requires certain records or papers for a person relating to the adoption or attempted adoption of a person in the possession of the office of the clerk of the adoption court; the offices of the department of health; the office of any child-placing agency, whether or not it is chartered or licensed; or any other information source, to be made available to the department of children's services for the purpose of searching for a kinship foster care placement. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 68.
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Feb 06 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 393
May 13 2025
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SB 252
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Treasurer, State - As enacted, sets the maximum award of compensation under the Criminal Injuries Compensation Act of 1976 at 105% of the national average of the maximum compensation award provided by the 50 states within the United States, the District of Columbia, and the United States Virgin Islands, rounded up to the nearest $100; requires the state treasurer to publish on the department of treasury website the maximum compensation award for claims filed for crimes occurring on or after July 1, 2025. - Amends TCA Section 29-13-106.
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Jan 22 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 313
May 13 2025
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SB 623
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Public Records - As enacted, requires the office of open records counsel to facilitate the convening of meetings of the advisory committee on open government, including selecting a date for the required annual meeting in the absence of co-chairs. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 4, Part 6.
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Jan 31 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 370
May 13 2025
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HB 1242
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, revises present law relative to 340B entities. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18 and Title 56.
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Feb 06 2025 |
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 404
May 13 2025
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HB 381
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, establishes new premier type tourist resorts, urban park centers, and museums that can offer liquor by the drink; makes certain clarifications with regard to commercial airline travel clubs that can offer liquor by the drink. - Amends TCA Title 57.
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Jan 27 2025 |
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 362
May 13 2025
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SB 110
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Disabled Persons - As enacted, authorizes a residential facility for persons with disabilities to operate in the eastern grand division of this state under an existing residential pilot program authorizing such facilities to operate in the western and middle grand divisions of this state that is administered by the department of disability and aging. - Amends TCA Title 33 and Title 52.
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Jan 13 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 303
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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HB 164
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Professions and Occupations - As enacted, makes various changes relative to the practice of chiropractors, including animal chiropractic practice. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 63.
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Jan 15 2025 |
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 304
May 13 2025
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SB 1143
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Election Laws - As enacted, requires the coordinator of elections to include, in the coordinator's minimum standards for educating election officials, training on temporary forms of identification issued to non-United States citizens that may not be used as evidence of identification on an application for ballot. - Amends TCA Title 2.
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Feb 06 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 394
May 13 2025
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SB 263
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
State Government - As enacted, prohibits the enforcement and recognition of requirements or mandates issued by the World Health Organization, United Nations, or World Economic Forum in this state or its political subdivisions. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 4.
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Jan 23 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 361
May 13 2025
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SB 481
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Forfeiture of Assets - As enacted, removes the requirement for a claimant to post a bond when filing a claim to seized property. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 33.
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Jan 29 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 319
May 13 2025
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HB 1281
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Education - As enacted, prohibits excusing a student from school to attend a released time course in religious moral instruction during the school year unless certain criteria are met. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 5 and Title 49, Chapter 6.
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Feb 06 2025 |
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 401
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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