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 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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SB 981
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Election Laws - As enacted, authorizes Hamblen County to participate in the convenience voting center pilot project. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 3, Part 3.
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Feb 05 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 384
May 13 2025
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SB 678
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Sentencing - As enacted, provides that if the victim in an aggravated sexual battery was less than 18 or was mentally defective, mentally incapacitated, or physically helpless, then such battery remains a Class B felony, and the defendant must be punished as a Range II offender; provides that the sentence imposed upon the defendant may, if appropriate, be within Range III but in no case lower than Range II. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 5.
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Jan 31 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 375
May 13 2025
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HB 1199
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires each board of education for an LEA that operates at least one high school to adopt and implement a policy to authorize a high school student to serve as an advisory, nonvoting representative on the board during meetings that are open to the public. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 2.
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Feb 06 2025 |
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 359
May 13 2025
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HB 890
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Taxes, Real Property - As introduced, authorizes the comptroller of the treasury to provide required cost and income limit estimates for property tax relief to the general assembly by electronic means. - Amends TCA Title 48 and Title 67.
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Feb 04 2025 |
Sponsor(S) Added.
May 13 2025
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HB 811
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Tort Liability and Reform - As enacted, allows a charitable organization that provides housing to a person whom the charitable organization knows is unlawfully present in the United States to be held liable for a loss, damages, injury, or death resulting from a criminal offense committed by the person who is unlawfully present in the United States while the person is receiving housing services from the charitable organization if the charitable organization's conduct in providing housing constitutes negligence, gross negligence, or willful and wanton misconduct. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 34.
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Feb 04 2025 |
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 311
May 13 2025
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HB 171
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
TennCare - As enacted, extends the ground ambulance service annual assessment to June 30, 2026; makes other revisions to the Ground Ambulance Service Provider Assessment Act. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5, Part 15.
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Jan 15 2025 |
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 378
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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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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HB 1274
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
DUI Offenses - As enacted, requires the Tennessee bureau of investigation to provide a report to the speakers of the senate and the house of representatives on or before January 1 each year, until July 1, 2029, detailing the instances in the most recent year for which complete data is available in which a person was arrested for driving under the influence but where no alcohol or other intoxicants are detected in the person's blood or breath. - Amends TCA Title 6; Title 7; Title 8 and Title 38.
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Feb 06 2025 |
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 327
May 13 2025
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HB 87
(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 09 2025 |
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 305
May 13 2025
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SB 408
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Tort Liability and Reform - As enacted, prohibits governmental entities or local boards of education from extending immunity granted to independent school bus contractors rather than independent school bus owners and operators for providing school-related transportation services; requires liability insurance coverage in a contract or agreement between a local board of education and an independent school bus contractor for such services to be in an amount sufficient to satisfy applicable law; permits evidence of such coverage to include a certificate of insurance from an insurance provider that lists the local board of education as an additional insured. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 20.
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Jan 28 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 299
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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SB 1090
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Law Enforcement - As enacted, authorizes uniformed law enforcement officers to wear decorations, medals, service medals, and badges awarded to the officers by the armed forces of the United States, the Tennessee national guard, or the state guard during the week prior to Veterans Day and Memorial Day, the day of Veterans Day and Memorial Day, and the day immediately following Veterans Day and Memorial Day. - Amends TCA Title 38 and Title 58.
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Feb 05 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 391
May 13 2025
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HB 285
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Administrative Procedure (UAPA) - As enacted, generally establishes that permanent rules filed in the office of the secretary of state on or after January 1, 2024, that are in effect on the effective date of this act, and that are scheduled for expiration on June 30, 2025, do not expire on June 30, 2025, but remain in effect until repealed or amended by subsequent rule of the appropriate rulemaking agency or until otherwise superseded by legislative enactment. -
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Jan 21 2025 |
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 307
May 13 2025
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HB 445
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Criminal Procedure - As enacted, revises the procedure for restoration of rights of citizenship. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 4; Title 22; Title 36; Title 39 and Title 40.
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Jan 28 2025 |
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 298
May 13 2025
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SB 1332
(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 |
Pub. Ch. 401
May 13 2025
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HB 1134
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Housing - As enacted, requires certain property, projects, and joint ventures to meet certain requirements if a legislative body of a county or municipality adopts by resolution or ordinance an affordable housing program. - Amends TCA Title 47 and Title 67.
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Feb 05 2025 |
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 382
May 13 2025
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HB 1356
(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 |
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 393
May 13 2025
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