SB 20
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Medical Occupations - As introduced, creates an exemption from the requirement that an applicant for licensure as a professional counselor must have completed a graduate course of study of at least 60 credit hours if the applicant has a valid, unencumbered license as a professional counselor issued by another state, territory, or federal district of the United States and the board for professional counselors, marital and family therapists and clinical pastoral therapists judges as acceptable the licensing requirements of that other state, territory, or federal district. - Amends TCA Title 63.
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Dec 19 2024 |
Filed For Introduction
Dec 19 2024
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HB 48
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Veterans - As introduced, removes the market value cap used for calculating property tax relief on the primary residence for disabled veterans who are eligible for property tax relief and requires the state to fully reimburse such veterans for local property taxes paid for a given tax year on that property. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5, Part 7.
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Dec 19 2024 |
Filed For Introduction
Dec 19 2024
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HJR 13
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Memorials, Sports - Sevier County High School football team, TSSAA Division I, Class 5A State Champion -
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Dec 19 2024 |
Filed For Introduction
Dec 19 2024
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HB 49
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
District Attorneys - As introduced, expands the proceedings for which a district attorney general pro tem may be appointed to include certain civil proceedings; declares meetings of the district attorneys general conference to be open meetings except for meetings related to certain matters; specifies that the executive director of the district attorneys general conference must provide legal counsel and advice to district attorneys general and their staff and that the legal counsel and advice may be provided by attorneys employed with the district attorneys general conference. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 7, Part 1 and Title 8, Chapter 7, Part 3.
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Dec 19 2024 |
Filed For Introduction
Dec 19 2024
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HB 50
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Celina - Subject to local approval, increases the number of alderman from three to five. - Amends Chapter 90 of the Private Acts of 1991; as amended.
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Dec 19 2024 |
Filed For Introduction
Dec 19 2024
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HB 47
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Education - As introduced, authorizes local boards of education and governing bodies of public charter schools to display the Ten Commandments, the Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, the Constitution of Tennessee, the Bill of Rights, a resolution honoring the history of a school in the LEA or the public charter school, or other historically significant documents in a prominent location in each school building. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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Dec 19 2024 |
Filed For Introduction
Dec 19 2024
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HB 1
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Education - As introduced, enacts the "Education Freedom Act of 2025." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 49 and Title 49.
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Nov 06 2024 |
Sponsor(S) Added.
Dec 19 2024
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HB 51
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Lottery, Corporation - As introduced, requires each county to levy a tax at the rate of 5 percent of the sales price of lottery tickets or shares when sold at retail within the jurisdiction of the county; requires the state to administer the collection of the tax. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 9; Title 49 and Title 67.
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Dec 19 2024 |
Filed For Introduction
Dec 19 2024
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SB 19
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Attorney General and Reporter - As introduced, authorizes the attorney general and reporter to conduct an investigation and initiate criminal prosecution of a judicial elected official or district attorney general whenever the attorney general and reporter has probable cause to investigate whether an official may have violated any state criminal law and either a decision to prosecute the official by the district attorney general may result in a personal, financial, or political conflict of interest or the attorney general and reporter receives a report of a violation of the prohibition on nepotism within state government entities. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 6.
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Dec 18 2024 |
Filed For Introduction
Dec 18 2024
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HB 43
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
State Symbols - As introduced, designates "Tennessee" by Arrested Development as an official state song. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3.
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Dec 18 2024 |
Filed For Introduction
Dec 18 2024
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SB 18
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Education - As introduced, requires each local board of education and public charter school governing body to adopt a wireless communication policy that requires students to keep wireless communication devices turned off and stowed away during a classroom instructional day or during instructional time except in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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Dec 18 2024 |
Filed For Introduction
Dec 18 2024
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HB 42
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Education, Dept. of - As introduced, changes the date, from July 1 to August 1, that the department must annually report to the general assembly on receipts and expenditures for the school safety alert grant pilot fund. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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Dec 18 2024 |
Filed For Introduction
Dec 18 2024
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HB 41
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Education - As introduced, requires each local board of education and public charter school governing body to adopt a wireless communication policy that requires students to keep wireless communication devices turned off and stowed away during a classroom instructional day or during instructional time except in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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Dec 18 2024 |
Filed For Introduction
Dec 18 2024
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SB 17
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Law Enforcement - As introduced, requires law enforcement agencies and officials to communicate with federal officials regarding the immigration status only for an individual who has been arrested for a criminal offense; sets a civil penalty of up to $1,000 for a law enforcement agency that does not comply to be enforced by the attorney general and reporter. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 40 and Chapter 716 of the Public Acts of 2024.
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Dec 18 2024 |
Filed For Introduction
Dec 18 2024
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HB 39
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Local Education Agencies - As introduced, enacts the "Menstrual Hygiene Products Accessibility Act," which requires, instead of authorizes, LEAs and public charter schools to provide feminine hygiene products at no charge in all women's and girls' bathrooms, in all locker rooms, and with school nurses at each public senior high school for student use only. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 49 and Title 67.
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Dec 17 2024 |
Filed For Introduction
Dec 17 2024
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HB 40
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
General Assembly, Directed Studies - As introduced, requires TACIR to study the availability of housing and other treatment facilities for juvenile offenders who have been adjudicated delinquent and committed to the department of children's services, and the availability of local juvenile detention centers and other facilities for the housing and treatment of juvenile offenders who have been detained by the juvenile court prior to an adjudicatory hearing; requires TACIR to report to the General Assembly by January 1, 2026. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39 and Title 40.
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Dec 17 2024 |
Filed For Introduction
Dec 17 2024
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HB 38
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Juvenile Offenders - As introduced, requires a juvenile court, upon finding a child has committed a third or subsequent delinquent act, to enter an order of restitution against the parent, legal custodian, or guardian who had custody of the child at the time of the act for the expenses incurred by any law enforcement agency in responding to and investigating the delinquent act. - Amends TCA Title 37.
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Dec 17 2024 |
Filed For Introduction
Dec 17 2024
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HJR 12
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Constitutional Amendments - Proposes an amendment to Article VI, Section 14 of the Tennessee Constitution to authorize municipalities to impose a civil penalty in excess of $50 for a violation of a municipal ordinance if such penalty is just and reasonable. -
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Dec 16 2024 |
Filed For Introduction
Dec 16 2024
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HB 36
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
State Inmates - As introduced, removes the requirement that an inmate be chronically debilitated or incapacitated for the commissioner of correction to be able to certify an inmate as eligible for parole; empowers the commissioner to grant an inmate furlough if the inmate is unable to perform at least one of the activities of daily living in a prison environment due to the inmate's chronically debilitated or incapacitated medical condition. - Amends TCA Title 40 and Title 41.
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Dec 16 2024 |
Filed For Introduction
Dec 16 2024
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HB 37
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Opioids - As introduced, authorizes an insurer, for purposes of group insurance plans offered to state employees, to adopt or amend a state preferred drug list (PDL); requires the insurer to ensure that reimbursement is provided to a healthcare prescriber or hospital that provides a non-opioid treatment to a covered employee under the group insurance plan. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
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Dec 16 2024 |
Filed For Introduction
Dec 16 2024
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