SJR 79
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Constitutional Amendments - Proposes an amendment to Article XI, Section 12 of the Constitution of Tennessee to establish that parents have the inherent right to direct the education of the parent's child; prohibits the state from interfering with such rights through the adoption or enforcement of any law or rule that abridges, infringes upon, or restricts a parent's right to provide home-based education. -
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Feb 05 2025 |
Passed On Second Consideration, Refer To Senate Judiciary Committee
Feb 12 2025
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SB 485
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Children - As introduced, requires certain procedures, currently found in the federal Indian Child Welfare Act, to be applied by courts in child custody proceedings involving an Indian child. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37.
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Jan 29 2025 |
Passed On Second Consideration, Refer To Senate Judiciary Committee
Feb 12 2025
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SB 1029
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Election Laws - As introduced, makes changes to the process for voting absentee under the federal Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 6, Part 5.
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Feb 05 2025 |
Passed On Second Consideration, Refer To Senate State And Local Government Committee
Feb 12 2025
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SB 1043
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Parks, Natural Areas Preservation - As introduced, designates the new swimming pool at Henry Horton State Park as the "Riley Gaines Aquatic Center." -
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Feb 05 2025 |
Passed On Second Consideration, Refer To Senate Energy, Ag., And Nat. Resources Committee
Feb 12 2025
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SB 1035
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Criminal Offenses - As introduced, requires the administrative office of the courts to report by October 1, 2025, to the speaker of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives the number of persons found guilty of the Class A misdemeanor of, as an employer, dismissing from employment an employee because of jury service by that employee, from January 1, 1990, until January 1, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 39.
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Feb 05 2025 |
Passed On Second Consideration, Refer To Senate Judiciary Committee
Feb 12 2025
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SB 491
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Criminal Procedure - As introduced, specifies that for purposes of carrying out a sentence of death, lethal injection protocol may include the use of pharmaceutical fentanyl. - Amends TCA Title 40.
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Jan 29 2025 |
Passed On Second Consideration, Refer To Senate Judiciary Committee
Feb 12 2025
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SB 487
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Consumer Protection - As introduced, reduces, from $100 billion to $50 billion, the amount of assets held by a state or national bank, savings and loan association, savings bank, credit union, industrial loan and thrift, or mortgage lender that are necessary to fall within the definition of a financial institution for purposes of the application of certain consumer protections. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 45; Title 47 and Title 56.
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Jan 29 2025 |
Passed On Second Consideration, Refer To Senate Commerce And Labor Committee
Feb 12 2025
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SB 1109
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Children - As introduced, deletes obsolete language regarding initial reports submitted by zero to three court programs and safe baby courts to the department of children's services, the department of mental health and substance abuse services, the administrative office of the courts, and the council of juvenile and family court judges. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37.
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Feb 05 2025 |
Passed On Second Consideration, Refer To Senate Judiciary Committee
Feb 12 2025
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SB 1030
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Children - As introduced, deletes the responsibility of a parent or legal guardian to ensure that such person's child receives vaccines as recommended by guidelines of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or the American Academy of Pediatrics. - Amends TCA Title 37.
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Feb 05 2025 |
Passed On Second Consideration, Refer To Senate Judiciary Committee
Feb 12 2025
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SB 1045
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Real Property - As introduced, prohibits the state or a local or municipal government from requiring a builder or developer of real property to pay for the building or development of infrastructure that is nonessential to the development, maintenance, or growth of the builder's development property. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13; Title 54 and Title 66.
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Feb 05 2025 |
Passed On Second Consideration, Refer To Senate State And Local Government Committee
Feb 12 2025
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SB 488
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Local Government, General - As introduced, removes abandonment as an option for a property owner after a municipality determines the structure located on the property is unfit for human occupation or use; authorizes all municipalities to adopt ordinances to inspect residential dwelling units that are deteriorated. - Amends TCA Title 13, Chapter 21.
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Jan 29 2025 |
Passed On Second Consideration, Refer To Senate State And Local Government Committee
Feb 12 2025
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SB 1046
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Civil Procedure - As introduced, specifies that an unauthorized alien does not have standing to commence or appear as a plaintiff in any civil action in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 16; Title 20; Title 28 and Title 29.
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Feb 05 2025 |
Passed On Second Consideration, Refer To Senate Judiciary Committee
Feb 12 2025
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SB 1028
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Election Laws - As introduced, requires all ballots cast in an election to have a secure watermark; requires the official tabulation count of a ballot scanner to be based on the text or machine mark portion of a ballot; makes certain other changes related to ballots and elections; creates programs for the scanning and auditing of ballots. - Amends TCA Title 2.
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Feb 05 2025 |
Passed On Second Consideration, Refer To Senate State And Local Government Committee
Feb 12 2025
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SB 2782
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Public Health - As enacted, creates a civil cause of action against any person who intentionally recruits, harbors, or transports an unemancipated minor within this state for the purpose of receiving a prohibited medical procedure, regardless of where the medical procedure is to be procured. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 36; Title 37; Title 39 and Title 68.
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Jan 31 2024 |
Pub. Ch. 1064
Jun 03 2024
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SB 2770
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Criminal Offenses - As enacted, authorizes a court to enhance the statutory penalty, up to imprisonment for life without the possibility of parole, for a conviction under certain circumstances involving illegal aliens or crimes occurring on school property while students or other children are present; makes revisions to law relative to bail. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 33; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 49.
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Jan 31 2024 |
Pub. Ch. 1063
Jun 03 2024
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SB 2763
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, preempts the entire field of legislation regarding extreme risk protection orders to the exclusion of all county, city, town, municipality, or metropolitan government law, ordinances, resolutions, enactments, or regulation. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 38 and Title 39.
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Jan 31 2024 |
Pub. Ch. 1062
Jun 03 2024
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SB 2979
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Tullahoma - Subject to local approval, rewrites the city charter. - Amends Chapter 553 of the Acts of 1903; as amended.
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Mar 12 2024 |
Comp. Became Pr. Ch. 63
May 29 2024
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SB 2771
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Traffic Safety - As enacted, authorizes a county or municipality to hire employees or appoint volunteers to direct traffic within a school zone if certain conditions are met; establishes a Class C misdemeanor for a motor vehicle operator who knowingly ignores a regulatory or warning sign for the dropping off or picking up of students. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 54 and Title 55.
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Jan 31 2024 |
Pub. Ch. 948
May 13 2024
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SB 2774
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Child Custody and Support - As enacted, requires the department of human services to notify the department of safety that a child support obligor whose commercial driver license was suspended or revoked for noncompliance with a child support order is in reasonable compliance with the order when the obligor submits documentation that the support is being withheld from the obligor's income received from an employment position requiring the operation of a commercial motor vehicle; requires the license to be reinstated. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 5, Part 7 and Title 55, Chapter 50.
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Jan 31 2024 |
Pub. Ch. 878
May 13 2024
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SB 2981
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Viola - Subject to local approval, reduces the number of aldermen from five to two; deletes an obsolete provision regarding work houses. - Amends Chapter 320 of the Acts of 1901; as amended.
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Mar 12 2024 |
Comp. Became Pr. Ch. 61
May 13 2024
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