SB 934
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Education - As introduced, prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sex, disability, religion, or marital status against a student or an employee in a public institution of education; requires public institutions of education to treat harassment or discrimination against students or employees, or resulting from institutional policies or programs on their campuses, motivated by or including antisemitic intent in an identical manner to discrimination motivated by race; requires Title VI coordinators to be designated to monitor antisemitic discrimination and harassment at K-12 schools and institutions of higher education. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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Feb 05 2025 |
Passed On Second Consideration, Refer To Senate Education Committee
Feb 12 2025
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SB 1229
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Sports - As introduced, changes from January 1 to March 1, the date by which each local education agency and public charter school is required to submit documentation to the department of education evidencing its compliance with the requirement to notify an association that regulates interscholastic athletics at the school in which the student is enrolled of a student's placement in foster care; removes the requirement that the department annually submit a report of this information to the education committees of the senate and house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 48 and Title 49.
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Feb 06 2025 |
Passed On Second Consideration, Refer To Senate Education Committee
Feb 12 2025
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SB 395
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Traffic Safety - As introduced, creates a Class B misdemeanor for failure to properly adjust headlights by a person or entity that installs tires on a passenger motor vehicle or truck that are larger in total diameter than the original equipment manufacturer's tires installed; creates a Class B misdemeanor for installing such tires so as to cause the bumper or frame to exceed the maximum heights established in present law. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 9.
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Jan 28 2025 |
Passed On Second Consideration, Refer To Senate Transportation And Safety Committee
Feb 12 2025
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SB 598
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Public Utilities - As introduced, extends from January 1 to February 1, the deadline for local governments that have adopted local legislation related to wind energy facility siting to submit an annual report. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13; Title 65 and Title 68.
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Jan 31 2025 |
Passed On Second Consideration, Refer To Senate Energy, Ag., And Nat. Resources Committee
Feb 12 2025
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SB 938
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
State Employees - As introduced, grants eligible state employees mandatory paid leave for fostering a minor child. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 50, Part 8.
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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 1126
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Local Education Agencies - As introduced, makes various changes to the categories of individuals who are not required to use a preferred pronoun, and for whom a preferred pronoun be disregarded, if the pronoun is inconsistent with the person's biological sex; makes various changes to the civil liability and adverse action protections as it relates to the use of, or the refusal to use, a pronoun or preferred pronoun. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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Feb 06 2025 |
Passed On Second Consideration, Refer To Senate Education Committee
Feb 12 2025
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SB 597
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Health Care - As introduced, requires, by January 15 of each year, the commissioner of health to annually report to legislative committees on the progress of its statewide strategy for the provision of adult emergency oral health care, utilizing public and private sector resources. - Amends TCA Title 68.
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Jan 31 2025 |
Passed On Second Consideration, Refer To Senate Health And Welfare Committee
Feb 12 2025
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SB 935
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Abortion - As introduced, adds the chairs of the judiciary committee of the senate and the committee of the house of representatives with jurisdiction over criminal justice-related matters to whom the department of health shall submit a report of each abortion procedure and the disposition of the aborted fetus or aborted fetal tissue to no later than January 1, April 1, July 1, and October 1 of each year. - Amends TCA Section 39-15-203.
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Feb 05 2025 |
Passed On Second Consideration, Refer To Senate Judiciary Committee
Feb 12 2025
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SB 599
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
State Government - As introduced, increases from 90 to 180 days the period by which a nonprofit public benefit corporation that partners with the Governor's Books from Birth Fund must report to the governor and the speakers of the senate and house of representatives on its operations and accomplishments after the end of the fiscal year of the nonprofit corporation. - Amends TCA Title 4.
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Jan 31 2025 |
Passed On Second Consideration, Refer To Senate State And Local Government Committee
Feb 12 2025
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SB 570
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Education, Higher - As introduced, deletes an obsolete requirement for the University of Memphis and certain other collaborators on the Memphis Research Consortium to provide a progress report to the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 8; Title 9; Title 11; Title 12; Title 49; Title 58; Title 67; Title 68 and Title 71.
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Jan 30 2025 |
Passed On Second Consideration, Refer To Senate Education Committee
Feb 12 2025
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SB 2797
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, expands the definition of a law enforcement officer to include retired law enforcement officers who are carrying a firearm pursuant to certain state laws for purposes of when a law enforcement officer may carry a firearm. - Amends TCA Title 38 and Title 39.
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Feb 01 2024 |
Pub. Ch. 1065
Jun 03 2024
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SB 2605
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Tennessee Fish & Wildlife Commission - As enacted, authorizes the Tennessee wildlife resources agency to enter into license agreements for the operation of facilities on lands under the control or supervision of the agency for the improved utilization of state lands and facilities; clarifies that persons engaging in the business of propagating certain wildlife do not need to purchase a personal possession permit. - Amends TCA Title 70.
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Jan 31 2024 |
Pub. Ch. 1056
Jun 03 2024
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SB 1971
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Abortion - As enacted, creates the criminal offense of abortion trafficking of a minor; provides for a civil action against a person committing the offense of abortion trafficking of a minor if certain conditions are met. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 6; Title 29; Title 37 and Title 39.
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Jan 24 2024 |
Pub. Ch. 1032
May 31 2024
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SB 2004
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Health Care - As enacted, makes revisions to the law relative to the regulation of licensed professional counselors, licensed marital and family therapists, and licensed clinical pastoral therapists. - Amends TCA Title 63.
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Jan 25 2024 |
Pub. Ch. 1035
May 31 2024
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SB 1972
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Domestic Violence - As enacted, enacts "The Debbie and Marie Domestic Violence Protection Act," which makes revisions to law related to global positioning monitoring system devices, including requiring the court to order an offender to wear such a device under certain circumstances unless the court finds the offender no longer poses a threat to the alleged victim or public safety, requiring a cellular device application or electronic receptor device provided to the victim to be capable of notifying the victim if the offender is within a prescribed proximity of the victim's cellular device or electronic receptor device, and making other revisions. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40, Chapter 11 and Title 55, Chapter 10.
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Jan 24 2024 |
Pub. Ch. 1033
May 31 2024
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SB 1735
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Codes - As enacted, requires, for an inspection of new construction or the renovation of an existing building that must be conducted by the state fire marshal or another state agency, department, or entity, the state fire marshal or appropriate state entity to conduct the requested inspection within 10 business days, instead of 72 hours, of receipt of the request. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 7; Title 12; Title 13; Title 62; Title 66 and Title 68.
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Jan 10 2024 |
Pub. Ch. 1019
May 31 2024
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SB 1055
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
DUI Offenses - As enacted, lowers the threshold for enhancing the minimum sentence of a person convicted of driving under the influence of an intoxicant, from a blood alcohol concentration of 0.20 percent or more to a blood alcohol concentration of 0.15 percent or more. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13; Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 4 and Title 69, Chapter 9, Part 2.
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Jan 31 2023 |
Pub. Ch. 1011
May 31 2024
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SB 1969
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Mental Illness - As enacted, requires the court that finds a person incompetent to stand trial for a criminal offense due to intellectual disability to also determine whether the person is subject to involuntary care and treatment at the hearing in which the person is declared incompetent; states that the district attorney general is not required to file a complaint to require involuntary care and treatment for a person who is found incompetent to stand trial due to intellectual disability in order to commit the person. - Amends TCA Section 33-5-403.
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Jan 24 2024 |
Pub. Ch. 1031
May 31 2024
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SB 2946
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Tipton County - Subject to local approval, creates the "West Tennessee Regional Utility Authority." -
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Feb 13 2024 |
Comp. Became Pr. Ch. 56
May 13 2024
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SB 2635
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Codes - As enacted, requires the statewide building construction safety standards to allow a local government to amend the adopted building code for three-family dwellings and four-family dwellings in accordance with the standards; provides that, in amending the rules, the state fire marshal must not mandate automatic fire sprinkler systems for three-family dwellings and four-family dwellings where structures are under 5,000 square feet in area and meet other criteria; authorizes local governments to mandate sprinklers if certain conditions are met. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 120.
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Jan 31 2024 |
Pub. Ch. 946
May 13 2024
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