Tennessee Bills

sponsored by William Lamberth

Bill Title Introduced Latest Action↓
HB 110 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Financial Institutions, Dept. of - As enacted, authorizes the commissioner to determine the type, amounts, and other characteristics of deposit insurance required to be maintained by each state bank; describes criteria the commissioner must consider in making the determinations. - Amends TCA Title 45, Chapter 2.
Jan 13 2025 Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 126
Apr 08 2025
HB 1340 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Notary Public - As enacted, adds that a person must complete a course of instruction and pass an examination to qualify to be commissioned as an online notary public; clarifies that an application to be commissioned requires a certification that the applicant has reviewed, understands, and will comply with the applicable rules and requirements promulgated by the secretary of state; adds that a course of instruction for online notarization must include, at a minimum, notarial laws, technology procedures of online notarizations, and ethical requirements for online notaries. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 16, Part 3.
Feb 06 2025 Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 124
Apr 08 2025
HB 1320 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Transportation, Dept. of - As enacted, in the event of a transportation system failure or other emergency, grants the commissioner emergency contracting authority to enter into contracts for design-build, construction manager/general contractor (CM/GC), and progressive design-build (PDB) services for the delivery of transportation projects; exempts the department from having to identify such contracts exceeding $100 million in its transportation improvement program submitted annually to the general assembly in support of its annual funding recommendations, if they are issued under such emergency contracting authority; makes other revisions to the CM/GC and PDB process. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 12 and Title 54.
Feb 06 2025 Pub. Ch. 110
Apr 08 2025
HB 1337 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Charitable Institutions - As enacted, establishes a five-day period after the effective date of this act during which a nonprofit organization may apply to operate a charitable gaming event during the annual period beginning July 1, 2025, until June 30, 2026. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 17.
Feb 06 2025 Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 111
Apr 08 2025
HB 1312 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
State Employees - As enacted, expands bereavement leave for certain state officers and employees upon the death of certain relatives. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 50, Part 1.
Feb 06 2025 Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 74
Apr 08 2025
HB 113 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Criminal Offenses - As enacted, makes permanent the exclusion of narcotic testing equipment used to determine whether a controlled substance contains a synthetic opioid, unless the narcotic testing equipment is possessed for purposes of the commission of a drug offense, from the definition of drug paraphernalia; removes the July 1, 2025, repeal date for that exclusion. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-402.
Jan 13 2025 Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 128
Apr 08 2025
HB 120 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates the offense of intentionally impeding or obstructing a member of the division of protective services from ingress to, egress from, or movement about a location where the member is responsible for a person protected by the division of protective services; creates the offense of intentionally refusing to vacate an area where access has been restricted by a member of the division of protective services for the purpose of maintaining the safety or security of the person being protected. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 39.
Jan 13 2025 Pub. Ch. 84
Apr 04 2025
HB 1341 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Secretary of State - As enacted, establishes a complaint process with the secretary of state for any person who contends that the person’s name or address was included on a document filed with the secretary of state without the person’s consent. - Amends TCA Title 48.
Feb 06 2025 Pub. Ch. 152
Apr 04 2025
HB 121 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Railroads - As enacted, changes, from the governor to the commissioner of safety, the authority to whom a railroad company may apply to and who commissions an agent or employee as a railroad police officer. - Amends TCA Section 65-6-133.
Jan 13 2025 Pub. Ch. 85
Apr 04 2025
HB 297 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Real Property - As enacted, clarifies that property that is qualified as agricultural, forest land, or open space land, owned by two individuals, and held under the titles of tenancy by the entireties or of joint tenancy with right of survivorship, is deemed to have unchanged ownership upon the death of an owner if the property is retained by the other owner through a right of survivorship or upon the divorce of the owners if the property is retained by either owner through division and distribution of property in the divorce proceeding. - Amends TCA Title 11, Chapter 14, Part 2; Title 11, Chapter 15 and Title 67, Chapter 5.
Jan 21 2025 Pub. Ch. 138
Apr 04 2025
HB 119 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Financial Responsibility Law - As enacted, requires the commissioner of revenue, instead of the commissioner of safety, to issue a certificate stating that a cash deposit or bond in the amount required by the Tennessee Financial Responsibility Law of 1977 has been paid or filed with the commissioner of revenue. - Amends TCA Section 55-12-139.
Jan 13 2025 Pub. Ch. 83
Apr 04 2025
HB 105 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Children - As enacted, removes the requirement that grants under the child care improvement pilot program be provided explicitly to nonprofit organizations in order to establish or make improvements to a child care agency. - Amends TCA Title 71.
Jan 13 2025 Pub. Ch. 80
Apr 04 2025
HB 102 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Adoption - As enacted, changes from 21 to 18 the age at which certain adoption records must be made available to certain adopted persons; makes various other changes regarding adoption records. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 1, Part 1.
Jan 13 2025 Pub. Ch. 79
Apr 04 2025
HB 106 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Human Services, Dept. of - As enacted, makes various changes to the licensing exemption categories for programs and activities that fall within the definition of a child care agency; makes related changes, such as exempting home schools from licensure. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 71, Chapter 3, Part 5.
Jan 13 2025 Pub. Ch. 135
Apr 04 2025
HB 56 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
County Government - As enacted, authorizes certain county legislative bodies, by a two-thirds vote, to remove any member of an appointed board or commission, if such removal is recommended by the appointing authority and the member of the board or commission is given at least five business days' notice of the meeting when the vote on removal will occur. - Amends TCA Title 5.
Jan 02 2025 Pub. Ch. 132
Apr 04 2025
HB 108 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
State Employees - As enacted, requires the pay period for state employees be no less than twice per month as determined by the commissioner of finance and administration; removes the requirement that the pay period be semimonthly. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 23, Part 2.
Jan 13 2025 Pub. Ch. 82
Apr 04 2025
HB 107 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Welfare - As enacted, removes the requirement that a parent or caretaker enter a personal responsibility plan that requires a child to attend school and receive immunizations and health checks; removes certain requirements for a parent or caretaker regarding personal responsibility plans; removes a 20 percent reduction in temporary assistance payments for failure to comply with certain personal responsibility plan requirements. - Amends TCA Title 71.
Jan 13 2025 Pub. Ch. 81
Apr 04 2025
HB 321 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Computers and Electronic Processing - As enacted, requires each department, agency, office, commission, institution, or instrumentality of the executive branch to accept electronic transmissions; defines the meaning of electronic transmission as applicable to this state's code; removes the terms "fax" or "facsimile" in certain statutes and replaces the terms with electronic transmission. - Amends TCA Title 1; Title 2; Title 3; Title 4; Title 5; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 10; Title 11; Title 12; Title 13; Title 16; Title 20; Title 22; Title 24; Title 31; Title 33; Title 36; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 43; Title 44; Title 45; Title 47; Title 48; Title 49; Title 50; Title 53; Title 54; Title 55; Title 56; Title 61; Title 62; Title 63; Title 64; Title 65; Title 66; Title 67; Title 68; Title 69 and Title 71.
Jan 22 2025 Pub. Ch. 94
Apr 04 2025
HB 128 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Workers Compensation - As enacted, increases, from 30 to 35, the minimum age for an individual to serve as a judge on the workers' compensation appeals board; increases, from two to three, the number of additional terms to which a judge of the workers' compensation appeals board may be reappointed; makes other changes related to workers' compensation. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 6, Part 2.
Jan 13 2025 Pub. Ch. 86
Apr 04 2025
HB 191 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates a Class B misdemeanor for knowingly activating and pointing a laser pointer or other device utilizing a laser beam at a person driving an automobile, boat, aircraft, or any other motor vehicle. - Amends TCA Title 39.
Jan 16 2025 Pub. Ch. 88
Apr 04 2025

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