SB 693
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Criminal Offenses - As enacted, increases the penalty from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony for a person who commits child abuse by knowingly treating a child between 9 and 17 in such a manner as to inflict injury. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 37; Title 39 and Title 40.
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Feb 03 2025 |
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 472
May 27 2025
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HB 594
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Taxes, Sales - As enacted, increases, from two to four, the number of temporary sales periods that a bona fide religious institution may participate in and be exempt from registering to collect sales tax on sales directly to consumers made during such temporary sales period. - Amends TCA Section 67-6-102.
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Jan 30 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 493
May 27 2025
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HB 485
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Education - As enacted, authorizes local education agencies and public charter schools to provide up to four days of the required 180 days of classroom instruction via hybrid learning in the event of dangerous or extreme weather conditions, or an emergency, as determined by the director of schools or the director of public charter schools. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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Jan 28 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 484
May 27 2025
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SB 1431
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Appropriations - As enacted, makes appropriations for the fiscal years beginning July 1, 2024, and July 1, 2025. -
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Feb 14 2025 |
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 530
May 27 2025
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SB 875
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Economic and Community Development, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to revise and certify the population of each county and municipality, and the aggregate population of the state, prior to July 1 each year during the interim between the regular decennial federal census to ensure equitable allocation and distribution of the local share of revenue; requires the Boyd Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Tennessee, through the Tennessee state data center, to generate annual population estimates for each county and municipality and provide the estimates to the department for review and certification. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3; Title 4, Chapter 49; Section 9-16-101; Title 54, Chapter 4; Title 55, Chapter 4; Title 57, Chapter 5, Part 2; Title 57, Chapter 3, Part 3; Title 67, Chapter 3, Part 9; Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 9 and Title 67.
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Feb 05 2025 |
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 501
May 27 2025
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HB 726
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Real Property - As enacted, extends from January 28, 2025, to April 15, 2025, the date by which an assessor must have determined that property was destroyed or damaged by a qualified disaster in order for the owner to be eligible for a direct payment from the comptroller of the treasury. - Amends TCA Title 67.
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Feb 03 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 498
May 27 2025
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SB 760
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Newspapers and Publications - As enacted, specifies that the website where legal notices must be posted must not require a fee or a subscription for a person to view the website; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 1, Chapter 3.
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Feb 04 2025 |
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 500
May 27 2025
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HB 524
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Montgomery County - As enacted, permits a court to transfer, upon motion by the defendant, a criminal case to the veterans treatment court program in Montgomery County if the veterans treatment court program would have jurisdiction over the case if the offense had been committed in Montgomery County, the defendant files with the court a written waiver of the right to be tried by an impartial jury of the county in which the crime was committed, and the district attorney general for Montgomery County agrees to accept transfer of the case. - Amends TCA Title 16 and Title 40.
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Jan 29 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 489
May 27 2025
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HB 717
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Health Care - As enacted, extends the termination date for the Alzheimer's and dementia respite care pilot program from December 31, 2025, to December 31, 2026. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 33; Title 52; Title 67 and Title 68.
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Feb 03 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 497
May 27 2025
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HB 1373
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Education, Dept. of - As enacted, extends the school turnaround pilot program for priority schools administered by the department and that is scheduled to conclude at the end of the 2024-2025 school year to a permanent school turnaround program for priority schools; increases, from five to 15, the maximum number of priority schools that may participate in the school turnaround program. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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Feb 06 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 525
May 27 2025
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SB 1336
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Local Education Agencies - As enacted, authorizes a local legislative body for a county that has adopted a charter form of government to require elections for the county board of education to be held at the same time and on the same election cycle as elections for members of the local legislative body for the county, members of the county board of education to have successive terms of office if members of the local legislative body for the county have successive terms of office and members of the county board of education to have the same term limits as members of the local legislative body for the county. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 5; Title 7; Title 8 and Title 49.
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Feb 06 2025 |
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 527
May 27 2025
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HB 1093
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, expands the definition of "machine gun" to include any part, or combination of parts, designed and intended solely for use in converting a firearm into a machine gun; increases the classification for the intentional or knowing possession, manufacture, transport, repair, or sale of a machine gun from a Class E to a Class C felony; reclassifies certain other offenses involving the possession of firearm or handgun ammunition; makes a defendant ineligible for parole if convicted of aggravated assault that involved the use of a firearm from within a motor vehicle. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.
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Feb 05 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 513
May 27 2025
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SB 845
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Local Government, General - As enacted, sets up a process by which the attorney general and reporter may review whether a local government action violates state law or the Constitution of Tennessee. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8 and Title 9.
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Feb 04 2025 |
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 514
May 27 2025
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HB 504
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Scholarships and Financial Aid - As enacted, makes various changes to the "Tennessee Future Teacher Scholarship Act of 2023." - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 7.
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Jan 29 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 488
May 27 2025
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HB 542
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Utilities, Utility Districts - As enacted, makes revisions to present law relative to utilities. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 13, Chapter 7; Title 65 and Title 68.
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Jan 29 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 490
May 27 2025
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SB 764
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Health Care - As enacted, establishes licensure of anesthesiologist assistants; revises provisions authorizing hospitals to employ certain licensed physicians for certain medical services. - Amends TCA Title 47; Title 63 and Title 68.
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Feb 04 2025 |
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 509
May 27 2025
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SB 1426
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
TennCare - As enacted, enacts "Lucca's Law," which addresses TennCare coverage of treatment for pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections (PANDAS) and pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome (PANS). - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56 and Title 71.
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Feb 06 2025 |
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 482
May 27 2025
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HB 490
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Courts - As enacted, prohibits the disqualification or removal of a municipal judge who was duly elected or appointed to office prior to March 7, 2025, and who is qualified for such office under the laws and interpretations in effect at the time of such election or appointment, due to a residency requirement during the term of office to which the municipal judge was elected or appointed. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 16; Title 17; Title 18; Title 20; Title 21; Title 24; Title 25; Title 26; Title 27; Title 28 and Title 29.
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Jan 29 2025 |
Pub. Ch. 487
May 27 2025
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SB 778
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Driver Licenses - As enacted, limits to four the number of points that may be assessed to a person's driver record for the offense of operating a motor vehicle while the person's driving privilege is canceled, suspended, or revoked. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50.
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Feb 04 2025 |
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 504
May 27 2025
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SB 1413
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Alcoholic Beverage Commission - As enacted, provides for the regulation of the manufacturing, supplying, wholesale distribution, and retail sale of hemp-derived cannabinoid products by the commission and department of revenue; creates licenses for suppliers, wholesalers, and retailers; establishes taxes for such products and the manner in which such taxes are collected and allocated; establishes civil and criminal penalties for violations. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40; Title 43, Chapter 27; Title 53, Chapter 11; Title 57 and Title 67.
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Feb 06 2025 |
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 526
May 27 2025
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