Tennessee Bills

sponsored by Chris Hurt

Bill Title Introduced↓ Latest Action
HB 1243 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Licenses - As introduced, extends to smoking hemp the existing licensure and certain other requirements for hemp-derived cannabinoid products; imposes a tax on the privilege of engaging in the business of selling smoking hemp and products containing a hemp-derived cannabinoid in this state. - Amends TCA Section 1-3-113; Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 15; Title 43, Chapter 27; Section 53-11-451 and Title 67.
Feb 06 2025 Intro., P1c.
Feb 10 2025
HB 739 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Education - As introduced, requires each elementary and secondary school to post the toll-free telephone number operated by the department of children's services to receive reports of child abuse or neglect on the homepage of the school's website. - Amends Chapter __ of the Public Acts of 2025 (1st Ex. Sess. – SB 6001 / HB 6004); and TCA Title 49.
Feb 03 2025 P2c, Caption Bill, Held On Desk - Pending Amdt.
Feb 06 2025
HB 513 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Environment and Conservation, Department of - As introduced, changes, from January 31 to February 15, the date by which the commissioner must submit reports related to the administration of the Water Quality Control Act of 1977 to legislative committees with jurisdiction over environmental matters. - Amends TCA Title 1, Chapter 3; Title 43; Title 44; Title 68 and Title 69.
Jan 29 2025 P2c, Caption Bill, Held On Desk - Pending Amdt.
Feb 05 2025
HB 454 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Correction, Dept. of - As introduced, adds the legislative librarian as a recipient of the report submitted by the commissioner of correction to the general assembly on the transactions of state correctional facilities during the two years preceding the report. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 8; Title 9; Title 27; Title 29; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 41.
Jan 28 2025 P2c, Caption Bill, Held On Desk - Pending Amdt.
Feb 05 2025
HB 453 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Fire Prevention and Investigation - As introduced, specifies that fire drills for private and public schools requiring full evacuation in educational occupancies where such occupancies constitute the major occupancy of a building must be held at least one time every 30 school days. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 102.
Jan 28 2025 P2c, Ref. To Education Committee
Feb 05 2025
HJR 75 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Memorials, Death - Ellie Claire Young -
Jan 28 2025 Concurred, Ayes 30, Nays 0
Feb 13 2025
HB 455 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Health Care - As introduced, requires the Tennessee council on autism spectrum disorder to submit an annual report by February 1 of each year to legislative committees that details, at a minimum, the council's findings, progress on the comprehensive statewide plan and system of care, and recommendations for legislation. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 56 and Title 71.
Jan 28 2025 P2c, Caption Bill, Held On Desk - Pending Amdt.
Feb 05 2025
HB 351 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Jails, Local Lock-ups - As introduced, requires a prisoner who is released from a county workhouse or jail for paid employment to pay the costs of the required electronic monitoring device. - Amends TCA Title 41.
Jan 23 2025 P2c, Ref. To State & Local Government Committee
Feb 03 2025
HB 349 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Education - As introduced, deletes an antiquated section, which required the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy at the University of Tennessee to, by December 15, 2014, perform a study on the economic feasibility of creating and utilizing a statewide comprehensive energy policy and submit its final report to the energy task force of the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 49.
Jan 23 2025 P2c, Caption Bill, Held On Desk - Pending Amdt.
Feb 03 2025
HB 347 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Children - As introduced, specifies that the terms abandonment, abuse, severe abuse, and dependent and neglected child do not include the failure to meet the needs of a child solely due to financial hardship unless reasonable material resources such as cash assistance, safe and stable housing, or tangible goods have been offered to and refused by the parent or guardian; makes various other changes regarding adoption, termination of parental rights, and the criminal offenses of child abuse and child neglect. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 37 and Title 39.
Jan 23 2025 P2c, Ref. To Judiciary Committee
Feb 03 2025
HB 350 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Prisons and Reformatory Institutions - As introduced, adds the legislative librarian as a recipient of the report submitted by the commissioner of correction to the general assembly on the transactions of state correctional facilities during the two years preceding the report. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 8; Title 9; Title 27; Title 29; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 41.
Jan 23 2025 P2c, Caption Bill, Held On Desk - Pending Amdt.
Feb 03 2025
HB 348 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Education - As introduced, requires, if a local government adopts a budget that includes the required maintenance of effort for education funding but fails to appropriate or allocate the full amount budgeted to the LEA, the local government, in the following fiscal year, to appropriate and allocate the unfunded portion to the LEA; specifies that the maintenance of local funding effort required for a fiscal year following a fiscal year in which the local government failed to appropriate or allocate the full amount budgeted to the LEA must be determined based on the amount budgeted to the LEA for the previous fiscal year instead of the amount actually appropriated or allocated to the LEA by the local government. - Amends TCA Section 49-3-314.
Jan 23 2025 P2c, Ref. To Education Committee
Feb 03 2025
HB 352 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Highways, Roads and Bridges - As introduced, clarifies that the plans for an acquisition of a right-of-way by the state must be filed and recorded with the office of the register in each county where the project is located if the project is located in multiple counties. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 54 and Title 55.
Jan 23 2025 P2c, Ref. To Transportation Committee
Feb 03 2025
HR 147 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Memorials, Recognition - Fair Housing Month -
Apr 09 2024 Sponsor(S) Added.
Apr 11 2024
HB 2997 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Gates - Subject to local approval, removes authority of the board of mayor and aldermen to elect a town marshal or marshals; removes authority of a member of the board to serve as city recorder; repeals residency requirement for a person to be elected as city recorder. - Amends Chapter 286 of the Private Acts of 1943; as amended.
Mar 12 2024 Comp. Became Pr. Ch. 46
Apr 17 2024
HJR 959 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Memorials, Recognition - Katherine West, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award -
Feb 20 2024 Signed By Governor.
Mar 13 2024
HJR 958 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Memorials, Recognition - Hannah Clark, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award -
Feb 20 2024 Signed By Governor.
Mar 13 2024
HJR 960 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Memorials, Recognition - Hannah Matlock, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award -
Feb 20 2024 Signed By Governor.
Mar 13 2024
HJR 957 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Memorials, Recognition - Melissa Ryckman, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award -
Feb 20 2024 Signed By Governor.
Mar 13 2024
HB 2494 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Local Education Agencies - As enacted, revises certain enrollment, attendance, individualized education program, and resident requirements for certain education funding to follow a student who is admitted to a state-licensed or out-of-state mental health facility from the student's LEA to the facility. - Amends TCA Title 49.
Jan 30 2024 Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 884
May 13 2024

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