Tennessee Bills

sponsored by Cameron Sexton

Bill Title Introduced Latest Action↓
HB 1437 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Crossville - Subject to local approval, realigns salaries of mayor and city council to be set at a percentage of salary earned by the county mayor; establishes new meeting schedule for mayor and city council; creates process for holding administrative hearings by the city; increases maximum occupancy tax that may be imposed, from 2 percent to 3 percent. - Amends Chapter 519 of the Private Acts of 1953; as amended and rewritten.
Mar 24 2025 Pr. Ch. 28
Jun 04 2025
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.
Feb 05 2025 Pub. Ch. 513
May 27 2025
HB 1089 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Criminal Offenses - As enacted, requires the department of mental health and substance abuse services to establish a mental health evaluation process for a community mental health center or qualified mental health professional to evaluate a defendant convicted of domestic assault, child abuse, aggravated child abuse, cruelty to animals, aggravated cruelty to animals; requires a court in which a person is convicted of any such offense to order the offender to undergo a mental health evaluation prior to the sentencing hearing. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 39 and Title 40.
Feb 05 2025 Pub. Ch. 511
May 27 2025
HB 1097 (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.
Feb 05 2025 Pub. Ch. 514
May 27 2025
HB 1092 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Federal Aid - As enacted, establishes a process for reviewing requests for federal aid. -
Feb 05 2025 Pub. Ch. 512
May 27 2025
HB 1090 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Correction, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to study the issues associated with constructing and operating a reentry facility that would house eligible inmates who are working toward return from incarceration into the community. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 40 and Title 41.
Feb 05 2025 Pub. Ch. 351
May 08 2025
HJR 486 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Memorials, Recognition - Elon Musk and SpaceX -
Mar 20 2025 Signed By Governor.
May 05 2025
HB 1094 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
State Symbols - As enacted, designates the Southern Stars Symphonic Brass as the official brass band of the state of Tennessee. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3.
Feb 05 2025 Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 176
Apr 30 2025
HB 1088 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires an LEA that receives credible information regarding a threat of violence or significantly disruptive behavior directed toward, or occurring on the grounds of, a public school in the LEA, and that reports the threat or disruptive behavior to a state or local law enforcement agency, to notify the parents and guardians of students enrolled in the public school of the same threat or disruptive behavior within 48 hours of the LEA making its report to law enforcement. - Amends TCA Title 49.
Feb 05 2025 Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 215
Apr 29 2025
HJR 48 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Constitutional Amendments - Proposes an amendment to Article I, Section 35 of the Constitution of Tennessee to expand the rights of victims of crimes. -
Jan 16 2025 Sponsor(S) Added.
Apr 16 2025
HJR 49 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Constitutional Amendments - Proposes an amendment to Article I, Section 15 of the Constitution of Tennessee to remove the right to bail for the following offenses when the proof is evident or the presumption great: act of terrorism; second degree murder; aggravated rape of a child; aggravated rape; grave torture; and any other offense, as of November 3, 2026, for which a defendant, if convicted, could not be released prior to the expiration of at least 85 percent of the entire sentence imposed. -
Jan 16 2025 Sponsor(S) Added.
Apr 16 2025
HB 1096 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Economic and Community Development - As enacted, prohibits an employer seeking to receive an economic development incentive from the state from entering into a community benefits agreement or similar legal contract if the agreement or contract imposes obligations or conditions on the employer regarding employment practices, benefits, or operations that are not directly related to the performance of the employer’s duties under the economic development incentive. - Amends TCA Title 4.
Feb 05 2025 Pub. Ch. 151
Apr 04 2025
HB 1095 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Law Enforcement Training Academy - As enacted, requires the peace officer standards and training commission to issue a certificate of compliance to a person appointed as a private special deputy on or after January 1, 2026, if the person meets the qualifications for employment as a police officer and satisfactorily completes an approved recruit training program; requires annual in-service training sessions to retain such certification. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 38 and Title 49.
Feb 05 2025 Pub. Ch. 105
Apr 04 2025
HR 9 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Ina F. Maxwell, Ph.,D., State Board of Education -
Feb 20 2025 Enrolled; Ready For Sig. Of H. Speaker.
Mar 11 2025
HJR 242 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - John Hie, Tennessee Public Utility Commission -
Feb 20 2025 Sponsor(S) Added.
Mar 10 2025
HB 2922 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Education - As enacted, authorizes certain opportunity public charter schools serving any of the grades six through 12 for which at least 75 percent of the students enrolled in the school, at the time of enrollment, are at-risk students. - Amends TCA Title 49.
Jan 31 2024 Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 1066
Jun 03 2024
HB 2873 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
State Government - As enacted, authorizes the governor to remove a member of the autonomous inmate oversight board, whom the governor appointed, for cause; authorizes the speaker of the senate or the speaker of the house of representatives to remove a member of the board whom the respective speaker appointed for cause. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 40 and Title 41.
Jan 31 2024 Pub. Ch. 898
May 13 2024
HB 2931 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Judges and Chancellors - As enacted, requires a judge who enters into a deferred discipline agreement regarding a matter before the board of judicial conduct to sign an affidavit stating that the judge consents to the recommendation of the investigative panel, the consent is freely and voluntarily rendered, there is a pending proceeding involving allegations of misconduct, which must be specifically set forth in the affidavit, and the facts set forth in the affidavit are true; requires the affidavit to be filed with the board upon its approval by a hearing panel. - Amends TCA Title 16 and Title 17.
Jan 31 2024 Pub. Ch. 922
May 13 2024
HB 2930 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Courts, Administrative Office of the - As enacted, directs the administrative office of the courts (AOC) to define and develop a centralized system of case management, document management, electronic case filing, electronic payment methods, data reporting, and any other capability deemed necessary for collection and reporting of all state and local court public case level data. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 16 and Title 18.
Jan 31 2024 Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 947
May 13 2024
HB 2921 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, requires TennCare health benefit plans to provide coverage and reimbursement for mental health services and treatment to the same extent that the plans provide coverage and reimbursement for the treatment of alcoholism and drug dependence; makes related changes to insurance law relative to mental health and alcoholism or drug dependency. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 33; Title 56 and Title 71.
Jan 31 2024 Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 949
May 13 2024

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