SB 153
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Election Laws - As introduced, provides a method for a nonrecognized minor party seeking recognition as a recognized minor party that notified the coordinator of elections that it seeks to nominate by primary election to rescind that notification; corrects a statutory reference. - Amends TCA Title 2.
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Jan 15 2025 |
Introduced, Passed On First Consideration
Jan 16 2025
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SB 148
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Food and Food Products - As introduced, excludes a cell-cultured food product from the definitions of meat and poultry for purposes of the Tennessee Meat and Poultry Inspection Act; prohibits local education agencies (LEAs), public charter schools, and public institutions of higher education from offering or distributing a cell-cultured food product through its school nutrition program, food service center, or another source through which the LEA, public charter school, or public institution of higher education provides food to students. - Amends TCA Title 40; Title 44; Title 47; Title 49 and Title 53.
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Jan 15 2025 |
Introduced, Passed On First Consideration
Jan 16 2025
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SB 150
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Education - As introduced, allows students to use their score on the Classic Learning Test (CLT) to satisfy the eligibility requirements for certain grants and scholarships funded using net proceeds of the state lottery; requires the Tennessee student assistance corporation to include information concerning testing dates for the CLT when informing students about lottery scholarship opportunities; allows public institutions of higher education to accept student scores on the CLT for admissions purposes. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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Jan 15 2025 |
Introduced, Passed On First Consideration
Jan 16 2025
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SB 149
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Safety - As introduced, decreases from 10 business days to 10 calendar days the amount of time the state fire marshal or another state agency, department, or entity must conduct a requested inspection for new construction or the renovation of an existing building. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 7; Title 13; Title 68 and Title 69.
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Jan 15 2025 |
Introduced, Passed On First Consideration
Jan 16 2025
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SB 154
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Taxes, Hotel Motel - As introduced, extends by 12 years the period in which Davidson County may charge an additional $0.50 privilege tax on the occupancy of a hotel room and in which such county may allocate the tax revenue for the purposes of direct promotion of tourism; extends by 12 years the terms of the committee members that oversee the fund in which the additional tax is deposited. - Amends TCA Section 7-4-202.
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Jan 15 2025 |
Introduced, Passed On First Consideration
Jan 16 2025
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SB 151
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires each local board of education and governing body of a public charter school to display the Ten Commandments, the first sentence of the second paragraph of the preamble to the Declaration of Independence, and the preamble to the United States Constitution in a prominent location in each school building. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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Jan 15 2025 |
Introduced, Passed On First Consideration
Jan 16 2025
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SB 152
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Health Care - As introduced, authorizes a patient with a severe chronic disease or terminal illness to access, and a physician to recommend, investigational stem cell treatment; requires the commissioner of health to promulgate rules to, among other things, list the medical conditions that constitute a qualifying severe chronic disease or terminal illness. - Amends TCA Title 53; Title 63 and Title 68.
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Jan 15 2025 |
Introduced, Passed On First Consideration
Jan 16 2025
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SB 26
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As introduced, reduces, from $5 million to $1 million, the contemplated capital cost required for an infrastructure development district created by one or more host municipalities. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 9; Title 12; Title 13; Title 66; Title 67 and Title 68.
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Jan 02 2025 |
Introduced, Passed On First Consideration
Jan 14 2025
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SB 25
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Children - As introduced, clarifies that a child's parent, legal guardian, or legal custodian may access and review all health and medical records of the child, including those records related to treatments available to unemancipated minors without parental consent; allows an employee of a local education agency to provide bandages, gauze, or ice packs for the treatment of minor cuts, scrapes, bumps, and bruises. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 36; Title 37; Title 49; Title 63 and Title 68.
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Jan 02 2025 |
Introduced, Passed On First Consideration
Jan 14 2025
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SJR 2
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Expresses support for the Nation of Israel. -
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Nov 19 2024 |
Introduced, Passed On First Consideration
Jan 14 2025
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SJR 3
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Establishes a definition of antisemitism and encourages departments and agencies of state government to use such definition in determining discriminatory intent for any law or policy in this state that prohibits discrimination based on race, color, religion, or national origin. -
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Jan 02 2025 |
Introduced, Passed On First Consideration
Jan 14 2025
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SB 29
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases the penalty for civil rights intimidation from a Class D felony to a Class C felony if the victim of the offense was a minor or was selected by the defendant based on the victim’s status as a minister, preacher, pastor, priest, rabbi, or other spiritual leader of a religious belief who has been ordained or otherwise designated in conformity with the customs of a church, temple, or other religious group or organization. - Amends TCA Title 39.
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Jan 02 2025 |
Introduced, Passed On First Consideration
Jan 14 2025
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SB 30
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates new misdemeanor offenses, including intentionally refusing to give one's name or giving a false name to a law enforcement officer who has lawfully detained or arrested the person and requested the information. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40; Title 54 and Title 55.
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Jan 02 2025 |
Introduced, Passed On First Consideration
Jan 14 2025
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SB 21
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
State Government - As introduced, declares that international policymaking organizations have no jurisdiction or authority within this state; declares that a federal law or rule based upon a policy or guideline of an international policymaking organization has no authority in this state; prohibits state governmental entities from adopting or enforcing a law or rule based upon a recommendation of an international policymaking organization unless authorized by state law. - Amends TCA Title 1; Title 3; Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 13; Title 14; Title 43; Title 45; Title 49; Title 50; Title 53; Title 59; Title 60; Title 62; Title 63; Title 65; Title 66; Title 68; Title 69 and Title 70.
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Jan 02 2025 |
Introduced, Passed On First Consideration
Jan 14 2025
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SB 24
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Taxes, Sales - As introduced, allocates all revenue generated from the state sales tax on retail sales of new or used motor vehicles and new or used tires in excess of base tax revenues to the state highway fund. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 54; Title 55 and Title 67.
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Jan 02 2025 |
Introduced, Passed On First Consideration
Jan 14 2025
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SB 28
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Criminal Offenses - As introduced, expands the criminal offense of harassment to include harassment that occurs by communicating in the physical presence of the victim, in addition to in writing, by telephone, or electronically. - Amends TCA Title 39.
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Jan 02 2025 |
Introduced, Passed On First Consideration
Jan 14 2025
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SB 22
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Prisons and Reformatory Institutions - As introduced, specifies that the reimbursement of travel expenses incurred by members of the inmate disciplinary oversight board must be administered in accordance with the comprehensive travel regulations promulgated by the department of finance and administration and approved by the attorney general and reporter. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 41.
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Jan 02 2025 |
Introduced, Passed On First Consideration
Jan 14 2025
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SB 27
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Governor - As introduced, prohibits orders, proclamations, or rules issued by the governor under the governor's emergency management powers from contravening, suspending, or conflicting with a provision of the Tennessee Constitution; restricts governor's ability under such powers to suspend certain procedural provisions of a law, order, rule, or regulation. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 58, Chapter 2.
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Jan 02 2025 |
Introduced, Passed On First Consideration
Jan 14 2025
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SB 23
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Taxes, Hotel Motel - As introduced, extends by six years the period in which Davidson County may charge an additional $0.50 privilege tax on the occupancy of a hotel room and in which such county may allocate the tax revenue for the purposes of direct promotion of tourism; extends by six years the terms of the committee members that oversee the fund in which the additional tax is deposited. - Amends TCA Section 7-4-202.
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Jan 02 2025 |
Withdrawn.
Jan 07 2025
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SB 1963
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Open Meetings - As enacted, permits a court to award the reasonable court costs and attorney's fees to a petitioner successfully proving that a governing body knowingly and willfully violated the public meetings laws in this state. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 4, Part 6 and Title 8, Chapter 44, Part 1.
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Jan 24 2024 |
Pub. Ch. 1030
May 31 2024
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