HB 1246
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Consumer Protection - As introduced, requires the office of the attorney general and reporter to submit to the chair of the house committee having jurisdiction over consumer protection and the chair of the commerce and labor committee of the senate a report on the number of investigations into violations of the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act of 1977 in which artificial intelligence was used to effectuate an unfair or deceptive act or practice affecting the conduct of any trade or commerce between January 1, 2024, and December 31, 2025; requires the report to be submitted no later than July 1, 2026; allows the report to be submitted electronically. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 12; Title 39; Title 45; Title 47; Title 48; Title 50; Title 55; Title 61; Title 62; Title 65; Title 66; Title 67 and Title 68.
|
Feb 06 2025 |
P2c, Caption Bill, Held On Desk - Pending Amdt.
Feb 12 2025
|
HB 1066
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Human Services, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to assign a new vending facility manager to a location if the department receives three complaints within a six-month period. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 4.
|
Feb 05 2025 |
Assigned To S/C Departments & Agencies Subcommittee
Feb 11 2025
|
HB 797
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Courts, Juvenile - As introduced, requires a juvenile court conducting a child custody, detention, or adjudicatory proceeding to conduct the proceeding in a dedicated courtroom provided by the county that is closest in proximity to an approved detention center. - Amends TCA Title 37.
|
Feb 04 2025 |
Assigned To S/C Children And Family Affairs Subcommittee
Feb 10 2025
|
HB 795
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Public Contracts - As introduced, requires a local government to send back any requested changes on a contractor's or developer's application for development site plans or inspections in a single deliverable document or set of documents, or to remit related fees back to the developer for subsequent change requests; prohibits a local government from requiring a developer or contractor to fund, develop, or contribute to the development of nonessential infrastructure, unless otherwise agreed upon by the parties. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 9; Title 12; Title 13 and Title 66.
|
Feb 04 2025 |
P2c, Ref. To State & Local Government Committee
Feb 06 2025
|
HB 905
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Consumer Protection - As introduced, changes the definition of "definable group" for purposes of the Ensuring Likeness, Voice, and Image Security Act of 2024 to include a choral group rather than a glee club. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 25, Part 11.
|
Feb 04 2025 |
P2c, Caption Bill, Held On Desk - Pending Amdt.
Feb 06 2025
|
HB 794
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, increases, from 10 days to 10 business days, the time after appointment and qualification of members for a board of public utilities appointed under the Municipal Electric Plan Law of 1935 by which the board must elect a chair. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 12; Title 13; Title 29; Title 54; Title 64; Title 65; Title 68 and Title 69.
|
Feb 04 2025 |
P2c, Caption Bill, Held On Desk - Pending Amdt.
Feb 06 2025
|
HB 796
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, requires a public utility to allow a customer of the utility to use a contractor of the customer's choosing for the installation of utility infrastructure; allows the public utility to provide reasonable construction and manufacturer specifications for the utility infrastructure; adds additional requirements related to the use of private contractors for installation of utility infrastructure. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 65; Title 68 and Title 69.
|
Feb 04 2025 |
Assigned To S/C Business & Utilities Subcommittee
Feb 10 2025
|
HB 913
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Election Laws - As introduced, requires a three-judge panel to hear any civil action in which it is alleged that a proposed charter amendment ordinance that is to be submitted to qualified voters at an election is in violation of the Constitution or state law; prohibits an amendment to the charter of a home rule municipality from being placed on any ballot if the amendment is in violation of the Constitution or state law. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 20, Chapter 18.
|
Feb 04 2025 |
Assigned To S/C Elections & Campaign Finance Subcommittee
Feb 10 2025
|
HB 612
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Water Pollution - As introduced, expands from wetlands to all areas that an aquatic resource alteration permit may apply to the areas for which the department of environment and conservation is required to exempt from compensatory mitigation an amount of area equal in size to the area for which mitigation would not be required if the permit applicant qualified for coverage under a general permit, if the only factor that disqualifies an applicant for an aquatic resource alteration permit from having the activities for which a permit is sought covered under a general permit is the size of the area that the permit will apply to. - Amends TCA Title 69, Chapter 3.
|
Jan 30 2025 |
P2c, Ref. To Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee
Feb 05 2025
|
HB 613
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Environment and Conservation, Department of - As introduced, requires the department to submit an annual report regarding the number of applications filed pursuant to the Water Quality Control Act; requires the department to include information on the mechanism of compensatory mitigation provided for in permits that are required to have a provision for adequate compensatory mitigation; requires additional information when the mechanism of compensatory mitigation is an in-lieu fee program or mitigation banking. - Amends TCA Title 69.
|
Jan 30 2025 |
P2c, Ref. To Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee
Feb 05 2025
|
HB 543
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Sewage - As introduced, prohibits a municipal sewer system or utility district that has operated a sewerage system outside of the corporate boundaries of the city or town for 25 years or more from ceasing operation of the sewerage system outside the corporate boundaries so long as the sewerage system maintains sufficient capacity, as determined by a study conducted by TACIR. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 35; Title 7, Chapter 82 and Title 68, Chapter 221.
|
Jan 29 2025 |
P2c, Ref. To Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee
Feb 05 2025
|
HB 544
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Taxes, Ad Valorem - As introduced, creates the commercial development board; with respect to new commercial property developed by private entities in certain taxing jurisdictions, authorizes the private entities to enter into agreements for payments in lieu of ad valorem taxes and leases with the commercial development board. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 9; Title 13; Title 48 and Title 67.
|
Jan 29 2025 |
P2c, Ref. To State & Local Government Committee
Feb 05 2025
|
HB 541
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Water Pollution - As introduced, prohibits the department of environment and conservation from applying criteria that will result in the classification of real property as a wetland, or otherwise regulating real property as a wetland, unless the property is classified as a wetland under federal law. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 11, Chapter 14, Part 4; Title 66; Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 4 and Title 69.
|
Jan 29 2025 |
P2c, Caption Bill, Held On Desk - Pending Amdt.
Feb 05 2025
|
HB 542
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, requires a utility to review plans of development for compliance with water, electric, and natural gas infrastructure codes within 30 days of the plan's submission; authorizes developers to hire a third-party plans examiner in lieu of the utility's review if not timely completed. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 13, Chapter 7; Title 65 and Title 68.
|
Jan 29 2025 |
P2c, Ref. To Commerce Committee
Feb 05 2025
|
HB 476
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Comptroller, State - As introduced, increases from $50,000 to $100,000 the bond amount that every insurance company doing a workers' compensation business in this state must furnish with a surety company; increases from $100,000 to $200,000 the certificate amount that such a company may deposit with the commissioner of labor and workforce development in lieu of the bond. - Amends TCA Title 12; Title 29; Title 50 and Title 56.
|
Jan 28 2025 |
P2c, Caption Bill, Held On Desk - Pending Amdt.
Feb 05 2025
|
HB 475
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Motor Vehicles - As introduced, authorizes the commissioner of commerce and insurance to promulgate rules pertaining to automobile clubs and associations. - Amends TCA Title 55.
|
Jan 28 2025 |
P2c, Caption Bill, Held On Desk - Pending Amdt.
Feb 05 2025
|
HB 477
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Taxes - As introduced, allows a taxpayer to annually elect to take a bonus depreciation deduction of 40 percent of the cost of assets purchased on or after January 1, 2026, during the tax year in which the assets were purchased when calculating net earnings or net losses for excise tax purposes; allows the taxpayer to take the federal depreciation percentage if it exceeds 40 percent. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 20.
|
Jan 28 2025 |
P2c, Ref. To Finance, Ways, And Means Committee
Feb 05 2025
|
HB 474
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Education, Higher - As introduced, requires the Tennessee higher education commission, in consultation with the department of labor and workforce development, to study all state-funded financial aid and scholarship programs in this state to determine whether programs may be expanded to provide greater financial aid opportunities for individuals interested in pursuing a workforce credential; requires the commission to report its findings and any legislative recommendations to the committee of the house of representatives having jurisdiction over higher education and to the education committee of the senate no later than January 15, 2026. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 49 and Title 50.
|
Jan 28 2025 |
P2c, Ref. To Education Committee
Feb 05 2025
|
HJR 1382
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Memorials, Recognition - Joshua Long, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award -
|
Apr 16 2024 |
Signed By Governor.
May 03 2024
|
HJR 1381
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Memorials, Recognition - Eryn Rogers, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award -
|
Apr 16 2024 |
Signed By Governor.
May 03 2024
|