Tennessee Bills

sponsored by Jeff Burkhart

Bill Title Introduced Latest Action↓
HB 1180 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Adoption - As introduced, allows petitioners to include all children in one adoption or termination of parental rights petition if the petitioners are seeking to adopt more than one child at the same time and the children are siblings who share at least one biological parent, unless the court issues a written order finding that it is in the best interest of the children that separate petitions be filed; specifies that the clerk of court shall charge only one filing fee for such a petition. - Amends TCA Title 18; Title 36 and Title 37.
Feb 06 2025 Filed For Introduction
Feb 06 2025
HB 976 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Real Property - As introduced, extends from 10 to 20 days, the time within which a non-contracting spouse must serve the prime contractor with written notice of that spouse's objection to a contract for improving real property after learning of the contract when the contract is made with a husband or a wife who is not separated and living apart from that person's spouse, and the property is owned by the other spouse or by both spouses, in order to avoid the other spouse being deemed the agent of the objecting spouse. - Amends TCA Title 66, Chapter 11.
Feb 05 2025 Intro., P1c.
Feb 06 2025
HB 978 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, requires a utility governed by the Utilities' Cut-Off Procedures Act to publish its policy governing the discontinuation of service for nonpayment of service on the utility's website in a publicly accessible location. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 65; Title 68 and Title 69.
Feb 05 2025 Intro., P1c.
Feb 06 2025
HB 977 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, expands the time in which education associations whose employees participate in the retirement system must submit a list of retired members of the retirement system who are assigned to perform functions or duties for the association as an employee of a subsidiary of the association or an independent contractor to the board of trustees by allowing them to submit the list annually or at such other intervals set by the board. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 34; Title 8, Chapter 35 and Title 8, Chapter 36.
Feb 05 2025 Intro., P1c.
Feb 06 2025
HB 975 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Traffic Safety - As introduced, authorizes counties to delegate authority to the chief administrative officer of the county highway department to set lower speed limits on county roads if the department employs an engineer who is capable of completing required engineering and traffic investigations. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 8.
Feb 05 2025 Intro., P1c.
Feb 06 2025
HB 1075 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Redistricting, Legislative - As introduced, requires the comptroller of the treasury to report to the general assembly which counties, if any, redrew precinct lines to ensure no split precincts in legislative districts. - Amends TCA Section 2-16-103; Section 3-1-102 and Section 3-1-103.
Feb 05 2025 Intro., P1c.
Feb 06 2025
HB 1074 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, requires a healthcare provider to notify a patient of a communication between the provider and the patient's health insurance entity if the provider contacts the health insurance entity seeking additional information needed to process a prior authorization request for the patient within seven days after the communication has occurred; makes other changes related to prior authorization for healthcare services. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Title 63, Chapter 1.
Feb 05 2025 Intro., P1c.
Feb 06 2025
HB 700 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Real Estate Agents and Brokers - As introduced, exempts a real estate broker licensee who was originally licensed prior to January 1, 2005, and does not supervise any affiliate brokers from the requirement to furnish certification of satisfactory completion of 16 classroom hours in real estate courses for reissuance of a license for a licensure period after the period in which the licensee completed the required 120 classroom hours in real estate. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 13.
Feb 03 2025 Intro., P1c.
Feb 05 2025
HB 636 (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.
Jan 31 2025 P2c, Caption Bill, Held On Desk - Pending Amdt.
Feb 05 2025
HB 701 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, removes the requirement that each year the Tennessee public utility commission submit to the general assembly a report describing the competitive nature of the telecommunications market in this state. - Amends TCA Title 65, Chapter 1 and Title 65, Chapter 5.
Feb 03 2025 Intro., P1c.
Feb 05 2025
HB 699 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Taxes, Ad Valorem - As introduced, changes from March 1 of the second year following a tax year to March 1 of the tenth year following a tax year by which certain corrections to the property tax assessment for that tax year are to be initiated by an assessor or requested by a taxpayer. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5.
Feb 03 2025 Intro., P1c.
Feb 05 2025
HB 1901 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Uniform Commercial Code - As enacted, defines "central bank digital currency," and revises the definitions of "money" and "deposit account," for purposes of the Uniform Commercial Code. - Amends TCA Title 47.
Jan 22 2024 Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 694
Apr 17 2024
HB 2532 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Fire Prevention and Investigation - As enacted, authorizes a county that has entered into a written mutual aid agreement with each municipality within the county relating to the provisions of fire services in the context of state military affairs, emergencies, and civil defense law, to fund up to 50 percent of the cost to provide fire services to unincorporated portions of the county using county general funds. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 12; Title 58 and Title 68.
Jan 30 2024 Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 702
Apr 17 2024
HB 1903 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Contractors - As enacted, authorizes the state board for licensing contractors, without cause, to require a financial statement of a licensure applicant that is reviewed or audited and attested to by a licensed public accountant or certified public accountant if the board has reason to believe it is in the best interest of the public safety and welfare. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 6.
Jan 22 2024 Pub. Ch. 664
Apr 17 2024
HB 2530 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Codes - As introduced, prohibits a local government from limiting or prohibiting the use or installation of products that meet the national codes and standards or materials that meet the national codes and standards for single-family or multi-family housing or commercial construction under four stories; deletes provision declaring that a denial of a waiver by a local governmental entity pertaining to construction materials does not constitute a prohibition of those construction materials. - Amends TCA Section 68-120-101.
Jan 30 2024 Taken Off Notice For Cal In S/C Business & Utilities Subcommittee Of Commerce Committee
Mar 12 2024
HB 1902 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Taxes, Real Property - As introduced, requires the payment of greenbelt rollback taxes in full at closing when greenbelt property is sold. - Amends TCA Title 66; Section 67-4-409 and Title 67, Chapter 5, Part 10.
Jan 22 2024 Action Def. In Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee To 3/20/2024
Mar 06 2024
HR 104 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Memorials, Recognition - Don Trotter -
Feb 27 2024 Enrolled; Ready For Sig. Of H. Speaker.
Mar 05 2024
HB 108 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Tobacco, Tobacco Products - As introduced, deletes requirement that the commissioner of revenue share information pertaining to the enforcement of the Tennessee Tobacco Manufacturers' Escrow Fund Act of 1999 with the attorney general and reporter. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 39; Title 43; Title 47; Title 49; Title 62; Title 63; Title 67 and Title 68.
Jan 11 2023 Sponsor Change.
Feb 22 2024
HB 2909 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Interstate Compacts - As introduced, prohibits this state from paying an annual assessment to the interstate commission on educational opportunity for military children that exceeds $1.15 per active duty military child whose legal residence is located within the geographic boundaries of this state, unless the proposed increase to the established assessment cap is submitted to the governor and approved by joint resolution of the senate and house of representatives in the next regular session of the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 49.
Jan 31 2024 Assigned To S/C Higher Education Subcommittee
Feb 07 2024
HB 2531 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Election Laws - As introduced, authorizes the county election commission of Montgomery County to research and test methods, systems, and technologies that would allow members and employees of the United States armed forces and their dependents who are registered to vote in the county but are stationed outside the territorial limits of the United States to vote by means other than, or in addition to, mail. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 6.
Jan 30 2024 Sponsor(S) Added.
Feb 06 2024

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