Tennessee Bills

sponsored by William Lamberth

Bill Title Introduced Latest Action↓
HB 1321 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Tourist Development, Dept. of - As introduced, creates a marketing division within the department to replace the tourism division; authorizes the department to enter into agreements with the department of transportation to assist with maintenance of welcome center facilities; creates a welcome centers division within the department to oversee such centers throughout the state; directs the commissioner of finance and administration to transfer from highway user taxes allocated to the highway fund an amount sufficient to support the annual appropriation for implementation and administration of all welcome centers in the state. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 22.
Feb 06 2025 Enrolled; Ready For Sig. Of H. Speaker.
Apr 24 2025
HB 69 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Election Laws - As introduced, requires the coordinator of elections, in collaboration with the department of safety and Tennessee bureau of investigation, to create two electronic portals prior to January 1, 2028, for purposes of verifying an applicant's eligibility to vote based upon United States citizenship and conviction of a felony prior to registering the applicant to vote; requires department of safety to issue lawful permanent residents a temporary driver license, instead of a standard license, to aid in determining voter eligibility for someone who presents a Tennessee driver license as identification. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 4; Title 38; Title 39; Title 41 and Title 55.
Jan 07 2025 Enrolled; Ready For Sig. Of H. Speaker.
Apr 24 2025
HB 1316 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Driver Licenses - As introduced, prohibits the use of digital driver licenses and digital photo identification licenses for voter identification purposes; regulates the use, retention, and disclosure of data submitted by persons participating in the digital driver license system, including biometric identifiers; prohibits geolocation data from being collected for purposes of the digital driver license system; revises other provisions related to driver licenses. - Amends TCA Section 2-7-112 and Title 55, Chapter 50.
Feb 06 2025 Signed By Governor.
Apr 24 2025
HB 1376 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Alcoholic Beverage Commission - As introduced, provides for the regulation of the manufacturing, supplying, wholesale distribution, and retail sale of hemp-derived cannabinoid products by the commission and department of revenue; creates licenses for suppliers, wholesalers, and retailers; establishes taxes for such products and the manner in which such taxes are collected and allocated; establishes civil and criminal penalties for violations. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40; Title 43, Chapter 27; Title 53, Chapter 11; Title 57 and Title 67.
Feb 06 2025 Enrolled; Ready For Sig. Of H. Speaker.
Apr 23 2025
HB 1330 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Boards and Commissions - As introduced, enacts the "Less is More Act of 2025." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 20; Title 33; Title 38; Title 40; Title 52; Title 55; Title 62; Title 63; Title 68; Title 70 and Title 76.
Feb 06 2025 Enrolled; Ready For Sig. Of H. Speaker.
Apr 23 2025
HB 1431 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Portland - Subject to local approval, deletes obsolete and superseded provisions of the city charter. - Amends Chapter 568 of the Private Acts of 1939; as amended.
Mar 11 2025 Enrolled; Ready For Sig. Of H. Speaker.
Apr 23 2025
HB 1314 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates the criminal offense of threatening to commit an act of mass violence; creates the criminal offense of posting on a publicly accessible website the telephone number or home address of an individual with the intent to cause harm or a threat of harm to the individual or a member of the individual's family or household. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 8 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 3.
Feb 06 2025 Senate Substituted House Bill For Companion Senate Bill.
Apr 22 2025
HB 683 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Private Protective Services - As introduced, creates the enhanced armed guard certificate that may be obtained upon completion of certain training and other requirements by an armed security guard/officer who has at least five years of full-time experience as a law enforcement officer or four years of active duty military experience in a combat arms military occupational specialty; directs the commissioner of commerce and insurance to establish and approve an enhanced armed guard training course. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 39 and Title 62, Chapter 35.
Feb 03 2025 Signed By H. Speaker
Apr 22 2025
HB 1344 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Education, Higher - As introduced, changes, from March 1 to July 1, the date by which the Tennessee higher education commission must provide a copy of its annual report regarding state workforce need projections and credential production to the governor, the education and commerce and labor committees of the senate, and the committees of the house of representatives having jurisdiction over higher education and commerce, respectively. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 9; Title 10; Title 12; Title 49; Title 66 and Title 67.
Feb 06 2025 Comp. Sb Subst.
Apr 22 2025
HB 1332 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Correction, Dept. of - As introduced, increases, from within 90 days to within 100 days of receipt by the department of a valid judgment of conviction, the time period within which the department must notify the victim witness coordinator of the county of conviction of the currently scheduled parole hearing date when the inmate will be eligible for parole consideration. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.
Feb 06 2025 Signed By H. Speaker
Apr 22 2025
HJR 707 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
General Assembly, Adjournment - Adjourns 2025 session on April 22, 2025, and convenes 2026 session on January 13, 2026. -
Apr 22 2025 Filed For Introduction
Apr 22 2025
HB 114 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Scholarships and Financial Aid - As introduced, makes various changes to the Tennessee Support, Training, and Renewing Opportunity for National Guardsmen (STRONG) Act. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 10.
Jan 13 2025 Signed By H. Speaker
Apr 22 2025
HB 1232 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Criminal Offenses - As introduced, specifies that the report of a warden or chief administrative officer employed by a penal institution of the commission of certain offenses that occurred within the penal institution to the district attorney general for the judicial district in which the penal institution is located and the district attorney general who prosecuted the offense for which the offender is incarcerated must be in writing. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5; Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 53.
Feb 06 2025 Comp. Sb Subst.
Apr 22 2025
HB 1306 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Economic and Community Development - As introduced, clarifies that certain definitions concerning housing facilities and developments with regard to industrial development corporations include affordable and workforce housing; authorizes a municipality or county to approve amendments to an economic impact plan when approving the plan. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 53; Title 9, Chapter 21 and Title 9, Chapter 23.
Feb 06 2025 Signed By H. Speaker
Apr 22 2025
HB 55 (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.
Jan 02 2025 Comp. Sb Subst.
Apr 21 2025
HB 117 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Taxes, Sales - As introduced, extends indefinitely the authority of the commissioner of revenue to require persons selling food, candy, or nonalcoholic beverages, including bottled soft drinks, to retailers to file an information report of such net sales with the department by deleting the July 1, 2025, termination date. - Amends TCA Section 67-6-410.
Jan 13 2025 Transmitted To Governor For His Action.
Apr 21 2025
HB 1302 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Agriculture, Dept. of - As introduced, revises the Tennessee Meat Inspection Act to facilitate the implementation of a state meat inspection program. - Amends TCA Title 53, Chapter 7 and Chapter 380 of the Public Acts of 2023.
Feb 06 2025 Comp. Sb Subst.
Apr 21 2025
HB 103 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Foster Care - As introduced, expands the provision of voluntary extended foster care services by the department of children's services to include young adults between 20 and 23 who were in the custody of the department at the time of the young adult's 18th birthday and young adults who were adopted from, or approved for subsidized permanent guardianship by, the department of children's services at 16 or older. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 49 and Title 55.
Jan 13 2025 Transmitted To Governor For His Action.
Apr 21 2025
HB 1328 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Criminal Procedure - As introduced, establishes a permanent criminal proceedings notification system, rather than a pilot project; removes the July 1, 2025, termination date for the criminal proceedings notification system. - Amends TCA Section 40-38-507.
Feb 06 2025 Transmitted To Governor For His Action.
Apr 21 2025
HB 1326 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Real Property - As introduced, creates a vested property right upon the submission, rather than the approval, of a development plan or building permit; specifies that the vesting period applicable when it is based on the submission of a building permit is three years. - Amends TCA Title 13.
Feb 06 2025 Comp. Sb Subst.
Apr 21 2025

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