Tennessee Bills

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Bill Title Introduced Latest Action↓
HB 1200 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As introduced, enacts "Savanna's Law," which creates a registry of persistent domestic violence offenders; requires the bureau to maintain the registry. - Amends TCA Title 18; Section 38-6-103; Title 39 and Title 40.
Feb 06 2025 Enrolled; Ready For Sig. Of H. Speaker.
Apr 24 2025
HB 1205 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Physicians and Surgeons - As introduced, prohibits physicians from prescribing, administering, or dispensing medication for, or otherwise treating, themselves or their immediate family except for specified or emergency situations; prohibits physicians from treating themselves with or prescribing to family members a scheduled drug. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 39; Title 53; Title 63 and Title 68.
Feb 06 2025 Senate Substituted House Bill For Companion Senate Bill.
Apr 21 2025
HB 1199 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires the board of education for an LEA that operates at least one high school to adopt a policy for the selection of, and to select for the 2025-2026 school year and for each subsequent school year, at least one junior or senior student to serve as a nonvoting student member on the board for at least one one-year term that coincides with the school year for which the student is selected. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 2.
Feb 06 2025 Comp. Sb Subst.
Apr 16 2025
HB 1204 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Criminal Offenses - As introduced, states that a law enforcement officer may assist a qualified practitioner in using reasonable force to obtain a sample of blood from a person suspected of driving while under the influence of an intoxicant; increases the amount of time a driver license must be revoked for an implied consent violation from one year to one year and six months if the person has no prior violations. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 55.
Feb 06 2025 Comp. Sb Subst.
Apr 16 2025
HB 1203 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Medical Occupations - As introduced, authorizes a healthcare provider’s licensing board to issue a license subject to a private advocacy order which requires the applicant to participate in a peer assistance program approved by the board; designates private advocacy orders as confidential and not public records, as long as the provider does not fail to maintain participation in the peer assistance program and requires the initiation of disciplinary proceedings by the board. - Amends TCA Title 63.
Feb 06 2025 Comp. Sb Subst.
Apr 15 2025
HB 1197 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Education, Curriculum - As introduced, makes various changes to the approval process and notice requirements for nonsectarian, nonreligious Bible courses; clarifies that public charter schools are authorized to provide nonsectarian, nonreligious Bible courses in the same manner as local education agencies. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.
Feb 06 2025 Comp. Sb Subst.
Apr 15 2025
HB 1198 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Drugs, Prescription - As introduced, adds mandating the use of biosimilar drugs as a cost-saving measure the bureau of TennCare may implement; adds that a health carrier, health benefit plan, or utilization review organization may require a patient to try a biosimilar product prior to providing coverage for the equivalent branded prescription drug; requires the TennCare pharmacy advisory committee to consider as a factor the use of biosimilar drugs in the committee's recommendation to the bureau of TennCare on any drugs to be added to the state preferred drug list. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 53; Title 56; Title 68 and Title 71.
Feb 06 2025 Signed By Governor.
Apr 11 2025
HJR 483 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Memorials, Interns - Hannah Ramos -
Mar 19 2025 Signed By Governor.
Apr 09 2025
HB 1201 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Medical Occupations - As introduced, limits a foreign training license of limited duration to an internationally licensed physician who meets certain listed criteria. - Amends TCA Title 63.
Feb 06 2025 Received From House, Passed On First Consideration
Apr 03 2025
HJR 297 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Memorials, Recognition - Marjie Mahar -
Feb 27 2025 Signed By Governor.
Mar 19 2025
HB 1206 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Physicians and Surgeons - As introduced, increases from 10 to 30 business days, the period of time that must be included in a non-compete agreement between an employing entity and a physician regarding the time after which, if no agreement on the fair market value of the practice can be determined when an attempt to repurchase the practice is made, the physician may remove any restrictions on the physician’s ability to practice by tendering the amount that was paid to the physician for the sale of the practice. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.
Feb 06 2025 Ref. To Health Committee
Mar 19 2025
HB 1202 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Law Enforcement - As introduced, requires law enforcement agencies and officials to communicate with federal officials regarding the immigration status only for an individual who has been arrested for a criminal offense; sets a civil penalty of up to $1,000 for a law enforcement agency that does not comply to be enforced by the attorney general and reporter. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 40 and Chapter 716 of the Public Acts of 2024.
Feb 06 2025 Taken Off Notice For Cal In S/C Departments & Agencies Subcommittee Of State & Local Government Committee
Mar 18 2025
HJR 251 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Memorials, Recognition - Marjie Mahar -
Feb 24 2025 Signed By Governor.
Mar 12 2025
HB 1207 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, enacts the "Suicide Prevention Act of 2025," requiring the Tennessee bureau of investigation to establish a program in which a person may enroll to voluntarily waive the right to purchase firearms. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
Feb 06 2025 Sponsor(S) Added.
Feb 18 2025
HB 1208 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As introduced, permits the services authorized in a collaborative pharmacy practice agreement to include weight management services. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 10 and Title 71, Chapter 5.
Feb 06 2025 P2c, Caption Bill, Held On Desk - Pending Amdt.
Feb 12 2025
HB 1077 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, removes an obsolete reference to the length of the validity for an insurance producer license issued on or after January 1, 2007; changes, from March 1 to March 15, the date that a business entity license under the Tennessee Insurance Producer Licensing Act of 2002 expires biennially. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
Feb 05 2025 P2c, Caption Bill, Held On Desk - Pending Amdt.
Feb 10 2025
HB 1078 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, removes an obsolete reference to January 1, 2010, as the date by which group health plans and health insurance issuers were required to begin providing electronic health insurance claims data for state residents to the commissioner of commerce and insurance or a designated entity authorized by the commissioner each month. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
Feb 05 2025 P2c, Caption Bill, Held On Desk - Pending Amdt.
Feb 10 2025
HB 1079 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Commerce and Insurance, Dept. of - As introduced, removes an obsolete requirement for the commissioner to conduct a study of this state's insurance laws to determine what impediments, if any, exist under the laws or policies that may be deterrents for insurance companies in this state to underwrite policies of insurance to insure a person who has used force that is justified, including deadly force, in protecting such person's self or property, and to report the results of the study to the general assembly no later than March 1, 2012. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
Feb 05 2025 P2c, Caption Bill, Held On Desk - Pending Amdt.
Feb 10 2025
HB 1080 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, increases, from 30 to 35 days, the time that an insurance company has to remove a person as an officer or director of the company after receipt of an order from the commissioner of commerce and insurance to do so. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 56 and Title 71.
Feb 05 2025 P2c, Caption Bill, Held On Desk - Pending Amdt.
Feb 10 2025
HB 1076 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, decreases from 30 to 21 days, the amount of time each insurer of personal risk insurance must file with the commissioner of commerce and insurance before the proposed effective date of all rates, supplementary rate information, supporting information, policy forms, and endorsements. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 56 and Title 71.
Feb 05 2025 P2c, Caption Bill, Held On Desk - Pending Amdt.
Feb 10 2025

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