SB 406
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Orders of Protection - As introduced, expands the courts in Shelby County that can hear a petition for an order of protection to include a criminal court when the criminal court is hearing a criminal matter involving a domestic abuse victim, sexual assault victim, or stalking victim. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 18 and Title 36.
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Jan 28 2025 |
Rcvd. From S., Held On H. Desk.
Mar 27 2025
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SB 11
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Education, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to make the standardized form for reporting student allergies to the school in which the student is enrolled publicly available on its website. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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Dec 09 2024 |
Re-Refer To S. Cal Comm
Mar 27 2025
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SJR 346
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Supports regulation or ban on the sale of Kratom in Tennessee. -
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Mar 27 2025 |
Filed For Introduction
Mar 27 2025
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SB 255
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Courts - As introduced, authorizes the administrative office of the courts to submit its annual report in an electronic format to the attorney general and reporter and the appropriate legislative committees. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 16; Title 17; Title 18; Title 20; Title 21; Title 24; Title 25; Title 26; Title 27; Title 28 and Title 29.
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Jan 22 2025 |
Placed On Senate Judiciary Committee Calendar For 3/31/2025
Mar 26 2025
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SB 1133
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Criminal Offenses - As introduced, changes the time within which a warden or chief administrative officer employed by a penal institution must report 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 from within five business days to within three business days of becoming aware of the offense being committed. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 10; Title 33; Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41; Title 49; Title 50; Title 55 and Title 70.
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Feb 06 2025 |
Placed On Senate Judiciary Committee Calendar For 3/31/2025
Mar 26 2025
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SB 1193
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Local Government, General - As introduced, authorizes municipalities and counties to post their code of ordinances or adopted resolutions, as applicable, on a website maintained by the municipality or county, or on the website maintained by the secretary of state if the municipality or county does not have or maintain a website. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 10; Title 13 and Title 67.
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Feb 06 2025 |
Placed On Senate State And Local Government Committee Calendar For 4/1/2025
Mar 26 2025
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SB 445
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Public Defenders - As introduced, changes from 10 days to 10 business days the amount of written notice that must be given to members of the district public defenders conference for meetings called at the will of the president of the conference. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 14 and Title 9, Chapter 4.
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Jan 29 2025 |
Placed On Senate Judiciary Committee Calendar For 3/31/2025
Mar 26 2025
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SB 465
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Drugs, Synthetic or Analogue - As introduced, removes the limitation that a person who is experiencing a drug overdose only has immunity from being arrested, charged, or prosecuted on the first drug overdose. - Amends TCA Title 50; Title 53; Title 63 and Title 68.
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Jan 29 2025 |
Placed On Senate Judiciary Committee Calendar For 3/31/2025
Mar 26 2025
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SB 256
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Appeal and Review - As introduced, establishes a procedure through which a district attorney general or person convicted of a criminal offense may, at any time, request post-conviction relief by filing a verified petition alleging actual innocence based on new evidence that was not known by the judge or jury at the time of conviction, including scientific and non-scientific evidence. - Amends TCA Title 40.
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Jan 22 2025 |
Placed On Senate Judiciary Committee Calendar For 3/31/2025
Mar 26 2025
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SB 418
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Tort Liability and Reform - As introduced, increases the amount that a person may recover in an action brought against a local governmental entity under the Tennessee Governmental Tort Liability Act for claims brought on or after July 1, 2025, to $750,000 for the bodily injury or death of a person, $1.5 million for the bodily injury or death of all persons in an accident, occurrence, or act, and $250,000 for the injury or destruction of property of others. - Amends TCA Title 29.
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Jan 28 2025 |
Placed On Senate Judiciary Committee Calendar For 3/31/2025
Mar 26 2025
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SB 464
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Bail, Bail Bonds - As introduced, requires professional bondsmen and agents of insurance companies making appearance bonds in criminal cases to assess a premium fee of no less than 5 percent nor more than 10 percent of the amount of the face value of the bond. - Amends TCA Title 40.
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Jan 29 2025 |
Placed On Senate Judiciary Committee Calendar For 3/31/2025
Mar 26 2025
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SB 212
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Open Meetings - As introduced, expands the requirement that state and local governing bodies make an agenda available to the public prior to regular public meetings of the body to include the governing bodies of certain nonprofit organizations, including nonprofit community organizations that receive federal funding, nonprofit organizations that receive community grant funds from this state or certain funding from local governments, nonprofit organizations created for the benefit of local governments, and nonprofit organizations that provide the metropolitan government of Nashville/Davidson County with certain utility services; requires, rather than permits, such governing bodies that maintain a website to post the agenda to the website. - Amends TCA Section 8-44-110.
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Jan 16 2025 |
Placed On Senate State And Local Government Committee Calendar For 4/1/2025
Mar 26 2025
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SB 407
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Criminal Procedure - As introduced, revises the procedure for restoration of rights of citizenship. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 4; Title 22; Title 36; Title 39 and Title 40.
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Jan 28 2025 |
Placed On Senate Judiciary Committee Calendar For 3/31/2025
Mar 26 2025
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SB 595
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Bail, Bail Bonds - As introduced, requires a sheriff to accept the surrender of a criminal defendant on pretrial release by a bail bondsman or surety for good cause, pending a hearing by a court with jurisdiction to admit to bail to determine whether there is good cause for the surrender. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 11.
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Jan 31 2025 |
Placed On Senate Judiciary Committee Calendar For 3/31/2025
Mar 26 2025
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SB 19
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Attorney General and Reporter - As introduced, authorizes the attorney general and reporter to conduct an investigation and initiate criminal prosecution of a judicial elected official or district attorney general whenever the attorney general and reporter has probable cause to investigate whether an official may have violated any state criminal law and either a decision to prosecute the official by the district attorney general may result in a personal, financial, or political conflict of interest or the attorney general and reporter receives a report of a violation of the prohibition on nepotism within state government entities. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 6.
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Dec 18 2024 |
Signed By Governor.
Mar 25 2025
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SB 213
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Motor Vehicles - As introduced, authorizes the sale or purchase of previously titled antique or unique motor vehicles without a motor vehicle dealer license through auction formats held in Hamilton County that meet certain criteria. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 17 and Title 62, Chapter 19.
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Jan 16 2025 |
Signed By Governor.
Mar 25 2025
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SB 1061
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Taxes, Personal Property - As introduced, authorizes, subject to a two-thirds vote of the legislative body, the county trustee or other property tax collecting official in Hamilton County to decline to bill or refer for collection a de minimis personal property tax totaling less than $20 under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Section 67-5-2013.
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Feb 05 2025 |
Placed On Senate Finance, Ways, And Means Committee Calendar For 4/1/2025
Mar 25 2025
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SJR 191
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Memorials, Sports - Wyatt Davis -
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Feb 27 2025 |
Signed By Governor.
Mar 20 2025
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SB 596
(114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Traffic Safety - As introduced, requires a motor vehicle exceeding 75 feet in length and hauling a load of poles, logs, or timber to haul the load on a trailer having an extendable and retractable rear impact protection or to be followed by an escort vehicle that is signed. - Amends TCA Title 55 and Title 65.
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Jan 31 2025 |
Deferred To Summer Study
Mar 19 2025
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SB 17
(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.
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Dec 18 2024 |
Failed In Senate Judiciary Committee
Mar 17 2025
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