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Tennessee Senate Bills
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SB 1612 TN May 22, 2026State Employees - As enacted, removes the requirement for waivers to be used only one course at a time for academic courses that full-time state employees are eligible to take without paying tuition charges, maintenance fees, student activity fees, registration fees, or online course fees; authorizes the waiver to be used for more than one course at a time. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 8.Signed
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SJR 1221 TN May 11, 2026Memorials, Academic Achievement - Geneva Carlene Gunn, Valedictorian, McEwen High School -Signed
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SJR 992 TN May 11, 2026Memorials, Recognition - Do Something Tennessee Day, May 1, 2026 -Signed
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SJR 1233 TN May 11, 2026Memorials, Public Service - Bennie Smith -Signed
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SJR 1253 TN May 11, 2026Memorials, Retirement - Lily D. Barnes -Signed
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SJR 1251 TN May 11, 2026Memorials, Recognition - Margot Café & Bar -Signed
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SJR 1124 TN May 11, 2026Memorials, Academic Achievement - Breonna Lashay Grinder, Top Ten Senior, Lewis County High School -Signed
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SJR 1245 TN May 11, 2026Memorials, Recognition - Rebecca Tipton, Boys & Girls Clubs Hall of Fame -Signed
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SJR 1258 TN May 11, 2026Memorials, Sports - Qitarah Castlin -Signed
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SJR 1242 TN May 11, 2026Memorials, Death - R.L. McKinney -Signed
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SR 395 TN Apr 17, 2026Memorials, Academic Achievement - Dylan Lerner, Co-Salutatorian, McNairy Central High School -Enrolled
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SR 400 TN Apr 17, 2026Memorials, Recognition - Kori Atkins, 2026 Boys & Girls Club of Chattanooga Youth of the Year -Enrolled
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SR 397 TN Apr 17, 2026Memorials, Interns - Amaya Garrett -Enrolled
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SR 396 TN Apr 17, 2026Memorials, Recognition - Michael Odom, 2025-2026 Tennessee Distinguished Service Award winner -Enrolled
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SR 393 TN Apr 17, 2026Memorials, Academic Achievement - Kylie Miller, Valedictorian, McNairy Central High School -Enrolled
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SR 389 TN Apr 17, 2026Memorials, Sports - Kady Johnson -Enrolled
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SR 398 TN Apr 17, 2026Memorials, Interns - Jasmine Heard -Enrolled
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SR 403 TN Apr 17, 2026Memorials, Interns - Brant Edward Hall II -Enrolled
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SR 391 TN Apr 17, 2026Memorials, Academic Achievement - Cortez Williams, Valedictorian, Fayette-Ware High School -Enrolled
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SR 392 TN Apr 17, 2026Memorials, Academic Achievement - Taiyona Foster, Salutatorian, Fayette-Ware High School -Enrolled
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SJR 1257 TN Apr 23, 2026Memorials, Personal Occasion - John Patrick Hallet and Susan Marie Hallet, 45th wedding anniversary -On Senate Calendar
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SR 422 TN Apr 23, 2026Memorials, Recognition - Do Something Tennessee Day, May 1, 2026 -Signed
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SR 423 TN Apr 23, 2026Memorials, Recognition - Arab American Heritage Month -Signed
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SJR 1079 TN Apr 23, 2026Memorials, Recognition - National Pencil Day -Signed
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SB 672 TN Apr 23, 2026Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases the penalty for obstruction of a highway, street, sidewalk, railway, waterway, elevator, aisle, hallway, or other place used for the passage of persons or vehicles from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony; establishes an increased penalty of a Class D felony if the offense was committed by intentionally obstructing a highway, street, or other place used for the passage of vehicles. - Amends TCA Title 39.Signed
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SB 1808 TN Apr 23, 2026Boats, Boating - As introduced, urges the department of transportation, in consultation with the department of revenue, to study the potential impact on transportation infrastructure needs of requiring personal trailers used for the transportation of boats to be registered in this state; requires the department of transportation to report to the chairs of the transportation and safety committee of the senate and the committee in the house of representatives having jurisdiction over transportation on or before January 1, 2027, if such study is conducted. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5; Title 55 and Title 69.Signed
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SB 815 TN Apr 22, 2026Economic and Community Development - As introduced, increases, from 30 to 45, the number of days within the end of a fiscal year, for which a municipality is requesting an allocation of sales and use taxes revenues, that a municipality may submit a summary of the cost of an economic development project through to the end of that fiscal year, with supporting documentation certified by the chief financial officer of the municipality. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 40.Re-refer to Senate State & Local Gov't Committee
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SB 1630 TN Apr 21, 2026Election Laws - As introduced, requires the legislative body of each municipality to change the date of municipal elections to coincide with the August primary or November general election; makes municipal elections partisan; standardizes the election timetable for referendums for the incorporation of a new municipality. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 5; Title 6 and Title 7.Signed
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SB 2647 TN Apr 21, 2026Children's Services, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to create and maintain a website that includes certain information about child care agencies. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 5, Part 5.Signed
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SB 2639 TN Apr 20, 2026Public Funds and Financing - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Strategic Bitcoin Reserve Act." - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 4.Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calen…
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SJR 997 TN Mar 25, 2026Memorials, Recognition - AARP Tennessee's Day on the Hill -Introduced
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SR 332 TN Mar 5, 2026Memorials, Recognition - The Links Day on the Hill, March 9-10, 2026 -Passed
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SR 331 TN Mar 5, 2026Memorials, Recognition - Shavon Arline-Bradley -Passed
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SR 296 TN Feb 19, 2026Memorials, Death - Diane Jordan -Passed
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SR 291 TN Feb 5, 2026Memorials, Recognition - Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Nashville Branch - NAACP Freedom Fund Banquet -Passed
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SB 2438 TN Feb 2, 2026Education, Higher - As introduced, deletes an obsolete requirement that the governing board of each public institution of higher education submit a report on the institution's implementation of a research security policy by July 1, 2025, to the chairs of the education committee of the senate and the education committees of the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 9 and Title 49.Introduced
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SB 2408 TN Feb 2, 2026Criminal Offenses - As introduced, adds insects to the offense of displaying, exhibiting, handling, or using a venomous or dangerous snake or reptile in a manner that endangers the life or health of another person. - Amends TCA Title 39.Introduced
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SB 2663 TN Feb 2, 2026Sentencing - As introduced, increases from one year to three years the amount of time a defendant receiving a split sentence of confinement and probation may be required to serve a portion of the sentence in continuous confinement in the local jail or workhouse; specifies that the state is responsible for all costs of incarceration after the first year. - Amends TCA Title 40 and Title 41.Introduced
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SB 2590 TN Feb 2, 2026School Vouchers - As introduced, changes the reporting date, from June 30 to June 15, by which each private school must provide the results of the tests that are required to be administered to recipients of an education freedom scholarship to the office of research and education accountability in the office of the comptroller of the treasury. - Amends TCA Title 49.Introduced
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SB 2374 TN Feb 2, 2026Child Abuse - As introduced, adds the speaker of the senate and speaker of the house of representatives to whom the recipients of funding from the child abuse fund and its subsidiary funds, the child advocacy centers fund, the CASA fund, and the child abuse prevention fund shall report to annually regarding their use of child abuse fund moneys, their collaborative efforts to address the spectrum of child abuse issues, and their recommendations for additional improvements in the child abuse prevention and response system in this state. - Amends TCA Title 33 and Title 39.Introduced
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SJR 48 TN May 1, 2026General Assembly, Review Or Ratification of Rules - Ratifies the increase of the 911 surcharge rate to $1.86 as approved by the Tennessee Emergency Communications Board. -Vetoed
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SB 2137 TN Apr 8, 2026Sentencing - As introduced, requires a defendant to be sentenced to imprisonment for life as a repeat violent offender under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 41.Failed
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SB 2155 TN Apr 7, 2026Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, establishes the Tennessee commission of insurance review; prohibits a health insurance entity from offering or maintaining a health benefit plan that uses downcoding in a manner that prevents the provider from collecting the fee for actual services performed either from the health benefit plan or the patient; makes other changes related to health insurance and health insurers. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 56 and Title 71.Failed
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SB 2126 TN Apr 7, 2026Business Organizations - As introduced, requires the comptroller of the treasury to submit a report, on or before December 31, 2026, to the governor, the speaker of the senate, the speaker of the house of representatives, the chair of the state and local government committee of the senate, and the chair of the committee of the house of representatives having jurisdiction over housing containing a summary of certain de-identified information related to real estate investment trusts' purchases and sales of single-family homes in this state in 2025. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13; Title 47; Title 48; Title 61; Title 66 and Title 67.Failed
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SB 1376 TN Apr 7, 2026Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, prohibits an out-of-network ambulance service provider from balance billing an enrollee in a health benefit plan for emergency ambulance services; establishes allowable billable costs for such services. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7 and Title 68, Chapter 140.Failed
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SB 1694 TN Apr 7, 2026Commerce and Insurance, Dept. of - As introduced, extends from 30 days to 30 business days the period of time within which an insurer must respond to the department's request for information in regard to a complaint filed against the insurer. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 39; Title 52; Title 56; Title 58; Title 68 and Title 71.Failed
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SB 1824 TN Mar 31, 2026Taxes, Real Property - As introduced, eliminates liability for rollback taxes on agricultural, forest, or open space land with a greenbelt classification when the land is sold; requires that a buyer of property with a greenbelt classification submit a new application to renew the property's greenbelt classification. - Amends TCA Section 11-14-307; Section 11-14-406; Section 11-7-109; Title 66; Section 67-4-409; Title 67, Chapter 5, Part 10 and Section 67-5-2402.Failed
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SB 2428 TN Mar 31, 2026Veterans - As introduced, requires local governmental entities to invite honorably discharged veterans who apply for employment or promotion to interview; requires preference be given to such veteran if the minimum qualifications and the skills, abilities, competencies, and knowledge of the veteran and any another applicant being interviewed for the position are equal; requires state and local application forms to provide the option for an applicant to declare veteran status. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51; Title 8, Chapter 30, Part 3 and Title 58, Chapter 2.Failed
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SB 2328 TN Mar 25, 2026Judicial Districts - As introduced, requires the advisory task force to review composition of judicial districts to submit its findings and recommendations by January 15, 2027, rather than January 1, 2027. - Amends TCA Title 16.Failed
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SB 1191 TN Mar 25, 2026Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, enacts "Akilah's Law," which creates the offense of selling, offering to sell, delivering, or transferring a firearm to a person knowing the person has been a patient in a mental institution at any time within the previous five years. - Amends TCA Title 33 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.Failed
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SB 1748 TN Jun 18, 2026Motor Vehicles - As enacted, revises law relative to out-of-service orders issued to commercial drivers and related penalties. - Amends TCA Title 55 and Title 65, Chapter 15.Pub
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SB 2693 TN Jun 3, 2026Millington - Subject to local approval, requires a candidate for the office of mayor to be a resident of the City of Millington for one year preceding the election rather than 60 days to qualify to run for such office. - Amends Chapter 238 of the Acts of 1903; as amended and rewritten.Pr
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SB 1847 TN May 27, 2026Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, lowers the standard for the use of deadly force to protect property. - Amends TCA Title 39.Pub
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SB 2727 TN May 27, 2026Stanton - Subject to local approval, revises the general powers of the town; revises provisions related to the town judge. - Amends Chapter 142 of the Private Acts of 1990.Comp
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SB 2725 TN May 27, 2026Niota - Subject to local approval, rewrites the charter of the City of Niota. - Amends Chapter 48 of the Private Acts of 1919; as amended and rewritten.Comp
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SB 1585 TN May 27, 2026Education - As enacted, revises the assessment testing requirements for students who participate in the education savings account (ESA) program. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 12; Title 48; Title 49 and Title 67.Pub
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SB 2729 TN May 27, 2026Shelby County - Subject to local approval, changes the conditions under which the occupancy tax will no longer be levied; changes the allocation of the revenue from the occupancy tax if the tenant of the indoor sports facility no longer occupies such facility. - Amends Chapter 131 of the Private Acts of 1969; as amended.Comp
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SB 232 TN May 27, 2026Election Laws - As enacted, authorizes the county election commission to designate restroom facilities in each building in which the election is held that are for the use of workers or volunteers working for a campaign with certain limitations on access. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 7.Pub
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SB 1513 TN May 27, 2026Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the department of children's services to June 30, 2028; requires the department to report back to the government operations committee by December 31, 2026, to update the committee on its progress in addressing the findings and observations set forth in the December 2025 performance audit report. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 37, Chapter 5.Pub
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SB 821 TN May 27, 2026Education, Curriculum - As enacted, establishes a pilot program that provides grants to local education agencies to advance substance abuse and violence prevention programs. - Amends TCA Title 49.Pub