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Tennessee Senate Bills
All categories · Other / Unspecified · 1,603 bills, broken down by day
Monday, Feb 9, 2026
2 bills-
SB 1857 TN Feb 9, 2026Education, Curriculum - As introduced, authorizes LEAs and public charter schools to offer students in any of the grades five through 12 a hunter education course that is approved by the wildlife resources agency as part of physical education, health, or safety instruction. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 70, Chapter 2, Part 1.Withdrawn
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SB 1846 TN Feb 9, 2026Recreational Areas - As introduced, expands the purposes for which monies from the Ocoee River recreation and economic development fund may be expended by the Ocoee River recreation and economic development fund board; replaces the park manager member of the board with the director of the division of state parks. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 10 and Title 11, Chapter 8.Withdrawn
Thursday, Feb 5, 2026
3 bills-
SR 283 TN Feb 5, 2026Memorials, Recognition - Dobyns-Bennett High School Band Centennial -Adopted, Ayes 32, Nays 0
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SB 1575 TN Feb 5, 2026State Government - As introduced, authorizes a governmental entity to publish notices of public meetings on a secure website of the governmental body; authorizes a person to request an electronic or hard copy of an e-newsletter or notice published by the governmental body if the governmental body provides such documents electronically. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 44, Part 1.Withdrawn
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SB 1574 TN Feb 5, 2026Lobbying, Lobbyists - As introduced, increases time an employer of a lobbyist or a lobbyist must register or update their registration with the ethics commission from not later than seven days to not later than seven business days. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 3; Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8 and Title 12.Withdrawn
Wednesday, Feb 4, 2026
1 billTuesday, Feb 3, 2026
5 bills-
SB 2340 TN Feb 3, 2026Labor and Workforce Development, Dept. of - As introduced, increases, from 20 to 25, the number of days before which a citation regarding a violation of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1972 becomes a final order after the citation is received; increases, from 20 to 25, the number of days after receipt of the citation that the recipient has to advise the commissioner of the recipient's objections before the citation becomes a final order. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8 and Title 50.Withdrawn
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SB 2127 TN Feb 3, 2026Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates the criminal offense of intentionally communicating a threat of harm to a public official or a member of the public official's immediate family; punishes a violation as a Class E felony. - Amends TCA Title 39.Withdrawn
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SB 1894 TN Feb 3, 2026Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires each LEA and public charter school to install, maintain, and use, subject to parental approval, a video camera surveillance system in the special education classrooms operated by the LEA or public charter school to continuously monitor students, teachers, and staff in the classroom while special education or related services are being provided. - Amends TCA Title 10 and Title 49.Withdrawn
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SB 1892 TN Feb 3, 2026Environment and Conservation, Department of - As introduced, requires proposed subdivision plans to be approved by a local planning commission or other agency authorized to approve such plans prior to their submission to the department for approval rather than such plans being approved by the department first. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13 and Title 68, Chapter 221.Withdrawn
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SB 1609 TN Feb 3, 2026Public Health - As introduced, establishes a deadline of no later than December 31 each year for the department of agriculture to report to the general assembly on its enforcement efforts under the Prevention of Youth Access to Tobacco, Smoking Hemp, and Vapor Products Act. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 15; Title 47, Chapter 25 and Title 57, Chapter 7.Withdrawn
Monday, Feb 2, 2026
3 bills-
SB 2021 TN Feb 2, 2026Welfare - As introduced, requires the commissioner of human services to provide to the commissioner of correction an application for food assistance to be used by inmates in state correctional institutions prior to release; requires the application to contain an option for the inmate to indicate a denial to apply for food assistance and reasons for doing so; requires the commissioner of correction to supply the application to each inmate prior to release; requires reports to the general assembly on certain data collected from the applications and on the number of inmates leaving incarceration who are approved for food assistance. - Amends TCA Title 41 and Title 71.Withdrawn
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SB 2020 TN Feb 2, 2026Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, prohibits health insurance entities from downcoding reimbursement claims from healthcare professionals except in limited circumstances; makes certain other changes related to health insurance claim adjudication. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7.Withdrawn
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SB 1941 TN Feb 2, 2026Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases the penalty for assault against a firefighter, emergency services personnel, or other person who responds to calls for emergency assistance from a Class A misdemeanor with a mandatory minimum 30-day sentence and $5,000 fine to a Class E felony with a mandatory minimum 60-day sentence and $10,000 fine. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.Sponsor(s) Added
Friday, Jan 23, 2026
2 bills-
SB 2125 TN Jan 23, 2026Fees - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Live Music Support Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 47 and Title 67.Withdrawn
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SB 1583 TN Jan 23, 2026Controlled Substances - As introduced, requires reports submitted by the medical cannabis commission on or after January 1, 2027, to include an analysis of the effects of Exec. Order No. 14370 and any subsequent federal action on increasing medical marijuana and cannabidiol research. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 43; Title 53; Title 67 and Title 68.Withdrawn
Thursday, Jan 22, 2026
3 bills-
SJR 553 TN Jan 22, 2026Memorials, Public Service - Representative Mary Littleton -Held on desk
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SJR 547 TN Jan 22, 2026Memorials, Death - Jeffery Alan Hartline -Sponsor(s) Added
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SB 1485 TN Jan 22, 2026Process, Service of - As introduced, clarifies that the name and address required pursuant to the receipt of a deed of conveyance of real property may be used as the basis for obtaining service of process upon either party as an agent thereof, for failure to pay real property taxes. - Amends TCA Title 66, Chapter 24.Withdrawn
Wednesday, Jan 21, 2026
10 bills-
SR 260 TN Jan 21, 2026Memorials, Sports - Ben Hill, West Tennessee All-Star Game -Adopted, Ayes 32, Nays 0
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SR 259 TN Jan 21, 2026Memorials, Sports - Kady Johnson, Hayley Sims, Brooklynn McCoy, and Natilee Wilkerson, All-West Tennessee Soccer Teams -Adopted, Ayes 32, Nays 0
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SR 258 TN Jan 21, 2026Memorials, Recognition - David Baker -Adopted, Ayes 32, Nays 0
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SR 257 TN Jan 21, 2026Memorials, Retirement - Doris Watkins Henderson -Adopted, Ayes 32, Nays 0
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SR 256 TN Jan 21, 2026Memorials, Recognition - Cassidy Dickson -Adopted, Ayes 32, Nays 0
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SR 255 TN Jan 21, 2026Memorials, Sports - Caleb Murphy, West Tennessee All-Star Game -Adopted, Ayes 32, Nays 0
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SR 254 TN Jan 21, 2026Memorials, Professional Achievement - Amy Wooley, 2025-2026 West Grand Division Principal of the Year -Adopted, Ayes 32, Nays 0
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SR 253 TN Jan 21, 2026Memorials, Retirement - Trooper Jeff Webb -Adopted, Ayes 32, Nays 0
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SR 252 TN Jan 21, 2026Memorials, Retirement - Trooper Thomas Bayless -Adopted, Ayes 32, Nays 0
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SJR 253 TN Jan 21, 2026Memorials, Academic Achievement - Dean Estes, Valedictorian, Chester County High School -Sponsor(s) Added
Tuesday, Jan 20, 2026
3 bills-
SB 1705 TN Jan 20, 2026Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires director of schools to report a student who was formally truant and now enrolled in a home school to juvenile court; establishes that unexcused absences accumulated by a transfer student at their former school or LEA during the school year in which they transfer follow the student to the receiving school or LEA to determine habitual truancy, to implement a progressive truancy plan, and to identify cases of educational neglect. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 1, Part 1; Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 6.Withdrawn
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SB 1674 TN Jan 20, 2026Children - As introduced, revises various provisions governing surrendering custody of unwanted infants, including adding an ambulance station that has staff scheduled 24 hours a day to the list of facilities that must receive possession of a newborn infant left on the premises with an employee or member of the professional medical community if certain listed conditions are met. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 1, Part 1 and Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 2.Withdrawn
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SB 1570 TN Jan 20, 2026Agriculture, Dept. of - As introduced, bases indemnity payments for an animal that is destroyed to prevent the spread of disease on the value of the animal, subject to available funds; makes the state responsible for cost of disposition of a dead animal when ordered by the commissioner or the state veterinarian. - Amends TCA Title 44.Withdrawn
Wednesday, Jan 14, 2026
1 billTuesday, Jan 13, 2026
1 billMonday, Jan 12, 2026
1 billMonday, Dec 1, 2025
6 bills-
SB 638 TN Dec 1, 2025Tobacco, Tobacco Products - As introduced, urges the department of agriculture to study the effects of the use of vapor products by persons under 21 and make recommendations to the legislature with regard to reducing such use. - Amends TCA Title 1, Chapter 3; Title 39; Title 43, Chapter 27 and Title 68, Chapter 1, Part 1.Withdrawn
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SB 40 TN Dec 1, 2025Economic and Community Development - As introduced, enacts the "Employee Ownership, Empowerment, and Expansion Act" to support the growth and expansion of employee-owned businesses. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 9; Title 12, Chapter 3; Title 45; Title 50; Title 56, Chapter 1 and Title 67.Withdrawn
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SB 381 TN Dec 1, 2025Environment and Conservation, Department of - As introduced, changes, from January 31 to February 15, the date by which the commissioner must submit reports related to the administration of the Water Quality Control Act of 1977 to legislative committees with jurisdiction over environmental matters. - Amends TCA Title 1, Chapter 3; Title 43; Title 44; Title 68 and Title 69.Withdrawn
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SB 379 TN Dec 1, 2025Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, requires TACIR to perform a study on the impact of this state's firearm laws on each county's firearm sales, criminal offenses, and use of firearms for self-defense, as well as identifying the similarities and dissimilarities between the impacts on each county. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40.Withdrawn
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SB 1113 TN Dec 1, 2025Treasurer, State - As introduced, reduces from four to three months, the amount of time following the end of a fiscal year by which the treasurer must submit a report to the governor, comptroller of the treasury, speaker of the senate, and speaker of the house of representatives regarding the operation of the Uniform Unclaimed Property Act during the immediately preceding fiscal year. - Amends TCA Title 47; Title 48 and Title 66.Withdrawn
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SB 1007 TN Dec 1, 2025Licenses - As introduced, extends to smoking hemp the existing licensure and certain other requirements for hemp-derived cannabinoid products; imposes a tax on the privilege of engaging in the business of selling smoking hemp and products containing a hemp-derived cannabinoid in this state. - Amends TCA Section 1-3-113; Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 15; Title 43, Chapter 27; Section 53-11-451 and Title 67.Withdrawn
Wednesday, Jun 4, 2025
19 bills-
SB 519 TN Jun 4, 2025Real Property - As enacted, requires foreign persons who purchase land in this state and who file a report of such purchase to the United States department of agriculture under the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act to also file the report with the commissioner of agriculture. - Amends TCA Title 66, Chapter 2, Part 3.Comp
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SB 384 TN Jun 4, 2025Taxes, Hotel Motel - As enacted, requires a hotel operator to remit the hotel tax to the municipality when a person has maintained occupancy for 30 continuous days and to cease collecting the tax from the person for the remainder of their stay in the operator's hotel. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 14.Pub
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SB 27 TN Jun 4, 2025Governor - As enacted, prohibits orders, proclamations, or rules issued by the governor under the governor's emergency management powers from contravening, suspending, or conflicting with a provision of the Tennessee Constitution; restricts governor's ability under such powers to suspend certain procedural provisions of a law, order, rule, or regulation. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 58, Chapter 2.Pub
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SB 186 TN Jun 4, 2025State Inmates - As enacted, increases the accreditation stipend provided to eligible counties for each convicted felon housed by the county. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 29; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 41.Comp
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SB 1462 TN Jun 4, 2025Ridgeside - Subject to local approval, repeals and replaces in its entirety the city's private act charter. - Amends Chapter 615 of the Private Acts of 1931; as amended.Comp
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SB 1461 TN Jun 4, 2025Crossville - Subject to local approval, realigns salaries of mayor and city council to be set at a percentage of salary earned by the county mayor; establishes new meeting schedule for mayor and city council; creates process for holding administrative hearings by the city; increases maximum occupancy tax that may be imposed, from 2 percent to 3 percent. - Amends Chapter 519 of the Private Acts of 1953; as amended and rewritten.Comp
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SB 1460 TN Jun 4, 2025Erin - Subject to local approval, makes changes to definitions in the city charter; adds corporate powers to be exercised by the Board of Mayor and Aldermen; makes several other changes to the city charter. - Amends Chapter 403 of the Private Acts of 1951; as amended and rewritten.Comp
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SB 1459 TN Jun 4, 2025Bartlett - Subject to local approval, repeals the animal control program. - Amends Chapter 55 of the Private Acts of 1993; as amended.Comp
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SB 1458 TN Jun 4, 2025Oakland - Subject to local approval, establishes that the terms of office for mayor and alderman begin upon the official's swearing in on the first business day of the month following the month of the election for that office; designates five aldermanic positions, and allows for a sixth position, contingent on certain population metrics; provides for additional conditions for elected office. - Amends Chapter 167 of the Private Acts of 1994; as amended.Comp
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SB 1457 TN Jun 4, 2025Portland - Subject to local approval, deletes obsolete and superseded provisions of the city charter. - Amends Chapter 568 of the Private Acts of 1939; as amended.Comp
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SB 1456 TN Jun 4, 2025Hardeman County - Subject to local approval, increases, from 85 percent to 92 percent, the assumed property tax collection rate in setting the general tax rate for the county general fund and creating a county budget that covers expenditures for the next appropriation year. - Amends Chapter 68 of the Private Acts of 1937; as amended.Comp
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SB 1455 TN Jun 4, 2025Bartlett - Subject to local approval, establishes that the offices of mayor and Alderman are limited to a maximum of three four-year terms; makes other changes to the charter regarding elections, the mayor, and administration. - Amends Chapter 55 of the Private Acts of 1993; as amended.Comp
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SB 1454 TN Jun 4, 2025New Johnsonville - Subject to local approval, prohibits a person whose immediate relative is an elected official in the city government from being elected as a city official. - Amends Chapter 81 of the Private Acts of 2014.Comp
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SB 1453 TN Jun 4, 2025Gallatin - Subject to local approval, removes charter provision restricting appointed officers from being employed outside of city business hours. - Amends Chapter 67 of the Private Acts of 1953; as amended.Comp
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SB 1451 TN Jun 4, 2025Red Boiling Springs - Subject to local approval, increases the annual salary of the mayor from $5,200 to $18,200; increases the annual salary of council members from $500 to $1,800. - Amends Chapter 120 of the Private Acts of 1953; as amended and rewritten.Comp
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SB 1450 TN Jun 4, 2025Milan - Subject to local approval, requires the Board of Mayor and Aldermen to fill a vacancy declared for an office of Alderman within 60 days of such vacancy; authorizes the mayor to make temporary appointments to the office of city attorney or city judge in cases of sickness, absence, or other temporary disability; makes other changes to the city charter. - Amends Chapter 7 of the Private Acts of 1999; as amended.Comp
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SB 1449 TN Jun 4, 2025Wayne County - Subject to local approval, repeals the county wheel tax imposed by private act. - Repeals Chapter 75 of the Private Acts of 2004.Comp
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SB 1447 TN Jun 4, 2025Putnam County - Subject to local approval, sets the salary of general session court judges at an amount equal to the amount received annually by the circuit court judges and chancellors as of September 1, 2030. - Amends Chapter 125 of the Private Acts of 1949; as amended.Comp
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SB 1446 TN Jun 4, 2025Lauderdale County - Subject to local approval, provides for the orderly transfer of the Probate and Juvenile Court in Lauderdale County from the County Courthouse to the Justice Complex. - Amends Chapter 262 of the Private Acts of 1963; as amended.Comp