Tennessee House Bills

Memorials, Sports - Ella Ryan -

Memorials, Professional Achievement - Natalie Pratt, Brentwood High School Teacher of the Year -

Memorials, Professional Achievement - Blake Lannom, Franklin High School Teacher of the Year -

Memorials, Professional Achievement - Sharon Kozlowski, Centennial High School Teacher of the Year -

Memorials, Professional Achievement - Julie Raischel, Woodland Middle School Teacher of the Year -

Memorials, Professional Achievement - Gabrielle Key, Grassland Middle School Teacher of the Year -

Memorials, Professional Achievement - Kristi Coble, Brentwood Middle School Teacher of the Year -

Memorials, Professional Achievement - Brittany Richardson, Crockett Elementary School Teacher of the Year -

Memorials, Professional Achievement - Mary Catherine Flemming, Hunters Bend Elementary School Teacher of the Year -

Memorials, Professional Achievement - Becky Doogan, Walnut Grove Elementary School Teacher of the Year -

Memorials, Professional Achievement - Nancy Peluso, Grassland Elementary School Teacher of the Year -

Memorials, Professional Achievement - Hannah Hall, Scales Elementary School Teacher of the Year -

Memorials, Professional Achievement - Tanya Hodge, Lipscomb Elementary School Teacher of the Year -

Memorials, Sports - Evey Monge -

Memorials, Recognition - Town of Thompson's Station, 170th anniversary -

Memorials, Death - Reverend Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. -

Memorials, Personal Occasion - Jim and Karen Bradfield, 50th wedding anniversary -

Memorials, Interns - Jacob Pagel -

Memorials, Interns - Victoria Marie Grigsby -

Memorials, Recognition - Josie Brown, Distinguished Tennessean Scholar -

Memorials, Recognition - Nashville Alumni Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc., 100th Anniversary -

Memorials, Death - John Peden Valliant, Jr. -

Memorials, Retirement - Ruthie Brawner, Macon Bank & Trust Company -

Memorials, Death - Eddie Neil Ferguson -

Memorials, Recognition - Will Taylor -

Memorials, Recognition - Ocoee Church of God, 50th anniversary -

Memorials, Recognition - Club America, Brentwood High School -

Memorials, Recognition - Club America, Page High School -

Memorials, Recognition - Club America, Nolensville High School -

Memorials, Recognition - Club America, Independence High School -

Memorials, Recognition - Motorcycle Safety and Awareness Month, May 2026 -

Election Laws - As introduced, specifies that the reasonable period for candidates to remove signs, posters, or placards advocating their candidacy is two weeks after the election instead of three weeks. - Amends TCA Title 2.

County Boundaries - As introduced, increases from 90 days to 100 days the amount of time that a joint committee on county consolidation has following its receipt of a petition of consolidation to report its findings and recommendations on the feasibility of consolidation of the petitioning county with another county. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 12 and Title 67.

Safety - As introduced, enacts the "Artificial Intelligence Public Safety and Child Protection Transparency Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 10, Chapter 7; Title 47; Title 58 and Title 68.

Autopsies - As introduced, requires the expenses of an autopsy ordered by a district attorney general to be paid by this state. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 7.

Transportation, Dept. of - As introduced, extends for one year the annual report the department must submit to committees of the general assembly regarding blocked highway-rail grade crossings data collected by the federal railroad administration. - Amends TCA Title 55 and Title 65.

Health, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to establish and administer a pilot program for the placement of hygiene vending machines that dispense feminine hygiene products to students at no cost to the student in women's restrooms or locker rooms in each eligible school selected to participate in the program. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 68.

Constitutional Amendments - Proposes an amendment to Article VI, Section 4 of the Constitution of Tennessee to change the residency requirements for a judge from being a resident of the circuit or district for one year to being a resident of a county of the respective circuit or district to which the judge is to be assigned for one year. -

Memorials, Recognition - Richland High School Raiders cheerleading team -

Memorials, Sports - Coach Chad Hall, 500th career win -

Memorials, Sports - Green Hill High School Hawks girls' basketball team, Region 4-4A champions -

Memorials, Recognition - Association of Environmental and Engineering Geologists, 69th Annual Meeting -

Memorials, Death - Lawrence Richard Ahern III -

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Jeana Marks, Valedictorian, Hampshire Unit School -

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Taylor Rae Troutman, Salutatorian, Hampshire Unit School -

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Ansley Lovett, Top Ten Senior, Hampshire Unit School -

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Emily Golden, Top Ten Senior, Hampshire Unit School -

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Matthew Fincher, Top Ten Senior, Hampshire Unit School -

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Sophia Lawson, Top Ten Senior, Hampshire Unit School -

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Mason Mash, Top Ten Senior, Hampshire Unit School -

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Witney Akins, Top Ten Senior, Hampshire Unit School -

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Eli Chapman, Top Ten Senior, Hampshire Unit School -

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Cole Roberts, Top Ten Senior, Hampshire Unit School -

Economic 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.

Taxes, Real Property - As introduced, adds an exception to the requirement that mineral and other interests in real property are assessed to the owner of the real property. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5.

State Government - As introduced, requires departments, agencies, and other state governmental entities to make information and records available, including by means of direct electronic access, to the staff of the general assembly's fiscal review committee; requires the department of finance and administration to provide the office of legislative budget analysis with access to applicable state budget formulation and management systems. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 13; Title 3, Chapter 14 and Title 3, Chapter 7.

Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases the penalty for arson committed at a pregnancy resource center from a Class C felony to a Class B felony; defines "pregnancy resource center" as a nonprofit organization that provides care and resources to assist women and families facing difficult or unexpected pregnancies, including providing counseling, financial assistance, food, clothing, and medical assistance to pregnant women and reimbursing social service providers who prepare adoptions throughout the state for services and programs targeting at-risk women and families with immediate and ongoing needs related to unexpected pregnancy. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14, Part 3.

Education - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Teacher Residency Program Act." - Amends TCA Title 49.

Gaming - Authorizes certain nonprofit entities to conduct an annual charitable gaming event between July 1, 2026, and June 30, 2027. -

Memorials, Recognition - Stanley Gordon Jones II -