Tennessee Senate Bills

Memorials, Recognition - Tennessee Small Band Association 2nd Annual State Championship -

Memorials, Heroism - Specialist Ethan M. Ward and Specialist Brandon T. Moore, 2025 National Guardsmen of the Year -

Memorials, Interns - Darryan Walker -

Memorials, Interns - Abagael Hicks, Mock Session Lieutenant Governor -

Memorials, Interns - Nicholas Reynolds, Mock Session Governor -

Memorials, Interns - Kilyn Booker, Mock Session Minority Leader -

Memorials, Interns - Janeyah Anderson, Mock Session Majority Leader -

Memorials, Interns - Malik Abdullah, Mock Session Speaker of the House -

Memorials, Interns - Reagan Hill -

Memorials, Personal Achievement - Dr. John Combs, 2025 Coordinated School Health Superintendent of the Year -

Memorials, Interns - Tyler Martin -

Memorials, Recognition - Kenlee McDonald, National Civics Bee -

Memorials, Recognition - Jasper Clark, National Civics Bee -

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Dade Hutchinson, Valedictorian, Rossville Christian Academy -

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Bryson Shivers, Salutatorian, Rossville Christian Academy -

Memorials, Interns - Natalie Pyron -

General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Urges Supreme Court to draft and adopt codes of conduct in the court rules for district attorneys general, district public defenders, and court clerks; urges Supreme Court to create panel to investigate current complaints of misconduct regarding three elected district attorneys general. -

Taxes - As introduced, allows a taxpayer to annually elect to take a bonus depreciation deduction of 40 percent of the cost of assets purchased on or after January 1, 2026, during the tax year in which the assets were purchased when calculating net earnings or net losses for excise tax purposes; allows the taxpayer to take the federal depreciation percentage if it exceeds 40 percent. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 20.

Public Funds and Financing - As introduced, creates in the reserve for revenue fluctuations account a restricted account for the purchase and sale of precious metal bullion or specie; authorizes the state treasurer, with approval of the comptroller of the treasury, to purchase and sell precious metal bullion or specie with funds from that account. - Amends TCA Title 9.

Treasurer, State - As introduced, allows the state treasurer to enter into an agreement with an entity to carry out certain activities in order to serve as a facility to securely produce, store, process, and ship bullion products for the state's depository. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 4.

TennCare - As introduced, requires the bureau to reimburse a public or private air ambulance service that bills for transports and has a base of operations in this state that provides a covered emergency or nonemergency service to a TennCare recipient at a rate not less than 67.5 percent of the federal medicare program's allowable charge for participating providers. - Amends TCA Title 68 and Title 71.

Education, Higher - As introduced, requires the Tennessee student assistance corporation to submit an annual report, by July 31 each year, to legislative committees having jurisdiction over postsecondary education detailing, for each of the five immediately preceding academic years for which the corporation awarded scholarships, the amount appropriated by the general assembly for the scholarship program, the total number of scholarship applications received by the corporation, the total number of scholarship recipients, and the average scholarship award amount. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Memorials, Sports - Hillsboro Burros, Class 4A state boys' basketball champions -

Local Government, General - As introduced, authorizes local governments to create local boards for the purpose of permitting retailers of hemp-derived cannabinoid products. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 43, Chapter 27.

Memorials, Recognition - Tennessee Federation of Republican Women, 70th anniversary -

Memorials, Recognition - Totianya Zamora Moore, 2024-2025 Tennessee Association of School Librarians Bookmark Contest -

Memorials, Retirement - Reverend Richard M. Long -

Memorials, Recognition - Nikki Pruitt, East Tennessee Aging Innovation Award -

Memorials, Sports - Tyler Myatt, TCCAA Baseball Player of the Week -

Memorials, Sports - Brylan Rhodes, Class A wrestling state champion -

Memorials, Sports - Kyra Perkins, TCCAA Women's Basketball Player of the Week -

Memorials, Recognition - Wayne Bettis, 2025 Greene County Republican Chairman's Award -

Memorials, Recognition - Middle Tennessee Chapter, National Action Network -

Memorials, Death - Josselin Corea Escalante -

Memorials, Recognition - Lonnie Spivak -

Memorials, Recognition - Dale Cunningham, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award -

Memorials, Recognition - India Bramblett, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award -

Memorials, Recognition - Andrew Jones, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award -

Memorials, Recognition - Kenzlie Ballew, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award -

Memorials, Recognition - Brian Glenn Wilson -

Memorials, Death - Ava May Christopher -

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Sam Dicus, Salutatorian, White County High School -

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Abby Heady, Valedictorian, White County High School -

Memorials, Recognition - Dean Holmen and The Music City Hayride -

Memorials, Recognition - Dr. Heather Lynn Webber -

Memorials, Personal Occasion - Margot Ochiltree Webber, first birthday -

Memorials, Recognition - Historic Loudon County Courthouse -

Memorials, Recognition - K-25 site in Oak Ridge, designation as a National Historic Chemical Landmark -

Memorials, Interns - Alisha Dunham -

Memorials, Recognition - Franklin High School Band -

Memorials, Death - Edward Gaylon Herron -

Memorials, Recognition - 2024 Do the Write Thing Challenge National Ambassadors -

Memorials, Professional Achievement - Jonathan Brocco, Tennessee Charter School Center, Administrator of the Year -

Memorials, Recognition - Juno Frankie Pierce -

Memorials, Public Service - Richard Clark -

Memorials, Recognition - Jim Hysen -

Memorials, Recognition - Lynn Daugherty -

Memorials, Retirement - Sergeant Kevin Ragland, Lebanon Police Department -

Memorials, Sports - Stone Memorial Middle School Lady Panthers, Class AA state champions -

Memorials, Retirement - J.T. King, Sparta Police Department -