Tennessee House Bills

Memorials, Retirement - Doug Gunnels -

Memorials, Recognition - Barry Clingan -

Memorials, Recognition - Mary Clement -

Memorials, Recognition - Robert Nelson Clement -

Memorials, Retirement - Dickson County Mayor Robert "Bob" Rial -

Memorials, Heroism - Graham Tudor -

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Leo Nishizawa, Salutatorian, Bearden High School -

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Yejoon Ham, Valedictorian, Bearden High School -

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Mery Diaz, Valedictorian, Bearden High School -

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Avery York, Salutatorian, South-Doyle High School -

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Isaiah Mitchell, Salutatorian, South-Doyle High School -

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Calvin Richardson, Valedictorian, South-Doyle High School -

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Ian Steiger, Salutatorian, West High School -

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Henry Casey, Salutatorian, West High School -

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Kaia Harbick, Valedictorian, West High School -

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Isabella Huddleston, Salutatorian, Central High School -

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Barrett Lemons, Valedictorian, Central High School -

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Giselle Cruz Cardoza, Salutatorian, Powell High School -

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Caleb Lanius, Valedictorian, Powell High School -

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Annsley Bruce, Salutatorian, Halls High School -

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Addyson DeHart, Valedictorian, Halls High School -

Memorials, Recognition - Sloan Darby, 2026 Miss Greenfield Princess -

Memorials, Sports - Knoxville Central High school boys' basketball team -

Memorials, Sports - J.P. Payne, District 3, Class 4A Coach of the Year -

Memorials, Recognition - Komatsu Chattanooga Manufacturing Operations, 40th anniversary -

Memorials, Recognition - Historical marker honoring WWII Veteran Russell LeRoy Pickett -

Memorials, Personal Achievement - Jacob Adam "Jake" Pedigo -

Memorials, Death - Melvin Duley Cooper, Jr. -

Memorials, Death - William Thomas "W.T." Housley -

Memorials, Recognition - Byrdstown Water Deptartment, Tennessee Association of Utility Districts (TAUD) Region 4 Best Tasting Water Contest Winner -

Memorials, Sports - Michael Green, 2026 BCAT Class AA Coach of the Year -

Memorials, Death - Billie "Bill" Gray Speck -

Memorials, Death - Michael "Mike" Earl Tatum -

Memorials, Recognition - Gleason School, Anne Dallas Dudley Award -

Memorials, Recognition - Dresden High School, Anne Dallas Dudley Award -

Memorials, Recognition - Greenfield School, Anne Dallas Dudley Award -

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Landon Mims, Salutatorian, Sale Creek High School -

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Laurel McCuiston, Valedictorian, Sale Creek High School -

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Kylee Am, Salutatorian, Hixson High School -

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Hiba Shahbaz, Valedictorian, Hixson High School -

Memorials, Recognition - Carnton, 200th anniversary -

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Pazley G. Rose, Valedictorian, Hardin County High School -

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Emma R. Shelby, Salutatorian, Hardin County High School -

Memorials, Retirement - George Renaudin II -

Memorials, Death - Deputy Landon Faulkner, Hamilton County Sheriff's Office -

Taxes, Real Property - As enacted, limits the authority of a special purpose corporation to negotiate and enter into PILOT agreements with the corporation's lessees, as delegated to it by a municipality, if certain written notice is not provided to certain chief executive officers of taxing jurisdictions; voids PILOT agreements entered into by the special purpose corporation if such notice is not provided. - Amends TCA Title 48 and Title 67.

Sewage - As enacted, makes revision to present law concerning sewerage systems using land application; exempts Hamilton County from the provisions requiring the developer of a subdivision or neighborhood that proposes to construct a treatment works to submit an application to the utility serving the area in which the system is located. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 62, Chapter 2; Title 65; Title 68, Chapter 221 and Title 69.

Comptroller, State - As enacted, prohibits an LEA or public charter school from using public funds to initiate or maintain any civil action or proceeding against this state or an agency or officer of this state to challenge a school or district accountability measure established under state law. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Criminal Offenses - As enacted, defines "seriously bodily injury" for the purposes of the present law offense of vehicular assault, which occurs when a person who, as the proximate result of the person's intoxication, recklessly causes serious bodily injury to another person by the operation of a motor vehicle or vessel subject to registration; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 55.

Boards and Commissions - As enacted, requires at least one hour of the board of medical examiners' required continuing education hours to be completed on topics related to nutrition; requires the same of the board of osteopathic examination. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 6 and Title 63, Chapter 9.

Game and Fish Laws - As enacted, enacts the "Hunting for Heroes Act"; creates the Tennessee national guard sportsman license. - Amends TCA Title 70, Chapter 2.

Public Funds and Financing - As enacted, specifies the conditions that must be satisfied for monies from the governor's response and recovery fund to be provided to eligible local governmental entities and to eligible individuals in qualifying counties following an emergency or disaster. - Amends TCA Section 9-4-216.

Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As enacted, authorizes the Megasite Authority of West Tennessee to issue bonds for the sole purpose of financing, in whole or in part, the cost of acquisition, purchase, construction, reconstruction, improvement, betterment, or extension of the water system or wastewater system operated by the authority; grants certain additional authority to the board of directors; limits liability of the state on bonds of the authority. - Amends TCA Title 64, Chapter 9.

Gas, Petroleum Products, Volatile Oils - As enacted, makes various changes concerning oil and gas drilling operations; specifies procedural requirements for review of certain administrative actions. - Amends TCA Title 59; Title 60 and Title 68.

Administrative Procedure (UAPA) - As enacted, precludes certain boards administratively attached to the department of environment and conservation from voting to review the initial order of an administrative law judge in an administrative proceeding, but preserves the right of a party to appeal an initial order directly to the board; reduces from 180 to 90 days the period of time from the completion of the record of a contested case hearing within which an administrative law judge must issue an initial order in a hearing involving such boards. - Amends TCA Title 60; Title 68 and Title 69.

Private Protective Services - As enacted, adds stalking to the crimes for which an individual who has been convicted must have completed serving the individual's sentence or court-ordered probation at least five years prior to applying for a registration card to perform the duties of a security guard or officer; makes other changes related to security guards and officers. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 35.

Child Abuse - As enacted, requires, rather than permits, the child protective team for a case involving a human trafficking offense to include a representative from a non-governmental agency specialized in combatting the commercial sexual exploitation of minors; extends the time within which the department or child protective team must determine whether reported abuse was indicated or unfounded from 60 days to 90 days or, in cases involving a child fatality, 180 days. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 1.

Firefighters - As enacted, extends the period for the estate of an emergency responder killed in the line of duty from three years from the date of death to the later of such date or the date of a final order of a court, administrative law judge, or authorized state or local official designating the death as being in the line of duty; extends the period for an estate to file an appeal of a denial from 90 days to one year; adds a mechanism of appeal of a denial of a claim for the estates of firefighters, volunteer rescue squad workers, and emergency medical technicians. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 24; Title 7, Chapter 51, Part 2; Title 38, Chapter 8 and Title 68, Chapter 140.

Expunction - As enacted, permits a court to expunge certain violent offenses for which a person has been pardoned; requires the court to consider, in weighing the best interests of justice and public safety, whether the offense sought to be expunged was violent and any other relevant factors presented by the petitioner and the district attorney general. - Amends TCA Title 40.

Estates - As enacted, states that the Uniform Partition Heirs Property Act does not apply to sales of land to pay the debts of an estate; revises the method for determining a decedent’s gross estate for purposes of calculating a surviving spouse's elective share. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 31 and Title 34.