Tennessee · 114th Regular Session (2025-2026) · Bill

HB 855: Election Laws - As enacted, generally requires statewide political parties to nominate their candidates in primary elections for all offices for which partisan elections are held at the regular August or regular November election; authorizes, in a county in which a statewide political party nominated a candidate by a method other than a primary election in 2022 or 2024, the statewide political party in such county to continue to use such method with certain exceptions. - Amends TCA Title 2.

In committee Last action April 29, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 259

Plain-language summary

HB 855 is a bill introduced in the Tennessee House on February 4, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Election Laws - As enacted, generally requires statewide political parties to nominate their candidates in primary elections for all offices for which partisan elections are held at the regular August or regular November election; authorizes, in a county in which a statewide political party nominated a candidate by a method other than a primary election in 2022 or 2024, the statewide political party in such county to continue to use such method with certain exceptions. - Amends TCA Title 2. Primary sponsor: Reeves. Most recent recorded action (April 29, 2025): Comp. became Pub. Ch. 259.

Sponsors

Primary sponsor: Reeves.