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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 Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

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.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Sponsors

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
ReevesPrimary sponsorNot applicable (committee)——

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Comp. became Pub. Ch. 259
  2. Comp. SB subst.
  3. Sponsor(s) Added.
  4. H. Placed on Regular Calendar for 4/14/2025
  5. Placed on cal. Calendar & Rules Committee for 4/10/2025
  6. Rec. for pass. if am., ref. to Calendar & Rules Committee
  7. Sponsor(s) Added.
  8. Action def. in State & Local Government Committee to 4/9/2025
  9. Placed on cal. State & Local Government Committee for 4/9/2025
  10. Sponsor(s) Added.
  11. Sponsor(s) Added.
  12. Placed on cal. State & Local Government Committee for 4/2/2025

Showing 12 most recent of 20 actions. Full history

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source