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

SB 1266: Foster Care - As enacted, expands the provision of voluntary extended foster care services by the department of children's services to include young adults between 20 and 23 who were in the custody of the department at the time of the young adult's eighteenth birthday and young adults who were adopted from, or approved for subsidized permanent guardianship by, the department of children's services at 16 or older. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 49 and Title 55.

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

SB 1266 is a bill introduced in the Tennessee Senate on February 6, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Foster Care - As enacted, expands the provision of voluntary extended foster care services by the department of children's services to include young adults between 20 and 23 who were in the custody of the department at the time of the young adult's eighteenth birthday and young adults who were adopted from, or approved for subsidized permanent guardianship by, the department of children's services at 16 or older. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 49 and Title 55. Primary sponsor: Johnson. Most recent recorded action (May 8, 2025): Comp. became Pub. Ch. 333.

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Sponsors

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
JohnsonPrimary 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. 333
  2. Companion House Bill substituted
  3. Placed on Senate Consent Calendar 2 for 4/14/2025
  4. Sponsor(s) Added.
  5. Recommended for passage, refer to Senate Calendar Committee
  6. Action deferred in Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee to 4/8/2025
  7. Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/8/2025
  8. Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/1/2025
  9. Action deferred in Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee to 4/1/2025
  10. Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 3/18/2025
  11. Recommended for passage, refer to Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee
  12. Sponsor(s) Added.

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Sources

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