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

SB 211: Taxes, Sales - As enacted, authorizes an entity designated to operate a stadium designed to host games of an intercollegiate football team that competes in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) to receive a special allocation of state and local sales tax revenue derived from the sale of admission to events occurring within the stadium and from all sales of food, drinks, merchandise, and parking sold on the premises of the stadium to fund capital and operation expenses for the stadium. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.

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 211 is a bill introduced in the Tennessee Senate on January 16, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Taxes, Sales - As enacted, authorizes an entity designated to operate a stadium designed to host games of an intercollegiate football team that competes in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) to receive a special allocation of state and local sales tax revenue derived from the sale of admission to events occurring within the stadium and from all sales of food, drinks, merchandise, and parking sold on the premises of the stadium to fund capital and operation expenses for the stadium. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6. Primary sponsor: Bo Watson (Republican). Most recent recorded action (May 14, 2026): Comp. became Pub. Ch. 927.

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Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Republican 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Bo WatsonPrimary sponsorRepublicanSenate11

“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. 927
  2. Sponsor(s) Added.
  3. Companion House Bill substituted
  4. Recommended for passage with amendment/s, refer to Senate Calendar Committee Ayes 11, Nays 0 PNV 0
  5. Placed on Senate Regular Calendar for 4/22/2026
  6. Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/21/2026
  7. Sponsor change.
  8. Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/20/2026
  9. Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/21/2026
  10. Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/21/2025
  11. Rule #83(8) Suspended, to be heard in Senate Finance, Ways & Means Committee on 4/15/2025
  12. Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/15/2025

Showing 12 most recent of 18 actions. Full history

Sources

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