Tennessee · Current officeholder
Mark Pody
Republican Tennessee Senate, District 17
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Sponsored legislation
182 bills in the current data (182 as primary sponsor), sorted by most recent official action. Linked by Open States person ID.
| Bill | Title | Role | Stage | Last action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SB 1766 | Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As enacted, revises various provisions of the Real Estate Infrastructure Development Act of 2025. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 9; Title 12; Title 13; Title 66; Title 67 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 27, 2026 |
| SB 259 | Children - As enacted, clarifies that a child's parent, legal guardian, or legal custodian may, to the extent allowable by federal law, access and review all health and medical records of the child, including those records related to treatments available to unemancipated minors without parental consent; makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 36; Title 37; Title 49; Title 63 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 18, 2026 |
| SB 1960 | Education, Curriculum - As enacted, requires each director of schools for an LEA and each director of a public charter school to annually ensure that students in grades K-12 enrolled in the LEA or public charter school observe the Fourth of July during the school year by receiving age- and grade-appropriate instruction on the founding of the United States, the separation of the original 13 colonies from Great Britain, the Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, and the fundamental rights and freedoms enjoyed by American citizens. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 50 and Title 49, Chapter 6. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 18, 2026 |
| SB 303 | Education - As enacted, authorizes local boards of education and public charter school governing bodies to allow schools in the LEA or the public charter school, as applicable, to display the Ten Commandments, the first sentence of the second paragraph of the preamble to the Declaration of Independence, and the preamble to the United States Constitution in a prominent location in a school building. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 14, 2026 |
| SJR 1252 | Memorials, Retirement - Trooper William Bennett - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 11, 2026 |
| SJR 1173 | Memorials, Recognition - Irlene Mandrell - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 11, 2026 |
| SJR 1172 | Memorials, Recognition - R. Larry Smith - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 11, 2026 |
| SJR 1147 | Memorials, Recognition - MJ Lucas - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 11, 2026 |
| SJR 7001 | Memorials, Retirement - Jeff Luttrell - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | May 7, 2026 |
| SB 564 | 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. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 5, 2026 |
| SB 1957 | Local Education Agencies - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Religious Freedom Act," which authorizes a local board of education to open a meeting of the board with a prayer led by a member of the board as long as the prayer does not require participation of any person in attendance at the meeting and no person is harassed or coerced to participate in the prayer. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 5, 2026 |
| SB 1956 | State Government - As enacted, prohibits a state agency from issuing or renewing a certification, registration, license, or permit to a corporate entity if an officer, director, or employee of the entity provides material support or resources, meeting spaces, or other forums to certain terrorist groups or organizations for the purpose of soliciting material support or recruiting new members; requires a state agency to deny, revoke, or refuse or renew a certification, registration, license, or permit issued to such entities upon receipt of satisfactory proof of such activity. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 48 and Title 67. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 5, 2026 |
| SB 2253 | Traffic Safety - As enacted, establishes process regarding traffic violations committed by autonomous vehicles, including mailing the notice of violation or citation to the registered owner of the vehicle. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 30 and Title 55, Chapter 8. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 4, 2026 |
| SB 837 | Statutes and Codification - As enacted, clarifies that a "person," as used in Tennessee Code Annotated, does not include artificial intelligence, a computer algorithm, a software program, computer hardware, or any type of machine. - Amends TCA Title 1. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 28, 2026 |
| SB 2047 | Education - As enacted, changes, from the department of education to the state board of education upon the recommendation of the department, the party responsible for selecting the intervention option for priority schools receiving tier three interventions through the progressive tiered intervention system. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 28, 2026 |
| SJR 1045 | Memorials, Recognition - D.T. McCall & Sons - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 24, 2026 |
| SJR 1054 | Memorials, Recognition - William M. "Bill" Grady - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 22, 2026 |
| SJR 1052 | Memorials, Retirement - Melanie McDearman Minter - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 22, 2026 |
| SJR 1046 | Memorials, Recognition - Liz Reese - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 22, 2026 |
| SJR 1040 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Parker Belle Hayes, 2026 Graduate of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 22, 2026 |
| SJR 1039 | Memorials, Recognition - 3rd Annual Tennessee Small Band Association State Championship - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 22, 2026 |
| SJR 1032 | Memorials, Recognition - Kehilla Upper School of Nashville - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 22, 2026 |
| SJR 1029 | Memorials, Recognition - Love's Way Church - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 22, 2026 |
| SJR 1028 | Memorials, Interns - Courtney Powell - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 22, 2026 |
| SB 735 | Advertising - As introduced, requires just compensation to be paid for the acquisition or removal of an outdoor advertising device lawfully erected; prohibits the use of amortization to provide such just compensation. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 16 and Section 54-21-107. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 20, 2026 |
| SB 261 | Prisons and Reformatory Institutions - As introduced, requires the department of correction, in consultation with the inmate disciplinary oversight board, to compose a report detailing the number of inmates who earned sentence reduction credits, and to submit the report to legislative committees. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 40 and Title 41. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 20, 2026 |
| SB 2254 | Taxes, Sales - As introduced, exempts the retail sale of fresh fruit and vegetables for human consumption from the food retail sales tax. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 20, 2026 |
| SJR 967 | Memorials, Recognition - Master Sergeant Roderick “Roddie” W. Edmonds, posthumous receipt of Medal of Honor - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 16, 2026 |
| SJR 963 | Memorials, Death - Sally Yoho Swaney - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 16, 2026 |
| SJR 962 | Memorials, Recognition - Roger Haley - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 16, 2026 |
| SJR 958 | Memorials, Recognition - Jerry Beavers - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 16, 2026 |
| SJR 956 | Memorials, Recognition - Heather Day Barber, 2025 Ms. Wilson County Fair - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 16, 2026 |
| SJR 955 | Memorials, Recognition - Debbie Stephens - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 16, 2026 |
| SJR 954 | Memorials, Recognition - Callie Drennon - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 16, 2026 |
| SJR 927 | Memorials, Recognition - Master Sergeant Roderick “Roddie” W. Edmonds, posthumous receipt of Medal of Honor - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 16, 2026 |
| SJR 722 | General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Affirms support for the State of Israel. - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 14, 2026 |
| SB 2252 | State Symbols - As enacted, designates and adopts cast iron cookware as the official frontier cookware of this state. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 13, 2026 |
| SR 364 | Memorials, Recognition - Nehemiah Alliance - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 9, 2026 |
| SJR 942 | Memorials, Recognition - Sattler Foundation, 10th anniversary - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 8, 2026 |
| SJR 941 | Memorials, Recognition - Michael Patrick Leahy - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 8, 2026 |
| SJR 940 | Memorials, Recognition - Novamet - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 8, 2026 |
| SB 1962 | Water Authorities - As introduced, establishes that public water systems have a maximum allowable hardwater level of 180 mg/L, measured as calcium carbonate equivalents; creates compliance and reporting requirements; exempts measurements that exceed the limit due to seasonal runoff in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 221, Part 7. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 8, 2026 |
| SJR 957 | Memorials, Recognition - Mt. Olivet Baptist Church, 225th anniversary - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 6, 2026 |
| SB 568 | Food and Food Products - As introduced, prohibits the importation, sale, and distribution of cell-cultured food products in this state. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40; Title 44; Title 47 and Title 53. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 1, 2026 |
| SJR 920 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Donna Highers, Tennessee Aviation Hall of Fame - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 31, 2026 |
| SJR 919 | Memorials, Death - Richard "Pierce" Dodson - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 31, 2026 |
| SJR 836 | Memorials, Recognition - Nehemiah Alliance - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 26, 2026 |
| SJR 871 | Memorials, Death - Jayden Bailey - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 25, 2026 |
| SJR 861 | Memorials, Death - Benjamin Yager Bowman - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 25, 2026 |
| SB 2305 | Veterans Services, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to submit a report on the total number of state and federal benefits, and a synopsis of each benefit, available to a veteran and the veteran's surviving spouse to the speaker of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives on or before January 1, 2027. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 52; Title 68 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 25, 2026 |
| SR 345 | Memorials, Death - Jeffery Alan Hartline - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 24, 2026 |
| SJR 870 | Memorials, Recognition - Officer Michael J. Douglas - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 24, 2026 |
| SB 2308 | Public Records - As introduced, specifies that certain information related to the carrying out of a sentence of death is not confidential and is open to public inspection. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 24, 2026 |
| SB 737 | Marriage - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Covenant Marriage Act" to create covenant marriage, which is entered into by one male and one female, who understand and agree that marriage is a lifelong relationship; permits a spouse in a covenant marriage to obtain a judgment of divorce under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 10; Title 16; Title 36; Title 39; Title 67 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 23, 2026 |
| SJR 889 | Memorials, Personal Occasion - Ken Nelson, Sr., 90th birthday - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 18, 2026 |
| SB 2307 | Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, enacts the "The Frank J. Lake III Act"; requires a long-term care ombudsman for an assisted-care living facility to notify all residents of such facility if the facility contacts the ombudsman; directs the health facilities commission to post a certain specified notice on the commission's website if an assisted-care living facility is placed on probation; makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 11. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 17, 2026 |
| SB 2147 | Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As introduced, authorizes the board of directors of the Tennessee Duck River Development Agency to file annual reports electronically. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 14; Title 4, Chapter 31; Title 7; Title 13; Title 64; Title 66; Title 67 and Chapter 68 of the Private Acts of 2024. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 17, 2026 |
| SB 1647 | Traffic Safety - As introduced, authorizes a law enforcement officer to seize and impound a motor vehicle in any county or municipality that has passed a resolution or ordinance authorizing the seizure and impoundment of a motor vehicle observed by law enforcement to have been used to commit the offense of drag racing or to flee after commission of the offense of drag racing subject to certain restrictions. - Amends TCA Title 6; Title 7; Title 16; Title 40 and Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 5. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 16, 2026 |
| SB 1069 | Motor Vehicles - As enacted, provides that a motor vehicle dealer license is not required to sell or purchase certain antique vehicles or unique motor vehicles through an auction being held at a venue with a permanent seating capacity of at least 20,000 located in Wilson County, the auction operator conducts no more than one auction in this state per year, the auction offers no less than 400 vehicles and no more than 2,000 vehicles for any one auction, and the operator has a minimum net worth of $25 million. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 17 and Title 62, Chapter 19. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 16, 2026 |
| SJR 837 | Memorials, Personal Occasion - Letha May Beatrice Dedman Hallums, 95th birthday - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 12, 2026 |
| SB 2304 | Water - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Fluoride-Free Water Act" to prohibit public water systems from adding fluoride to drinking water, prohibit sales of bottled water containing added fluoride, and requires certain actions for naturally occurring fluoride that exceeds certain levels in drinking water and bottled water. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18; Title 53 and Title 68, Chapter 221. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 11, 2026 |
| SB 1959 | Education, Higher - As introduced, requires the governing board for each public institution of higher education to install and maintain a "Charlie Kirk Memorial Courtyard for Civil Debate" at the main campus of each public institution of higher education governed by the board. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 11, 2026 |
| SB 150 | Education - As introduced, allows students to use their score on the Classic Learning Test (CLT) to satisfy the eligibility requirements for certain grants and scholarships funded using net proceeds of the state lottery; requires the Tennessee student assistance corporation to include information concerning testing dates for the CLT when informing students about lottery scholarship opportunities; allows public institutions of higher education to accept student scores on the CLT for admissions purposes. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 11, 2026 |
| SB 566 | Safety - As introduced, requires a blasting firm that conducts a pre-blast survey for an owner or occupant of certain buildings within 300 feet of the blast hole to provide the survey upon request by the owner or occupant at no cost. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 105. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 9, 2026 |
| SB 1041 | Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, authorizes a local board of education and public charter school governing body to employ or accept as a volunteer a school chaplain to provide support, services, and programs for students, school staff, and students' parents. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 4, 2026 |
| SB 2250 | Local Government, General - As introduced, deletes the provision that classifies a local government official's affirmative vote for adoption of a prohibited sanctuary policy as a Class E felony. - Amends TCA Title 7 and Title 8. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 3, 2026 |
| SB 2046 | Consumer Protection - As introduced, reduces from 15 to 10 days, the time within which a person licensed to provide deferred presentment services must file a written report with the commissioner of financial institutions following the occurrence of the filing for bankruptcy or reorganization; the institution of revocation or suspension proceedings by any state or governmental authority; the denial of the opportunity to engage in deferred presentment services by any state or governmental authority; any felony indictment or conviction of the licensee or any of its directors, officers, or principals; and other events that the commissioner may determine and identify by rule. - Amends TCA Title 45 and Title 47. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 3, 2026 |
| SB 1961 | Taxes, Ad Valorem - As introduced, requires the notification submitted by the director of the division of property assessments to the commissioner of finance and administration of the default by a county or city in the repayment of a loan provided by the state to finance the city's or county's real property reappraisal program to be in writing. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 3, 2026 |
| SB 1765 | Probation and Parole - As introduced, permits a trial judge to revoke a defendant's probation for a felony or misdemeanor based on one instance of technical violation; extends the permitted terms of incarceration a court may impose for a technical violation to 90 days for a first revocation, 180 days for a second revocation, and the remainder of the sentence for a third or subsequent revocation. - Amends TCA Title 40. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 3, 2026 |
| SB 738 | State Government - As introduced, directs the state capitol commission to be responsible for the upkeep and maintenance of the monument to unborn children through funds appropriated to the commission. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 20; Title 29; Title 36; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41; Title 49; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 26, 2026 |
| SB 24 | Taxes, Sales - As introduced, allocates all revenue generated from the state sales tax on retail sales of new or used motor vehicles and new or used tires in excess of base tax revenues to the state highway fund. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 54; Title 55 and Title 67. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 18, 2026 |
| SJR 597 | Memorials, Recognition - Beverly Bell - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 12, 2026 |
| SB 2319 | Libraries - As introduced, requires public libraries established by a county, city, or town to adopt a materials reconsideration policy that provides a process by which any legal resident of the county where the library is located may request that the library withdraw an item from the library's collection or reclassify or move the item to a different area in the library. - Amends TCA Title 10. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | February 11, 2026 |
| SB 2309 | Education - As introduced, requires the office of research and education accountability in the office of the comptroller of the treasury to submit a copy of its annual report detailing the results of certain tests administered to recipients of education freedom scholarships to the legislative librarian. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2026 |
| SB 2306 | Professions and Occupations - As introduced, exempts a person whose occupation or practice is confined solely to makeup application services from the requirement to be licensed as a cosmetologist or aesthetician if the person meets the requirements to obtain a certificate to provide makeup application services. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 62, Chapter 3; Title 62, Chapter 38 and Title 62, Chapter 4. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2026 |
| SB 2303 | Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates an offense to knowingly inhale, ingest, use, or possess any compound, liquid, gas, or chemical that contains nitrous oxide. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 57, Chapter 7; Title 63 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 10. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2026 |
| SB 2148 | Professions and Occupations - As introduced, enacts the "Responsible Welding for Tennessean’s Safety Act," which requires general contractors, project managers, and subcontractors to ensure that welders performing structural steel welding are tested and certified by an accredited facility or individual and that the work meets applicable standards whenever a design professional includes D1.1 or D1.5 codes in the job specifications, subject to an exemption for work performed on the premises of a homeowner or farmer. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 15; Title 56; Title 62; Title 64 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2026 |
| SJR 550 | Memorials, Recognition - R. Larry Smith - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 3, 2026 |
| SJR 549 | Memorials, Recognition - Tennessee and Quebec's partnership - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 3, 2026 |
| SJR 546 | Memorials, Recognition - Tim Rausch - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 3, 2026 |
| SJR 545 | Memorials, Retirement - Ray Daniel - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 3, 2026 |
| SB 2590 | School Vouchers - As introduced, changes the reporting date, from June 30 to June 15, by which each private school must provide the results of the tests that are required to be administered to recipients of an education freedom scholarship to the office of research and education accountability in the office of the comptroller of the treasury. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | February 2, 2026 |
| SB 2417 | Controlled Substances - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Kratom Consumer Protection Act." - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4; Title 43 and Title 57. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | February 2, 2026 |
| SJR 547 | Memorials, Death - Jeffery Alan Hartline - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | January 22, 2026 |
| SB 1764 | Criminal Offenses - As introduced, removes the limitation on the penalty for illegally possessing a telecommunication device in a penal institution that required the Class E felony to be punished by a fine only. - Amends TCA Title 39. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 22, 2026 |
| SB 1763 | Real Property - As introduced, prohibits a homeowners' association from prohibiting a first responder from parking an emergency vehicle at the first responder's residence or on a roadway adjacent to the first responder's real property or from penalizing or threatening to penalize a first responder for parking an emergency vehicle at the first responder's residence or on a roadway adjacent to the first responder's real property. - Amends TCA Title 47 and Title 66. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 22, 2026 |
| SB 1648 | Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As introduced, revises various provisions of the Real Estate Infrastructure Development Act of 2025. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 9; Title 12; Title 13; Title 66; Title 67 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 21, 2026 |
| SB 1646 | Nuisances - As introduced, prohibits any cause of action for nuisance, taking, or another claim against a racing facility or racetrack by the owner of a surrounding real property if the racing facility or racetrack was built before the owner of the surrounding real property purchased the real property or built in the area of the racing facility or racetrack, regardless of the date on which the cause of action is alleged to have arisen; prohibits a political subdivision from adopting or enforcing any ordinance, resolution, or regulation that would restrict, limit, or prohibit the operation of a racing facility or racetrack in a manner inconsistent. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 29. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 21, 2026 |
| SJR 544 | Memorials, Recognition - Beverly Bell - | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 14, 2026 |
| SB 27 | Governor - As enacted, prohibits orders, proclamations, or rules issued by the governor under the governor's emergency management powers from contravening, suspending, or conflicting with a provision of the Tennessee Constitution; restricts governor's ability under such powers to suspend certain procedural provisions of a law, order, rule, or regulation. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 58, Chapter 2. | Primary sponsor | Passed both chambers | June 4, 2025 |
| SB 30 | Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates new misdemeanor offenses, including intentionally giving a false or fictitious name to a law enforcement officer who has lawfully detained or arrested such person. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40; Title 54 and Title 55. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 15, 2025 |
| SB 28 | Criminal Offenses - As enacted, expands the criminal offense of harassment to include harassment that occurs by communicating in the physical presence of the victim, in addition to in writing, by telephone, or electronically. - Amends TCA Title 39. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 15, 2025 |
| SB 1115 | Correction, Dept. of - As enacted, provides that in a facility operated pursuant to a contract to provide correctional services, or in a facility operated pursuant to a contract with a county to hold state inmates and that county has entered into a contract with a contractor to provide correctional services, if the death rate of inmates at the facility is twice the death rate of an equivalent state-operated facility, then the department must reduce the population at such facility by 10%. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 12; Title 40 and Title 41. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 15, 2025 |
| SB 26 | Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As enacted, enacts the "Real Estate Infrastructure Development Act of 2025." - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 9; Title 12; Title 13; Title 66; Title 67 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 13, 2025 |
| SB 1444 | Wilson County - Subject to local approval, transfers control and governance of the Tenth Special School District of Wilson County from a board of directors and commissioners composed of three members to a Board of Education composed of five members; divides the Tenth Special School district into five districts of proportionate population; establishes staggered terms for the members of the Board of Education of four years. - Amends Chapter 330 of the Acts of 1901; as amended. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 8, 2025 |
| SJR 507 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Charisse Carter, Teacher of the Year for Springdale Elementary School and Wilson County Schools - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 7, 2025 |
| SJR 506 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Jennifer Bamford, 2024-2025 Gladeville Middle School Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 7, 2025 |
| SJR 505 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Brittney Osburne, Mt. Juliet Middle School Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 7, 2025 |
| SJR 504 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Sergeant Major Jonathan W. Clark, Mt. Juliet High School Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 7, 2025 |
| SJR 503 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Elizabeth Elgin, Mt. Juliet Elementary School Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 7, 2025 |
| SJR 502 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Erin Clark, Mt. Juliet Christian Academy Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 7, 2025 |
| SJR 501 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Allen Davis, Lebanon High School Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 7, 2025 |
| SJR 500 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Melissa Cole, Lakeview Elementary School Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 7, 2025 |
| SJR 499 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Melissa Prince, Green Hill High School Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 5, 2025 |
| SJR 498 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Jamie Wallmark, Jones Brummett Elementary School Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 5, 2025 |
| SJR 497 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Dalton Teel, Byars-Dowdy Elementary School Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 5, 2025 |
| SJR 496 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Jonathan Stricklin, Carroll-Oakland Elementary School Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 5, 2025 |
| SJR 495 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Jessica Brooke Lipshie, Castle Heights Elementary School Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 5, 2025 |
| SJR 494 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Ashley Arledge, Coles Ferry Elementary School Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 5, 2025 |
| SJR 493 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Julie T. Smith, Elzie D. Patton Elementary School Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 5, 2025 |
| SJR 492 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Ashley Broomfield, Friendship Christian School Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 5, 2025 |
| SJR 491 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Kala Ealy, Gladeville Elementary School Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 5, 2025 |
| SJR 490 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Leslie Tomlinson, Barry Tatum Academy Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 5, 2025 |
| SJR 489 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Sarah Savannah Howard, Winfree Bryant Middle School Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 5, 2025 |
| SJR 488 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Amy Richards, Wilson County Adult High School Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 5, 2025 |
| SJR 487 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Jessica Agee, Wilson Central High School Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 5, 2025 |
| SJR 486 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Tara Palmer, West Wilson Middle School Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 5, 2025 |
| SJR 485 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Jennifer Crockett, West Elementary School Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 5, 2025 |
| SJR 484 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Kimberly Stone, Watertown Middle School Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 5, 2025 |
| SJR 483 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Paige Allmond, Watertown High School Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 5, 2025 |
| SJR 482 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Tammy Tucker, Watertown Elementary School Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 5, 2025 |
| SJR 481 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Kristina L. Hobbs, Walter J. Baird Middle School Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 5, 2025 |
| SJR 480 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - April Downing, W.A. Wright Elementary School Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 5, 2025 |
| SJR 479 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Erica Douglass, Tuckers Crossroads Elementary School Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 5, 2025 |
| SJR 478 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Kimberly McPeak, Stoner Creek Elementary School Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 5, 2025 |
| SJR 477 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Rachael Agnew, Rutland Elementary School Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 5, 2025 |
| SJR 476 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Vicki Davis, Sam Houston Elementary School Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 5, 2025 |
| SJR 475 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Ashlee Sexton, Southside Elementary School Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 5, 2025 |
| SJR 474 | Memorials, Recognition - Thomas Allen "T.A." Bryan, Sr. - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 5, 2025 |
| SJR 472 | Memorials, Recognition - Doug Kreulen, Airport Experience Director of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 5, 2025 |
| SJR 471 | Memorials, Public Service - Nashville International Airport and John C. Tune Airport employees - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 5, 2025 |
| SJR 470 | Memorials, Recognition - Jacob Slaughter - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 5, 2025 |
| SJR 469 | Memorials, Interns - Laianni K. Moore - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 5, 2025 |
| SJR 407 | Memorials, Recognition - Dr. Christopher E. Townson - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 2, 2025 |
| SJR 406 | Memorials, Recognition - Becky Kegley - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 2, 2025 |
| SJR 405 | Memorials, Recognition - She Leads Tennessee - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 2, 2025 |
| SJR 404 | Memorials, Recognition - David Hale - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 2, 2025 |
| SJR 403 | Memorials, Death - David Roy Baldwin - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 2, 2025 |
| SJR 459 | Memorials, Recognition - Mary Decker - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 1, 2025 |
| SJR 442 | Memorials, Recognition - Swami Brahmaviharidas - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 1, 2025 |
| SJR 441 | Memorials, Recognition - Lieutenant James Smallwood - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 1, 2025 |
| SB 563 | Charitable Solicitations - As enacted, corrects a reference in the charitable solicitations law that requires educational institutions be approved as such by the Tennessee public charter school commission rather than the state board of education to be exempt from registration requirements. - Amends TCA Title 48, Chapter 101, Part 5. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 29, 2025 |
| SB 258 | Water - As enacted, clarifies that if a point-of-entry treatment device is installed in a facility solely to soften hard water and, because of the installation of such a device, the house, building, or complex of buildings meets the definition of a public water system under the Tennessee Safe Drinking Water Act of 1983, then the facility constitutes a consecutive system, and is required to monitor the influent and finished water for hardness, alkalinity, and pH on a quarterly basis, and sodium on an annual basis, and report the results to the department of environment and conservation within 15 days of the end of the reporting period. - Amends TCA Title 68. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 29, 2025 |
| SJR 373 | Memorials, Recognition - Hurricane Baptist Church, 210th anniversary - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 24, 2025 |
| SJR 366 | Memorials, Recognition - Brother Ronnie Smith - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 24, 2025 |
| SJR 364 | Memorials, Recognition - Tennessee Small Band Association 2nd Annual State Championship - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 24, 2025 |
| SJR 2 | General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Expresses support for the Nation of Israel. - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 17, 2025 |
| SJR 345 | Memorials, Recognition - George McDonald - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 16, 2025 |
| SJR 333 | Memorials, Recognition - Lonnie Spivak - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 10, 2025 |
| SJR 326 | Memorials, Recognition - Brian Glenn Wilson - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 10, 2025 |
| SJR 304 | Memorials, Public Service - Richard Clark - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 10, 2025 |
| SJR 303 | Memorials, Recognition - Jim Hysen - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 10, 2025 |
| SJR 302 | Memorials, Recognition - Lynn Daugherty - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 10, 2025 |
| SJR 301 | Memorials, Retirement - Sergeant Kevin Ragland, Lebanon Police Department - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 10, 2025 |
| SB 734 | Taxes, Hotel Motel - As enacted, extends by six years the period in which Davidson County may charge an additional $0.50 privilege tax on the occupancy of a hotel room and in which such county may allocate the tax revenue for the purposes of direct promotion of tourism; extends by six years the terms of the committee members that oversee the fund in which the additional tax is deposited. - Amends TCA Section 7-4-202. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 8, 2025 |
| SB 152 | Health Care - As introduced, authorizes a patient with a severe chronic disease or terminal illness to access, and a physician to recommend, investigational stem cell treatment; requires the commissioner of health to promulgate rules to, among other things, list the medical conditions that constitute a qualifying severe chronic disease or terminal illness. - Amends TCA Title 53; Title 63 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 3, 2025 |
| SJR 3 | General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Establishes a definition of antisemitism and encourages departments and agencies of state government to use such definition in determining discriminatory intent for any law or policy in this state that prohibits discrimination based on race, color, religion, or national origin. - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 1, 2025 |
| SB 731 | Public Contracts - As introduced, requires a local government to send back any requested changes on a contractor's or developer's application for development site plans or inspections in a single deliverable document or set of documents, or to remit related fees back to the developer for subsequent change requests; prohibits a local government from requiring a developer or contractor to fund, develop, or contribute to the development of nonessential infrastructure, unless otherwise agreed upon by the parties. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 9; Title 12; Title 13 and Title 66. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 1, 2025 |
| SB 1058 | Livestock - As introduced, requires the commissioner of agriculture and the state veterinarian to receive prior approval from the joint government operations committee of the house of representatives and the senate to order vaccinations and tests for animals in this state; removes the requirement that an owner of a dead animal be liable for the sanitary disposition of the animal; clarifies indemnity procedures for a destroyed animal. - Amends TCA Title 44 and Title 58. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 26, 2025 |
| SJR 158 | Memorials, Recognition - B.J. Keener - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 12, 2025 |
| SJR 36 | Memorials, Recognition - Robert Andrew Huddleston - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 4, 2025 |
| SJR 35 | Memorials, Retirement - Dr. Christopher E. Townson - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 4, 2025 |
| SB 839 | Health Care - As introduced, extends from March 1 to April 1, the date by which the department of health must submit to the governor, the speaker of the senate, the speaker of the house of representatives, and legislative committees with subject matter jurisdiction over health a report with de-identified aggregate claims data on every inpatient and outpatient discharge that includes coded drug poisonings as reported for the calendar year two years prior to the current year by licensed hospitals to the commissioner of health. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 37; Title 44; Title 47; Title 49; Title 53; Title 63 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| SB 838 | State Government - As introduced, requires the Tennessee advisory commission on intergovernmental relations (TACIR) to conduct a study and propose several steps to protect Tennessee's financial security and soundness and ensure state sovereignty and resiliency. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 12; Title 45 and Title 47. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| SB 736 | Scholarships and Financial Aid - As introduced, extends from March 1 to March 30, the date by which not-for-profit corporations and associations that administer an educational cooperative plan or scholarship plan must file a statement of financial condition with the commissioner of commerce and insurance. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| SB 733 | Education - As introduced, requires the department of education to submit an early grades reading report to legislative committees with jurisdiction over subject matter pertaining to education by December 31 of each year. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| SB 732 | Election Laws - As introduced, makes changes to the forms of identification used to verify a person's identity for voting purposes. - Amends TCA Title 2. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| SB 567 | Election Laws - As introduced, makes certain election documents available for public inspection after an election. - Amends TCA Title 2. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| SB 565 | Education, Curriculum - As introduced, requires each local education agency and public charter school to review any new family life curricula recommended by the joint task force on children's justice and child sexual abuse prior to the start of each school year. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| SB 1231 | State Government - As introduced, prohibits a nongovernmental or intergovernmental entity in this state from infringing upon or restricting private property rights without due process or an individual's constitutional rights by virtue of pursuing a policy recommendation originating from or traceable to the United Nations, a subsidiary entity thereof, or an international policymaking organization; makes it an offense for the state or an official or political subdivision in this state to infringe upon or restrict private property rights without due process or an individual's constitutional rights in pursuing United Nations or international policymaking organizational policy. - Amends TCA Section 4-1-422. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| SB 260 | Food and Food Products - As introduced, specifies that meat may be labeled as being free of mRNA vaccine if the animals from which the meat was derived were not administered an mRNA vaccine. - Amends TCA Title 44; Title 47, Chapter 18 and Title 53. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 10, 2025 |
| SB 257 | Local Education Agencies - As introduced, authorizes LEAs and public charter schools to employ retired law enforcement officers who are retired from a federal, state, or local law enforcement agency and honorably discharged veterans of the United States armed forces to serve as school resource officers on school premises; requires local boards of education and public charter school governing bodies to adopt policies to effectuate same. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5; Title 37; Title 38; Title 49; Section 55-8-151 and Title 62. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 10, 2025 |
| SB 154 | Taxes, Hotel Motel - As introduced, extends by 12 years the period in which Davidson County may charge an additional $0.50 privilege tax on the occupancy of a hotel room and in which such county may allocate the tax revenue for the purposes of direct promotion of tourism; extends by 12 years the terms of the committee members that oversee the fund in which the additional tax is deposited. - Amends TCA Section 7-4-202. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 27, 2025 |
| SB 153 | Election Laws - As introduced, provides a method for a nonrecognized minor party seeking recognition as a recognized minor party that notified the coordinator of elections that it seeks to nominate by primary election to rescind that notification; corrects a statutory reference. - Amends TCA Title 2. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 27, 2025 |
| SB 151 | Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires each local board of education and governing body of a public charter school to display the Ten Commandments, the first sentence of the second paragraph of the preamble to the Declaration of Independence, and the preamble to the United States Constitution in a prominent location in each school building. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 27, 2025 |
| SB 149 | Safety - As introduced, decreases from 10 business days to 10 calendar days the amount of time the state fire marshal or another state agency, department, or entity must conduct a requested inspection for new construction or the renovation of an existing building. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 7; Title 13; Title 68 and Title 69. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 27, 2025 |
| SB 148 | Food and Food Products - As introduced, excludes a cell-cultured food product from the definitions of meat and poultry for purposes of the Tennessee Meat and Poultry Inspection Act; prohibits local education agencies (LEAs), public charter schools, and public institutions of higher education from offering or distributing a cell-cultured food product through its school nutrition program, food service center, or another source through which the LEA, public charter school, or public institution of higher education provides food to students. - Amends TCA Title 40; Title 44; Title 47; Title 49 and Title 53. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 27, 2025 |
| SB 29 | Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases the penalty for civil rights intimidation from a Class D felony to a Class C felony if the victim of the offense was a minor or was selected by the defendant based on the victim’s status as a minister, preacher, pastor, priest, rabbi, or other spiritual leader of a religious belief who has been ordained or otherwise designated in conformity with the customs of a church, temple, or other religious group or organization. - Amends TCA Title 39. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 15, 2025 |
| SB 25 | Children - As introduced, clarifies that a child's parent, legal guardian, or legal custodian may access and review all health and medical records of the child, including those records related to treatments available to unemancipated minors without parental consent; allows an employee of a local education agency to provide bandages, gauze, or ice packs for the treatment of minor cuts, scrapes, bumps, and bruises. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 36; Title 37; Title 49; Title 63 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 15, 2025 |
| SB 22 | Prisons and Reformatory Institutions - As introduced, specifies that the reimbursement of travel expenses incurred by members of the inmate disciplinary oversight board must be administered in accordance with the comprehensive travel regulations promulgated by the department of finance and administration and approved by the attorney general and reporter. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 41. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 15, 2025 |
| SB 21 | State Government - As introduced, declares that international policymaking organizations have no jurisdiction or authority within this state; declares that a federal law or rule based upon a policy or guideline of an international policymaking organization has no authority in this state; prohibits state governmental entities from adopting or enforcing a law or rule based upon a recommendation of an international policymaking organization unless authorized by state law. - Amends TCA Title 1; Title 3; Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 13; Title 14; Title 43; Title 45; Title 49; Title 50; Title 53; Title 59; Title 60; Title 62; Title 63; Title 65; Title 66; Title 68; Title 69 and Title 70. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 15, 2025 |
| SB 23 | Taxes, Hotel Motel - As introduced, extends by six years the period in which Davidson County may charge an additional $0.50 privilege tax on the occupancy of a hotel room and in which such county may allocate the tax revenue for the purposes of direct promotion of tourism; extends by six years the terms of the committee members that oversee the fund in which the additional tax is deposited. - Amends TCA Section 7-4-202. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | January 7, 2025 |