Tennessee · Current officeholder
William Lamberth
Republican Tennessee House, District 44
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Sponsored legislation
258 bills in the current data (258 as primary sponsor), sorted by most recent official action. Linked by Open States person ID.
| Bill | Title | Role | Stage | Last action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HB 2631 | Appropriations - As enacted, makes appropriations for the fiscal years beginning July 1, 2025, and July 1, 2026. - | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 27, 2026 |
| HB 2630 | Bond Issues - As enacted, authorizes the state to issue and sell bonds. - | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 27, 2026 |
| HB 2560 | Civil Emergencies - As enacted, creates the department of Tennessee emergency management authority ("TEMA") to authorize the creation of local organizations for emergency management in the political subdivisions of the state, and to authorize cooperation with the federal government and the governments of other states. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 13; Title 16; Title 39; Title 55; Title 58; Title 62; Title 65; Title 68 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 27, 2026 |
| HB 2552 | Local Government, General - As enacted, requires a local government responsible for reviewing a development application, development plan, or a site inspection submitted by a developer for the purpose of developing real property in this state, within 60 business days of the submission, to approve the application, plan, or site inspection or add the submission to the next available agenda of either the planning commission or the governing body; makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 7. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 27, 2026 |
| HB 2542 | Unemployment Compensation - As enacted, removes a requirement that work be deemed suitable for a claimant if certain criteria are met and a claimant's gross weekly wages equal or exceed certain threshold percentages of the claimant's weekly wage for insured work for the quarter of the base period when the claimant's wages were greatest. - Amends TCA Section 50-7-303. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 27, 2026 |
| HB 2541 | Salaries and Benefits - As enacted, expresses the public policy that the prevailing wage rate be paid to workers on non-state contracts for construction projects on public highways; makes other revisions to the Prevailing Wage Act for State Highway Construction Projects. - Amends TCA Title 12, Chapter 4, Part 4. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 27, 2026 |
| HB 2539 | Health Care - As enacted, makes revisions to health law, including, but not limited to, revising certain reporting requirements, requiring a person licensed by the board of examiners in psychology to complete certain suicide prevention training, defining palliative care, and clarifying certain rulemaking authority of health boards and the commissioner of health. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 33; Title 36; Title 37; Title 48; Title 49; Title 52; Title 53; Title 55; Title 56; Title 62; Title 63 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 27, 2026 |
| HB 2533 | Education - As enacted, makes various revisions to education law, including, but not limited to, prohibiting parents from using funds deposited in a participating student's IEA to make contributions to an achieving a better life experience account for purposes of the ABLE Act, and requiring the Title VI coordinator for a LEA or public charter school to investigate certain complaints of antisemitic discrimination and harassment reported to the LEA or public charter school before formally reporting the incidents and complaints to the Title VI coordinator designated by the department of education. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29; Title 5, Chapter 21; Title 8, Chapter 50, Part 8; Title 49, Chapter 10, Part 1; Title 49, Chapter 10, Part 14; Title 49, Chapter 11, Part 1; Title 49, Chapter 11, Part 8; Title 49, Chapter 13; Title 49, Chapter 15, Part 1; Title 49, Chapter 16, Part 2; Title 49, Chapter 17; Section 49-2-203; Title 49, Chapter 3, Part 1; Title 49, Chapter 5, Part 4; Title 49, Chapter 50, Part 10; Title 49, Chapter 50, Part 16; Title 49, Chapter 50, Part 18; Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 10; Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 15; Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 22; Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 23; Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 30; Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 34; Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 42; Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 81; Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 2; Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 3 and Section 68-204-110. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 27, 2026 |
| HB 2530 | Boards and Commissions - As enacted, revises law regulating professions under the department of commerce and insurance. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2; Title 20, Chapter 9, Part 6; Title 55, Chapter 17, Part 1; Title 62, Chapter 13; Title 62, Chapter 18; Title 62, Chapter 2; Title 62, Chapter 20; Title 62, Chapter 27; Title 62, Chapter 35; Title 62, Chapter 4; Title 62, Chapter 6; Title 62, Chapter 76; Title 68, Chapter 102 and Title 68, Chapter 105. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 27, 2026 |
| HB 2526 | Children's Services, Dept. of - As enacted, requires a child placed in the custody of the department to remain in custody so long as necessary to complete treatment or services, which must be evidence-based and provided by a qualified provider; makes other changes to child custody law; creates a juvenile commitment review task force to examine system issues and service gaps for certain children committed to the custody of the department. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 1, Part 1. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 27, 2026 |
| HB 1900 | Orders of Protection - As enacted, allows a person to file a petition for a lifetime order of protection against a person who was convicted of certain offenses in another jurisdiction; provides that venue for such a petition is in the county where the respondent resides or, if the respondent is not a resident of this state, the county where the petitioner resides. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 39. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 27, 2026 |
| HB 2186 | Local Government, General - As enacted, authorizes counties with a metropolitan form of government, by resolution of their governing bodies, to levy a tax on the retail sale of food and food ingredients for human consumption within the county at a rate less than the local option sales tax rate or exempt the retail sale of such food and food ingredients from the local option sales tax; deletes obsolete provisions relating to the timing for reducing the membership of metropolitan councils. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 67, Chapter 6. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 26, 2026 |
| HB 2157 | Law Enforcement - As enacted, establishes a Tennessee safe initiative task force, which is administratively attached to the Tennessee bureau of investigation. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 38 and Title 39. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 26, 2026 |
| HB 2532 | Education - As enacted, revises education law, including, but not limited to, increasing, from 25,000 to 35,000, the maximum number of education freedom scholarships that may be awarded to eligible students. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 18, 2026 |
| HB 2529 | Commerce and Insurance, Dept. of - As enacted, requires a chancery court that has found that a person engaged in or is about to engage in an act or practice constituting a violation of the Tennessee Securities Act of 1980 to appoint the commissioner as the receiver or conservator for the defendant upon request by the commissioner; makes other changes related to matters regulated by the department. - Amends TCA Title 48, Chapter 1, Part 1 and Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 1. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 18, 2026 |
| HB 2106 | Education, Higher - As enacted, caps at $10 million per fiscal year the total amount of funds in the lottery for education account that may be transferred to the Tennessee Promise scholarship special reserve account. - Amends TCA Section 49-4-708. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 18, 2026 |
| HB 1634 | Law Enforcement Training Academy - As enacted, authorizes the commissioner of general services to commission the director or a staff member of a law enforcement training academy; authorizes the department of general services to operate a sale facility at a law enforcement training academy for purposes of funding its operations. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 11 and Title 38, Chapter 8, Part 2. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 18, 2026 |
| HB 1632 | Hazardous Materials - As enacted, makes various changes to the "Tennessee Drycleaner's Environmental Response Act." - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 217, Part 1. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 18, 2026 |
| HB 1504 | Capitol - As enacted, creates a capitol hill protection zone around the state capitol grounds that includes the state capitol, capitol annexes, World War II Memorial Building that formerly housed the state library and archives, Supreme Court Building, William R. Snodgrass Tennessee Tower, War Memorial Building, Legislative Plaza, James K. Polk State Office Building, Rachel Jackson Building, Andrew Jackson Building, John Sevier State Office Building, Cordell Hull Building, and the grounds, roads, and sidewalks along either side of the roads immediately surrounding such buildings. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 15, 2026 |
| HJR 7022 | General Assembly, Adjournment - Adjourns sine die Second Extraordinary Session of One Hundred Fourteenth General Assembly on May 7, 2026. - | Primary sponsor | Passed both chambers | May 7, 2026 |
| HJR 1567 | Memorials, Retirement - Teresa Keen - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 7, 2026 |
| HB 359 | Criminal Offenses - As enacted, defines "serious bodily injury" for the purposes of the present law offense of vehicular assault, which occurs when a person who, as the proximate result of the person's intoxication, recklessly causes serious bodily injury to another person by the operation of a motor vehicle or vessel subject to registration; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 55. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 5, 2026 |
| HB 2562 | Boards and Commissions - As enacted, requires at least one hour of the board of medical examiners' required continuing education hours to be completed on topics related to nutrition; requires the same of the board of osteopathic examination. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 6 and Title 63, Chapter 9. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 5, 2026 |
| HB 2550 | Game and Fish Laws - As enacted, enacts the "Hunting for Heroes Act"; creates the Tennessee national guard sportsman license. - Amends TCA Title 70, Chapter 2. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 5, 2026 |
| HB 2543 | Public Funds and Financing - As enacted, specifies the conditions that must be satisfied for monies from the governor's response and recovery fund to be provided to eligible local governmental entities and to eligible individuals in qualifying counties following an emergency or disaster. - Amends TCA Section 9-4-216. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 5, 2026 |
| HB 2538 | Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As enacted, authorizes the Megasite Authority of West Tennessee to issue bonds for the sole purpose of financing, in whole or in part, the cost of acquisition, purchase, construction, reconstruction, improvement, betterment, or extension of the water system or wastewater system operated by the authority; grants certain additional authority to the board of directors; limits liability of the state on bonds of the authority. - Amends TCA Title 64, Chapter 9. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 5, 2026 |
| HB 2535 | Gas, Petroleum Products, Volatile Oils - As enacted, makes various changes concerning oil and gas drilling operations; specifies procedural requirements for review of certain administrative actions. - Amends TCA Title 59; Title 60 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 5, 2026 |
| HB 2534 | Administrative Procedure (UAPA) - As enacted, precludes certain boards administratively attached to the department of environment and conservation from voting to review the initial order of an administrative law judge in an administrative proceeding, but preserves the right of a party to appeal an initial order directly to the board; reduces from 180 to 90 days the period of time from the completion of the record of a contested case hearing within which an administrative law judge must issue an initial order in a hearing involving such boards. - Amends TCA Title 60; Title 68 and Title 69. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 5, 2026 |
| HB 2528 | Private Protective Services - As enacted, adds stalking to the crimes for which an individual who has been convicted must have completed serving the individual's sentence or court-ordered probation at least five years prior to applying for a registration card to perform the duties of a security guard or officer; makes other changes related to security guards and officers. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 35. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 5, 2026 |
| HB 2527 | Child Abuse - As enacted, requires, rather than permits, the child protective team for a case involving a human trafficking offense to include a representative from a non-governmental agency specialized in combatting the commercial sexual exploitation of minors; extends the time within which the department or child protective team must determine whether reported abuse was indicated or unfounded from 60 days to 90 days or, in cases involving a child fatality, 180 days. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 1. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 5, 2026 |
| HB 2187 | Federal Aid - As enacted, enacts the "Federal Tax Credit Scholarship Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9 and Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 5, 2026 |
| HB 1640 | Public Records - As enacted, designates records of the office of homeland security related to critical infrastructure as confidential and exempts such records from public records requests; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 5, 2026 |
| HB 1635 | Cemeteries - As enacted, clarifies eligibility and required documentation for interment in state veterans' cemeteries for military service members and veterans, including certain members of a reserve component of the armed forces of the United States, the army national guard, or the air national guard, and spouses and children of such service members and veterans. - Amends TCA Title 46, Chapter 6. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 5, 2026 |
| HB 1630 | Workers Compensation - As enacted, authorizes the chief administrative officer of the bureau of workers' compensation of the department of labor and workforce development to disburse funds from the subsequent injury and vocational recovery fund for costs associated with implementing and maintaining a computer system for the bureau of workers' compensation; makes other changes related to workers' compensation. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 6, Part 2. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 5, 2026 |
| HB 1317 | Safety, Dept. of - As enacted, removes present law that requires an offender sentenced to a period of incarceration for a DUI to begin their sentence within 30 days of conviction or, if space is not immediately available in the appropriate municipal or county jail or workhouse within such time, as soon as such space is available; requires, instead, the sentencing court to determine when such an offender is required to commence service of their sentence. - Amends TCA Title 55 and Title 65. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 5, 2026 |
| HJR 1094 | Memorials, Congratulations - Governor Lee's deployment of the National Guard to Memphis - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 1, 2026 |
| HB 2547 | Real Property - As enacted, makes changes to law regarding restrictions on land purchases by sanctioned aliens or foreign entities. - Amends TCA Title 66, Chapter 2, Part 3. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 29, 2026 |
| HB 1639 | Safety, Dept. of - As enacted, creates the office of homeland security within the department of safety. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29; Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 20 and Section 38-3-114. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 29, 2026 |
| HB 1631 | Fairs - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Agricultural Fair and Livestock Show Act" and the "Tennessee State Fair Act." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 57; Title 43, Chapter 21 and Section 48-101-502. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 28, 2026 |
| HB 1628 | Tourist Development, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to annually confirm the nonprofit, membership-based organizations or tax-exempt public agencies to act as regional tourism organizations for each of the nine development districts; requires department approval of regional tourism organization's planned marketing initiatives prior to the organization receiving matching state funds; provides definitions related to tourism. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 22. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 28, 2026 |
| HB 1503 | Agriculture - As enacted, makes various changes relative to the regulation of hemp-derived cannabinoid products. - Amends TCA Title 1, Chapter 3; Title 39; Title 43, Chapter 27; Title 53; Title 57, Chapter 7 and Title 67, Chapter 6. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 28, 2026 |
| HB 2185 | Election Laws - As enacted, authorizes the electronic portal to be created by the coordinator of elections prior to January 1, 2028, to access data from the systematic alien verification for entitlements (SAVE) program if the United States department of homeland security, United States citizenship and immigration services makes such data available via a secure web service. - Amends TCA Title 2. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 27, 2026 |
| HB 1704 | Immigration - As enacted, creates the Class A misdemeanor of intentionally failing or refusing to depart when a final order of removal is outstanding; creates the Class A misdemeanor of intentionally entering, attempting to enter, or being found in this state after being denied admission, excluded, deported, or removed from the United States. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 41. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 27, 2026 |
| HB 2536 | Public Employees - As enacted, replaces certain members of the state insurance committee, the local education insurance committee, and the local government insurance committee. - Amends TCA Section 8-27-201; Section 8-27-301 and Section 8-27-701. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 24, 2026 |
| HR 239 | Memorials, Retirement - Ann Sanders "Sandy" Dickey - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 21, 2026 |
| HR 202 | Memorials, Recognition - 105th Attack Squadron, 105th anniversary - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 21, 2026 |
| HB 2540 | State Employees - As introduced, makes various changes regarding employment with this state and state employment benefits. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Section 41-24-113 and Section 70-1-309. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 21, 2026 |
| HR 199 | Memorials, Retirement - Terry Vantrease - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 20, 2026 |
| HB 1641 | Transportation, Dept. of - As introduced, extends for one year the annual report the department must submit to committees of the general assembly regarding blocked highway-rail grade crossings data collected by the federal railroad administration. - Amends TCA Title 55 and Title 65. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 20, 2026 |
| HR 196 | Gaming - Authorizes certain nonprofit entities to conduct an annual charitable gaming event between July 1, 2026, and June 30, 2027. - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 15, 2026 |
| HB 2629 | Budget Procedures - As introduced, authorizes grant payments under the grant assistance program for nursing home care to be made either monthly or quarterly. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 3; Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 10; Title 11; Title 12; Title 13; Title 16; Title 17; Title 18; Title 29; Title 33; Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41; Title 43; Title 44; Title 45; Title 47; Title 48; Title 49; Title 50; Title 52; Title 53; Title 54; Title 55; Title 56; Title 57; Title 58; Title 59; Title 60; Title 61; Title 62; Title 63; Title 64; Title 65; Title 66; Title 67; Title 68; Title 69; Title 70 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 15, 2026 |
| HB 1505 | Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, establishes a sales tax holiday for the retail sale of firearms and ammunition during the period of July 3-6, 2026. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 3. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 15, 2026 |
| HR 193 | Gaming - Authorizes certain nonprofit entities to conduct an annual charitable gaming event between July 1, 2026, and June 30, 2027. - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 14, 2026 |
| HJR 729 | Constitutional Amendments - Proposes an amendment to Article VII, Section 5 of the Constitution of Tennessee to change the date of elections for judicial and other civil officers, excluding assessors of property, from the first Thursday in August to the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. - | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 14, 2026 |
| HR 190 | Memorials, Recognition - Chase Ingle - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 13, 2026 |
| HB 2659 | Gaming - As enacted, creates a five-day window after the effective date of this act for nonprofit organizations seeking to operate an annual event for the annual event period beginning on July 1, 2026, and ending June 30, 2027, to submit its annual event application to the secretary of state. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 17. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 13, 2026 |
| HB 2537 | Financial Institutions, Dept. of - As enacted, terminates the state credit union share insurance corporation that protects or guarantees shareholdings and deposits of member credit unions against loss; terminates the capital fund held by the corporation that consists of capital contributions and special assessments paid by member credit unions; makes other revisions pertaining to credit unions. - Amends TCA Title 45, Chapter 2; Title 45, Chapter 4 and Title 45, Chapter 7. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 13, 2026 |
| HB 1642 | Public Records - As enacted, deletes expiration dates for certain public record exemptions. - Amends TCA Section 10-7-504. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 13, 2026 |
| HR 182 | Memorials, Interns - Priscilla Hanna - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 6, 2026 |
| HR 178 | Memorials, Interns - Ella Muncy - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 6, 2026 |
| HR 177 | Memorials, Interns - Noelle Porterfield - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 6, 2026 |
| HJR 881 | General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Drew Goddard, Heritage Conservation Trust Fund Board of Trustees - | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 6, 2026 |
| HJR 879 | General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Mike Frick, Heritage Conservation Trust Fund Board of Trustees - | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 6, 2026 |
| HB 2546 | Sports - As enacted, makes changes relative to the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame, including reducing membership on the executive committee from seven to six members; adding to board responsibilities by requiring it to direct the mission of the hall of fame; and making other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 54. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 6, 2026 |
| HB 2544 | Taxes - As enacted, requires a person using a liquified gas propelled motor vehicle to pay the liquified gas tax on delivery of the liquified gas into the vehicle's fuel supply tank instead of prepaying the tax on an annual basis; eliminates the annual renewal requirement for the liquified gas user permit, instead making it a permanent and valid permit dependent on timely reports and remittance of taxes or until surrendered or canceled; makes other tax-related changes. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 1, Part 18; Title 67, Chapter 3, Part 11 and Title 67, Chapter 6. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 6, 2026 |
| HB 2531 | Fire Prevention and Investigation - As enacted, creates the rescue squad grant program to provide annual grants to rescue squads for the purchase of firefighting equipment and training; directs the commissioner of commerce and insurance to evaluate grant requests and select grant award recipients each year. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 102. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 6, 2026 |
| HB 1811 | Statutes and Codification - As enacted, codifies the Acts of the 2025 regular and extraordinary sessions. - | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 6, 2026 |
| HB 1627 | Human Services, Dept. of - As enacted, deletes the requirements that the department establish, advertise, and maintain a statewide toll-free telephone line to receive and respond to citizen inquiries and complaints concerning child support collections and disbursements and the department establish satellite offices for the state's central collection and disbursement unit. - Amends TCA Section 36-5-118 and Section 36-5-119. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 6, 2026 |
| HB 1502 | Jails, Local Lock-ups - As enacted, authorizes the Tennessee corrections institute to establish certification requirements for corrections officers and to inspect and certify local correctional training academies; makes various changes regarding plans of action that may be submitted by a local certified facility following annual inspection; allows the director and full-time employees of the Tennessee corrections institute to carry a handgun under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 41. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 6, 2026 |
| HB 1453 | Portland - Subject to local approval, deletes provisions requiring a referendum to sell, lease, or otherwise dispose of the city's water or light plant. - Amends Chapter 568 of the Private Acts of 1939; as amended. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 6, 2026 |
| HJR 891 | General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Todd Skelton, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Advisory Board - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 31, 2026 |
| HJR 890 | General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Dane Scism, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, advisory board - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 31, 2026 |
| HJR 1133 | Memorials, Death - Edgar "Ed" Joines Cochran - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 31, 2026 |
| HJR 902 | General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Dr. Phil Roe, Austin Peay State University Board of Trustees - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 26, 2026 |
| HJR 900 | General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Camron Rudd, Tennessee Technological University Board of Trustees - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 26, 2026 |
| HJR 1082 | Memorials, Public Service - Representative Jeremy Faison - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 26, 2026 |
| HB 2549 | Ethics - As introduced, enacts the "Foreign Agent Registration Act." - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 6 and Title 4. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 26, 2026 |
| HB 2548 | State Government - As introduced, enacts the "Critical Infrastructure Protection Act" and the "Protection of State Land from Foreign Adversaries Act." - Amends TCA Title 12, Chapter 3 and Title 66, Chapter 2. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 26, 2026 |
| HB 2557 | Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As introduced, changes from April 15 to October 15, the date on which the bureau of TennCare is directed to annually report to the senate health and welfare committee and the health committee of the house of representatives regarding program costs and patient outcomes related to incorporating the pharmacist-provided medication therapy management pilot program each year the pilot program is supported. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 53; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 25, 2026 |
| HB 1633 | Public Records - As enacted, specifies that certain bank account information of individuals held by a state agency is confidential. - Amends TCA Section 10-7-504. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 23, 2026 |
| HB 1629 | Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As enacted, designates February to be observed as "Tennessee Songwriters Month." - Amends TCA Section 15-2-129. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 23, 2026 |
| HJR 903 | General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Mike Keeney, University of Memphis Board of Trustees - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 18, 2026 |
| HJR 901 | General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Tom Boyd, Middle Tennessee State University Board of Trustees - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 18, 2026 |
| HJR 895 | General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Jennifer Hampton, University of Tennessee at Martin Advisory Board - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 18, 2026 |
| HJR 893 | General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Doran Johnson, University of Tennessee Southern Advisory Board - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 18, 2026 |
| HJR 889 | General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Dr. Elaine Swafford, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Advisory Board - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 18, 2026 |
| HJR 888 | General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Garnett Decosimo, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Advisory Board - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 18, 2026 |
| HJR 886 | General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Tom Marino, Public Charter School Commission - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 18, 2026 |
| HB 2556 | Dentists and Dentistry - As introduced, changes from at least five years to at least six years, the period of residency and practice in this state that each of the two dental hygienist members appointed to the board of dentistry on or after July 1, 2026, must have prior to such appointment. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 56; Title 63, Chapter 5; Title 68 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 18, 2026 |
| HB 2555 | Medical Occupations - As introduced, reduces from 45 to 35 days, the amount of time the board of physician assistants has to either render a decision on a licensure application submitted by an individual licensed, registered, or certified as a physician assistant in another jurisdiction or inform the licensure applicant from another jurisdiction of the need to appear before the board. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 24; Title 33; Title 38; Title 49; Title 53; Title 55; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68; Title 71 and Chapter 1042 of the Public Acts of 2024. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 18, 2026 |
| HB 2554 | Nurses, Nursing - As introduced, reduces from 30 to 15 days the period following an election of the officers of the board of nursing within which the executive director must certify to the governor the names of the officers elected; reduces from 30 to 15 days the period following a vacancy in any office or in the board of nursing within which the executive director must certify such vacancy to the governor. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 33; Title 38; Title 53; Title 55; Title 63 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 18, 2026 |
| HB 1643 | Financial Responsibility Law - As introduced, changes the amount of time that proof of financial responsibility must be maintained from the period of the suspension or revocation to one year or the period of the suspension or revocation, whichever is longer, when a person's driver license or motor vehicle registration has been suspended or revoked because of the person's failure to furnish proof of financial responsibility. - Amends TCA Section 55-12-126. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 17, 2026 |
| HB 793 | Local Education Agencies - As introduced, authorizes LEAs and public charter schools to refuse to enroll students who are unlawfully present in the United States. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 16, 2026 |
| HJR 899 | General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Tony Treadway, East Tennessee State University Board of Trustees - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 11, 2026 |
| HJR 896 | General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Alec Richardson, University of Tennessee at Martin Advisory Board - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 11, 2026 |
| HJR 894 | General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Dr. Charles Doug Haney, University of Tennessee Southern Advisory Board - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 11, 2026 |
| HJR 892 | General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Susan Marsh Mayfield, University of Tennessee Southern Advisory Board - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 11, 2026 |
| HJR 887 | General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - John H. Weston, Jr., State Textbook and Instructional Materials Quality Commission - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 11, 2026 |
| HJR 1057 | General Assembly, Joint Conventions - Calls joint convention to confirm governor's appointments to the Tennessee Supreme Court, Tennessee Court of Appeals, Western Section, and Tennessee Court of Appeals, Eastern Section. - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 11, 2026 |
| HJR 898 | General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Dr. Randall Davis, University of Tennessee Health Science Center Advisory Board - | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 5, 2026 |
| HJR 897 | General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Dr. Gary A. Passons, University of Tennessee Health Science Center - | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 5, 2026 |
| HJR 882 | General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Dr. Tyler Forrest, Heritage Conservation Trust Fund Board of Trustees - | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 2, 2026 |
| HJR 880 | General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Pete Claussen, Heritage Conservation Trust Fund Board of Trustees - | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 2, 2026 |
| HJR 878 | General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Joshua R. Walker, Tennessee Claims Commission - | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 2, 2026 |
| HB 1501 | Local Government, General - As introduced, authorizes a municipality to create and require the use of a landlord registry for a real estate investment trust that owns, operates, or finances 10 or more dwelling units located within the municipality. - Amends TCA Title 66. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | February 23, 2026 |
| HJR 919 | General Assembly, Recess & Reconvene - Provides for recess to observe Presidents' Day holiday. - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 12, 2026 |
| HB 2561 | Energy - As introduced, authorizes the state energy policy council to submit electronically its annual comprehensive reports on its assessment of the state's energy sector and comprehensive state energy policy plan to the governor, the speaker of the senate, and the speaker of the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2; Title 4, Chapter 3 and Title 68, Chapter 204, Part 1. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | February 5, 2026 |
| HB 2559 | Economic and Community Development, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the commissioner to research the feasibility of establishing a development corridor, to be called the Oak Ridge Energy Park, located in and spanning parts of Anderson and Roane counties. - | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2026 |
| HB 2553 | Education, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to review and propose revisions to the physical education standards to incorporate guidance published by the President's Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition to reestablish the presidential fitness test pursuant to Executive Order No. 14327 of the president of the United States on July 31, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2026 |
| HB 2551 | Codes - As introduced, revises authority of state fire marshal to prescribe rules relating to minimum statewide building construction safety standards, specifically for fire prevention for multi-family dwelling units. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 120. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2026 |
| HB 2545 | Criminal Offenses - As introduced, reduces, from five to four business days, the amount of time a warden has to report an offense in a penal institution to the appropriate district attorney generals. - Amends TCA Title 39. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | February 5, 2026 |
| HR 146 | Memorials, Death - Paul Trowbridge Gillespie, Jr. - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | February 4, 2026 |
| HB 2084 | Education, Higher - As introduced, increases, from 30 to 45 days before the start of the academic term, the time by which a state government entity that establishes a scholarship using an educational investment plan must select the scholarship beneficiary and notify the board of trustees of the college savings trust fund program of the beneficiary. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 9; Title 10; Title 12; Title 49 and Title 50. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | February 4, 2026 |
| HJR 742 | General Assembly, Joint Conventions - Calls joint convention to hear State of the State address by Governor Lee; authorizes transmittal of budget document by February 2, 2026, and filing of legislation implementing the budget by February 9, 2026. - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | January 23, 2026 |
| HJR 741 | General Assembly, Recess & Reconvene - Recesses 2026 session of the 114th General Assembly from close of business on January 15, 2026, until January 21, 2026, at 8:30 a.m. - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | January 23, 2026 |
| HJR 759 | Memorials, Death - Robert Earl Dudgeon - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | January 22, 2026 |
| HB 1638 | Correction, Dept. of - As introduced, increases from 90 to 100 days of receiving a valid judgment of conviction for when the department has to notify the victim witness coordinator of the scheduled parole hearing date when the inmate will be eligible for parole consideration. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | January 21, 2026 |
| HB 1637 | Children's Services, Dept. of - As introduced, changes from January 31 to February 15 the date by which the commissioner shall publish an annual report regarding operation of the department and the services and programs under its supervision. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | January 21, 2026 |
| HB 1636 | Evidence - As introduced, permits the introduction into evidence of a video recording of a child victim being interviewed by a forensic interviewer regarding sexual or physically violent contact with the child if the forensic interviewer is an employee of the department of children's services and meets certain requirements. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 4, Part 2 and Title 24, Chapter 7, Part 1. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 21, 2026 |
| HB 1626 | Bail, Bail Bonds - As introduced, requires bondsmen to file the quarterly reports on number of bonds issued by the bondsman in the preceding quarter by the thirtieth day of January, April, July, and October, rather than the twenty-fifth day; requires court clerks to file the quarterly reports on number of bonds accepted by the clerk in the preceding quarter by the thirtieth day of January, April, July, and October, rather than the twenty-fifth day. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 11. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | January 21, 2026 |
| HB 1431 | Portland - Subject to local approval, deletes obsolete and superseded provisions of the city charter. - Amends Chapter 568 of the Private Acts of 1939; as amended. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | June 4, 2025 |
| HB 1302 | Agriculture, Dept. of - As enacted, renames the "Tennessee Meat and Poultry Inspection Act" as the "Tennessee Meat Inspection Act"; revises the act to facilitate the implementation of a state meat inspection program. - Amends TCA Title 53, Chapter 7 and Chapter 380 of the Public Acts of 2023. | Primary sponsor | In committee | June 4, 2025 |
| HB 69 | Election Laws - As enacted, requires the coordinator of elections, in collaboration with the department of safety, prior to January 1, 2028, to create a secure, electronic portal through which each county administrator of elections may access information to verify, prior to processing an applicant's application to register to vote, whether the applicant is a United States citizen based upon records on file at the time of issuance of the most recent driver license or identification card or other credential from the department of safety; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 4; Title 38; Title 39; Title 41 and Title 55. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 27, 2025 |
| HB 1409 | Appropriations - As enacted, makes appropriations for the fiscal years beginning July 1, 2024, and July 1, 2025. - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 27, 2025 |
| HB 1408 | Budget Procedures - As enacted, authorizes, in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025, transfers from the Access Tennessee health insurance program fund, created or referenced in the Access Tennessee Act of 2006. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 10; Title 11; Title 12; Title 13; Title 16; Title 17; Title 18; Title 29; Title 33; Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41; Title 43; Title 44; Title 45; Title 47; Title 48; Title 49; Title 50; Title 53; Title 54; Title 55; Title 56; Title 57; Title 58; Title 59; Title 60; Title 61; Title 62; Title 63; Title 64; Title 65; Title 66; Title 67; Title 68; Title 69; Title 70 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 27, 2025 |
| HB 1407 | Bond Issues - As enacted, authorizes the state to issue and sell bonds. - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 27, 2025 |
| HB 1376 | Alcoholic Beverage Commission - As enacted, provides for the regulation of the manufacturing, supplying, wholesale distribution, and retail sale of hemp-derived cannabinoid products by the commission and department of revenue; creates licenses for suppliers, wholesalers, and retailers; establishes taxes for such products and the manner in which such taxes are collected and allocated; establishes civil and criminal penalties for violations. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40; Title 43, Chapter 27; Title 53, Chapter 11; Title 57 and Title 67. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 27, 2025 |
| HB 1330 | Boards and Commissions - As enacted, enacts the "Less is More Act of 2025." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 20; Title 33; Title 38; Title 40; Title 52; Title 55; Title 62; Title 63; Title 68; Title 70 and Title 76. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 27, 2025 |
| HB 1321 | Tourist Development, Dept. of - As enacted, creates a marketing division within the department to replace the tourism division; authorizes the department to enter into agreements with the department of transportation to assist with maintenance of welcome center facilities; creates a welcome centers division within the department to oversee such centers throughout the state; directs the commissioner of finance and administration to transfer from highway user taxes allocated to the highway fund an amount sufficient to support the annual appropriation for implementation and administration of all welcome centers in the state. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 22. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 27, 2025 |
| HB 1314 | Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates the criminal offense of threatening to commit an act of mass violence; creates the criminal offense of posting on a publicly accessible website the telephone number or home address of an individual with the intent to cause harm or a threat of harm to the individual or a member of the individual's family or household. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 8 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 3. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 27, 2025 |
| HB 55 | 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 | In committee | May 15, 2025 |
| HB 1344 | Education, Higher - As enacted, authorizes, subject to appropriation, an institution of higher education to request to redirect the institution's capital outlay funds for purposes other than those set out in the 2022 appropriations act; makes related revisions. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 9; Title 10; Title 12; Title 49; Title 66 and Title 67. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 15, 2025 |
| HB 1326 | Real Property - As enacted, creates a vested property right upon the submission, rather than the approval, of a development plan or building permit; specifies that the vesting period applicable when it is based on the submission of a building permit is three years. - Amends TCA Title 13. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 15, 2025 |
| HB 1325 | Agriculture, Dept. of - As enacted, establishes a fund for the development and implementation of programs that benefit Tennesseans by preserving farmland and forestland, including a grant program for conservation easements. - Amends TCA Title 43, Chapter 1, Part 1. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 15, 2025 |
| HB 1307 | Education, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to implement a transition plan to close the achievement school district (ASD) and to release all schools currently assigned to the ASD before the start of the 2026-2027 school year; requires the department to establish a different intervention system for priority schools; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 15, 2025 |
| HB 1299 | Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates a civil and criminal action for individuals who are the subject of an intimate digital depiction that is intentionally disclosed without the individual's consent under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 28 and Title 39, Chapter 17. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 15, 2025 |
| HB 1232 | Criminal Offenses - As enacted, makes various changes to present law concerning criminal justice. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5; Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 53. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 15, 2025 |
| HB 1323 | Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, makes various changes to certain teacher licensure requirements. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5 and Title 49, Chapter 6. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 13, 2025 |
| HB 1310 | Food and Food Products - As enacted, deletes present laws pertaining to rented premises unfit for habitation and quick fast food establishment delivery vehicles; removes the statutorily set permit fees to operate food service establishments and requires such permit fees to be set by rule; makes other revisions to present laws pertaining to food service and safety. - Amends TCA Section 53-8-103; Title 68, Chapter 110; Title 68, Chapter 111; Title 68, Chapter 14 and Title 68, Chapter 15. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 13, 2025 |
| HB 124 | Environment and Conservation, Department of - As enacted, makes various changes related to fees set by the department for environmental regulatory programs; makes changes to the regulation of coal combustion residuals disposal units. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 203, Part 1 and Title 68, Chapter 211, Part 1. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 13, 2025 |
| HB 683 | Private Protective Services - As enacted, creates the enhanced armed guard registration that may be obtained upon completion of certain training and other requirements by an armed security guard/officer who has at least five years of full-time experience as a law enforcement officer or four years of active duty military experience in a combat arms military occupational specialty; directs the commissioner of commerce and insurance to approve an enhanced armed guard training course. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 39 and Title 62, Chapter 35. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 8, 2025 |
| HB 1332 | Handgun Permits - As enacted, clarifies that an applicant who has a DUI conviction that occurred within five years from the date of application or renewal is not eligible for an enhanced handgun carry permit; lowers the age for an applicant for an enhanced handgun carry permit from 21 to 18 if other eligibility requirements for issuance of the permit are met. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 8, 2025 |
| HB 1329 | Revenue, Dept. of - As enacted, reduces from 1.125 percent to 0.75 percent the administrative fee percentage the department takes from the proceeds of the business tax, short-term rental unit occupancy tax, local tax surcharge, coal severance tax, and local option sales tax to assist in defraying the expenses of administration and collection, before remitting proceeds to the appropriate county, city, or town. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4; Title 67, Chapter 6 and Title 67, Chapter 7. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 8, 2025 |
| HB 1328 | Criminal Procedure - As enacted, establishes a permanent criminal proceedings notification system, rather than a pilot project; removes the July 1, 2025, termination date for the criminal proceedings notification system. - Amends TCA Section 40-38-507. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 8, 2025 |
| HB 1306 | Economic and Community Development - As enacted, clarifies that certain definitions concerning housing facilities and developments with regard to industrial development corporations include affordable and workforce housing; authorizes a municipality or county to approve amendments to an economic impact plan when approving the plan. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 53; Title 9, Chapter 21 and Title 9, Chapter 23. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 8, 2025 |
| HB 125 | Parks, Natural Areas Preservation - As enacted, requires a county or municipal government that receives a grant from the local parks land acquisition fund for a project located within a county designated as distressed or at-risk by the Appalachian Regional Commission at the time of the grant application to match the grant with an amount of money equal to 25 percent of the project, instead of requiring a match with an amount of money equal to the grant. - Amends TCA Section 67-4-409. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 8, 2025 |
| HB 117 | Taxes, Sales - As enacted, extends indefinitely the authority of the commissioner of revenue to require persons selling food, candy, or nonalcoholic beverages, including bottled soft drinks, to retailers to file an information report of such net sales with the department by deleting the July 1, 2025, termination date. - Amends TCA Section 67-6-410. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 8, 2025 |
| HB 114 | Scholarships and Financial Aid - As enacted, makes various changes to the Tennessee Support, Training, and Renewing Opportunity for National Guardsmen (STRONG) Act. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 10. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 8, 2025 |
| HB 103 | 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 | Enacted | May 8, 2025 |
| HB 1304 | Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, requires a health benefit plan issuer to provide no later than 30 days after a health benefit plan issuer receives a written request for a claims experience report from a plan, plan sponsor, or plan administrator, the report to the requesting party; prohibits coverage by a commercial risk insurance policy of farm risks or real or personal property used in farming from being considered in determining whether property is classified as farm or agricultural property under another law or rule in this state; revises provisions relating to reinsurance and risk insurance; revises provisions relating to the readability, content, and style of life and health insurance policies. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Section 68-1-115. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 2, 2025 |
| HB 1342 | Uniform Commercial Code - As enacted, specifies that a filing office in receipt of a petition for review filed by a secured party contesting a public official's affidavit that a financing statement was filed without legal cause submit the UCC financing statement that is the subject of the petition and the notarized affidavit of the public official to the administrative procedures division of the office of the secretary of state, in addition to the existing requirement that the petition itself be submitted; requires the prevailing party in the contested case hearing to provide the filing office with a copy of the administrative law judge's determination. - Amends TCA Title 47. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 30, 2025 |
| HB 1318 | Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, extends the Access Tennessee health insurance program from June 30, 2025, to June 30, 2030. - Amends TCA Section 56-7-2916. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 30, 2025 |
| HB 1315 | DUI Offenses - As enacted, requires an ignition interlock provider to permit a person to appear for calibration, monitoring, or inspection of the device at any time within a two-week period; authorizes a court to order reinstatement of a person’s driver license if the person has no other revocations or suspensions on the person’s driving record and the person’s only noncompliance with ignition interlock requirements has been with regard to the required calibration, monitoring, or inspection of the ignition interlock device; makes various other changes in regard to ignition interlock devices and the ignition interlock usage period. - Amends TCA Section 55-10-417 and Section 55-10-425. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 30, 2025 |
| HJR 707 | General Assembly, Adjournment - Adjourns 2025 session on April 22, 2025, and convenes 2026 session on January 13, 2026. - | Primary sponsor | Passed both chambers | April 29, 2025 |
| HB 854 | Bail, Bail Bonds - As enacted, allows a magistrate to consider hearsay evidence when determining whether a defendant should be released on bail pending trial and the amount of bail necessary to reasonably assure the appearance of the defendant while at the same time protecting the safety of the public. - Amends TCA Title 24; Title 39 and Title 40. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 29, 2025 |
| HB 1343 | DUI Offenses - As enacted, requires the state treasurer to deem a person ordered by a court to use a functioning ignition interlock device to be indigent and unable to pay the costs of the device if the person receives funds from the supplemental nutrition assistance, temporary assistance for needy families, or state medicaid program; removes the requirement that a court determine whether a person asserting inability to pay for a functioning ignition interlock device is indigent; revises other provisions relative to the electronic monitoring indigency fund. - Amends TCA Section 55-10-419. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 29, 2025 |
| HB 1339 | Secretary of State - As enacted, allows a litigation financier that is not a business entity or partnership to amend or withdraw its registration with the secretary of state by filing a form prescribed by the secretary of state, along with a filing fee of $20. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 16. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 29, 2025 |
| HB 1338 | Public Funds and Financing - As enacted, redefines "local government" to include a water, wastewater, or energy authority for purposes of the present law applicable to bonds and notes issued by local governments; makes other related revisions. - Amends TCA Section 9-21-133 and Title 9, Chapter 21, Part 4. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 29, 2025 |
| HB 1322 | Schools, Charter - As enacted, establishes a process by which the governing body of an existing public charter school may replicate that public charter school in the same district by applying to the local board of education or directly to the Tennessee public charter school commission; allows, in certain circumstances, a public charter school sponsor to apply directly to the commission to open a new public charter school; makes various changes to the state agencies responsible for performing certain functions in the Tennessee Public Charter Schools Act of 2002. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 13. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 29, 2025 |
| HB 1309 | Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As enacted, requires that interest income accruing on investments and deposits as a result of the Megasite Authority of West Tennessee's collection of rates to customers of a water system or wastewater system operated by the authority be credited to a separate account and carried forward into each subsequent fiscal year. - Amends TCA Section 64-9-107. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 29, 2025 |
| HB 1308 | Education - As enacted, makes various changes to reporting requirements, school and district accountability, the accumulation of excess instructional time, remote instruction, the immunization status of students in state custody, the individualized education account program, public virtual school enrollment, and certain course access program requirements imposed on the department of education. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 50, Part 8; Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 6; Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 9; Title 49, Chapter 10, Part 14; Title 49, Chapter 16, Part 2; Title 49, Chapter 18, Part 1; Title 49, Chapter 2, Part 1; Title 49, Chapter 3, Part 1; Title 49, Chapter 3, Part 3; Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 10; Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 30; Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 31; Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 41; Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 50; Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 2 and Chapter 1005 of the Public Acts of 2024. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 29, 2025 |
| HB 604 | Alcoholic Beverage Commission - As enacted, requires a law enforcement agency to provide records related to an accident, the persons involved in such accident, and persons involved in providing or selling alcoholic beverages to persons involved in an accident upon receipt of a request for such records by the commission; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 55 and Title 57. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 28, 2025 |
| HB 1316 | Driver Licenses - As enacted, prohibits the use of digital driver licenses and digital photo identification licenses for voter identification purposes; regulates the use, retention, and disclosure of data submitted by persons participating in the digital driver license system, including biometric identifiers; prohibits geolocation data from being collected for purposes of the digital driver license system; revises other provisions related to driver licenses. - Amends TCA Section 2-7-112 and Title 55, Chapter 50. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 28, 2025 |
| HB 1303 | Agriculture, Dept. of - As enacted, establishes June 30 as the expiration date for certain licenses issued by the department. - Amends TCA Title 43, Chapter 1, Part 1; Section 43-10-118; Section 43-11-405; Section 43-8-104; Section 44-10-203; Section 44-11-105; Section 44-6-104; Section 47-26-1010; Section 53-1-204; Section 53-3-105; Section 53-3-106; Section 53-7-216 and Section 53-8-106. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 28, 2025 |
| HB 126 | Parks, Natural Areas Preservation - As enacted, revises the descriptions of existing state natural areas and designates new natural areas. - Amends TCA Title 11, Chapter 14, Part 1. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 28, 2025 |
| HB 123 | Mining and Quarrying - As enacted, revises certain requirements to file liens for the reclamation of abandoned coal mining lands. - Amends TCA Title 59, Chapter 8, Part 3. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 28, 2025 |
| HR 110 | Lottery, Charitable - As enacted, authorizes qualified organizations to hold one annual charitable fundraising event during the period from July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026. - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 16, 2025 |
| HJR 198 | General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Annie Dockery, Standards Recommendation Committee for English Language Arts - | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 16, 2025 |
| HJR 195 | General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Lynn Richardson, Ethics Commission - | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 16, 2025 |
| HJR 190 | General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Rick Spell, University of Tennessee Health Science Center Advisory Board - | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 16, 2025 |
| HJR 166 | General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Todd Womack, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Advisory Board - | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 16, 2025 |
| HB 1324 | Education, Higher - As introduced, terminates the governing board of directors for the Tennessee student assistance corporation (TSAC); requires the Tennessee higher education commission to be the governing board for TSAC; changes the name of the "Wilder-Naifeh technical skills grant" to "TennesseeWORKS scholarship." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 49, Chapter 4 and Title 49, Chapter 7. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 9, 2025 |
| HR 74 | Memorials, Interns - Alie Tunks - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 8, 2025 |
| HB 1340 | Notary Public - As enacted, adds that a person must complete a course of instruction and pass an examination to qualify to be commissioned as an online notary public; clarifies that an application to be commissioned requires a certification that the applicant has reviewed, understands, and will comply with the applicable rules and requirements promulgated by the secretary of state; adds that a course of instruction for online notarization must include, at a minimum, notarial laws, technology procedures of online notarizations, and ethical requirements for online notaries. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 16, Part 3. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 8, 2025 |
| HB 1337 | Charitable Institutions - As enacted, establishes a five-day period after the effective date of this act during which a nonprofit organization may apply to operate a charitable gaming event during the annual period beginning July 1, 2025, until June 30, 2026. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 17. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 8, 2025 |
| HB 1320 | Transportation, Dept. of - As enacted, in the event of a transportation system failure or other emergency, grants the commissioner emergency contracting authority to enter into contracts for design-build, construction manager/general contractor (CM/GC), and progressive design-build (PDB) services for the delivery of transportation projects; exempts the department from having to identify such contracts exceeding $100 million in its transportation improvement program submitted annually to the general assembly in support of its annual funding recommendations, if they are issued under such emergency contracting authority; makes other revisions to the CM/GC and PDB process. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 12 and Title 54. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 8, 2025 |
| HB 1319 | Health Care - As enacted, extends the CoverKids program from June 30, 2025, to June 30, 2030. - Amends TCA Section 71-3-1113. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 8, 2025 |
| HB 1312 | State Employees - As enacted, expands bereavement leave for certain state officers and employees upon the death of certain relatives. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 50, Part 1. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 8, 2025 |
| HB 1311 | Boards and Commissions - As enacted, removes requirement that a license issued by a health related board be signed by members of the board prior to such issuance; authorizes the presiding officer to divide the board into panels to conduct contested case hearings or disciplinary matters; includes patient billing records as part of the medical and practice records that providers must make available for inspection upon the department's request; clarifies that identifying information of certain parties to a contested case hearing involving disciplinary charges filed against a provider must only be produced by the provider in response to a subpoena from a law enforcement agency. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 63 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 8, 2025 |
| HB 122 | Safety, Dept. of - As enacted, specifies that the Tennessee Advanced Communications Network is the division of the department of safety that operates, maintains, and oversees the statewide P25 interoperable communications system; authorizes the department to collect and use fees and assessments for the improvement of the system in addition to collection and use of such fees for the system's use and maintenance. - Amends TCA Section 4-3-2018. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 8, 2025 |
| HB 115 | Taxes, Franchise - As enacted, clarifies that the imposition of a criminal offense, penalty, or dismissal from employment does not apply to an officer or employee of the department of revenue or other employee or officer of the state who in good faith acts in accordance with present law requiring the department to publish on its website in June 2025 the names of certain taxpayers issued franchise tax refunds. - Amends TCA Section 67-1-1709. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 8, 2025 |
| HB 113 | Criminal Offenses - As enacted, makes permanent the exclusion of narcotic testing equipment used to determine whether a controlled substance contains a synthetic opioid, unless the narcotic testing equipment is possessed for purposes of the commission of a drug offense, from the definition of drug paraphernalia; removes the July 1, 2025, repeal date for that exclusion. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-402. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 8, 2025 |
| HB 110 | Financial Institutions, Dept. of - As enacted, authorizes the commissioner to determine the type, amounts, and other characteristics of deposit insurance required to be maintained by each state bank; describes criteria the commissioner must consider in making the determinations. - Amends TCA Title 45, Chapter 2. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 8, 2025 |
| HB 56 | County Government - As enacted, authorizes certain county legislative bodies, by a two-thirds vote, to remove any member of an appointed board or commission, if such removal is recommended by the appointing authority and the member of the board or commission is given at least five business days' notice of the meeting when the vote on removal will occur. - Amends TCA Title 5. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 4, 2025 |
| HB 321 | Computers and Electronic Processing - As enacted, requires each department, agency, office, commission, institution, or instrumentality of the executive branch to accept electronic transmissions; defines the meaning of electronic transmission as applicable to this state's code; removes the terms "fax" or "facsimile" in certain statutes and replaces the terms with electronic transmission. - Amends TCA Title 1; Title 2; Title 3; Title 4; Title 5; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 10; Title 11; Title 12; Title 13; Title 16; Title 20; Title 22; Title 24; Title 31; Title 33; Title 36; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 43; Title 44; Title 45; Title 47; Title 48; Title 49; Title 50; Title 53; Title 54; Title 55; Title 56; Title 61; Title 62; Title 63; Title 64; Title 65; Title 66; Title 67; Title 68; Title 69 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 4, 2025 |
| HB 297 | Real Property - As enacted, clarifies that property that is qualified as agricultural, forest land, or open space land, owned by two individuals, and held under the titles of tenancy by the entireties or of joint tenancy with right of survivorship, is deemed to have unchanged ownership upon the death of an owner if the property is retained by the other owner through a right of survivorship or upon the divorce of the owners if the property is retained by either owner through division and distribution of property in the divorce proceeding. - Amends TCA Title 11, Chapter 14, Part 2; Title 11, Chapter 15 and Title 67, Chapter 5. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 4, 2025 |
| HB 191 | Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates a Class B misdemeanor for knowingly activating and pointing a laser pointer or other device utilizing a laser beam at a person driving an automobile, boat, aircraft, or any other motor vehicle. - Amends TCA Title 39. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 4, 2025 |
| HB 1341 | Secretary of State - As enacted, establishes a complaint process with the secretary of state for any person who contends that the person’s name or address was included on a document filed with the secretary of state without the person’s consent. - Amends TCA Title 48. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 4, 2025 |
| HB 128 | Workers Compensation - As enacted, increases, from 30 to 35, the minimum age for an individual to serve as a judge on the workers' compensation appeals board; increases, from two to three, the number of additional terms to which a judge of the workers' compensation appeals board may be reappointed; makes other changes related to workers' compensation. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 6, Part 2. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 4, 2025 |
| HB 121 | Railroads - As enacted, changes, from the governor to the commissioner of safety, the authority to whom a railroad company may apply to and who commissions an agent or employee as a railroad police officer. - Amends TCA Section 65-6-133. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 4, 2025 |
| HB 120 | Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates the offense of intentionally impeding or obstructing a member of the division of protective services from ingress to, egress from, or movement about a location where the member is responsible for a person protected by the division of protective services; creates the offense of intentionally refusing to vacate an area where access has been restricted by a member of the division of protective services for the purpose of maintaining the safety or security of the person being protected. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 39. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 4, 2025 |
| HB 119 | Financial Responsibility Law - As enacted, requires the commissioner of revenue, instead of the commissioner of safety, to issue a certificate stating that a cash deposit or bond in the amount required by the Tennessee Financial Responsibility Law of 1977 has been paid or filed with the commissioner of revenue. - Amends TCA Section 55-12-139. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 4, 2025 |
| HB 108 | State Employees - As enacted, requires the pay period for state employees be no less than twice per month as determined by the commissioner of finance and administration; removes the requirement that the pay period be semimonthly. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 23, Part 2. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 4, 2025 |
| HB 107 | Welfare - As enacted, removes the requirement that a parent or caretaker enter a personal responsibility plan that requires a child to attend school and receive immunizations and health checks; removes certain requirements for a parent or caretaker regarding personal responsibility plans; removes a 20 percent reduction in temporary assistance payments for failure to comply with certain personal responsibility plan requirements. - Amends TCA Title 71. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 4, 2025 |
| HB 106 | Human Services, Dept. of - As enacted, makes various changes to the licensing exemption categories for programs and activities that fall within the definition of a child care agency; makes related changes, such as exempting home schools from licensure. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 71, Chapter 3, Part 5. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 4, 2025 |
| HB 105 | Children - As enacted, removes the requirement that grants under the child care improvement pilot program be provided explicitly to nonprofit organizations in order to establish or make improvements to a child care agency. - Amends TCA Title 71. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 4, 2025 |
| HB 102 | Adoption - As enacted, changes from 21 to 18 the age at which certain adoption records must be made available to certain adopted persons; makes various other changes regarding adoption records. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 1, Part 1. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 4, 2025 |
| HR 73 | Lottery, Charitable - As enacted, authorizes qualified organizations to hold one annual charitable fundraising event during the period from July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026. - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 1, 2025 |
| HJR 186 | General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - DeWitt Booth, University of Tennessee Southern Advisory Board - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 1, 2025 |
| HB 104 | Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities - As enacted, revises record retention requirements for records regarding services and supports received by persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities by the department of disability and aging's contracted providers and departmental facilities and clinics, updates outdated cross-references. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 12; Title 33; Title 34; Title 36; Title 39; Title 49; Title 52; Title 68; Title 71 and Chapter 688 of the Public Acts of 2024. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 31, 2025 |
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