Tennessee · Current officeholder
Becky Massey
Republican Tennessee Senate, District 6
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Sponsored legislation
184 bills in the current data (184 as primary sponsor), sorted by most recent official action. Linked by Open States person ID.
| Bill | Title | Role | Stage | Last action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SB 2613 | Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As enacted, revises the "Convention Center Authorities Act of 2009" as the "Convention Center and Agricultural Exposition Authorities Act." - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 89. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 27, 2026 |
| SB 1926 | Dentists and Dentistry - As enacted, requires a dental hygienist to be working under the direct supervision of a dentist seeing a new patient before completing diagnostic radiographs; assessing and recording existing hard and soft tissue data; performing prophylaxis; and applying fluoride agents. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 63, Chapter 5. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 27, 2026 |
| SB 1773 | Children - As enacted, revises various provisions governing surrendering custody of unwanted infants. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 1, Part 1 and Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 2. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 27, 2026 |
| SB 1692 | Licenses - As enacted, enacts the "Military Families Licensing Recognition Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 58; Title 62; Title 63 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 27, 2026 |
| SB 1493 | Computers and Electronic Processing - As enacted, requires TACIR to study artificial intelligence and submit a report to the governor and both speakers by January 31, 2027. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 33; Title 39 and Title 47. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 27, 2026 |
| SB 1921 | Human Resources, Department of - As enacted, requires the department to annually publish on the department's website a report on the temporary assistance for needy families program's and the child care and development fund's balances and expenditures. - Amends TCA Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 26, 2026 |
| SB 2361 | Education - As enacted, requires TACIR, with the assistance of relevant state agencies, to conduct a comprehensive study on public school administered early childhood education programs in this state. - Amends TCA Title 9 and Title 49. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 18, 2026 |
| SB 1726 | Domestic Violence - As enacted, makes various changes to the present law pertaining to the persistent domestic violence offender registry. - Amends TCA Title 18; Section 38-6-103; Title 39 and Title 40. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 18, 2026 |
| SB 1492 | Criminal Offenses - As enacted, directs the Tennessee advisory commission on intergovernmental relations to study the status of the crime stoppers programs across the state and make recommendations to enhance such programs. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 18, 2026 |
| SB 326 | Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As enacted, grants the bureau discretion to investigate reports of suspected elder financial exploitation. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 38; Title 39; Title 45; Title 68 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 14, 2026 |
| SJR 992 | Memorials, Recognition - Do Something Tennessee Day, May 1, 2026 - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 11, 2026 |
| SJR 1182 | Memorials, Public Service - Glenn Jacobs, Mayor of Knox County - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 11, 2026 |
| SJR 1133 | Memorials, Sports - Webb School of Knoxville, TSSAA Division II-AA girls' basketball state champion - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 11, 2026 |
| SJR 1030 | Memorials, Recognition - Arab American Heritage Month - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 11, 2026 |
| SB 2363 | Consumer Protection - As enacted, requires a third-party booking site that includes information about ancillary hotel services available at a hotel to disclose that there are additional fees required to access the services and which services require payment of additional fees by the consumer if access to the services requires payment of such fees; establishes violations of the requirement as violations of the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act of 1977; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 4, 2026 |
| SB 1478 | Highways, Roads and Bridges - As enacted, makes various revisions to law relative to the naming of certain roads and bridges. - Amends TCA Title 54. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 4, 2026 |
| SB 1477 | Special License Plates - As enacted, makes various revisions to law relative to license plates, including, but not limited to, creating new specialty earmarked license plates and cultural license plates, granting extensions to certain license plates, and making other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 4, 2026 |
| SJR 48 | General Assembly, Review Or Ratification of Rules - Ratifies the increase of the 911 surcharge rate to $1.86 as approved by the Tennessee Emergency Communications Board. - | Primary sponsor | Vetoed | May 1, 2026 |
| SJR 1103 | Memorials, Retirement - Dean Victoria Niederhauser, University of Tennessee College of Nursing - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 1, 2026 |
| SJR 1097 | Memorials, Retirement - Chief John Linsenbigler - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 1, 2026 |
| SR 448 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Calvin Richardson, Valedictorian, South-Doyle High School - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 30, 2026 |
| SR 447 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Isaiah Mitchell, Salutatorian, South-Doyle High School - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 30, 2026 |
| SR 446 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Avery York, Salutatorian, South-Doyle High School - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 30, 2026 |
| SR 445 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Jacob Donaldson, Salutatorian, Gibbs High School - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 30, 2026 |
| SR 444 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Mikel Van Pelt, Valedictorian, Gibbs High School - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 30, 2026 |
| SR 443 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Maggie Messer, Salutatorian, Carter High School - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 30, 2026 |
| SR 442 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Diana Escobar-Salgado, Valedictorian, Carter High School - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 30, 2026 |
| SR 441 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Seth Sparks, Salutatorian, Austin-East High School - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 30, 2026 |
| SR 440 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Lily Seaton, Valedictorian, Austin-East High School - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 30, 2026 |
| SR 439 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Ian Steiger, Salutatorian, West High School - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 30, 2026 |
| SR 438 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Henry Casey, Salutatorian, West High School - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 30, 2026 |
| SR 437 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Kaia Harbick, Valedictorian, West High School - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 30, 2026 |
| SR 401 | Memorials, Recognition - Fraud Prevention Month - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 30, 2026 |
| SB 2362 | Children's Services, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department and the department of disability and aging to collaborate to ensure that children with an intellectual or developmental disability who are in the custody of the department of children's services or at risk of entering the custody of the department receive appropriate services and supports for individuals with a disability; makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 9; Title 33; Title 37 and Title 52. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 29, 2026 |
| SB 2355 | Courts, Juvenile - As enacted, generally requires a guardian ad litem appointed by the court to complete training appropriate to that role, including training in early childhood, child, and adolescent development. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 20; Title 33; Title 34; Title 36 and Title 37. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 29, 2026 |
| SJR 1205 | Memorials, Public Service - Sheriff Tom Spangler - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 28, 2026 |
| SB 609 | Child Custody and Support - As enacted, requires a court to consider the extent to which a parenting schedule provides each parent a meaningful opportunity to participate in the child's life, consistent with the child's best interest, in addition to the other relevant factors, when making a child custody determination. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 24, 2026 |
| SB 1848 | Controlled Substances - As enacted, authorizes additional healthcare providers to directly administer buprenorphine mono or buprenorphine without the use of naloxone; adds that prescribing a buprenorphine product to nursing mother or prescribing an injectable mono product does not restrict certain healthcare providers from prescribing a buprenorphine product for the treatment of opioid use disorder without naloxone. - Amends TCA Title 53, Chapter 11. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 24, 2026 |
| SR 423 | Memorials, Recognition - Arab American Heritage Month - | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 23, 2026 |
| SR 422 | Memorials, Recognition - Do Something Tennessee Day, May 1, 2026 - | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 23, 2026 |
| SB 898 | Women - As introduced, creates a pilot program to be administered by the bureau of TennCare to provide pregnant TennCare recipients improved maternal health care through remote patient monitoring for maternal hypertension and maternal diabetes. - Amends TCA Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 20, 2026 |
| SB 706 | TennCare - As introduced, enacts the "TennCare Network Reporting Reform Act." - Amends TCA Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 20, 2026 |
| SB 612 | Education - As introduced, creates a special fund to provide grants to local education agencies and public charter schools for the acquisition, retention, or expansion of digital career and technical education curricula through platforms containing comprehensive courses with lesson plans, media rich content and activities, and interactive assessments. - Amends TCA Title 9 and Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 20, 2026 |
| SR 424 | Memorials, Recognition - 250th Celebration of the Revolutionary War Veterans buried in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and surrounding areas - | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 17, 2026 |
| SJR 1132 | Memorials, Recognition - 250th Celebration of the Revolutionary War Veterans buried in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and surrounding areas - | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 17, 2026 |
| SJR 998 | Memorials, Recognition - Jan McNally - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 16, 2026 |
| SJR 996 | Memorials, Recognition - 250th Celebration of the Revolutionary War Veterans buried in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and surrounding areas - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 16, 2026 |
| SJR 968 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Jeremy Mitchell, 2026 president of Tennessee Road Builders Association - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 16, 2026 |
| SJR 966 | Memorials, Recognition - CASA of East Tennessee, 40th anniversary - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 16, 2026 |
| SJR 965 | Memorials, Sports - West Valley Middle School Lady Wolves basketball team, Class AAA State Championship - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 16, 2026 |
| SJR 964 | Memorials, Recognition - Pope's Garden Center, 50th anniversary - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 16, 2026 |
| SJR 657 | General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Approves, in accordance with statutory requirements and subject to the oversight and approval of the department of transportation, the Nolensville Pike, Gallatin Pike, and Downtown corridor projects as included in Davidson County’s Choose How You Move transportation improvement program, adopted by voters on November 5, 2024. - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 16, 2026 |
| SB 2358 | Podiatrists - As enacted, changes the scope of practice of a podiatrist from a person who examines, diagnoses, or treats, in addition to the ailments of the human foot and ankle, the soft tissue of the lower leg distal to the tibial tuberosity, instead of the soft tissue structures extending no higher than the distal tibial metaphyseal flair. - Amends TCA Title 63. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 13, 2026 |
| SJR 939 | Memorials, Recognition - Home Builders Association of Greater Knoxville, 75th anniversary - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 8, 2026 |
| SJR 877 | Memorials, Recognition - Women Veterans Appreciation Day - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 8, 2026 |
| SB 172 | Education, Higher - As introduced, establishes the hunger-free campus grant program; provides grants to higher education institutions to address student hunger. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 8, 2026 |
| SB 2360 | Motor Vehicles - As enacted, authorizes enforcement of a garagekeeper's lien on a motor vehicle that was stored for the purpose of repairs without express written authorization from the owner for such storage if the garagekeeper makes a good faith attempt to acquire consent prior to repairs and provides notice to the owner by certified mail. - Amends TCA Title 47; Title 55, Chapter 31 and Title 66, Chapter 19. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 6, 2026 |
| SB 175 | State Inmates - As enacted, requires by July 1, 2027, and each July 1 thereafter, the commissioner of correction to deliver to the chairs of legislative committees with jurisdiction over the department a report containing data with regard to individuals who may be certified eligible for parole for being chronically debilitated or incapacitated. - Amends TCA Title 40 and Title 41. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 6, 2026 |
| SB 1624 | Election Laws - As enacted, requires political advertisements to include a disclaimer if the advertisements include deepfake elements impersonating or depicting a candidate engaging in activity or speech in which the impersonated or depicted candidate did not in fact engage; makes a violation of such disclaimer requirement a Class C misdemeanor; entitles candidate to damages and equitable relief for violations. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 19. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 30, 2026 |
| SJR 997 | Memorials, Recognition - AARP Tennessee's Day on the Hill - | Primary sponsor | Introduced | March 25, 2026 |
| SJR 894 | Memorials, Recognition - Knoxville Community Media, 50th anniversary - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 25, 2026 |
| SJR 883 | Memorials, Death - Charles R. Harr - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 25, 2026 |
| SJR 882 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Carrie Brooks, 2026 Tennessee Arts Academy Teacher Hero - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 25, 2026 |
| SJR 880 | Memorials, Public Service - Black Dog Fitness (Zach Guza), John J. Duncan Sr. Award for Senior Advocacy - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 25, 2026 |
| SJR 879 | Memorials, Public Service - Don Lindsey, John J. Duncan Sr. Award for Senior Advocacy - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 25, 2026 |
| SJR 878 | Memorials, Public Service - Diana Fisher, John J. Duncan Sr. Award for Senior Advocacy - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 25, 2026 |
| SJR 859 | Memorials, Interns - Ocean Edwards - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 25, 2026 |
| SB 1675 | Taxes, Ad Valorem - As introduced, clarifies that a notification sent by email from the assessor to a taxpayer of a change in the classification or assessed valuation of the taxpayer's property is effective when electronically sent. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 25, 2026 |
| SB 1927 | Traffic Safety - As introduced, enacts the "Super Speeder Accountability Act," which requires intelligent speed assistance devices to be installed on motor vehicles operated by persons convicted of certain driving offenses where speed was a factor; creates a licensing system for device providers; requires compliance-based device removal; authorizes indigent users to apply for assistance from the electronic monitoring indigency fund; makes other revisions. - Amends TCA Title 55. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 19, 2026 |
| SJR 811 | Memorials, Recognition - Duane Grieve - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 18, 2026 |
| SJR 810 | Memorials, Death - James "Jim" Moore Hart - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 18, 2026 |
| SB 942 | Boards and Commissions - As introduced, creates the Tennessee board of sign language interpreting. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 63; Title 68, Chapter 1, Part 1 and Title 71, Chapter 4, Part 21. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 18, 2026 |
| SR 346 | Memorials, Death - Martha Carolyn Swanson Sundquist - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 17, 2026 |
| SJR 809 | Memorials, Recognition - AARP Tennessee Day on the Hill, March 16-17, 2026 - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 17, 2026 |
| SB 2357 | Boards and Commissions - As introduced, creates the Tennessee council for research of deaf, deaf-blind, and hard of hearing children. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29; Title 49; Title 68 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 17, 2026 |
| SB 1625 | Traffic Safety - As enacted, clarifies the areas in which a personal delivery device may be operated and where such devices are prohibited; authorizes local resolutions or ordinances to both regulate and prohibit such devices but only in compliance with state law. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 8. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 16, 2026 |
| SJR 876 | Memorials, Recognition - 250th Celebration of the Revolutionary War Veterans buried in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and surrounding areas - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 12, 2026 |
| SJR 884 | Memorials, Sports - Halls High School Unified Cheerleading Team, 2025 TSSAA Unified Cheerleading Varsity Game Day State Champions - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 6, 2026 |
| SJR 698 | Memorials, Death - Charles Maxwell "Charlie" Severance - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 6, 2026 |
| SJR 697 | Memorials, Sports - University of Tennessee men's rugby team, national champions - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 6, 2026 |
| SJR 669 | Memorials, Death - Thomas Dexter Justis - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 6, 2026 |
| SJR 656 | Memorials, Death - Dr. Yoo Keun "Tom" Kim - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 6, 2026 |
| SJR 655 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Wade Davies, 2025-2026 President of Tennessee Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 6, 2026 |
| SJR 570 | Memorials, Recognition - Silver Alert Program, fifth anniversary - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 6, 2026 |
| SR 296 | Memorials, Death - Diane Jordan - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | February 19, 2026 |
| SJR 609 | Memorials, Public Service - Butch Eley - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 12, 2026 |
| SJR 608 | Memorials, Sports - Halls High School Unified Cheerleading Team, 2025 TSSAA Unified Cheerleading Varsity Game Day State Champions - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 12, 2026 |
| SJR 607 | Memorials, Retirement - Steve Borden - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 12, 2026 |
| SJR 606 | Memorials, Death - Henry "Hank" Frederick Bertelkamp, Jr. - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 12, 2026 |
| SJR 605 | Memorials, Recognition - Women's History Month - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 12, 2026 |
| SJR 604 | Memorials, Death - Thomas Hayes "Tommy" Schumpert - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 12, 2026 |
| SJR 571 | General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Urges TDOT to consider plight of monarch butterflies and provide habitat and no-mow areas on highway rights-of-ways. - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | February 12, 2026 |
| SB 2356 | Health Care - As introduced, directs the commissioner of health to conduct a study of legislative developments occurring in neighboring states within the last five years concerning patient access to and patient safety in the use of assisted reproductive technology; requires the commissioner to publish and transmit to the general assembly the commissioner's findings and recommendations no later than December 31, 2026. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 29; Title 36; Title 63 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2026 |
| SJR 569 | Memorials, Recognition - George Washington's birthday - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 3, 2026 |
| SB 1727 | TennCare - As introduced, deletes an obsolete provision that required the comptroller of the treasury, in conjunction with any appropriate TennCare drug utilization review committees, to study the use of prescription drugs in nursing homes and the costs of those prescription drugs for residents of nursing homes; to examine prescription use overall; to focus on any practices that would improve the quality of resident care while reducing costs to the TennCare program; and to report by January 1, 2005, to the speaker of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 56 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 22, 2026 |
| SB 1674 | Children - As introduced, revises various provisions governing surrendering custody of unwanted infants, including adding an ambulance station that has staff scheduled 24 hours a day to the list of facilities that must receive possession of a newborn infant left on the premises with an employee or member of the professional medical community if certain listed conditions are met. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 1, Part 1 and Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 2. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | January 20, 2026 |
| SB 1623 | Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As introduced, requires the validation or revalidation tab, sticker, or other device issued for a calendar year that is affixed to a registration plate must be a different color scheme than the color scheme of the validation or revalidation tab, sticker, or device issued for the previous calendar year. - Amends TCA Section 5-8-102 and Title 55, Chapter 4. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 15, 2026 |
| SB 1491 | Health Care - As introduced, changes from March 1 to February 1, the date by which a managed care organization that participates in the TennCare program must submit its annual report to the bureau of TennCare. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5, Part 1. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 14, 2026 |
| SJR 83 | Memorials, Recognition - George Washington Day in Tennessee, February 22, 2025 - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | January 13, 2026 |
| SB 944 | Criminal Offenses - As enacted, requires the department of mental health and substance abuse services to establish a mental health evaluation process for a community mental health center or qualified mental health professional to evaluate a defendant convicted of domestic assault, child abuse, aggravated child abuse, cruelty to animals, aggravated cruelty to animals; requires a court in which a person is convicted of any such offense to order the offender to undergo a mental health evaluation prior to the sentencing hearing. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 39 and Title 40. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 27, 2025 |
| SB 450 | Public Funds and Financing - As enacted, enacts the "Savannah Grace Copeland Act." - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 12; Title 37; Title 39 and Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 27, 2025 |
| SB 324 | Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As enacted, enacts "Savanna's Law," which creates a registry of persistent domestic violence offenders; requires the bureau to maintain the registry. - Amends TCA Title 18; Section 38-6-103; Title 39 and Title 40. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 27, 2025 |
| SB 203 | Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As enacted, creates new specialty earmarked license plates; extends certain specialty earmarked license plates; authorizes the funds generated from the issuance of the Historic Franklin new specialty earmarked license plate to also be used to provide financial support for the Chester Inn State Historic Site; authorizes the issuance of motorcycle plates for paratroopers. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 27, 2025 |
| SB 899 | Education - As enacted, changes the standard for entry-resistant window treatment for school buildings constructed or remodeled on or after July 1, 2025; requires the state-level school safety team to issue guidelines to the state fire marshal for inclusion in rules. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 8. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 15, 2025 |
| SB 703 | Highways, Roads and Bridges - As enacted, requires TACIR to study sustainable funding sources that meet this state's future transportation infrastructure needs and submit its recommendations. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 54 and Title 55. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 15, 2025 |
| SB 322 | Salaries and Benefits - As enacted, grants eligible employees leave of up to six workweeks because the employee is caring for a family member with a serious health condition. - Amends TCA Section 8-50-813. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 15, 2025 |
| SB 448 | Criminal Offenses - As enacted, removes a definition of "content harmful to minors" from the Protect Tennessee Minors Act. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 13, 2025 |
| SB 202 | Highways, Roads and Bridges - As enacted, makes revisions regarding the naming of certain roads and bridges. - Amends TCA Title 54. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 13, 2025 |
| SB 452 | Treasurer, State - As enacted, removes the restriction that earnings in an achieving a better life experience account may only be expended for a student's education expenses; redefines "disability certification" and "eligible individual" to have the same meaning as in the Internal Revenue Code and all rules and regulations released by the United States treasury. - Amends TCA Section 71-4-803 and Section 71-4-806. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 8, 2025 |
| SJR 424 | Memorials, Recognition - The Knoxville Barristers, John J. Duncan Sr. Award for Senior Advocacy - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 2, 2025 |
| SJR 410 | Memorials, Death - Beverly Anne Farrell - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 2, 2025 |
| SJR 409 | Memorials, Recognition - South Knox Elementary School, 2024 National ESEA Distinguished School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 2, 2025 |
| SJR 408 | Memorials, Retirement - Lt. Col. Dean Keck, US Marine Corps (ret.) - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 2, 2025 |
| SB 319 | Education, Curriculum - As enacted, adds instruction for public high school students on this state's safe haven law to the required components of a family life curriculum. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 2, 2025 |
| SJR 439 | Memorials, Retirement - Joseph "Joe" Galbato III - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 1, 2025 |
| SJR 427 | Memorials, Recognition - Tennessee Department of Transportation, 2024 Southeast Roadeo champion - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 1, 2025 |
| SJR 426 | Memorials, Recognition - Susan Long, John J. Duncan Sr. Award for Senior Advocacy - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 1, 2025 |
| SJR 425 | Memorials, Public Service - Greg O'Connor, John J. Duncan Sr. Award for Senior Advocacy - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 1, 2025 |
| SB 943 | Civil Procedure - As enacted, requires, in a child custody order, the court to include written findings of fact as to whether the limitations in present law relative to restrictions in temporary or permanent parenting plans apply; makes other changes relative to child court proceedings; clarifies, for purposes of domestic abuse law, that "abuse" includes acts inflicted directly by the offending party or indirectly through a third party, including, but not limited to, a family member, friend, significant other, or coworker, on behalf of the offending party. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 29, 2025 |
| SB 449 | Health Care - As enacted, enacts the "Fertility Treatment and Contraceptive Protection Act." - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 29, 2025 |
| SB 206 | Game and Fish Laws - As enacted, authorizes persons to wear daylight fluorescent pink as a substitute for daylight fluorescent orange when hunting big game during gun hunts; deletes statutory definition of daylight fluorescent orange. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 70. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 29, 2025 |
| SB 705 | Education - As enacted, requires that certain employees of state special schools receive the same leave and certain other benefits as employees of LEAs and public charter schools. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 50 and Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 28, 2025 |
| SB 1434 | Knox County - Subject to local approval, repeals the Tennessee Technology Development Authority Act. - Amends Chapter 148 of the Private Acts of 1983; as amended. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 28, 2025 |
| SR 68 | Memorials, Recognition - Women Veterans Appreciation Day - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 25, 2025 |
| SJR 45 | Naming and Designating - Tennessee Athletic Trainers Month, March - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 16, 2025 |
| SJR 351 | Memorials, Recognition - Bob Kesling, 2025 Big Brothers Big Sisters of East Tennessee Hall of Fame inductee - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 16, 2025 |
| SJR 238 | Memorials, Death - Edward Bruce Foster, Jr. - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 10, 2025 |
| SJR 237 | Memorials, Sports - Knoxville Webb Spartans, Division II-AA state champions - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 10, 2025 |
| SJR 236 | Memorials, Sports - Knoxville Webb Lady Spartans, Division II-AA state basketball champions - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 10, 2025 |
| SB 805 | Education, Dept. of - As introduced, changes the date, from October 15 to October 1, by which the department must notify local education agencies (LEAs) of all state and federal grants available to assist the LEA in expanding mental health services and resources in schools. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 9, 2025 |
| SB 707 | Tobacco, Tobacco Products - As enacted, specifies that a prospective purchaser of tobacco, smoking hemp, vapor products, or smokeless nicotine products must produce proof of age prior to the sale being made; increases from 30 to 50 years the apparent age above which a seller is not required to demand presentation of proof of age. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17 and Title 43, Chapter 27. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 8, 2025 |
| SB 704 | Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates the Class B misdemeanor offenses of criminal impersonation of a transportation network company driver and criminal impersonation of a private passenger-for-hire vehicle driver. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51; Title 39 and Title 65, Chapter 15. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 8, 2025 |
| SB 320 | Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, lowers the county population threshold, from in excess of 500,000 to in excess of 350,000, for a sports authority facility to be eligible to obtain a liquor-by-the-drink license; prohibits a facility located in Hamilton County from being issued a license after March 1, 2030, and requires the law enforcement agency that has jurisdiction over a facility located in Hamilton County to provide an annual report to the general assembly detailing any public safety issues related to the facility. - Amends TCA Section 57-4-102. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 8, 2025 |
| SB 174 | Medical Occupations - As enacted, requires the board of medical examiners to register an applicant as a registered surgical assistant if the applicant maintains current credentials as a surgical assistant issued by the American Board of Surgical Assistants and satisfies other necessary requirements; removes December 31, 2019, as the deadline by which an applicant for registration as a surgical assistant must register with the board in order to be registered on the basis of certain practical experience. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 6. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 8, 2025 |
| SB 1244 | Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, requires, if the respondent on an order of protection dispossesses firearms by transferring possession to a third party who is not prohibited from possessing firearms, the respondent to specify the third party and the physical address where all firearms are located on the affidavit of firearms dispossession form; requires the third party to sign the affidavit of firearms dispossession form to acknowledge receipt of the firearms. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 8, 2025 |
| SR 53 | Naming and Designating - Designates May 2025 as "Osteoporosis Awareness and Prevention Month." - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 4, 2025 |
| SR 52 | Memorials, Recognition - National Arab American Heritage Month - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 4, 2025 |
| SR 51 | Memorials, Recognition - George Washington Day in Tennessee, February 22, 2025 - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 4, 2025 |
| SR 50 | Naming and Designating - Athletic Training Month, March 2025 - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 4, 2025 |
| SB 323 | Tennessee Fish & Wildlife Commission - As enacted, authorizes the commission to name real property, infrastructure, improvements to infrastructure, or features under the agency’s jurisdiction. - Amends TCA Section 3-2-112; Section 4-1-412 and Title 70, Chapter 1, Part 2. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 4, 2025 |
| SB 321 | Health Care - As enacted, creates the advisory task force on state reimbursement rates to make recommendations on annual adjustments to the reimbursement rates paid to agencies that perform healthcare functions and services, the purpose of which is to ensure such reimbursement rates are adequate. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 62 and Title 63. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 4, 2025 |
| SJR 263 | Memorials, Recognition - Bacon & Company, Inc., 100th anniversary - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 2, 2025 |
| SJR 224 | Memorials, Interns - Bayleigh J. Griffith - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 31, 2025 |
| SJR 182 | Memorials, Recognition - Arab American Heritage Month - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 31, 2025 |
| SR 67 | Memorials, Recognition - U.S. Army, 250th anniversary - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 27, 2025 |
| SR 66 | Memorials, Recognition - Honor Our Great Smoky Mountain Veterans Day - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 27, 2025 |
| SB 709 | Education - As introduced, deletes a pilot program, which was established to improve parent-teacher engagement in any grade from kindergarten through grade two in public schools, that expired in 2021. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 26, 2025 |
| SJR 214 | Memorials, Retirement - Jeff Lyash - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 25, 2025 |
| SB 804 | Treasurer, State - As introduced, creates within the state treasury a fund known as the crime stoppers trust fund to be used for the purpose of grant administration to fund crime stoppers programs within the state; requires an additional fine of $10 to be imposed on offenders convicted of a felony or misdemeanor offense to be deposited in the crime stoppers trust fund. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 67. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 25, 2025 |
| SB 327 | Taxes, Ad Valorem - As introduced, revises the definition of "residential property" for purposes of classification and assessment of property taxes to include property that can be sold and purchased as a single unit fee simple title, regardless of whether it is vacant, owner-occupied, rented, or detached or attached. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 25, 2025 |
| SB 171 | Tattoos and Piercings - As enacted, enacts "The Ink of Hope Act"; requires tattoo operators and tattoo artists to complete up to one hour of training on recognizing and reporting signs of human trafficking. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 38. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 21, 2025 |
| SJR 215 | Memorials, Recognition - Osteoporosis Awareness and Prevention Month, May 2025 - | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 19, 2025 |
| SB 803 | Scholarships and Financial Aid - As introduced, adds an institution accredited by the National Accrediting Commission of Career Arts and Sciences (NACCAS) that has its primary campus domiciled in this state as an eligible postsecondary institution in which a student may be enrolled for purposes of receiving a Tennessee Promise scholarship; conditions the availability of the scholarship at such an institution on there being no available enrollment slots in a Tennessee college of applied technology in the student's county of residence for the student's desired program of study. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 19, 2025 |
| SB 200 | Motor Vehicles - As introduced, authorizes the department of safety to publish biannually, instead of annually, statistical information regarding the number, cause, and location of highway accidents based on its analysis of accident reports that it receives. - Amends TCA Title 54; Title 55; Title 65 and Title 67. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 19, 2025 |
| SB 325 | Health Care - As introduced, requires the Tennessee council on autism spectrum disorder to submit an annual report by February 1 of each year to legislative committees that details, at a minimum, the council's findings, progress on the comprehensive statewide plan and system of care, and recommendations for legislation. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 56 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 18, 2025 |
| SB 1243 | Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, requires an insurance company that is admitted to do business in this state and insures the tangible personal property of a policyholder who resides in this state to provide a discount to the policyholder through the policyholder's homeowners or renters insurance policy if the policyholder secures the policyholder's firearms in a firearm safe or uses a firearm safety device for the firearms and requests to receive the annual discount. - Amends TCA Title 56. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 18, 2025 |
| SJR 157 | Memorials, Recognition - Remote Area Medical, 40th anniversary - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 12, 2025 |
| SJR 156 | Memorials, Retirement - Johnnie Sharp, Jr. - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 12, 2025 |
| SJR 155 | Memorials, Retirement - Bob Kesling - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 12, 2025 |
| SB 451 | Sexual Offenders - As introduced, requires sexual and violent sexual offenders to disclose the name, address, and phone number of any church, temple, or other religious group or organization in this state where the offender is a registered member; specifies that this information is considered public information; requires the TBI to provide all public information about an offender to any church, temple, or other religious group or organization in this state where the offender is a registered member when an offender registers as a sexual or violent sexual offender or updates a registration. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 39, Part 2. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 11, 2025 |
| SJR 64 | Memorials, Recognition - Area Agencies on Aging in Tennessee - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 4, 2025 |
| SJR 57 | Memorials, Death - Jack E. Williams - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 4, 2025 |
| SJR 50 | Memorials, Recognition - Dolly Parton's Imagination Library, 30th anniversary - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 4, 2025 |
| SJR 46 | Memorials, Recognition - Sally Sparks, 2024 REALTOR of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 4, 2025 |
| SJR 44 | Memorials, Recognition - 1175th Transportation Company, Tennessee Army National Guard - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 4, 2025 |
| SJR 43 | Memorials, Recognition - Hurricane Helene recovery efforts - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 4, 2025 |
| SB 802 | Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, establishes the promising futures early learning scholarship program and a fund to provide scholarships for high-quality early learning programs from excess lottery revenues. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 51; Title 37, Chapter 5, Part 5; Title 49 and Title 71, Chapter 3. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 26, 2025 |
| SB 801 | Dentists and Dentistry - As introduced, clarifies that the board of dentistry must submit the board's annual report on or before January 1 of each year; adds the legislative librarian as a recipient of the report. - Amends TCA Title 63. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| SB 781 | Motor Vehicles - As introduced, increases, to the extent permissible under federal law, the maximum gross vehicle weight of a vehicle with an axle group of three axles that can be operated on the public highways of this state to 85,000 pounds. - Amends TCA Title 55. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| SB 611 | Education - As introduced, designates October as "Fentanyl Poisoning Awareness Month" in all public schools; requires local education agencies and public charter schools to provide age-appropriate, research-based instruction related to fentanyl abuse prevention and drug poisoning awareness to students in grades six through 12. - Amends TCA Title 15 and Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| SB 610 | TennCare - As introduced, requires TennCare to provide eligible covered enrollees with continuous glucose monitoring; establishes criteria for eligibility. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| SB 446 | Highways, Roads and Bridges - As introduced, requires TACIR to study overall road safety and submit its recommendations to the chair of the committee in the house of representatives with jurisdiction over transportation matters, the chair of the transportation and safety committee of the senate, and the legislative librarian on or before January 15, 2026. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 54 and Title 55. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| SB 310 | Motor Vehicles - As introduced, excludes automated driving system (ADS)-operated vehicles used to transport property for hire in interstate commerce or to transport passengers for hire from the exemption allowing ADS-operated vehicles to be operated without a human driver physically present. - Amends TCA Title 55 and Title 65. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| SJR 30 | Memorials, Death - Sara "Lillian" Garrett Bean - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 10, 2025 |
| SJR 24 | Memorials, Recognition - Tennessee Federation of Republican Women, 70th anniversary - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 10, 2025 |
| SJR 23 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Kayla Brooks, Tennessee Charter School Center, Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 10, 2025 |
| SB 205 | TennCare - As introduced, requires a TennCare health benefit plan renewed or issued on or after July 1, 2025, by a health insurance carrier to provide coverage and reimbursement for biomarker testing for preeclampsia in pregnant women. - Amends TCA Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 10, 2025 |
| SB 201 | Highways, Roads and Bridges - As introduced, changes from January 1 to January 15 the date by which the department of transportation must submit its annual report on the status of projects funded by the transportation modernization fund. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 54; Title 55; Title 65 and Title 67. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 10, 2025 |
| SB 199 | Traffic Safety - As introduced, authorizes the commissioner of revenue to take reasonable measures to publicize the availability of the option to designate in the Vehicle Title and Registration System (VTRS) database a driver's need for assistance with expressive language or communicating needs due to an intellectual or developmental disability or medical condition; authorizes the department of safety to take such measures with respect to the voluntary designation on a driver license or identification of an intellectual or developmental disability or medical condition. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 54; Title 55; Title 65 and Title 67. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 10, 2025 |
| SB 708 | Driver Licenses - As introduced, requires the department of safety to report to the transportation and safety committee of the senate and the committee in the house of representatives having jurisdiction over driver license matters on the extent to which current fees imposed on applications for an original or renewal of a driver license are used to offset processing costs for driver license issuance and reinstatements, information technology upgrades, and any ongoing costs to maintain the driver license issuance system. - Amends TCA Title 55. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | February 5, 2025 |
| SB 613 | Expunction - As introduced, allows an eligible petitioner to have the records of a conviction for driving under the influence of an intoxicant expunged if the person has no other criminal convictions and 20 years have elapsed since the completion of the sentence imposed; requires the petitioner to pay an additional $50.00 fee to be used by the county for certain alcohol, drug, and mental health treatment purposes. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 32 and Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 4. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | February 4, 2025 |
| SJR 22 | Memorials, Recognition - Hurricane Helene recovery efforts - | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 28, 2025 |
| SB 173 | Mobile Homes and Manufactured Buildings - As introduced, requires the department of transportation to submit a brief written summary to the committee of the house of representatives with jurisdiction over transportation matters and the transportation and safety committee of the senate no later than March 15, 2026, and March 15 of each subsequent year, concerning placards issued to transporters of manufactured homes pursuant to this section, including data on unsafe and erratic driving reported to the department using the telephone number that appears on the placards. - Amends TCA Title 55; Title 62; Title 67 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 27, 2025 |
| SJR 8 | Memorials, Sports - University of Tennessee baseball team, 2024 NCAA Men's College World Series Champions - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | January 17, 2025 |
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