Tennessee · Current officeholder
Bo Watson
Republican Tennessee Senate, District 11
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Sponsored legislation
111 bills in the current data (111 as primary sponsor), sorted by most recent official action. Linked by Open States person ID.
| Bill | Title | Role | Stage | Last action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SB 2317 | Education - As enacted, requires the department of education to implement a pilot program to evaluate whether administering fewer district- and state-mandated assessments results in students achieving greater academic success; adds an additional method by which a student who is not proficient in ELA, as determined by the student's achieving a performance level rating of “approaching” on the ELA portion of the student's most recent TCAP test, may be promoted. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 27, 2026 |
| SB 2166 | Banks and Financial Institutions - As enacted, clarifies that the service of transmitting money from a location originating in this state to a location outside of the United States or its territories is a taxable service and that such a tax is generally levied on the amount of money transmitted; requires revenues generated from such a tax to be allocated to certain funds and purposes. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 38; Title 39; Title 45; Title 47; Title 49 and Title 67. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 27, 2026 |
| SB 2061 | Children - As enacted, establishes the children's digital protection fund within the state treasury. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 4, Part 2. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 27, 2026 |
| SB 2413 | Health Care - As enacted, specifies that a good faith disclosure of information related to an activity of a quality improvement committee (QIC) made by a healthcare provider or healthcare organization to a patient or a family member of a patient is not a waiver of the privilege and confidentiality protections provided under current law if made in an open discussion; makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 11. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 26, 2026 |
| SB 2351 | Education - As enacted, makes various changes and additions to present law concerning public education. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 49, Chapter 13; Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 3 and Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 3. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 26, 2026 |
| SB 2316 | Economic and Community Development - As enacted, vacates and reconstitutes the board of directors of the Tennessee Technology Development Corporation. - Amends TCA Title 4. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 26, 2026 |
| SB 2160 | 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 | In committee | May 26, 2026 |
| SB 2157 | Tourism - As enacted, requires the department of tourist development to promulgate rules designating tourism development zones in this state as economic protection zones; places certain limitations on a local government blocking streets or other rights-of-way in a tourism development zone; clarifies that the Tennessee highway patrol has concurrent law enforcement authority with local law enforcement agencies within a tourism development zone in this state. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 67. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 26, 2026 |
| SB 2081 | Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, expands the prohibition, from stage 4 advanced metastatic cancer or metastatic blood cancer to any cancer, against a health benefit plan that provides coverage for cancer requiring the use of a step therapy protocol before the health benefit plan provides coverage for an approved prescription drug to an enrollee who has received a diagnosis of cancer. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 26, 2026 |
| SB 2072 | Education - As enacted, enacts the "Better Spending, Better Schools Act of 2026." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 49 and Title 67. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 26, 2026 |
| SB 2062 | Human Services, Dept. of - As enacted, enacts the "Promising Futures Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 43; Title 49; Title 57; Title 67 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 26, 2026 |
| SB 2414 | Public Health - As enacted, provides that any certificate of public advantage in effect on June 30, 2028, automatically expires but any pricing restrictions in a certificate of advantage remain in effect until the fifth anniversary of the expiration date or the date that a new inpatient acute care hospital opens in the geographic service area, whichever is earlier; requires the attorney general to supervise any pricing restrictions still in effect, and the pricing restrictions may only be modified by the mutual written agreement of the attorney general and the entity subject to the restrictions; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 49; Title 53; Title 55 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 18, 2026 |
| SB 2159 | 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 | Enacted | May 18, 2026 |
| SB 2083 | Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As enacted, increases from three to five the maximum number of nonrelated persons in a home for the aged to be considered a tier 1 home for the aged; increases from four to six the maximum number of nonrelated persons in a home for the aged to be considered a tier 2 home for the aged. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 11. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 18, 2026 |
| SB 1369 | Health Care - As enacted, revises law relative to the operation of acute care hospitals. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 68; Title 71 and Chapter 985 of the Public Acts of 2024. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 18, 2026 |
| SB 211 | Taxes, Sales - As enacted, authorizes an entity designated to operate a stadium designed to host games of an intercollegiate football team that competes in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) to receive a special allocation of state and local sales tax revenue derived from the sale of admission to events occurring within the stadium and from all sales of food, drinks, merchandise, and parking sold on the premises of the stadium to fund capital and operation expenses for the stadium. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 14, 2026 |
| SJR 1234 | Memorials, Death - Deputy Landon Faulkner, Hamilton County Sheriff's Office - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 11, 2026 |
| SJR 1174 | Memorials, Recognition - Hoppy's North River Corner Market, Best Classic Burger - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 11, 2026 |
| SJR 1146 | Memorials, Death - Chad Allen Young - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 11, 2026 |
| SB 2076 | Optometry - As enacted, redefines the practice of optometry. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 8. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 5, 2026 |
| SB 1398 | Taxes, Real Property - As enacted, limits the authority of a special purpose corporation to negotiate and enter into PILOT agreements with the corporation's lessees, as delegated to it by a municipality, if certain written notice is not provided to certain chief executive officers of taxing jurisdictions; voids PILOT agreements entered into by the special purpose corporation if such notice is not provided. - Amends TCA Title 48 and Title 67. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 5, 2026 |
| SB 2348 | Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires the state board of education, in consultation with the department of education, to qualify an advanced degree in media and technology as an advanced degree that leads to a library information specialist endorsement; establishes certain staffing requirements for libraries in public schools that serve students in any combination of grades nine through 12 based on current student enrollment; requires a public school that serves any of the grades nine through 12 to employ a full-time library information specialist with an endorsement as a library information specialist if certain criteria are met. - Amends TCA Title 10 and Title 49. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 4, 2026 |
| SB 2158 | General Assembly - As enacted, revises and clarifies procedures of the joint committee on ways and means, including authorizing the committee to issue notice that a hearing will not be held or to hold a hearing to review the application or acceptance of federal aid in an amount that is less than $25 million. - Amends TCA Section 4-4-116 and Chapter 512 of the Public Acts of 2025. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 1, 2026 |
| SB 2079 | Education, Higher - As enacted, divides the appointing authority for the nine voting members of the Tennessee higher education commission among the governor, the speaker of the senate, and the speaker of the house of representatives equally; establishes various tuition and fee limitations and requirements for public institutions of higher education. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 14; Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, Chapter 8 and Title 49, Chapter 9. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 1, 2026 |
| SB 2070 | Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, enacts the "Stopping Health Insurers from Excluding Legal Decisions (SHIELD) Act." - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 1, 2026 |
| SB 2065 | Audiologists and Speech Pathologists - As enacted, removes requirement that persons seeking licensure as speech language pathologists be members of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 17. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 1, 2026 |
| SR 433 | Memorials, Interns - Lily Gale - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 30, 2026 |
| SB 2077 | Tennessee Investment in Student Achievement (TISA) - As enacted, makes various changes to the TISA review committee, including, but not limited to, clarifying that the committee may convene a meeting with a majority of all members present, including one or more designees, but a quorum of all voting members of the committee is required to transact any business requiring a formal vote of the committee. - Amends TCA Section 49-3-113. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 28, 2026 |
| SB 2069 | Medical Occupations - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee K-9 Emergency Medical Care and Transport Act." - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14, Part 2; Title 44, Chapter 17; Title 63, Chapter 12 and Title 68, Chapter 140. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 28, 2026 |
| SB 2066 | Taxes, Privilege - As introduced, allocates 30 percent of the revenue from taxes on vapor products to counties in equal amounts to be used for youth nicotine prevention programs and services. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 10. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 24, 2026 |
| SB 1389 | TennCare - As introduced, prohibits a healthcare provider who participates in the TennCare or CoverKids programs from refusing to provide healthcare services to an enrollee based solely upon the enrollee’s refusal to obtain a vaccine or immunization; prohibits the bureau from reimbursing a healthcare provider in violation of such prohibition; requires the director to adopt rules. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | Passed both chambers | April 24, 2026 |
| SR 399 | Memorials, Recognition - Necrotizing Enterocolitis (NEC) Awareness Day, May 17 - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 23, 2026 |
| SB 2330 | State Government - As introduced, requires departments, agencies, and other state governmental entities to make information and records available, including by means of direct electronic access, to the staff of the general assembly's fiscal review committee; requires the department of finance and administration to provide the office of legislative budget analysis with access to applicable state budget formulation and management systems. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 13; Title 3, Chapter 14 and Title 3, Chapter 7. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 23, 2026 |
| SJR 160 | General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Encourages Tennessee's teachers to use the names Gulf of America and Mount McKinley in classroom instruction. - | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 20, 2026 |
| SB 2198 | Welfare - As introduced, clarifies that the department of human services must provide applicants with a written notice of temporary assistance eligibility determinations. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 20, 2026 |
| SB 2082 | Appropriations - As introduced, makes appropriations for the purpose of defraying the expenses of certain legislative enactments passed during the 2026 session of the 114th General Assembly; earmarks sufficient state funds for the purpose of funding any bill naming a highway or bridge in honor of a service member killed in action. - | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 20, 2026 |
| SB 2080 | TennCare - As introduced, directs the first $150 million of tax revenue generated by the health maintenance organization tax on or after July 1, 2026, to be utilized to draw down federal funds to reimburse a physician, advanced practice registered nurse, or physician assistant who is entitled to receive TennCare reimbursement for a CPT code for evaluation and management, obstetrics and gynecology, or anesthesia. - Amends TCA Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 20, 2026 |
| SB 2067 | Health Care - As introduced, revises requirement for the department of commerce and insurance to report on coverage for mental health, alcoholism, and drug dependency. - Amends TCA Title 56. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 20, 2026 |
| SB 1798 | Taxes, Ad Valorem - As introduced, changes the reimbursement amount for property tax relief for disabled veteran homeowners; increases the reimbursement amount from payment on the first $175,000 of the full market value of the home to payment on the first $200,000 of the full market value. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5, Part 7. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 20, 2026 |
| SB 1395 | 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 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 42; 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 | In committee | April 20, 2026 |
| SB 1394 | Budget Procedures - As introduced, deletes requirements that budget document includes personal income statement for calendar year 1977 and actual state appropriations for fiscal year 1977-1978. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 4, Part 52. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 20, 2026 |
| SB 1393 | Appropriations - As introduced, makes appropriations for the purpose of defraying the expenses of certain legislative enactments passed during the 2025 session of the 114th General Assembly; earmarks sufficient state funds for the purpose of funding any bill naming a highway or bridge in honor of a service member killed in action. - | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 20, 2026 |
| SB 1392 | Bond Issues - As introduced, authorizes the state, acting by resolution of its funding board, to issue and sell its bonds and bond anticipation notes for certain purposes. - | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 20, 2026 |
| SB 1391 | Health, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to establish and administer a grant program to reimburse local education agencies, public charter schools, private schools, and medical first responders for the costs of anti-choking devices purchased by the local education agency, public charter school, private school, or medical first responder on or after July 1, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 20, 2026 |
| SB 1387 | Scholarships and Financial Aid - As introduced, adds Western Governors University as a postsecondary institution at which Tennessee resident students may be enrolled for purposes of receiving a Senator Ben Atchley opportunity grant. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 8. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 20, 2026 |
| SB 1367 | Taxes, Sales - As introduced, exempts from the state sales and use tax the retail sale of food and food ingredients. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 3 and Title 67. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 20, 2026 |
| SJR 949 | Memorials, Recognition - Laura Jane Travis - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 16, 2026 |
| SB 2064 | Taxes, Real Property - As introduced, requires a local governmental entity to hold a referendum to approve a property tax increase that exceeds specified thresholds. - Amends TCA Title 48 and Title 67, Chapter 5. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 13, 2026 |
| SB 2155 | Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, establishes the Tennessee commission of insurance review; prohibits a health insurance entity from offering or maintaining a health benefit plan that uses downcoding in a manner that prevents the provider from collecting the fee for actual services performed either from the health benefit plan or the patient; makes other changes related to health insurance and health insurers. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 56 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 7, 2026 |
| SB 2071 | Consumer Protection - As introduced, prohibits a person from requiring another to use programmable money for a transaction; prohibits an issuer of programmable money from denying a transaction based upon certain factors; requires an issuer of programmable money that denies a transaction to provide reasons for the denial to the affected party upon request; designates violations to be violations of the Consumer Protection Act of 1977 and provides for other forms of relief and enforcement. - Amends TCA Title 47. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 7, 2026 |
| SB 1376 | Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, prohibits an out-of-network ambulance service provider from balance billing an enrollee in a health benefit plan for emergency ambulance services; establishes allowable billable costs for such services. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7 and Title 68, Chapter 140. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 7, 2026 |
| SB 836 | 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 | Passed both chambers | March 26, 2026 |
| SB 2068 | Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires each LEA to submit a report to the department of education by July 31 each year that includes, for the immediately preceding school year, the number of students the LEA provided with information on the career and technical education opportunities offered by the LEA after the students were administered a career aptitude assessment in grade seven or eight. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 26, 2026 |
| SB 2218 | Planning, Public - As introduced, requires an establishment resolution adopted by the governing body of a municipality to form an infrastructure development district to include an itemization of the funded costs for infrastructure related to each utility service that will serve the development district. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13; Title 65 and Title 66. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 24, 2026 |
| SJR 812 | Memorials, Recognition - Necrotizing Enterocolitis (NEC) Awareness Day, May 17 - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 23, 2026 |
| SB 1979 | Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires each LEA and public charter school to administer the Presidential Fitness Test to students to assess their strength, endurance, and flexibility. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 23, 2026 |
| SJR 815 | Memorials, Recognition - Andrew Jackson Foundation, 125th anniversary - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 18, 2026 |
| SJR 814 | Memorials, Retirement - Howard J. Kittell - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 18, 2026 |
| SJR 813 | Memorials, Recognition - Amanda and Erik Neil, owners of MICHELIN Guide restaurants Little Coyote, Easy Bistro, and Main Street Meats - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 18, 2026 |
| SB 2350 | Local Government, General - As introduced, authorizes the board of directors of a rail service authority to submit each annual report electronically. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 45; Title 49; Title 54 and Title 67. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 16, 2026 |
| SB 2073 | Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As enacted, designates the month of April as "Tennessee Native Plant Month." - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 16, 2026 |
| SB 2078 | Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, requires the Tennessee higher education commission to submit a report to the education and finance committees of the senate and house of representatives identifying any fiscal year, beginning with the 2004 fiscal year, for which net lottery proceeds were insufficient to fully fund certain scholarships and grants, resulting in a pro rata reduction in award amounts or a draw upon the general shortfall reserve subaccount. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 49; Title 4, Chapter 51 and Title 49, Chapter 4. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 11, 2026 |
| SB 2063 | Parks, Natural Areas Preservation - As introduced, requires playgrounds at Booker T. Washington State Park and Harrison Bay State Park to be built no later than January 1, 2027; requires existing resources of the department of environment and conservation to be used to build the parks. - Amends TCA Title 11, Chapter 3. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 11, 2026 |
| SB 2192 | Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, increases the employer contribution under the hybrid retirement plan from 5 percent to 10 percent for current members of the general assembly who have 10 years of creditable service on or after July 1, 2026. - Amends TCA Section 8-36-916. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 10, 2026 |
| SB 1363 | Consumer Protection - As introduced, requires the office of the attorney general and reporter to submit to the chair of the house committee having jurisdiction over consumer protection and the chair of the commerce and labor committee of the senate a report on the number of investigations into violations of the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act of 1977 in which artificial intelligence was used to effectuate an unfair or deceptive act or practice affecting the conduct of any trade or commerce between January 1, 2024, and December 31, 2025; requires the report to be submitted no later than July 1, 2026; allows the report to be submitted electronically. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 12; Title 39; Title 45; Title 47; Title 48; Title 50; Title 55; Title 61; Title 62; Title 65; Title 66; Title 67 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 10, 2026 |
| SB 284 | Insurance, Motor Vehicles - As introduced, prohibits an insurance company from requiring a visually impaired owner of a motor vehicle to obtain a commercial motor vehicle liability policy in lieu of a standard owner's policy of liability insurance if the covered motor vehicle is not used for commercial purposes. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 12. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 18, 2026 |
| SB 2084 | Commerce and Insurance, Dept. of - As introduced, deletes an obsolete requirement that the commissioner conduct a study of this state's insurance laws to determine what impediments, if any, exist that may be acting as deterrents for insurance companies in this state to underwrite policies of insurance to insure a person who has used force that is justified, including deadly force, in protecting such person's self or property, and to submit a report of the study to the general assembly no later than March 1, 2012. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 18, 2026 |
| SB 1383 | Comptroller, State - As introduced, increases from $50,000 to $100,000 the bond amount that every insurance company doing a workers' compensation business in this state must furnish with a surety company; increases from $100,000 to $200,000 the certificate amount that such a company may deposit with the commissioner of labor and workforce development in lieu of the bond. - Amends TCA Title 12; Title 29; Title 50 and Title 56. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 18, 2026 |
| SB 1380 | Safety - As introduced, decreases from five to three the number of business days an ambulance service provider has to furnish to a patient or their authorized representative a copy of the patient's run record upon written request; decreases from five to three the number of business days an ambulance service provider has to furnish a copy of the patient's run record to a surveyor employed by the health facilities commission upon written request. - Amends TCA Title 56; Title 68 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 18, 2026 |
| SB 1362 | Boards and Commissions - As introduced, provides for a new definition for the term "artificial intelligence" for the Tennessee artificial intelligence advisory council act; expands, from 24 to at least 24 and at most 27, the number of members on the council; directs the council to make various other changes. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 31. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 18, 2026 |
| SB 2154 | Planning, Public - As introduced, specifies that the presiding officer of the local government planning advisory committee must promptly notify, or cause to be notified, the appointing authority of a member who fails to attend three consecutive committee meetings. - Amends TCA Title 4. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2026 |
| SB 2075 | Taxes, Real Property - As introduced, requires the comptroller of the treasury to provide required cost and income limit estimates for property tax relief to the directors of the office of legislative budget analysis in addition to the members of the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 48 and Title 67. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2026 |
| SB 2074 | Taxes, Real Property - As introduced, enacts the "Local Government Revenue Stability Act," which replaces property taxes with a statewide 4 percent surtax on the sale of goods and services to be collected in the same manner as the sales and use tax and disbursed to local governments. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 49; Title 54 and Title 67. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2026 |
| SB 1462 | Ridgeside - Subject to local approval, repeals and replaces in its entirety the city's private act charter. - Amends Chapter 615 of the Private Acts of 1931; as amended. | Primary sponsor | In committee | June 4, 2025 |
| SB 1426 | TennCare - As enacted, enacts "Lucca's Law," which addresses TennCare coverage of treatment for pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections (PANDAS) and pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome (PANS). - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 27, 2025 |
| SB 1390 | TennCare - As enacted, directs the director to establish an additional PACE program as a pilot in one of the two grand divisions where a PACE program did not exist in 2024; permits a current PACE program in a county with a specific population to expand into contiguous counties having specifically listed populations. - Amends TCA Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 27, 2025 |
| SB 1382 | Commerce and Insurance, Dept. of - As enacted, revises law relative to the treatment and coverage of treatment for stage 4 advanced metastatic cancer, blood cancer, metastatic blood cancer, and associated conditions; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 27, 2025 |
| SB 1381 | Housing - As enacted, authorizes local governments to regulate sober living homes for recovery from alcohol, drug, and substance abuse to the extent such regulation complies with the Fair Housing Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13 and Title 33. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 27, 2025 |
| SB 1366 | Federal Aid - As enacted, establishes a process for reviewing requests for federal aid. - | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 27, 2025 |
| SB 1359 | 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 | Enacted | May 15, 2025 |
| SB 1388 | Human Services, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to establish a process by which management of a public property may submit formal complaints regarding the conduct or performance of a blind individual who has been licensed to operate a vending facility on such public property through the business enterprise program for the blind; makes other changes relative to such programs for disabled individuals. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 4. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 13, 2025 |
| SB 1384 | 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 | In committee | May 8, 2025 |
| SB 248 | Traffic Safety - As enacted, creates the offense of an occupant of a vehicle parking, leaving standing, or stopping the vehicle on a street or highway and blocking or impeding the normal movement of traffic for the purpose of soliciting, negotiating, or consummating an employment transaction with a person standing on or in proximity to the street or highway. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17; Title 54 and Title 55. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 2, 2025 |
| SJR 446 | Memorials, Sports - Chattanooga Mocs, 2025 NIT champions - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 1, 2025 |
| SJR 428 | Memorials, Recognition - Chattanooga Federal Employees Credit Union, 100th anniversary - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 1, 2025 |
| SB 1368 | Tennessee Higher Education Commission - As enacted, adds the executive director of the commission to the statutorily prescribed selection process for chief executive officers of public institutions of higher education and removes the repeal date for that process; revises various reporting and other duties of the commission; allows the commission to delegate its approval authority to its executive director in certain areas; expands the quality non-degree credentials for which a student may receive the Wilder-Naifeh technical skills grant. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 30, 2025 |
| SB 1385 | Public Health - As enacted, requires a medical laboratory supervisor to be readily available for consultations during all hours when tests are performed; prohibits a medical laboratory supervisor from being required to be on laboratory premises. - Amends TCA Title 68. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 29, 2025 |
| SB 1379 | Children - As enacted, allows a child care agency to lease or purchase underutilized property from local education agencies; classifies a child care family home as residential property for certain purposes, including zoning and building codes; permits a host-school's fire inspection and facilities to be sufficient for a child care agency's provisional license under the department of human services. - Amends TCA Title 13; Title 49; Title 68 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 29, 2025 |
| SR 157 | Memorials, Interns - Owen Barnert - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 24, 2025 |
| SJR 296 | Memorials, Retirement - Dave Staley - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 10, 2025 |
| SJR 261 | Memorials, Retirement - Ty Campbell - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 10, 2025 |
| SB 1377 | Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, enacts the "Voluntary Portable Benefit Plan Act"; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 50 and Title 65, Chapter 15, Part 3. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 8, 2025 |
| SB 1374 | Emergency Communications Districts - As enacted, authorizes a motor vehicle operated by an emergency communications district that is marked as a mobile command vehicle or mobile communications vehicle to display flashing red or white lights or a combination of flashing red and white lights. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 9, Part 4. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 4, 2025 |
| SB 1416 | General Assembly - As introduced, requires the board of trustees of the Tennessee consolidated retirement system to convert a person's participation in the retirement system, for service as a member of the general assembly and as a participant in the hybrid plan, from the hybrid plan to the legacy plan upon the person completing 10 years of service as a member of the general assembly if the person became a member of the general assembly on or after July 1, 2014. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 8, Chapter 34; Title 8, Chapter 35 and Title 8, Chapter 36. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 2, 2025 |
| SB 282 | Health Care - As enacted, enacts the "Individualized Investigational Treatment Act." - Amends TCA Title 53 and Title 63. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 28, 2025 |
| SB 1378 | Education - As introduced, creates the division of early child care and education within the department of education. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 26, 2025 |
| SB 1365 | Children - As introduced, reduces the time in which the department of children's services has to determine whether a temporary childcare licensee has complied with all regulations to receive a permanent childcare license from 90 days from the date the temporary license was issued to 80 days. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 13; Title 37; Title 49; Title 62; Title 67; Title 68 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 26, 2025 |
| SB 1372 | Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, prohibits a health insurance entity or TennCare MCO from including an all-products clause in a network participation agreement with a healthcare provider, and makes certain other changes related to MCO network adequacy. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 25, 2025 |
| SB 283 | Water Pollution - As introduced, removes requirement that installers of subsurface sewage disposal systems pay a renewal fee as a condition to renewing a septic system installer license; maintains initial permit and fee requirement for such installers. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 221. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 19, 2025 |
| SB 1373 | Driver Licenses - As introduced, requires all written driver license examinations to be administered in English only; prohibits the use of a translation dictionary, electronic device, or interpreter to assist a person taking the examination. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50, Part 3. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 19, 2025 |
| SB 281 | Environment and Conservation, Department of - As introduced, prohibits the department from regulating farming activities involving top soil, rock removal, or the building of a pond when the activities are conducted in an area that is less than three acres in size, and the property on which the activities occur has greenbelt classification. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 11; Title 13; Title 43; Title 44; Title 64; Title 66; Title 67; Title 68 and Title 69. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 17, 2025 |
| SJR 200 | Memorials, Recognition - Partners for Christian Media, Inc., 30th anniversary - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 12, 2025 |
| SJR 154 | Memorials, Recognition - Ivy Academy, 2024 Charter Champion Award Community Impact Project of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 12, 2025 |
| SB 1364 | Immigration - As introduced, requires, rather than permits, each law enforcement agency to execute an agreement with the United States department of homeland security to participate in the 287(g) program and the warrant service officer program for purposes of enforcing immigration laws in collaboration with the United States bureau of immigration and customs enforcement (ICE). - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 8. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 25, 2025 |
| SB 1386 | Municipal Government - As introduced, expands the criteria for real property that is eligible for the property owner to petition a municipality to deannex. - Amends TCA Section 6-51-201. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| SB 1375 | Sewage - As introduced, decreases from 60 to 45 days, the amount of time the executive director of the board of commissioners of a water and wastewater treatment authority has to annually prepare the operating budget of the authority and submit the budget to the board for approval prior to the beginning of the fiscal year. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 65; Title 68 and Title 69. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| SB 1371 | Housing - As introduced, authorizes local governments to regulate sober living homes for recovery from alcohol, drug, and substance abuse to the extent such regulation complies with the Fair Housing Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act, including prescribing a distance requirement for such homes from primary schools, preschools, and daycares, regulating the location and operation of such homes, and requiring that prospective residents receive a clinical referral for placement in a sober living home. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13 and Title 33. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| SB 1370 | State Government - As introduced, increases membership of the information systems council by adding a state employee with experience in the field of cybersecurity, to be appointed by the governor. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| SJR 6004 | Memorials, Recognition - Bachman-McCoy Farm, National Register of Historic Places - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | January 29, 2025 |
| SJR 32 | Memorials, Recognition - Bachman-McCoy Farm, National Register of Historic Places - | Primary sponsor | Introduced | January 27, 2025 |
| SB 20 | Medical Occupations - As introduced, creates an exemption from the requirement that an applicant for licensure as a professional counselor must have completed a graduate course of study of at least 60 credit hours if the applicant has a valid, unencumbered license as a professional counselor issued by another state, territory, or federal district of the United States and the board for professional counselors, marital and family therapists and clinical pastoral therapists judges as acceptable the licensing requirements of that other state, territory, or federal district. - Amends TCA Title 63. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 15, 2025 |