Tennessee · Current officeholder
Paul Bailey
Republican Tennessee Senate, District 15
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Sponsored legislation
196 bills in the current data (196 as primary sponsor), sorted by most recent official action. Linked by Open States person ID.
| Bill | Title | Role | Stage | Last action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SB 2732 | Monterey - Subject to local approval, deletes obsolete provisions authorizing the mayor to serve as the ex officio recorder for the town of Monterey; establishes the position of Town Administrator and prescribes the Administrator's powers, duties, and functions. - Amends Chapter 492 of the Acts of 1901; as amended. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 27, 2026 |
| SB 2473 | Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As enacted, vacates the present board of commissioners of each existing authority for metropolitan and regional airports and reconstitutes a new governing body; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7 and Title 42. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 27, 2026 |
| SB 2469 | Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, revises the exemption for judges to the offense of carrying weapons during judicial proceedings. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 27, 2026 |
| SB 2468 | Criminal Offenses - As enacted, makes revisions to law relative to offenses occurring at a house of worship. - Amends TCA Title 29 and Title 39. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 27, 2026 |
| SB 2461 | Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As enacted, requires each fertility clinic operating in this state to obtain a certificate from the department of health to perform assisted reproductive technology services. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 29; Title 36; Title 63 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 27, 2026 |
| SB 2453 | Taxes, Sales - As enacted, extends the deadline by which a county that borders at least three distressed rural counties must apply to be eligible to retain the sales and use tax generated from a commercial development district from December 31, 2026, to December 31, 2040; extends the deadline for the commissioner of finance and administration to approve a commercial development district from June 30, 2031, to June 30, 2041. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 27, 2026 |
| SB 1900 | Criminal Offenses - As enacted, increases the penalty for assaulting a first responder from a Class A misdemeanor with a mandatory fine of $5,000 and a mandatory minimum of 30 days incarceration to a Class E felony with a mandatory fine of $10,000 and a mandatory minimum of 60 days incarceration. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 27, 2026 |
| SB 1815 | Criminal Offenses - As enacted, enacts the "Grace Anne Sparks Coercive Suicide Prevention Law of 2026." - Amends TCA Title 39. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 27, 2026 |
| SB 1814 | Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates a Class A misdemeanor offense of intentionally moving, altering, destroying, or removing a monument the person knows, or reasonably should know, is a property corner monument, historic land surveying monument, or geodetic control monument. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 62, Chapter 18 and Title 66. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 27, 2026 |
| SB 1610 | Local Government, General - As enacted, authorizes Putnam County and incorporated cities within the county 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 7, Chapter 51, Part 26. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 27, 2026 |
| SB 2458 | Motor Vehicles - As enacted, requires a delivery network company or delivery network company driver to comply with certain automobile liability insurance requirements. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 55; Title 56 and Title 65. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 26, 2026 |
| SB 1612 | State Employees - As enacted, removes the requirement for waivers to be used only one course at a time for academic courses that full-time state employees are eligible to take without paying tuition charges, maintenance fees, student activity fees, registration fees, or online course fees; authorizes the waiver to be used for more than one course at a time. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 8. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 22, 2026 |
| SB 608 | Motor Vehicles - As enacted, prohibits the motor vehicle commission from denying an application for a license, or revoking or suspending the license, of a manufacturer, distributor, distributor branch or factory branch or officer, agent or other representative because such person has failed to deliver motor vehicles within 60 days of a dealer's order due to an act of God, a work stoppage or delay due to a strike or other labor action, a lack of available manufacturing capacity, a freight embargo, or other cause or material issue over which the person has no control; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 55. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 18, 2026 |
| SB 343 | Death - As enacted, authorizes, as of January 1, 2027, a licensed paramedic to make an actual determination and pronouncement of death; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 29; Title 33; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 18, 2026 |
| SB 2471 | Criminal Offenses - As enacted, includes in the offense of criminal trespass intrusion on property, or any portion of property, without the consent of the owner, by driving, parking, or otherwise operating a motorized vehicle or bicycle. - Amends TCA Title 11; Title 29; Title 39; Title 40; Title 44; Title 45; Title 46; Title 59; Title 66; Title 68 and Title 70. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 18, 2026 |
| SB 2454 | Appropriations - As enacted, authorizes direct and continuing appropriations by certain airport authorities for the issuance of debt that is not a liability of the state and the payment of debt service thereon. - Amends TCA Title 9. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 18, 2026 |
| SB 1901 | Professions and Occupations - As enacted, specifies in various provisions that for a person to be eligible for a particular license, certificate, permit, or authorization, the person must be a citizen of the United States or a qualified alien. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 20; Title 23; Title 33; Title 37; Title 39; Title 42; Title 43; Title 44; Title 45; Title 46; Title 47; Title 49; Title 52; Title 53; Title 55; Title 56; Title 57; Title 59; Title 60; Title 62; Title 63; Title 67; Title 68; Title 69; Title 70; Title 71 and Chapter 463 of the Public Acts of 2025. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 18, 2026 |
| SB 995 | Contracts - As enacted, requires a court to apply rebuttable presumptions when determining the reasonableness in time of a restrictive covenant sought to be enforced after the termination of an employment or business relationship; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 50; Title 63 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 15, 2026 |
| SB 1611 | Aircraft and Airports - As enacted, specifies that a joint board established by two municipalities and two counties pursuant to an interlocal agreement for the purpose of operating an airport is vested with all the powers, rights, duties, and privileges of a regional airport authority. - Amends TCA Title 42, Chapter 5. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 15, 2026 |
| SB 354 | State Government - As enacted, authorizes the commissioner of environment and conservation, notwithstanding agreements authorized by the commissioner of general services and with approval of the state building commission, to enter into agreements contemplated for the private development, redevelopment, construction, and operation of facilities on lands with Cumberland Mountain State Park, and the department of environment and conservation may supervise the construction. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 8; Title 9; Title 10; Title 12; Title 13; Title 14; Title 15; Title 41; Title 50 and Title 57. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 14, 2026 |
| SJR 1278 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Emma Sue Gray, Valedictorian, Stone Memorial High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 11, 2026 |
| SJR 1277 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Samuel Ryan Ferrell, Salutatorian, Stone Memorial High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 11, 2026 |
| SJR 1270 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Jacob Grissom, Salutatorian, Van Buren County High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 11, 2026 |
| SJR 1269 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - McKenzie Greene, Salutatorian, Van Buren County High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 11, 2026 |
| SJR 1268 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Nicolo Azzani, Salutatorian, Cumberland County High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 11, 2026 |
| SJR 1267 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Liya Rakeshbhai Patel, Valedictorian, Cumberland County High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 11, 2026 |
| SJR 1266 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Leslie Pickering, Salutatorian, White County High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 11, 2026 |
| SJR 1265 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Addy Cocke, Valedictorian, White County High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 11, 2026 |
| SJR 1264 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Macie Frazier, Valedictorian, Van Buren County High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 11, 2026 |
| SJR 1240 | Memorials, Interns - Aaron Sullivan - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 11, 2026 |
| SJR 1239 | Memorials, Recognition - Natalie Saxon-Adams - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 11, 2026 |
| SJR 1238 | Memorials, Death - Edgar "Ed" Royce McCoin - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 11, 2026 |
| SJR 1204 | Memorials, Retirement - Ricky Anderson - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 11, 2026 |
| SJR 1171 | Memorials, Death - J.T. Bennett, Jr. - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 11, 2026 |
| SJR 1168 | Memorials, Retirement - Mary Denise McNeal - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 11, 2026 |
| SB 1904 | Professions and Occupations - As enacted, decreases from 18 to 16, the minimum age an individual must be to apply for a license to be a bid caller auctioneer. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 19. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 5, 2026 |
| SB 2466 | Criminal Offenses - As enacted, makes various changes to the law relative to fraudulent freight theft. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 16; Title 17; Title 18; Title 20; Title 22; Title 24; Title 25; Title 26; Title 27; Title 28; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 43; Title 54 and Title 55. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 4, 2026 |
| SB 2463 | Child Custody and Support - As enacted, specifies that a parent's obligation for the support of a child does not continue after the child reaches 19 unless the child is handicapped or disabled. - Amends TCA Title 34, Chapter 1; Title 36, Chapter 5 and Title 37, Chapter 1. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 4, 2026 |
| SB 2459 | Children's Services, Dept. of - As enacted, generally prohibits the department from requesting information regarding the number or type of firearms or ammunition or identifying information about such firearms or ammunition that a foster parent or prospective foster parent owns or possesses, or requesting a foster parent or prospective foster parent to display or provide access to a firearm or ammunition owned or possessed by the parent. - Amends TCA Title 37. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 4, 2026 |
| SJR 1106 | Memorials, Death - Bobby Harold Lane - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 1, 2026 |
| SJR 1105 | Memorials, Death - John Richard Fox - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 1, 2026 |
| SJR 1104 | Memorials, Recognition - Dr. Chelsea T. Dowell - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 1, 2026 |
| SB 2465 | Criminal Offenses - As introduced, prohibits a juvenile adjudicated delinquent for conduct that, if committed by an adult, would constitute the offense of threatening to commit an act of mass violence from purchasing or possessing a firearm until the juvenile reaches 25; prohibits a person appropriately licensed by the federal government from selling a firearm to a person who is ineligible to possess a firearm pursuant to any court order or under any law of this state; increases penalties for sexual exploitation of a minor offenses. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 39. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 23, 2026 |
| SB 2462 | District Attorneys - As introduced, revises the data that district attorneys general are required to include in the annual report submitted to various officials and the public; requires the clerk of every court having jurisdiction over misdemeanor and felony cases to provide the district attorneys general conference direct and unlimited access to the clerk's case management or reporting system for the purposes of complying with the district attorneys general conference's and district attorneys general's statutory reporting requirements. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 8. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 23, 2026 |
| SJR 1042 | Memorials, Sports - Upper Cumberland 18U RAMS homeschool basketball team, NCHBC Division 5 National Champions - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 22, 2026 |
| SJR 1041 | Memorials, Sports - White County High School Lady Warriors basketball team, TSSAA Division I, Class 3A state runner-up - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 22, 2026 |
| SB 2470 | Boards and Commissions - As introduced, transfers oversight of the board of boiler rules and the elevator and amusement device safety board from the department of labor and workforce development to the department of commerce and insurance. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 62 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 20, 2026 |
| SB 2464 | District Attorneys - As introduced, changes from 10 days to 10 business days the amount of notice the president of the district attorneys general conference must give members before calling a meeting at will. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 7 and Title 9, Chapter 4. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 20, 2026 |
| SB 1911 | Human Services, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to apply for federal grants and other federal funds available to the state through the federal summer electronic benefits transfer (SEBT) for children program during any year in which the program is offered, for the purpose of providing nutrition assistance through SEBT during the summer months for each eligible child. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 20, 2026 |
| SB 1812 | Public Funds and Financing - As introduced, enacts "The Mint Act," which establishes a precious metals enterprise fund to be administered by the state treasurer for the purpose of acquiring, converting, storing, and selling bullion and specie. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 4. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 20, 2026 |
| SB 1805 | TennCare - As introduced, increases from 67.5 percent to 110 percent the rate of reimbursement of the federal medicare program's allowable charges for participating providers the bureau shall reimburse an ambulance service provider; deletes the Ground Ambulance Service Provider Assessment Act. - Amends TCA Title 68 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 20, 2026 |
| SJR 995 | Memorials, Sports - Kennedi Winbush - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 16, 2026 |
| SJR 994 | Memorials, Personal Occasion - George McKeel, 100th birthday - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 16, 2026 |
| SJR 961 | Memorials, Death - Jeffrey Edward Guth - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 16, 2026 |
| SB 2456 | Fees - As introduced, creates the "Tennessee Live Music Support Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 47 and Title 67. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 15, 2026 |
| SB 997 | Annexation - As introduced, specifies circumstances in which a referendum will not be required to effectuate annexation of territory; removes repealer provision for exceptions to the referendum requirement. - Amends TCA Section 6-51-104. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 8, 2026 |
| SB 604 | Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, requires a pharmacy services administrative organization or similar entity that receives maximum allowable cost list or related information from a contracted pharmacy to destroy the shared information within five business days of receipt of a written request for destruction from the sharing pharmacy. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 56. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 7, 2026 |
| SB 2457 | Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, removes an obsolete reference to reimbursement requirements related to anatomic pathology services applying to anatomic pathology services billed by gastroenterologists only applying on and after July 1, 2014. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 47; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 7, 2026 |
| SB 1813 | Public Funds and Financing - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Transactional Gold and Silver Act," which recognizes gold and silver as legal tender for private transactions and, when accepted, for paying state and local taxes or fees; authorizes the creation of a secure bullion depository and an electronic payment system to support the use of gold and silver; exempts gold and silver transactions from state and local taxation. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 4. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 7, 2026 |
| SB 1807 | Consumer Protection - As introduced, prohibits an entity from setting the price of a specific good or service using personalized algorithmic pricing; designates a violation as an unfair or deceptive act or practice affecting trade or commerce in violation of the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act of 1977. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 45; Title 47 and Title 66. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 7, 2026 |
| SB 1064 | Health, Dept. of - As introduced, directs the department on or before January 1, 2026, to submit a report with a list of each drug that is psychotropic medication pursuant to current law and the side effects of each medication to the chair of the health and welfare committee of the senate and the chair of the committee of the house of representatives having jurisdiction over health-related matters. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 41; Title 49; Title 53; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 1, 2026 |
| SJR 917 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Taylor Key, Putnam County Schools High School Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 31, 2026 |
| SJR 916 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Derek Zachary, Putnam County Schools Elementary School Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 31, 2026 |
| SJR 915 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Savannah Bowman, Putnam County Schools Middle School Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 31, 2026 |
| SJR 905 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Lynn Vaden, New Middleton Elementary School Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 31, 2026 |
| SJR 903 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Teri Dockery, Smith County High School Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 31, 2026 |
| SJR 902 | Memorials, Death - Jerry Ray Brown II - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 31, 2026 |
| SJR 888 | Memorials, Sports - Prescott South Middle School boys basketball team, TMSAA Class 2A state champion - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 25, 2026 |
| SJR 885 | Memorials, Sports - Jake Stinnett, TSSAA Division I, Class A wrestling state champion - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 25, 2026 |
| SJR 846 | Memorials, Sports - Jerry Maynord, Tennessee Football Coaches Association Hall of Fame - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 25, 2026 |
| SJR 845 | Memorials, Recognition - Putnam County Chamber of Commerce, 80th anniversary - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 25, 2026 |
| SJR 918 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Jeremy Pippin, Dodson Branch School Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 24, 2026 |
| SJR 914 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Kayla Shouse, Homestead Elementary School Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 24, 2026 |
| SJR 913 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Amanda Nealon, North Springs Middle School Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 24, 2026 |
| SJR 912 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Katy Wyatt, Cumberland County High School Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 24, 2026 |
| SJR 911 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Amber Phillips, Gainesboro Elementary School Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 24, 2026 |
| SJR 910 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Leann Davis,Woodland Park Elementary School Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 24, 2026 |
| SJR 909 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Katy Jo Harrison, Jackson County High School Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 24, 2026 |
| SJR 908 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Shelia Stafford, Jackson County Middle School Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 24, 2026 |
| SJR 907 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Koundi Thompson, White County High School Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 24, 2026 |
| SJR 906 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Kimberly Lewis, White County Middle School Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 24, 2026 |
| SJR 904 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Hailey Dickerson, Smith County Middle School Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 24, 2026 |
| SB 994 | Taxes, Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, deletes an obsolete provision relating to a tax credit for beer or ale that was destroyed in a flood occurring between May 1, 2010, and May 8, 2010. - Amends TCA Title 57 and Title 67. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 24, 2026 |
| SB 1946 | Notary Public - As introduced, requires the secretary of state to appoint notaries public to commissions in this state; prescribes additional requirements to be commissioned as a notary public in this state. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 16 and Title 23. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 24, 2026 |
| SB 291 | Medical Occupations - As introduced, extends from 30 business days to 60 business days the period of time an individual, applicant, licensee, certificate holder, or registrant has to file a petition in Davidson County chancery court following receipt of a notice from a health-related licensing authority that the authority is denying an application for or refusing to renew a license, certificate, or registration on the basis of a prior criminal conviction. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40; Title 63 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 23, 2026 |
| SB 2467 | Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, repeals the criminal offenses of unlawfully carrying a firearm or club with the intent to go armed and carrying or possessing a weapon in or on public parks, playgrounds, civic centers, and other public recreational buildings and grounds; allows persons convicted of stalking or a misdemeanor domestic violence offense to possess a firearm after five years from the date of conviction. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 36; Title 37; Title 39; Title 40; Title 49 and Title 65. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 23, 2026 |
| SJR 702 | Memorials, Recognition - Hannah Haley, 2026 Miss Tennessee Fairest of the Fair - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 18, 2026 |
| SJR 701 | Memorials, Recognition - White County Fair, 2026 Champion of Champions - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 18, 2026 |
| SB 2460 | Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services, Dept. of - As introduced, adds the legislative librarian to the list the department of mental health and substance abuse services must submit its quarterly report to on the implementation and impact of available suitable accommodations, including the number and length of any delayed admissions, in state owned or operated hospitals or treatment resources. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 52; Title 63 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 17, 2026 |
| SJR 81 | Naming and Designating - Designates October 2 as "School Custodian Day" in Tennessee. - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 12, 2026 |
| SJR 679 | Memorials, Sports - Upperman Lady Bees basketball team - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 6, 2026 |
| SB 1902 | Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As introduced, requires notice to be published on the governing body's website for at least two weeks prior to the date set for a hearing on whether to create an airport authority. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 31; Title 7, Chapter 51; Title 42, Chapter 4 and Title 42, Chapter 3. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 4, 2026 |
| SB 1608 | Education, Higher - As introduced, waives, for the dependent child of a law enforcement officer or firefighter who was killed or who died as a direct result of injuries received while performing their official duties, the tuition and fees charged by the public institution of higher education at which the dependent child is enrolled as a student. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 17, 2026 |
| SB 2631 | Cemeteries - As introduced, requires a cemetery company to include in its record of each burial in the cemetery the precise geographical location using latitudinal and longitudinal coordinates; requires the cemetery company to transmit a copy of the record to the funeral establishment responsible for the arrangements of the person buried at the interment site within 15 days after the date of burial. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 46 and Title 62, Chapter 5. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2026 |
| SB 2611 | Judges and Chancellors - As introduced, permits a current or retired chancery, circuit, or appellate court judge, who is an enhanced handgun carry permit holder and has successfully completed firearms training in accordance with POST certification, to carry a firearm in the same manner and locations that a law enforcement officer may carry a firearm; requires the administrative office of the courts to develop a uniform identification system clearly identifying that a person is qualified to carry a firearm; requires the judge or retired judge to carry the identification at all times when carrying a firearm. - Amends TCA Title 38 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2026 |
| SB 2474 | Motor Vehicles - As introduced, prohibits governmental entities that regulate entertainment transportation from denying the transfer of a permit, establishing certain noise ordinances, requiring an entertainment transportation vehicle to be enclosed, and taking other actions under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Section 7-51-1008. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2026 |
| SB 2472 | Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As introduced, changes from 60 days to 75 days prior to the beginning of the fiscal year the time in which the president of the metropolitan airport authority must submit the annual operating budget to the board for approval. - Amends TCA Title 42, Chapter 3 and Title 42, Chapter 4. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2026 |
| SB 2455 | Consumer Protection - As introduced, extends from five to 10 business days the period during which a financial service provider may refuse or delay financial transactions not involving securities due to suspected financial exploitation. - Amends TCA Title 45 and Title 47. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2026 |
| SB 1980 | Children - As introduced, establishes when a minor is engaged in the work of content creation; creates protections and requirements related to a minor engaged in the work of content creation. - Amends TCA Title 35; Title 37; Title 47 and Title 50. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2026 |
| SB 795 | Purchasing and Procurement - As introduced, authorizes local governments to purchase goods and services directly, without bid or quotations, from vendors awarded general services administration (GSA) schedule contracts at prices equal to the vendor's current GSA schedule price. - Amends TCA Title 12, Chapter 3. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | February 4, 2026 |
| SB 1609 | Public Health - As introduced, establishes a deadline of no later than December 31 each year for the department of agriculture to report to the general assembly on its enforcement efforts under the Prevention of Youth Access to Tobacco, Smoking Hemp, and Vapor Products Act. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 15; Title 47, Chapter 25 and Title 57, Chapter 7. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 3, 2026 |
| SB 2630 | Comptroller, State - As introduced, requires the comptroller of the treasury to publish a copy of an audit conducted of the energy efficient schools council on the comptroller's website. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | February 2, 2026 |
| SB 2592 | Business Organizations - As introduced, increases, from two to three, the number of days' notice that a for-profit corporation must give of the date, time, and place of a meeting to elect directors and complete the organization of the corporation or elect a board of directors to complete the organization of the corporation, if the initial directors are not named in the charter of the corporation. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 29; Title 39; Title 46; Title 47; Title 48; Title 50; Title 61; Title 62 and Title 66. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | February 2, 2026 |
| SB 2475 | Taxes - As introduced, requires the commissioner of revenue to report to the general assembly on an annual basis, beginning July 1, 2027, the amount of sales and use tax refunds on purchases of major appliances, residential furniture, and residential building supplies issued to persons receiving federal disaster assistance. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 12; Title 54; Title 55 and Title 67. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | February 2, 2026 |
| SB 1905 | Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, deletes an obsolete requirement that the department of commerce and insurance conduct a study to determine the appropriateness of a separate premium rating for medicare supplement policies for populations under 65 years of age upon the expiration of five years from May 27, 2010. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 2, 2026 |
| SB 1903 | Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, clarifies that the notification provided by a retiree's new employer to the retirement system concerning the reemployment of the retiree as a law enforcement officer must be provided in writing. - Amends TCA Title 8. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 2, 2026 |
| SB 2125 | Fees - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Live Music Support Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 47 and Title 67. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | January 23, 2026 |
| SB 1806 | Healthcare Liability - As introduced, removes the three-year statute of repose for a healthcare liability action based on an injury that was not discovered when the negligent act or injury occurred so that the action may be brought within one year from the date of such discovery. - Amends TCA Title 28 and Title 29. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 22, 2026 |
| SB 1607 | Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases the penalty for assault against a first responder from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony with a mandatory fine of $10,000 and a mandatory minimum sentence of 60 days. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 15, 2026 |
| SB 1461 | Crossville - Subject to local approval, realigns salaries of mayor and city council to be set at a percentage of salary earned by the county mayor; establishes new meeting schedule for mayor and city council; creates process for holding administrative hearings by the city; increases maximum occupancy tax that may be imposed, from 2 percent to 3 percent. - Amends Chapter 519 of the Private Acts of 1953; as amended and rewritten. | Primary sponsor | In committee | June 4, 2025 |
| SB 1447 | Putnam County - Subject to local approval, sets the salary of general session court judges at an amount equal to the amount received annually by the circuit court judges and chancellors as of September 1, 2030. - Amends Chapter 125 of the Private Acts of 1949; as amended. | Primary sponsor | In committee | June 4, 2025 |
| SB 764 | Health Care - As enacted, establishes licensure of anesthesiologist assistants; revises provisions authorizing hospitals to employ certain licensed physicians for certain medical services. - Amends TCA Title 47; Title 63 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 27, 2025 |
| SB 409 | Clerks, Court - As enacted, revises present law concerning court clerks' fees. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 18; Title 55 and Title 67. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 27, 2025 |
| SB 289 | Workers Compensation - As enacted, creates a presumption that the diagnosis of a law enforcement officer or emergency medical responder with post-traumatic stress disorder as the result of responding to certain incidents was incurred in the line of duty for purposes of workers' compensation coverage. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51 and Title 50, Chapter 6. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 27, 2025 |
| SB 1135 | Nuisances - As enacted, revises nuisance laws. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13; Title 16; Title 29; Title 39; Title 67 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 27, 2025 |
| SB 769 | Criminal Offenses - As enacted, makes the offense of possession of a used, detached catalytic converter by an unauthorized person punishable by a term of imprisonment not greater than 11 months, 29 days; a fine not to exceed $2,500; or both, instead of only subject to a fine. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title 55 and Title 62. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 15, 2025 |
| SB 602 | Education - As enacted, requires the department of education to develop guidelines and criteria for determining how long a student must have been present in a teacher's classroom before the student's record is attributable to the teacher for purposes of evaluating the teacher; authorizes an LEA or public charter school to compensate the estate of a teacher who, on the teacher's death, was in the employ of the LEA or public charter school for the teacher's unused and accrued annual and sick leave in the same manner that the estates of deceased state employees are compensated under present law. - Amends Chapter __ of the Public Acts of 2025 (1st Ex. Sess. – SB 6001 / HB 6004); and TCA Title 4, Chapter 49; Title 8 and Title 49. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 15, 2025 |
| SB 411 | State Employees - As enacted, classifies as state employees for purposes of defense and other related provisions, soil and water conservation district board of supervisors, employees, officers, and agents, and persons designated by a soil and water conservation district as participants in volunteer programs authorized by such districts. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 42 and Title 9, Chapter 8. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 15, 2025 |
| SB 288 | Firefighters - As enacted, adds prostate cancer, breast cancer, and pancreatic cancer to the list of cancers for which a presumption is created that certain conditions or impairments of full-time firefighters caused by prostate cancer, breast cancer, pancreatic cancer, or other listed cancers arose out of employment unless the contrary is shown by competent medical evidence. - Amends TCA Section 7-51-201. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 15, 2025 |
| SB 408 | Tort Liability and Reform - As enacted, prohibits governmental entities or local boards of education from extending immunity granted to independent school bus contractors rather than independent school bus owners and operators for providing school-related transportation services; requires liability insurance coverage in a contract or agreement between a local board of education and an independent school bus contractor for such services to be in an amount sufficient to satisfy applicable law; permits evidence of such coverage to include a certificate of insurance from an insurance provider that lists the local board of education as an additional insured. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 20. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 13, 2025 |
| SB 128 | Professions and Occupations - As enacted, makes various changes relative to the practice of chiropractors, including animal chiropractic practice. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 63. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 13, 2025 |
| SB 606 | Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As enacted, rewrites the fee limits for a party requesting a patient's medical record in either paper or electronic format from a provider or the provider's third-party release of information provider. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 8, 2025 |
| SJR 533 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Molly Gauvin, Salutatorian, Van Buren High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 7, 2025 |
| SJR 532 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Jaden Brymer, Valedictorian, Van Buren High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 7, 2025 |
| SJR 531 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Bishop Higgins, Salutatorian, Cumberland County High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 7, 2025 |
| SJR 530 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Owen Brown, Valedictorian, Cumberland County High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 7, 2025 |
| SJR 529 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Camdyn Holbrook, Valedictorian, Stone Memorial High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 7, 2025 |
| SJR 528 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Kayden Hornberger, Salutatorian, Stone Memorial High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 7, 2025 |
| SJR 527 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Cosby King, Valedictorian, Upperman High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 7, 2025 |
| SJR 526 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Emma Conley, Salutatorian, Upperman High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 7, 2025 |
| SJR 525 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Madison Smith, Valedictorian, Monterey High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 7, 2025 |
| SJR 524 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Logan Montgomery, Salutatorian, Monterey High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 7, 2025 |
| SJR 523 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Landon Brown, Salutatorian, Cookeville High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 7, 2025 |
| SJR 522 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Katherine Smith, Valedictorian, Cookeville High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 7, 2025 |
| SJR 508 | Memorials, Retirement - Trooper Shane Moore - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 7, 2025 |
| SB 286 | Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, authorizes categorizing certain foreign multiple employer welfare arrangements as domestic multiple employer welfare arrangements if specific conditions are met. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 26. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 2, 2025 |
| SJR 458 | Memorials, Retirement - Michael Gunter - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 1, 2025 |
| SJR 456 | Memorials, Interns - Baileigh Faris - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 1, 2025 |
| SJR 455 | Memorials, Retirement - Lanny Selby - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 1, 2025 |
| SJR 454 | Memorials, Sports - Upperman Bees, TSSAA Division I, Class 3A state champions - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 1, 2025 |
| SB 794 | State Symbols - As enacted, designates the Southern Stars Symphonic Brass as the official brass band of the state of Tennessee. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 30, 2025 |
| SB 765 | Banks and Financial Institutions - As enacted, extends, from one to two business days following receipt of a garnishment, the period of time within which a garnishee must determine whether the garnishee possesses or controls money or property of the judgment debtor, place a hold on any available funds, and furnish to the judgment debtor a copy of the garnishment summons and the notice to judgment debtor; makes other changes related to banking. - Amends TCA Title 26; Title 45 and Title 47. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 30, 2025 |
| SB 915 | Highways, Roads and Bridges - As enacted, lifts certain restrictions on temporary borrow pits used to source material for a road work construction project performed in a FEMA-certified county under a contract for construction work entered into with the state that is part of a state or local Hurricane Helene recovery effort. - Amends TCA Title 54, Chapter 1. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 29, 2025 |
| SB 766 | Banks and Financial Institutions - As enacted, authorizes a premium finance company to impose and collect a convenience fee from an insured for use of certain payment methods; authorizes a premium finance company to charge and collect a handling charge for certain payment instruments when the payment instrument is not paid by the financial institution from which the instrument is drawn. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 37. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 29, 2025 |
| SB 290 | Search & Seizure - As enacted, specifies that certain physical searches of students and searches of lockers, vehicles, and other property must be conducted by a school resource officer. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 29, 2025 |
| SR 143 | Memorials, Recognition - The Arc of Cumberland County, 50th anniversary - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 24, 2025 |
| SR 142 | Memorials, Personal Occasion - Alene Gracey, 100th birthday - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 24, 2025 |
| SR 141 | Memorials, Retirement - Paramedic Mike Burdick - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 24, 2025 |
| SB 32 | Taxes - As introduced, allows a taxpayer to annually elect to take a bonus depreciation deduction of 40 percent of the cost of assets purchased on or after January 1, 2026, during the tax year in which the assets were purchased when calculating net earnings or net losses for excise tax purposes; allows the taxpayer to take the federal depreciation percentage if it exceeds 40 percent. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 20. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 22, 2025 |
| SB 168 | Public Funds and Financing - As introduced, creates in the reserve for revenue fluctuations account a restricted account for the purchase and sale of precious metal bullion or specie; authorizes the state treasurer, with approval of the comptroller of the treasury, to purchase and sell precious metal bullion or specie with funds from that account. - Amends TCA Title 9. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 22, 2025 |
| SB 167 | Treasurer, State - As introduced, allows the state treasurer to enter into an agreement with an entity to carry out certain activities in order to serve as a facility to securely produce, store, process, and ship bullion products for the state's depository. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 4. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 22, 2025 |
| SB 138 | TennCare - As introduced, requires the bureau to reimburse a public or private air ambulance service that bills for transports and has a base of operations in this state that provides a covered emergency or nonemergency service to a TennCare recipient at a rate not less than 67.5 percent of the federal medicare program's allowable charge for participating providers. - Amends TCA Title 68 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 22, 2025 |
| SB 603 | Education, Higher - As introduced, requires the Tennessee student assistance corporation to submit an annual report, by July 31 each year, to legislative committees having jurisdiction over postsecondary education detailing, for each of the five immediately preceding academic years for which the corporation awarded scholarships, the amount appropriated by the general assembly for the scholarship program, the total number of scholarship applications received by the corporation, the total number of scholarship recipients, and the average scholarship award amount. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 21, 2025 |
| SR 144 | Memorials, Sports - Upperman Bees, TSSAA Division I, Class 3A state champions - | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 15, 2025 |
| SR 140 | Memorials, Retirement - Lanny Selby, Sparta Fire Department - | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 15, 2025 |
| SJR 324 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Sam Dicus, Salutatorian, White County High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 10, 2025 |
| SJR 323 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Abby Heady, Valedictorian, White County High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 10, 2025 |
| SJR 300 | Memorials, Sports - Stone Memorial Middle School Lady Panthers, Class AA state champions - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 10, 2025 |
| SJR 299 | Memorials, Retirement - J.T. King, Sparta Police Department - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 10, 2025 |
| SJR 298 | Memorials, Recognition - Cumberland Medical Center, 75th anniversary - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 10, 2025 |
| SJR 297 | Memorials, Recognition - White County Fair, 2025 Class A Division State Champion Fair - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 10, 2025 |
| SB 790 | Law Enforcement Training Academy - As enacted, requires the peace officer standards and training commission to issue a certificate of compliance to a person appointed as a private special deputy on or after January 1, 2026, if the person meets the qualifications for employment as a police officer and satisfactorily completes an approved recruit training program; requires annual in-service training sessions to retain such certification. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 38 and Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 4, 2025 |
| SB 292 | Real Property - As enacted, creates a legal process through which a person may request the immediate removal of an unlawful occupant of the person's commercial real property by filing a complaint with the sheriff for the county in which the property is located. - Amends TCA Title 29 and Title 66. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 4, 2025 |
| SB 914 | Handgun Permits - As introduced, extends the time, from 30 to 45 days, within which a person whose handgun carry permit has been suspended or revoked may petition the chancery court for judicial review of the department of safety's final determination. - Amends TCA Title 39. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 1, 2025 |
| SB 441 | Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, specifies that a person does not commit an offense if the person possesses or carries a firearm into an area that is posted if, upon the request of an individual authorized to control access to the property, the person immediately leaves the property or stores the firearm in a personal vehicle in accordance with state law. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 1, 2025 |
| SR 63 | Memorials, Recognition - Karly Anderson, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 27, 2025 |
| SR 62 | Memorials, Recognition - Cassie Kessler, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 27, 2025 |
| SR 61 | Memorials, Recognition - Emily Griffis, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 27, 2025 |
| SR 60 | Memorials, Recognition - John Conrad, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 27, 2025 |
| SB 9 | Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, removes the restriction on the direct employment of radiologists, pathologists, anesthesiologists, and emergency physicians by hospitals and certain healthcare facilities. - Amends TCA Title 47; Title 63 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 26, 2025 |
| SB 793 | Health, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the commissioner to report to the chairs of legislative committees having jurisdiction over health-related matters on the standards and policies for assisted reproductive technology in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 29; Title 36; Title 63 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 26, 2025 |
| SR 55 | Memorials, Recognition - Debbie Hamby, Cumberland Medical Center - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 25, 2025 |
| SR 54 | Memorials, Personal Occasion - Lillian Dagner, 100th birthday - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 25, 2025 |
| SB 243 | Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates a Class E felony for altering or defacing a permanent distinguishing number on a firearm and selling, purchasing, or possessing such a firearm with a mandatory minimum sentence of 180 days incarceration. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14, Part 1; Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13 and Title 40. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 25, 2025 |
| SB 285 | Real Property - As introduced, changes from a preponderance of the evidence to clear and convincing evidence the burden of proof for a debtor to prove that property sold at a foreclosure sale for an amount materially less than the fair market value in order to rebut the presumption that the foreclosure sale price of the property was equal to the fair market value at the time of sale. - Amends TCA Title 35. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 24, 2025 |
| SB 512 | Consumer Protection - As enacted, prohibits persons from selling, offering for sale, or offering a free sample of counterfeit lighters and unsafe lighters. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 47. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 21, 2025 |
| SB 514 | Education, Curriculum - As introduced, requires local education agencies and public charter schools to provide age-appropriate instruction to students on how to access, utilize, and critically evaluate various artificial intelligence tools within the curriculum taught by the educator; requires the department of education to issue guidance on how to implement the required instruction; requires the department to provide a professional development program in artificial intelligence education for educators, subject to available funding. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 19, 2025 |
| SB 410 | Financial Institutions, Dept. of - As introduced, increases, from November 1 to December 31 to October 15 to December 31, the time frame during which a licensee under the Money Transmission Modernization Act must pay the annual nonrefundable supervision fee and submit its annual renewal report to the department. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 45 and Title 67, Chapter 6. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 18, 2025 |
| SB 792 | Criminal Offenses - As introduced, requires the district attorneys general conference to compile a yearly report detailing convictions made pursuant to the Terrorism Prevention and Response Act of 2002 during the previous year; requires the report to be provided to the general assembly no later than January 15 each year. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 10; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 55 and Title 58. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 7, 2025 |
| SB 796 | Boards and Commissions - As introduced, vacates and reconstitutes the Tennessee board of water quality, oil and gas effective July 1, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 69, Chapter 3. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 6, 2025 |
| SJR 49 | Memorials, Death - Randall Earl Heady - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 4, 2025 |
| SB 31 | Motor Vehicles - As introduced, changes from January 15 to January 1, the beginning date of each year at which time the department of transportation may reduce the maximum weight of vehicle loads if necessary to protect the streets, roads, highways, or other public thoroughfares from unnecessary injury or damage. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 47; Title 54; Title 55; Title 56; Title 65; Title 66 and Title 67. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 18, 2025 |
| SR 3 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Robert Glenn Officer, Most Excellent Great Chief of The Grand Council of Knight Masons - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | February 13, 2025 |
| SB 999 | Commerce and Insurance, Dept. of - As introduced, removes an obsolete requirement for the commissioner to conduct a study of this state's insurance laws to determine what impediments, if any, exist under the laws or policies that may be 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 report the results of the study to the general assembly no later than March 1, 2012. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| SB 998 | Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, increases, from 30 to 35 days, the time that an insurance company has to remove a person as an officer or director of the company after receipt of an order from the commissioner of commerce and insurance to do so. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 56 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| SB 996 | Criminal Procedure - As introduced, creates an exception to the requirement that a petitioner pay the costs of a petition to restore the person's citizenship rights if the court finds that the petitioner is indigent. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 4; Title 22; Title 36; Title 39 and Title 40. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| SB 791 | Civil Procedure - As introduced, specifies that an unauthorized alien does not have standing to commence or appear as a plaintiff in certain civil actions. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 16; Title 20; Title 28 and Title 29. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| SB 768 | Business Organizations - As introduced, changes, from January 1 to January 15, the beginning of the time frame during which a domestic professional corporation or foreign professional corporation authorized to transact business in this state must deliver for filing to each licensing authority having jurisdiction over a professional service described in the corporation's charter an annual statement of qualification. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 39; Title 47; Title 48; Title 62 and Title 63. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| SB 767 | Economic and Community Development, Dept. of - As introduced, requires that a broadband ready community’s ordinance or policy for reviewing applications must contain a provision that all applications related to the project be either approved or denied within 30 calendar days, rather than 30 business days, after the applications are submitted. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 13; Title 65 and Title 67. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| SB 605 | Real Property - As introduced, extends from 10 to 20 days, the time within which a non-contracting spouse must serve the prime contractor with written notice of that spouse's objection to a contract for improving real property after learning of the contract when the contract is made with a husband or a wife who is not separated and living apart from that person's spouse, and the property is owned by the other spouse or by both spouses, in order to avoid the other spouse being deemed the agent of the objecting spouse. - Amends TCA Title 66, Chapter 11. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| SB 513 | Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, extends, from June 30, 2025, to June 30, 2028, the authorization for an emergency medical service employee who has been retired for at least 60 days from TCRS to accept employment as an emergency medical services employee without loss or suspension of retirement benefits if certain conditions are met. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 36, Part 8 and Title 68, Chapter 140, Part 3. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| SB 1001 | Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, removes an obsolete reference to January 1, 2010, as the date by which group health plans and health insurance issuers were required to begin providing electronic health insurance claims data for state residents to the commissioner of commerce and insurance or a designated entity authorized by the commissioner each month. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| SB 1000 | Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, removes an obsolete reference to the length of the validity for an insurance producer license issued on or after January 1, 2007; changes, from March 1 to March 15, the date that a business entity license under the Tennessee Insurance Producer Licensing Act of 2002 expires biennially. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| SB 287 | Telecommunications - As introduced, removes a requirement that the comptroller report to the general assembly, not later than January 31, 2008, with recommendations regarding whether the pilot project that authorized certain municipal electric systems to provide services beyond their service area with certain limitations should be continued or expanded to other systems. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 9; Title 12; Title 13; Title 35, Chapter 8, Part 1; Section 37-10-204; Section 38-6-121; Title 39; Title 40, Chapter 6, Part 3; Title 47, Chapter 18; Title 54; Title 55; Title 65; Title 66; Title 67; Title 68 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 10, 2025 |
| SB 607 | Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, deletes the offense of unlawful carrying of a firearm or club with the intent to go armed; lowers the age requirement to obtain an enhanced or concealed handgun carry permit from 21 to 18 years of age. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | February 4, 2025 |
| SB 169 | Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, clarifies that the notification provided by a retiree's new employer to the retirement system concerning the reemployment of the retiree as a law enforcement officer must be provided in writing. - Amends TCA Title 8. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 27, 2025 |