Tennessee · Current officeholder
Raumesh Akbari
Democratic Tennessee Senate, District 29
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Sponsored legislation
237 bills in the current data (237 as primary sponsor), sorted by most recent official action. Linked by Open States person ID.
| Bill | Title | Role | Stage | Last action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SB 2693 | Millington - Subject to local approval, requires a candidate for the office of mayor to be a resident of the City of Millington for one year preceding the election rather than 60 days to qualify to run for such office. - Amends Chapter 238 of the Acts of 1903; as amended and rewritten. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | June 3, 2026 |
| SB 232 | Election Laws - As enacted, authorizes the county election commission to designate restroom facilities in each building in which the election is held that are for the use of workers or volunteers working for a campaign with certain limitations on access. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 7. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 27, 2026 |
| SB 1700 | Consumer Protection - As enacted, requires the Tennessee advisory commission on intergovernmental relations (TACIR) to conduct a study of the potential regulation of artificial intelligence systems and generative artificial intelligence chatbots in this state. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 37 and Title 47. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 27, 2026 |
| SB 2669 | Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, revises law relative to leave for teachers. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 26, 2026 |
| SB 2377 | Education - As enacted, requires the state board of education to establish a qualified dyslexia interventionist endorsement to allow an educator to provide targeted instructional intervention, academic support, behavioral support, or related services to students demonstrating characteristics of dyslexia. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 18, 2026 |
| SB 1170 | Criminal Offenses - As enacted, provides that a person is criminally responsible for an offense committed by the conduct of another if, acting with intent to benefit in the proceeds or results of the offense, the person solicits, directs, aids, or attempts to aid another person to commit the offense. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 11; Title 39, Chapter 12; Title 39, Chapter 13; Title 39, Chapter 14; Title 40, Chapter 24; Title 40, Chapter 35 and Title 40, Chapter 39. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 15, 2026 |
| SJR 988 | Memorials, Recognition - ALS Awareness Month - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 11, 2026 |
| SJR 1271 | Memorials, Personal Occasion - John Patrick Hallet and Susan Marie Hallet, 45th wedding anniversary - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 11, 2026 |
| SJR 1235 | Memorials, Retirement - Scott Sutherland, Senior Deputy Attorney General - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 11, 2026 |
| SR 449 | Memorials, Recognition - Paytn Gibson, Carter Holmes, and Ty Miller of Memphis East T-STEM Academy - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 30, 2026 |
| SR 432 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Dr. Ollie Liddell, 2026 Outstanding High School Music Educator - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 30, 2026 |
| SR 431 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Corey Armstrong, Valedictorian, Fairley High School - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 30, 2026 |
| SR 430 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Viondre Johnson, Salutatorian, Fairley High School - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 30, 2026 |
| SR 429 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Liliana Mendez-Medina, Valedictorian, Raleigh-Egypt High School - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 30, 2026 |
| SR 428 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Dariana Sanchez Arredondo, Salutatorian, Raleigh-Egypt High School - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 30, 2026 |
| SR 420 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Emily Rodriguez, Valedictorian, Hamilton High School - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 30, 2026 |
| SR 419 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Travis Houston, Salutatorian, Hamilton High School - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 30, 2026 |
| SR 418 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Aiden Lockhart, Valedictorian, Middle College High School - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 30, 2026 |
| SR 417 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Rakyah Watson, Salutatorian, Middle College High School - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 30, 2026 |
| SR 416 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Amir Farmer, Valedictorian, Mitchell High School - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 30, 2026 |
| SR 415 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Lashayla Williams, Salutatorian, Mitchell High School - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 30, 2026 |
| SR 414 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - A'Niya Graham, Valedictorian, Whitehaven High School - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 30, 2026 |
| SR 413 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Olivia Mann, Salutatorian, Whitehaven High School - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 30, 2026 |
| SR 412 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Emily McKell, Valedictorian, Millington Central High School - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 30, 2026 |
| SR 411 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Morgan Burns, Salutatorian, Millington Central High School - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 30, 2026 |
| SR 410 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Jason Jimenez Perez, Valedictorian, Central High School - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 30, 2026 |
| SR 409 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Ajada McGowan, Salutatorian, Central High School - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 30, 2026 |
| SR 408 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Laurencia Fulwiley, Valedictorian, Westwood High School - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 30, 2026 |
| SR 407 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Dartaniel Brenton, Salutatorian, Westwood High School - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 30, 2026 |
| SB 2670 | Public Contracts - As enacted, enacts the "Higher Education Purchasing Act." - Amends TCA Title 12 and Title 49. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 29, 2026 |
| SB 579 | Employees, Employers - As enacted, allows for eligible employees to be absent four weeks from work following a living organ donation surgery; requires the department of health to create living organ donor informational material and make such material available on the department's website. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 50; Title 56 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 28, 2026 |
| SB 1159 | Correction, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to conduct a study concerning subjects related to access of family members to incarcerated persons for visitation; requires the department to report its findings to each member of the general assembly and to provide a copy of the report to the legislative librarian by no later than January 31, 2027. - Amends TCA Title 41, Chapter 51. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 28, 2026 |
| SB 1697 | DNA and Genetic Testing - As enacted, directs the department of health to test for the presence of sickle cell trait in each newborn and, if the test results are positive for sickle cell trait, to notify the parent or legal guardian of the newborn tested as soon as practicable. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 5. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 27, 2026 |
| SB 1970 | Public Records - As enacted, entitles an individual who is not a citizen of this state to inspect or receive a copy of any law enforcement record or report pertaining solely to that individual. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 24, 2026 |
| SB 1213 | Education - As enacted, empowers a student who is an English language learner and who received language assistance services in the classroom during the school year to receive the same language assistance services while taking a Tennessee comprehensive assessment program test or an end-of-course assessment, as long as the receipt of language assistance services does not invalidate the assessment. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 24, 2026 |
| SJR 1257 | Memorials, Personal Occasion - John Patrick Hallet and Susan Marie Hallet, 45th wedding anniversary - | Primary sponsor | Introduced | April 23, 2026 |
| SB 587 | Health, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to establish and administer a pilot program for the placement of hygiene vending machines that dispense feminine hygiene products to students at no cost to the student in women's restrooms or locker rooms in each eligible school selected to participate in the program. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 20, 2026 |
| SB 2684 | Taxes, Sales - As introduced, changes the date, from February 1 to February 15, by which the department of revenue must submit its annual report regarding information and findings and any recommendations concerning sales taxes the department collects on the sale of electronic nicotine delivery devices to the speaker of the senate, speaker of the house of representatives, and chairs of the finance, ways and means committees of the senate and house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 20, 2026 |
| SB 1835 | Taxes, Sales - As introduced, reduces the rate on the state sales tax on food and food ingredients from 4 percent to 2 percent of the sales price. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 20, 2026 |
| SB 1695 | Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, exempts the retail sale of food and food ingredients from the sales and use tax when sold on the fifth day of any month. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 20, 2026 |
| SB 155 | Local Education Agencies - As introduced, enacts the "Menstrual Hygiene Products Accessibility Act," which requires, instead of authorizes, LEAs and public charter schools to provide feminine hygiene products at no charge in all women's and girls' bathrooms, in all locker rooms, and with school nurses at each public senior high school for student use only. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 49 and Title 67. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 20, 2026 |
| SB 1352 | Environment and Conservation, Department of - As introduced, requires the department to create and maintain an informational tool on the department's website that provides data related to the presence of facilities that are required to submit toxic release inventory data to the environmental protection agency. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 59; Title 60; Title 68 and Title 69. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 20, 2026 |
| SB 1172 | Historical Sites and Preservation - As introduced, enacts the "African American Cultural and Historical Grant Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9 and Title 13. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 20, 2026 |
| SB 1164 | Taxes, Sales - As introduced, exempts the retail sale of fresh, frozen, and canned fruit and vegetables for human consumption from the food retail sales tax. - Amends TCA Section 67-6-228. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 20, 2026 |
| SJR 989 | Memorials, Interns - Donyell Hess - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 16, 2026 |
| SJR 1025 | Memorials, Recognition - Dr. Stacey Floyd-Thomas - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 16, 2026 |
| SR 359 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Kaden Gritzmaker, Valedictorian, Fairley High School - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 7, 2026 |
| SR 358 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Jamarcus Olden, Salutatorian, Fairley High School - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 7, 2026 |
| SB 2392 | Employees, Employers - As introduced, creates the "Anti-Retaliation for Reporting Unsafe Work Act." - Amends TCA Title 50. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 7, 2026 |
| SB 1694 | Commerce and Insurance, Dept. of - As introduced, extends from 30 days to 30 business days the period of time within which an insurer must respond to the department's request for information in regard to a complaint filed against the insurer. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 39; Title 52; Title 56; Title 58; Title 68 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 7, 2026 |
| SB 1185 | Economic and Community Development - As introduced, enacts the "Small Business Growth and Empowerment Act"; authorizes business tax credits for small businesses hiring locally or providing workforce training; creates grants for minority-owned and women-owned businesses in underserved areas. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 7 and Title 67, Chapter 4. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 7, 2026 |
| SB 336 | Election Laws - As enacted, revises present law that prohibits a person convicted of an infamous crime after May 18, 1981, from being eligible to have the right to vote restored unless the person meets certain requirements, including having been compliant with all child support orders for the previous 12 months, including orders related to child support arrearages. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 40. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 6, 2026 |
| SB 1635 | Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As enacted, clarifies that stuttering and other types of communication disorders are qualifying medical conditions for purposes of the "2021 Precious Cargo Act," which authorizes drivers who have certain medical conditions to apply for a designation in the Tennessee Vehicle Title and Registration System (VTRS) database of a need for assistance in communicating with first responders during traffic stops. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 21, Part 3. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 6, 2026 |
| SR 356 | Memorials, Recognition - Vintage901 Wine, Food and Music Festival, 10th anniversary - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 2, 2026 |
| SR 355 | Memorials, Recognition - Pastor Mike Ellis, Sr. and Impact Baptist Church and Ministries, 20th church anniversary - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 2, 2026 |
| SR 354 | Memorials, Personal Occasion - Malcolm Louis Wallace, 79th birthday - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 2, 2026 |
| SB 2676 | Children - As introduced, increases from 14 to 21 days, the maximum amount of time per year that an entity or organization may provide child care on an occasional or infrequent basis through a "Parents' Night Out" or similar "Special Event" program while remaining exempt from the department of human service's licensing requirements. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 49; Title 50; Title 67 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 1, 2026 |
| SJR 926 | Memorials, Recognition - The Brown Four - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 31, 2026 |
| SB 1698 | Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases the penalty for criminal impersonation of a law enforcement officer from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony if the offense occurs while the defendant is committing or attempting to commit a crime of violence. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 30, 2026 |
| SB 833 | Law Enforcement - As introduced, requires a law enforcement officer who becomes aware that an order of protection has been entered against a person in the officer’s presence but has not been served on the person to take appropriate steps to facilitate service of the order of protection, including notifying the sheriff’s department of the person’s immediate location; requires the curriculum of the Tennessee peace officer standards and training commission to include instruction on such requirements. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6; Title 38 and Title 40. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 25, 2026 |
| SB 662 | Mental Illness - As introduced, establishes a rebuttable presumption that a person poses an imminent substantial likelihood of serious harm and needs emergency detention and examination if the person was charged with one of certain criminal offenses and ordered by the criminal, circuit, or general sessions court to undergo an evaluation to determine whether the person is incompetent to stand trial or the person's mental capacity at the time of the commission of the crime; requires clear and convincing evidence to rebut the presumption. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 40 and Title 52. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 25, 2026 |
| SB 2665 | Bail, Bail Bonds - As introduced, requires a court or magistrate to impose global positioning monitoring as a condition of release for a defendant accused of certain offenses, unless the court or magistrate enters written findings that the defendant does not pose a threat to the victim or public safety; requires the administrative office of the courts to compile an annual report of the number of defendants subject to such an order. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 25, 2026 |
| SB 2664 | Criminal Offenses - As introduced, adds to the criminal offense of aggravated assault, an assault that involves brandishing a deadly weapon; defines brandish to mean waving or exhibiting a weapon in a manner that would be found by a reasonable person to indicate a threat to use the weapon. - Amends TCA Title 39. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 25, 2026 |
| SB 2380 | Criminal Procedure - As introduced, allows a misdemeanor offender to petition to have the offender's criminal history records sealed after completion of all requirements of sentencing and at least five years without being convicted of a new offense; excludes domestic assault and driving under the influence from eligibility to be sealed. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 25, 2026 |
| SB 2095 | Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases the amount of marijuana that may be possessed, from one-half ounce to five ounces, for it to be considered a small amount of marijuana and punishable as a Class A misdemeanor; revises penalty to make it punishable by a $500 fine for a first offense and a $1,000 fine for a second or subsequent offense. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 25, 2026 |
| SB 1977 | Probation and Parole - As introduced, specifies that if the trial judge finds by a preponderance of the evidence that the defendant has violated conditions of probation and suspension of sentence for a felony offense by engaging in conduct that constitutes a drug offense, then for the first instance of such a violation, the trial judge must order the defendant to attend a substance abuse treatment program and must not revoke the defendant's probation and suspension of sentence. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 35. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 25, 2026 |
| SB 1976 | Law Enforcement - As introduced, requires a law enforcement agency that uses body cameras to adopt a written policy for the use of the cameras by its law enforcement officers; establishes certain requirements for the policies. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 1. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 25, 2026 |
| SB 1191 | Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, enacts "Akilah's Law," which creates the offense of selling, offering to sell, delivering, or transferring a firearm to a person knowing the person has been a patient in a mental institution at any time within the previous five years. - Amends TCA Title 33 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 25, 2026 |
| SB 1187 | Bail, Bail Bonds - As introduced, makes various changes to criminal law, including requiring defendants accused of certain offenses to be subject to a global positioning monitoring system as condition of bail. - Amends TCA Title 10; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Chapter 969 of the Public Acts of 2024 and Chapter 1033 of the Public Acts of 2024. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 25, 2026 |
| SB 1186 | Children - As introduced, authorizes a juvenile court to order a child who is accused of being delinquent or unruly and released prior to a hearing to wear a global positioning monitoring system device; if the court issues such an order, requires the entity operating the global positioning monitoring system to notify the probation officer or other entity ordered to take charge of the child if the child violates the instructions issued by the court upon release; requires students who are expelled for committing a zero tolerance offense for threatening mass violence on school property or at a school-related activity to undergo counseling and a mental health evaluation before returning to school. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39; Title 40, Chapter 11 and Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 25, 2026 |
| SB 1182 | Sentencing - As introduced, requires a local community corrections advisory board to provide its annual report to the county legislative body on the progress of community corrections programs by February 1 of each year. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 16; Title 37; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 41. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 25, 2026 |
| SR 285 | General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Dwayne Thompson, Tennessee Ethics Commission - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 24, 2026 |
| SB 2662 | Safety, Dept. of - As introduced, enacts the “Oral-Fluid DUI Testing and Evidence-Based Enforcement Safeguards Act." - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 4. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 24, 2026 |
| SB 2390 | Immigration - As introduced, affords an individual detained pursuant to a federal detention agreement certain rights while detained. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 10; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 24, 2026 |
| SB 2389 | Registers of Deeds - As introduced, creates a two-year pilot program that requires the register of deeds in Shelby County to verify and record the government-issued photo identification of individuals presenting documents for in-person property transfers. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 10; Title 66 and Title 67. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 24, 2026 |
| SB 2383 | Taxes, Ad Valorem - As introduced, establishes limitations on the property tax rates set by a county or municipality. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 24, 2026 |
| SB 2378 | Election Laws - As introduced, requires a county election commission, upon receipt of a bona fide complaint of a violation of a person's right to vote in an election, to document the details of the complaint and electronically submit the complaint to the state election commission. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 4; Title 8; Title 29; Title 39 and Title 41. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 24, 2026 |
| SB 2097 | Election Laws - As introduced, requires the secretary of state to direct each county election commission to place a ballot question on the ballot for the November general election in 2026 asking voters whether this state should legalize the sale, possession, and use of medical cannabis. - Amends TCA Title 2. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 24, 2026 |
| SB 1973 | Immigration - As introduced, enacts the “Tennessee Freedom from Unlawful Immigration Detention Act.” - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 8; Title 38; Title 40 and Title 41. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 24, 2026 |
| SB 1972 | Veterans - As introduced, enacts the “Tennessee Veteran Protection and Due Process Act.” - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 8; Title 38 and Title 58. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 24, 2026 |
| SB 1906 | Criminal Offenses - As introduced, adds as an affirmative defense to the offense of criminal exposure of another to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), proof by a preponderance of the evidence that a person infected with HIV was in compliance with a treatment regime prescribed by the person's healthcare provider to medically suppress the risk of HIV transmission. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 24, 2026 |
| SB 1699 | Immigration - As introduced, prohibits the use of certain public properties, schools, and religious institutions for certain civil immigration enforcement activities; requires state departments and agencies to make available to the public certain information concerning person's rights with regard to federal agents. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7, Chapter 68; Title 12; Title 38; Title 49 and Title 50, Chapter 1. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 24, 2026 |
| SB 589 | Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, expands the definition of a health benefit plan; requires a health benefit plan that amends, renews, or delivers a policy of coverage on or after January 1, 2026, and that provides coverage for prescription contraceptives, to provide coverage for a 12-month refill of contraceptives obtained at one time by an insured person. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 23, 2026 |
| SB 581 | Law Enforcement - As introduced, requires a law enforcement officer initiating a traffic stop or pedestrian stop, on or after January 1, 2026, to inform the person stopped of the reason for the stop before engaging the person in questioning related to an investigation of a possible criminal offense or traffic violation; permits the officer to withhold such information if the officer believes that doing so is necessary to protect life or property from an imminent threat. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 23, 2026 |
| SB 2381 | Expunction - As introduced, extends the time period within which a court ordering the expunction of a person's public records of a criminal offense must send a copy of the expunction order to the Tennessee bureau of investigation from 30 days to 45 days. - Amends TCA Section 8-21-401 and Title 40. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 23, 2026 |
| SB 2099 | Courts, Administrative Office of the - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Court Appearance Reminder Program Act." - Amends TCA Title 16 and Title 40. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 23, 2026 |
| SB 1971 | Immigration - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Private Workplace Due Process and Warrant Protection Act." - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 8; Title 38; Title 50; Title 62 and Title 66. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 23, 2026 |
| SB 1636 | Guardians and Conservators - As enacted, requires a fiduciary's sworn accounting of receipts and expenditures filed annually with the court supervising a guardianship or conservatorship to include the date of the fiduciary's last contact with the person with a disability. - Amends TCA Title 34. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 23, 2026 |
| SB 1353 | Criminal Procedure - As introduced, restores the right of suffrage for persons convicted of an infamous crime after expiration of the sentence imposed for the infamous crime; removes requirement that the person pay restitution and court costs and be current in all child support obligations before having the person's right of suffrage restored; permits a person to have the right of suffrage restored without having the person's full rights of citizenship restored. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 40. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 23, 2026 |
| SB 1350 | Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, allows a court to issue an extreme risk protection order upon a finding by clear and convincing evidence that a person poses a significant danger of causing personal injury to the person or others if allowed to possess or purchase a firearm; authorizes a law enforcement officer or relative to file a petition for an extreme risk protection order; creates an offense to store or keep a firearm in any place unless the firearm is secured in a locked container, unloaded, and separate from ammunition except when the firearm is carried by or under the control of the owner or other lawfully authorized user; prohibits a gun dealer from delivering a firearm to a purchaser until 15 business days after the completion of certain requirements. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 38 and Title 39, Chapter 17. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 23, 2026 |
| SB 2675 | Children - As introduced, exempts a school social worker, licensed by the state board of education, who provides preventative and developmental counseling, from having to obtain the consent of a parent of a minor prior to rendering such services. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 8; Title 49 and Title 63, Chapter 1. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 18, 2026 |
| SB 2674 | Education - As introduced, enacts the "Public Education Investments Act"; increases, from $50,000 to $50,290, the minimum base salary in the state salary schedule for teachers; increases from 5 percent to 10 percent the weighted allocation for a student who is a member in a school that is eligible for Title I schoolwide designation in the Tennessee Investment in Student Achievement Act; increases the amount of a Tennessee middle college scholarship by 3 percent each academic year for 10 academic years. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 18, 2026 |
| SB 2667 | Health, Dept. of - As introduced, directs the department to submit a report on the feasibility of creating and implementing a graduate physician licensure program that would allow a person who has graduated from an allopathic medical school and passed the United States Medical Licensing Examination, but who has not completed an accredited postgraduate residency program, to provide medical services within a framework of a continuous collaboration and supervision agreement with a licensed physician 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 on or before January 1, 2027. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 18, 2026 |
| SB 2387 | School Vouchers - As introduced, requires private schools that participate in the education savings account program or the individualized education account program, or that enroll recipients of an education freedom scholarship, to publish various items on the school's website; requires such private schools to ensure educators hold a valid license to teach and are evaluated in the same manner as public school teachers; requires students participating in any such program to be administered various assessments; requires the department of education to assign a school letter grade to such private schools. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 18, 2026 |
| SB 2384 | Education - As introduced, requires local education agencies and public charter schools to notify the parent or legal guardian of each student enrolled in the LEA or public charter school of their right to opt their student out of receiving instruction on firearm safety; allows a school social worker licensed by the state board of education to provide certain preventative and developmental counseling services to students without first obtaining parental consent. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6 and Title 63. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 18, 2026 |
| SB 1978 | School Vouchers - As introduced, establishes various audit and reporting requirements for the department of education and private schools that enroll recipients of an education freedom scholarship; limits eligibility for the scholarship program to students who are members of a family with an annual household income that does not exceed 300 percent of the amount required for a student to qualify for free or reduced lunch; requires scholarship recipients to be administered the same TCAP tests administered to public school students enrolled in the same grade level or course subject. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29; Title 8, Chapter 44; Title 10, Chapter 7 and Title 49, Chapter 6. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 18, 2026 |
| SB 1975 | School Vouchers - As introduced, allows a child with a medical condition that inhibits the child from attending school in person to receive an individualized education account to enroll in a home school program. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 18, 2026 |
| SB 1696 | Education - As introduced, establishes that a public institution of education may provide an opportunity or benefit exclusively to one sex through a program if the institution provides a substantially similar or reasonably comparable opportunity or benefit to the opposite sex through a different program. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 18, 2026 |
| SB 1175 | Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires the department of education, by July 31 each year, to list on its website each LEA designated as a high performing school district for the upcoming school year and how long the LEA will be designated a high performing school district before having to meet the criteria for re-designation. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 18, 2026 |
| SB 1163 | Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires, instead of encourages, LEAs and public charter schools to incorporate training in evidence-based skills training on positive behavioral interventions and supports, conflict prevention, functional behavior assessments, de-escalation, and conflict management into its behavior intervention training program; requires at least two hours of such training each school year; allows the hours of training received to be applied toward in-service training requirements. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 18, 2026 |
| SB 1354 | Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services, Dept. of - As introduced, directs the department to develop and implement a suicide prevention program; requires the department to submit a report to legislative committees with jurisdiction over health-related matters on this program and any suggestions from the department based upon the research conducted from the previous calendar year. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 63 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 17, 2026 |
| SB 2661 | Schools, Charter - As introduced, changes from December 11 to December 15, the date by which the state board of education is required to post the information received from each local education agency regarding the total amount of authorizer fees collected by the LEA in the previous school year and the authorizing obligations fulfilled using the authorizer fees collected on its website. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 13. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 11, 2026 |
| SB 2660 | Education - As introduced, amends the criminal offense of threatening to commit an act of mass violence on school property to apply only to a valid and credible threat; requires a local education agency's threat assessment procedures to include, when assessing a student based on dangerous or threatening behavior, a written assessment of the student by a mental healthcare provider, which may be performed via telehealth. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 11, 2026 |
| SB 2386 | Local Education Agencies - As introduced, allows a nonprofit or for-profit entity that operates an adult high school under a contract with a local board of education to receive state and local funding in years subsequent to the first year of the adult high school's operation based on current enrollment numbers that are reported and adjusted no less than three times per year. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 11, 2026 |
| SB 1836 | Highways, Roads and Bridges - As introduced, requires the department of transportation to study the development of a new bridge crossing the Mississippi River and connecting to Arkansas. - Amends TCA Title 54. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 11, 2026 |
| SB 585 | Finance and Administration, Dept. of - As introduced, allows the department, office of criminal justice programs, to use available existing resources to seek appropriate funding and resources from the federal and state governments to design and implement grants to reduce gun violence in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 38; Title 39; Title 47 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 9, 2026 |
| SB 1421 | Civil Procedure - As introduced, creates an affirmative defense that may be utilized by a covered entity that is the subject of a data breach, if the covered entity’s cybersecurity program meets certain criteria at the time the breach occurs. - Amends TCA Title 20; Title 29 and Title 47, Chapter 18. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 9, 2026 |
| SJR 654 | Memorials, Recognition - Melvin Deener - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 6, 2026 |
| SR 332 | Memorials, Recognition - The Links Day on the Hill, March 9-10, 2026 - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 5, 2026 |
| SR 331 | Memorials, Recognition - Shavon Arline-Bradley - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 5, 2026 |
| SB 1969 | Health Care - As introduced, creates the state uterine fibroids commission. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 63 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 4, 2026 |
| SR 329 | Memorials, Recognition - Alpha Beta Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., 100th anniversary - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 3, 2026 |
| SB 235 | Law Enforcement - As introduced, requires an employing law enforcement agency to contact any prior law enforcement agency that employed the agency's officer or special deputy as part of the thorough investigation into the person's good moral character. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 8. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 2, 2026 |
| SB 2098 | Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates an offense for a vape shop retailer, or a distributor, wholesaler, or importer, who sells or offers for sale a vapor product for retail sale in this state to sell nitrous oxides. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 57, Chapter 7 and Title 67. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 2, 2026 |
| SB 1181 | Criminal Procedure - As introduced, lowers from 20 days to 15 days the notice of a hearing on a petition for restoration of rights of citizenship that must be given to the district attorney general of the county in which the petitioner currently resides and the district attorney general of the county in which the petitioner was convicted in order that, if deemed advisable, each may resist. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 4; Title 22; Title 36; Title 39 and Title 40. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 2, 2026 |
| SJR 580 | Naming and Designating - Designates July 2026 as "Uterine Fibroid Awareness Month." - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | February 26, 2026 |
| SB 1351 | Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As introduced, requires the bureau to maintain with each investigative case file copies of all original investigative materials, including audio and video files, recordings, transcripts, documents, reports, paperwork, and other print or digital media generated by the bureau and germane to the investigation by the bureau. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5 and Title 38, Chapter 6. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 17, 2026 |
| SR 289 | Memorials, Recognition - Delta Days at the Capitol - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | February 13, 2026 |
| SJR 582 | Memorials, Death - Minister Michaele Anne Byers - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 11, 2026 |
| SJR 581 | Memorials, Death - Steve Cropper - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 11, 2026 |
| SJR 579 | Memorials, Death - Marzie Thomas - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 11, 2026 |
| SJR 578 | Memorials, Recognition - UNAPOLOGETIC, 10th anniversary - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 11, 2026 |
| SJR 577 | Memorials, Death - Julian Taylor Bolton - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 11, 2026 |
| SJR 576 | Memorials, Recognition - Phi Beta Sigma Memphis Alumni Chapter, 90th Anniversary - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 11, 2026 |
| SJR 575 | Memorials, Recognition - West Tennessee Annual Conference of AME Church, 151st session - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 11, 2026 |
| SJR 574 | Memorials, Death - Dr. Barbara Alfreda Duncan-Cody - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 11, 2026 |
| SB 2673 | Economic and Community Development - As introduced, creates the "Automotive Supply Chain Resilience and Expansion Act." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 7; Title 9; Title 12 and Title 67. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2026 |
| SB 2672 | Public Contracts - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Businesses First Act," which requires local governmental entities to provide a 30-day local bidding period for certain contracts, during which only local businesses may submit bids; creates a bidding preference for local businesses. - Amends TCA Title 9 and Title 12. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2026 |
| SB 2671 | Insurance, Motor Vehicles - As introduced, enacts the "Community Faith Transportation and Service Protection Act," which establishes secondary vehicle liability insurance provided by the state to a faith-based organization for vehicles used by the faith-based organization for community service use. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 8; Title 55 and Title 56. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2026 |
| SB 2668 | Education - As introduced, requires each elementary and secondary school to post two, rather than one, signs that contain the toll-free telephone number operated by the department of children's services to receive reports of child abuse or neglect. in clearly visible locations in public areas of the school that are readily accessible to students. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2026 |
| SB 2666 | Elder Abuse - As introduced, requires the court to set a date for a deposition to preserve testimony in a case in which an alleged offense against an elderly or vulnerable adult has been committed within 45 days, rather than 60 days, of the filing of the original motion to preserve testimony. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2026 |
| SB 2394 | Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the report detailing strategies the department intends to use to increase resources for services and supports, including those funded by Medicaid, TennCare, or other public and private sources, to be submitted in an electronic format. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 34; Title 52; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2026 |
| SB 2393 | Public Utilities - As introduced, requires the supervisory body of municipal electric plants to make the current schedule of rates and charges and all rules and regulations relating to electric service available to the public in an electronic format online. - Amends TCA Title 6; Title 7 and Title 65. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2026 |
| SB 2100 | Consumer Protection - As introduced, requires certain data controllers to annually register with the consumer protection division of the office of the attorney general and reporter; requires the division to create and maintain a website and accessible deletion mechanism that a consumer can use at no cost to make a single deletion request that is binding on all controllers registered with the division; makes other related changes to the Tennessee Information Protection Act. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18, Part 33. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2026 |
| SB 2096 | Human Resources, Department of - As introduced, excludes a child care agency that provides child care services through a child development program and is accredited by the United States department of defense from being subject to licensure as long as such child care agency provides child care services only to an eligible patron. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 3. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2026 |
| SB 1974 | State Employees - As introduced, enacts the "Parental Right to Participate in Schools Act," which entitles a state employee to up to 48 hours of annual paid or unpaid leave to attend school-related activities of a dependent child. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 50. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2026 |
| SJR 573 | Memorials, Death - Crossett Franklin, Sr. - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 3, 2026 |
| SJR 572 | Memorials, Recognition - Centenary United Methodist Church, historical marker dedication - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 3, 2026 |
| SB 2663 | Sentencing - As introduced, increases from one year to three years the amount of time a defendant receiving a split sentence of confinement and probation may be required to serve a portion of the sentence in continuous confinement in the local jail or workhouse; specifies that the state is responsible for all costs of incarceration after the first year. - Amends TCA Title 40 and Title 41. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | February 2, 2026 |
| SB 1834 | Traffic Safety - As introduced, authorizes a tow truck to display a single, steady-burning or flashing blue light to the rear, but not the front, of the tow truck when stationary and engaged in the recovery of, or otherwise providing assistance to, another vehicle. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 9, Part 4. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 2, 2026 |
| SJR 590 | Constitutional Amendments - Proposes an amendment to Article XI, Section 5 of the Constitution of Tennessee, to allow for bingo games conducted by 501(c)(3) or 501(c)(19) organizations to meet a charitable, nonprofit, or community service purpose. - | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 22, 2026 |
| SB 1701 | Women - As introduced, requires the department of health to maintain a database of demographic information of women diagnosed with uterine fibroids; requires the department to publish on its website existing resources and educational materials on uterine fibroids to increase public awareness of uterine fibroids and treatment options. - Amends TCA Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 22, 2026 |
| SJR 206 | Naming and Designating - Designates December 14 as "Hazel Moore Day." - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | January 13, 2026 |
| SB 517 | Education - As enacted, authorizes local education agencies and public charter schools to provide up to four days of the required 180 days of classroom instruction via hybrid learning in the event of dangerous or extreme weather conditions, or an emergency, as determined by the director of schools or the director of public charter schools. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 27, 2025 |
| SB 586 | Criminal Offenses - As enacted, clarifies that a person commits the offense of unlawful exposure by distributing a private, intimate image of another identifiable person with intent to cause emotional distress, regardless of whether the person who distributes the image was a party to the original agreement or understanding that the image would remain private. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 15, 2025 |
| SB 233 | State Government - As enacted, creates the conservatorship management task force. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 34 and Title 71, Chapter 2. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 15, 2025 |
| SB 231 | Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, requires TACIR to conduct a study on the feasibility of implementing and potential effects of enacting the insurance coverage requirements proposed in Senate Bill 231 of the 114th General Assembly, as originally filed; requires TACIR to publish a report of its findings and recommendations. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 15, 2025 |
| SB 1420 | Driver Licenses - As enacted, requires written examinations administered to applicants for a driver license or intermediate driver license to include questions concerning hand signals used by operators of bicycles to communicate turning, slowing, and stopping. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 15, 2025 |
| SB 1423 | Education - As enacted, requires each local board of education and public charter school governing body to develop and implement a policy to provide, with each K-8 student's report card, the student's score on the universal reading screener if administered to the student in the current school year, and the results of the dyslexia screener most recently administered to the student, if applicable. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 13, 2025 |
| SB 1166 | DUI Offenses - As enacted, requires the Tennessee bureau of investigation to provide a report to the speakers of the senate and the house of representatives on or before January 1 each year, until July 1, 2029, detailing the instances in the most recent year for which complete data is available in which a person was arrested for driving under the influence but where no alcohol or other intoxicants are detected in the person's blood or breath. - Amends TCA Title 6; Title 7; Title 8 and Title 38. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 13, 2025 |
| SB 344 | Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires at least one full-time employee at each school under the jurisdiction of an LEA or public charter school to annually receive training in seizure safety and first aid. - Amends TCA Title 49; Title 50 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 2, 2025 |
| SB 1178 | Disability and Aging, Dept. Of - As enacted, directs the commissioner and the director of TennCare to develop guidelines for service providers for hiring qualified family members as a family caregiver; specifies that the department and the bureau of TennCare shall not prohibit qualified individuals from employment as a family caregiver at a service provider agency based on certain listed criteria. - Amends TCA Title 52 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 30, 2025 |
| SB 582 | Education - As enacted, requires the department of education to establish enrollment deadlines for voluntary pre-kindergarten programs so that at-risk students who will be four years old by August 15 must be enrolled by the beginning of the school year and students who are four-year-olds who do not have a disability or who meet the qualifications for enrollment at three years of age must be enrolled by August 30. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 28, 2025 |
| SR 245 | Memorials, Recognition - Kortland Whalum - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 25, 2025 |
| SR 244 | Memorials, Recognition - Kameron Whalum - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 25, 2025 |
| SR 243 | Memorials, Recognition - Kenneth Whalum III - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 25, 2025 |
| SR 242 | Memorials, Sports - Taquez Butler, Class 4A Mr. Basketball - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 25, 2025 |
| SR 155 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Jamarcus Olden, Valedictorian, Fairley High School - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 25, 2025 |
| SR 154 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Kaden Lee Gritzmaker, Salutatorian, Fairley High School - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 25, 2025 |
| SR 153 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Layla Abudallah, Valedictorian, Middle College High School - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 25, 2025 |
| SR 152 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Atleana Murrell, Salutatorian, Middle College High School - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 25, 2025 |
| SR 151 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Jerry Lin, Valedictorian, Millington Central High School - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 25, 2025 |
| SR 150 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Cortia Hibbler, Salutatorian, Millington Central High School - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 25, 2025 |
| SR 149 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Kimberly Maldonado, Valedictorian, Whitehaven High School - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 25, 2025 |
| SR 148 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Brenia Knox, Salutatorian, Whitehaven High School - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 25, 2025 |
| SR 147 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - London Dyson, Valedictorian, Memphis Academy of Science and Engineering - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 25, 2025 |
| SR 146 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Akeelah Phillips, Salutatorian, Memphis Academy of Science and Engineering - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 25, 2025 |
| SJR 398 | Memorials, Interns - Taylor Hollands - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 24, 2025 |
| SJR 397 | Memorials, Death - Sondra Denise Keys-Wade - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 24, 2025 |
| SB 1168 | Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, requires the office of research and education accountability (OREA), in the office of the comptroller of the treasury, to study and make recommendations for the implementation of an incentive program for educators who have 15 or more years' experience in education; requires OREA to report its findings and recommendations for implementation of the incentive program by December 31, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 49. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 16, 2025 |
| SJR 325 | Memorials, Death - Ava May Christopher - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 10, 2025 |
| SJR 308 | Memorials, Recognition - 2024 Do the Write Thing Challenge National Ambassadors - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 10, 2025 |
| SJR 17 | Memorials, Death - President Jimmy Carter - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 10, 2025 |
| SB 1184 | Domestic Violence - As introduced, requires a person who is convicted of domestic assault or subject to an order of protection to dispossess any firearm in the person's possession by transferring the firearm to a law enforcement agency and to provide the court with an affidavit of dispossession of firearms and a receipt from the law enforcement agency. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 39 and Title 40. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 8, 2025 |
| SB 1176 | Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, permits the largest municipality in Shelby, Davidson, Knox, or Hamilton county to regulate the manner of storage of firearms, firearm ammunition, and firearm accessories by ordinance, resolution, policy, rule, or other enactment. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 8, 2025 |
| SB 337 | Taxes, Sales - As introduced, authorizes certain counties to levy a local option sales tax at the rate of 3.75 percent, instead of a maximum of 2.75 percent, if the revenue from the increase in such tax is used by the county exclusively for the construction of a new county jail or to retire debt, including principal and interest and related expenses, on such construction. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 7. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 2, 2025 |
| SB 1422 | Law Enforcement - As introduced, requires law enforcement agencies to investigate for the presence of workplace bullying concurrent with investigations of crimes of violence in the workplace; requires law enforcement agencies to report findings to the TBI; requires the TBI to annually submit a report to legislative committees concerning workplace bullying and violence. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 50. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 1, 2025 |
| SJR 216 | Memorials, Recognition - State Government Affairs Council, 50th anniversary - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 31, 2025 |
| SB 1349 | Expunction - As introduced, requires a clerk of a court with criminal jurisdiction to automatically remove and destroy all public records of a conviction for a Class E felony or misdemeanor that is eligible for expunction, one year after the person has completed any sentence imposed by the court. - Amends TCA Title 10; Title 18 and Title 40. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 31, 2025 |
| SB 1348 | Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, deletes the exception to the criminal offense of unlawfully carrying a firearm with intent to go armed for persons who lawfully possess a handgun, are in a place where the person is lawfully present, and are at least 21 years old or 18 years old with certain military service. - Amends TCA Title 39. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 31, 2025 |
| SB 1177 | Expunction - As introduced, authorizes court clerks in certain counties to implement an automatic expunction processing program that initiates processing the expunction of public records without petition by the person, certification of eligibility from the TBI, or court order in certain limited circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 32. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 31, 2025 |
| SB 501 | TennCare - As introduced, authorizes the governor to expand medicaid eligibility solely for the purpose of providing treatment for a patient with a diagnosis of sickle cell disease in accordance with the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and to negotiate with the centers for medicare and medicaid services with respect to the terms of such expansion. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 71, Chapter 5. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 26, 2025 |
| SB 1419 | Education, Higher - As introduced, requires institutions of higher education to conduct various programs for intercollegiate athletes covering name, image, and likeness; authorizes institutions of higher education to collect talent fees; makes various other changes to intercollegiate athletes' name, image, and likeness authorizations and requirements. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29; Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, Chapter 8 and Title 49, Chapter 9. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 26, 2025 |
| SB 1327 | Education - As introduced, removes a provision that required the board of regents, the University of Tennessee, and the Tennessee Independent Colleges and Universities Association to provide a report by April 1, 2009, to the Tennessee higher education commission on the reasonable efforts their institutions have taken to attempt to deter infringement of copyrighted works over the school's computer and network resources. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 26, 2025 |
| SB 1180 | School Vouchers - As introduced, requires private schools that enroll recipients of an education freedom scholarship, students participating in the individualized education account program, or students participating in the education savings account program to conduct background checks prior to employing a teacher or person who will have direct contact with school children or access to school grounds when children are present. - Amends Chapter __ of the Public Acts of 2025 (1st Ex. Sess. – SB 6001 / HB 6004); and TCA Title 49, Chapter 10, Part 14 and Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 26. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 26, 2025 |
| SR 56 | Memorials, Personal Occasion - Patricia Pryor Degrafinreid, 70th birthday - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 25, 2025 |
| SB 1357 | Salaries and Benefits - As introduced, increases, from $7.25 to $20, the minimum hourly wage for employees within this state. - Amends TCA Section 8-23-203; Title 12 and Title 50, Chapter 2. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 25, 2025 |
| SB 1190 | Employees, Employers - As introduced, increases the hourly minimum wage to $20.00, or the federal minimum wage established pursuant to the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, whichever rate is greater. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 23; Title 12, Chapter 4, Part 4 and Title 50, Chapter 2. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 25, 2025 |
| SB 834 | Tennessee Higher Education Commission - As introduced, requires the commission, in consultation with the department of finance and administration, to submit a report to the general assembly of the state appropriations made to each land grant institution in this state from 1987 to 2020, on a per pupil basis, by December 31, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 9 and Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 19, 2025 |
| SB 588 | Education, Higher - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee for Tampons Act," which requires public institutions of higher education to provide feminine hygiene products in all women's and girl's bathrooms and locker rooms. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, Chapter 8 and Title 49, Chapter 9. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 19, 2025 |
| SB 583 | Education, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to award grants to local education agencies that operate or authorize at least one public school located in a county with a county juvenile offense rate that is at least 10 percent higher than the statewide juvenile offense rate to enable such LEAs to provide after school programs for students in grades K-12. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 19, 2025 |
| SB 1355 | Human Services, Dept. of - As introduced, enacts the "Guaranteed Basic Income Act" or the "Protection Against Automation Act," which requires the department to develop and implement a program in which eligible residents are awarded an annual guaranteed basic income grant beginning in 2026. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 67, Chapter 4 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 19, 2025 |
| SB 1192 | Highways, Roads and Bridges - As introduced, requires the department of transportation to study the development of a new bridge crossing the Mississippi River and connecting to Arkansas. - Amends TCA Title 54. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 19, 2025 |
| SB 1179 | Economic and Community Development - As introduced, enacts the "Hollyssee Act." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3 and Title 64. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 19, 2025 |
| SB 1161 | Students - As introduced, prohibits local education agencies and public charter schools from suspending or expelling a student enrolled in any of the grades pre-K-2 unless the student's behavior endangers the physical safety of others; authorizes local education agencies and public charter schools to suspend such a student for such behavior for no more than three days if certain measures are taken before the student is suspended. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 19, 2025 |
| SR 41 | Memorials, Recognition - Kyle Whalum - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 13, 2025 |
| SR 40 | Memorials, Recognition - Kirk Whalum - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 13, 2025 |
| SR 39 | Memorials, Recognition - Pastor Kenneth T. Whalum, Jr. - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 13, 2025 |
| SR 38 | Memorials, Recognition - Kevin Whalum - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 13, 2025 |
| SR 37 | Memorials, Recognition - Sheila Whalum - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 13, 2025 |
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