Tennessee · Current officeholder
Richard Briggs
Republican Tennessee Senate, District 7
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Sponsored legislation
137 bills in the current data (137 as primary sponsor), sorted by most recent official action. Linked by Open States person ID.
| Bill | Title | Role | Stage | Last action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SB 2283 | Tourism - As enacted, requires revenue that is received by a municipality and that is used to fund a destination marketing entity engaged in tourism promotion on behalf of the municipality be released to the destination marketing entity no later than 120 days after the municipality approves its final budget. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 67. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 27, 2026 |
| SB 2162 | Open Meetings - As enacted, authorizes a governing body to conduct an executive session for the purpose of interviewing applicants for employment as director-level staff of the body without providing public notice of such session. - Amends TCA Title 8. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 27, 2026 |
| SB 1620 | Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, establishes new premier type tourist resorts, restaurants, community theaters, clubs, retirement centers, premises, and commercial passenger boat companies that can offer liquor by the drink; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 57. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 27, 2026 |
| SB 2019 | Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, revises law relative to alcoholic beverages. - Amends TCA Title 57. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 26, 2026 |
| SB 2163 | Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, changes present law concerning common ownership of entities involved in the alcoholic beverages industry. - Amends TCA Title 57. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 18, 2026 |
| SB 1944 | Open Meetings - As enacted, authorizes local governmental bodies to conduct certain community meetings via electronic means of communication. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 8, Chapter 44. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 18, 2026 |
| SB 1760 | Real Property - As enacted, authorizes a tax increment agency to enter into a taxpayer agreement relative to a plan area after obtaining a written statement executed by each holder of an existing, previously recorded mortgage or deed of trust on the property securing indebtedness and in which each holder consents to the taxpayer agreement and indicates that the assessment does not constitute an event of default under the existing mortgage or deed of trust. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 23 and Title 67, Chapter 5. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 18, 2026 |
| SB 1757 | Election Laws - As enacted, authorizes, if a candidate changes treasurers and notifies the registry of election finance of the change, the candidate to continue to use print communication that includes the identification of the former treasurer until the print communication is exhausted. - Amends TCA Title 2. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 18, 2026 |
| SJR 1255 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Harshita Nagar, Valedictorian, L&N STEM Academy - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 11, 2026 |
| SJR 1254 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Jelena Armsworth, Salutatorian, L&N STEM Academy - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 11, 2026 |
| SJR 1181 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Leo Nishizawa, Salutatorian, Bearden High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 11, 2026 |
| SJR 1180 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Yejoon Ham, Valedictorian, Bearden High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 11, 2026 |
| SJR 1179 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Mery Diaz, Valedictorian, Bearden High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 11, 2026 |
| SJR 1178 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Isabella Huddleston, Salutatorian, Central High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 11, 2026 |
| SJR 1177 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Barrett Lemons, Valedictorian, Central High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 11, 2026 |
| SJR 1176 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Charlotte Lopez, Valedictorian, Karns High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 11, 2026 |
| SJR 1175 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Brady Reed, Salutatorian, Karns High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 11, 2026 |
| SJR 1136 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - James Le Nguyen, Salutatorian, Farragut High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 11, 2026 |
| SJR 1135 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Ruhaan Singh, Salutatorian, Farragut High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 11, 2026 |
| SJR 1134 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Sophia Chen, Valedictorian, Farragut High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 11, 2026 |
| SB 550 | Health Care - As enacted, increases the number of members on the medical cannabis commission from nine to 10, and provides that the additional member must be a member who is a specialist in the area of substance abuse prevention and serve as a nonvoting member. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 68, Chapter 7. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 5, 2026 |
| SB 1981 | Workers Compensation - As enacted, adds a requirement that an award of attorneys' fees and costs incurred when an employer unreasonably denies a workers' compensation claim or unreasonably fails to timely initiate any of the benefits associated with the claim must be based on a finding by the workers' compensation judge that the employer's conduct was unreasonable; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 6. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 5, 2026 |
| SB 2285 | Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires that, in situations where an order of protection is issued to protect a student who is enrolled in a public school from another student in the same school, the school principal and, when reasonably practicable and appropriate, the building-level school safety team with input from the parent or legal guardian of the student who is named as the petitioner in the order of protection, to develop and implement a student safety plan that includes certain protocols; requires such parent or legal guardian to notify the school within 48 hours of any changes to the order of protection. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 49. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 4, 2026 |
| SB 2279 | Health Care - As enacted, requires the department of health to make available to the public on its website all inspection criteria required for compliance by pain management clinics; makes other changes relative to pain management. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 4, 2026 |
| SB 2275 | Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As enacted, designates November 9 of each year as "Gold Star Father's Day," to honor and recognize fathers who have lost children in service to the United States as members of the United States armed forces. - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 4, 2026 |
| SB 2273 | Real Property - As enacted, provides that a provision of a document requiring a transferor or transferee to pay a fee, charge, assessment, dues, contribution, deposit, or other amount to purchase, issue, reissue, maintain, or transfer a club membership that is related to the real property or the community in which the property is sited is not a transfer fee covenant. - Amends TCA Title 66. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 4, 2026 |
| SJR 1076 | Memorials, Recognition - JoRissah Wright, 2026 Boys & Girls Club of the Tennessee Valley Youth of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 1, 2026 |
| SR 425 | Memorials, Interns - John "Jack" Bulmer - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 30, 2026 |
| SB 2280 | District Attorneys - As enacted, authorizes the district attorneys general conference to pay the licensing fees for software applications used by the office of the district attorney general within a judicial district, regardless of whether the district attorney general office staff member using the application has a position funded by the state or another entity. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 9; Title 16 and Title 40. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 29, 2026 |
| SB 1843 | Drugs, Synthetic or Analogue - As enacted, enacts the "Nitrous Oxide Abuse Prevention and Retail Sale Prohibition Act"; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 57, Chapter 7; Title 63 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 10. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 29, 2026 |
| SB 1840 | Statutes of Limitations and Repose - As enacted, requires prosecution for vehicular homicide committed on or after July 1, 2026, to commence within 10 years from the date the offense occurs. - Amends TCA Title 28; Title 39 and Title 40. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 29, 2026 |
| SB 1761 | Agriculture - As enacted, makes various changes relative to the regulation of hemp-derived cannabinoid products. - Amends TCA Title 1, Chapter 3; Title 39; Title 43, Chapter 27; Title 53; Title 57, Chapter 7 and Title 67, Chapter 6. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 28, 2026 |
| SB 1922 | Employees, Employers - As enacted, generally requires, beginning July 1, 2026, all state and local governmental employers to verify the work authorization status of each prospective employee through the federal E-Verify program prior to employment; authorizes the attorney general to enforce compliance with the requirement against local governments and subjects a noncompliant local government to the withholding of all funds of this state allocated to the local government via grant, contract, or statute, including, but not limited to, state-shared taxes. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 12 and Title 50. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 27, 2026 |
| SB 1619 | Election Laws - As enacted, makes various changes to election laws, including, but not limited to, requiring certain reimbursements to county election commissions for primary elections to be processed in the same manner as expenses for the presidential preference primary, and eliminating authorization for certain state entities and officers to accept or expend grants, gifts, or funding from private persons, corporations, organizations, or political parties for conducting an election. - Amends TCA Title 2. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 27, 2026 |
| SB 1691 | Campaigns and Campaign Finance - As enacted, authorizes the executive director of or an attorney employed by the bureau of ethics and campaign finance to conduct a training program for members of the bureau and Tennessee ethics commission. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 10, Part 2 and Title 3, Chapter 6, Part 1. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 23, 2026 |
| SB 2591 | County Government - As introduced, prohibits an employee of a local government from serving on the legislative body of the local government for which the employee works. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 12 and Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 21, 2026 |
| SB 397 | Taxes - As introduced, repeals the professional privilege tax for tax years that begin on and after June 1, 2026. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 17. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 20, 2026 |
| SB 2277 | Taxes, Sales - As introduced, exempts the retail sale of generic food products from the food retail sales tax. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 20, 2026 |
| SB 1842 | Taxes, Privilege - As introduced, reduces professional privilege tax from $400 to $200 per year for attorneys in tax years that begin on and after June 1, 2027. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 17. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 20, 2026 |
| SB 177 | Taxes, Sales - As introduced, reallocates the increase in the rate of sales and use tax from 6 percent to 7 percent pursuant to Chapter 856 of the Public Acts of 2002 by apportioning 4.6030 percent of such increase to municipalities. - Amends TCA Section 67-6-103. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 20, 2026 |
| SB 1626 | Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, requires that a health plan, or an insurer offering a health plan, include coverage for clinical genetic testing for an inherited gene mutation for an individual with a personal or family history of cancer that is recommended by a healthcare professional, and evidence-based cancer imaging for an individual with an increased risk of cancer as recommended by National Comprehensive Cancer Network clinical practice guidelines. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 56 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 20, 2026 |
| SB 368 | Veterans - As introduced, removes the market value cap used for calculating property tax relief on the primary residence for disabled veterans who are eligible for property tax relief and requires the state to fully reimburse such veterans for local property taxes paid for a given tax year on that property. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5, Part 7. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 14, 2026 |
| SB 2281 | Opioids - As introduced, removes nonresidential substitution-based treatment centers for opiate addiction from the requirement of obtaining a certificate of need beginning July 1, 2026. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 11 and Chapter 985 of the Public Acts of 2024. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 31, 2026 |
| SB 1841 | Criminal Offenses - As enacted, specifies that, in regard to the criminal offense of desecration of a venerated object, "desecrate" includes, but is not limited to, the removal of objects from a place of burial by a person other than a family member of the deceased or an authorized representative of the cemetery. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 46. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 30, 2026 |
| SJR 864 | Memorials, Death - Wesley Hazen Rucker - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 25, 2026 |
| SB 2282 | Real Property - As introduced, makes void and unenforceable any restrictions on the operation of a family child care home or group child care home that may be in a homeowners' association declaration that applies to a property where a family child care home or group child care home is or will be sited by the property owner; makes other changes relative to restrictions on the use of real property. - Amends TCA Title 66. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 24, 2026 |
| SB 2270 | County Government - As introduced, increases from two to three days, the minimum notice period required for a county mayor to convene a special session of the county legislative body for emergency purposes. - Amends TCA Title 5 and Title 6. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 24, 2026 |
| SB 2164 | Election Laws - As introduced, enacts the "Election Integrity Act of 2026"; creates a process by which a candidate in a local election may challenge the results of the election prior to certification of the election if the candidate has reason to believe errors were made in the adminstration of the election. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 24, 2026 |
| SJR 614 | Constitutional Amendments - Proposes constitutional amendment to Article XI, Section 5 of the Tennessee Constitution to allow the general assembly to authorize the entity operating the state lottery to develop lottery games to be used exclusively to fund veterans' services. - | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 23, 2026 |
| SB 624 | Public Officials - As enacted, prohibits an individual holding an elected office of a local government from holding another elected office in this state at the same time; grandfathers individuals holding more than one office presently until the terms expire; clarifies that such prohibition does not apply to an office in a political party's state executive committee. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 8. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 23, 2026 |
| SB 364 | Local Education Agencies - As introduced, repeals the "Tennessee Community Schools Act"; enacts the "Tennessee Full Service Community Schools Act." - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 18, 2026 |
| SB 367 | Election Laws - As enacted, authorizes nominees to fill a vacancy for a judge, district attorney general, or public defender occurring later than 180 days before the qualifying deadline to be selected by statewide political parties by any method authorized by the rules of the party. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 55, Chapter 50. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 16, 2026 |
| SB 711 | Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, decreases from 30 to 21 days, the amount of time each insurer of personal risk insurance must file with the commissioner of commerce and insurance before the proposed effective date of all rates, supplementary rate information, supporting information, policy forms, and endorsements. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 56 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 10, 2026 |
| SB 2284 | Tourism - As introduced, requires each local tourism development authority to file its annual report of its business affairs and transactions with the department of tourist development. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 67. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 4, 2026 |
| SB 1925 | Public Employees - As introduced, allows up to five days' leave for any eligible employee who is a foster parent or kinship caregiver regarding appearances in court or counseling sessions related to the placement of the foster child. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 50. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 4, 2026 |
| SB 1924 | Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As introduced, removes provision that allows speakers to alternatively appoint a senator or representative whose district was in a central business improvement district as of January 1, 1999, as ex officio board of directors member. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 9, Chapter 21 and Title 67. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 4, 2026 |
| SB 1923 | Zoning - As introduced, requires a person to reside in the county at least 12 months prior to being eligible to be appointed to a county board of zoning appeals. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 12 and Title 13. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 4, 2026 |
| SB 1621 | Human Resources, Department of - As introduced, urges the department to allocate a minimum of $16,000 annually in vocational rehabilitation funds for the purpose of supporting accessible information services for blind persons in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 4, 2026 |
| SB 1759 | State Inmates - As introduced, requires the department of correction to keep a copy of each validated risk and needs assessment of each inmate under its supervision and control for the duration of the inmate's period of incarceration. - Amends TCA Title 41. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 3, 2026 |
| SB 2272 | Eminent Domain - As introduced, adds to the definition of "public use" for eminent domain a sidewalk, public greenway, bicycle lane, pedestrian way, or proper slope development associated with a road, highway, bridge, or other structure, facility, or project used for public transportation. - Amends TCA Section 29-17-102. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 19, 2026 |
| SJR 596 | Memorials, Death - Harold Wayne Sellars - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 12, 2026 |
| SJR 595 | Memorials, Recognition - Dr. John Hayne McLeod and The John H. McLeod Food Science Building, University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 12, 2026 |
| SB 2493 | Health, Dept. of - As introduced, directs the department to submit a report on the feasibility and cost projections for creating and maintaining an implanted medical device registry available to each healthcare facility in this state to the speaker of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives on or before January 1, 2027. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 53; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2026 |
| SB 2278 | Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, increases from quarterly to monthly, the frequency with which licensed hospitals must report claims data to the commissioner of health and adjusts the delinquency deadline to require submission within 60 days following the end of the month, rather than the end of the quarter. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 29; Title 33; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2026 |
| SB 2274 | Funeral Directors and Embalmers - As introduced, authorizes the operator of a crematory facility to provide an electronic receipt, instead of a written receipt, to the person who delivers a dead human body or body parts to the facility for cremation. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 10; Title 29; Title 30; Title 31; Title 32; Title 34; Title 35; Title 36; Title 38; Title 39; Title 46; Title 50; Title 55; Title 56; Title 58; Title 62; Title 67; Title 68 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2026 |
| SB 2269 | County Government - As introduced, increases from 48 to 72 hours, the time within which the county legislative body must convene after the filing of an application by the county mayor for such convening based on the public necessity requiring it in the mayor's opinion. - Amends TCA Title 5 and Title 6. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2026 |
| SJR 568 | Memorials, Recognition - Joe Carson - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 3, 2026 |
| SB 2271 | Taxes, Ad Valorem - As introduced, requires the notice submitted by the state board of equalization to a county mayor on whether an extension of time to complete a property reappraisal program is justified to be in writing. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 9; Title 12 and Title 67. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | February 2, 2026 |
| SB 1756 | Campaigns and Campaign Finance - As introduced, requires the registry of election finance to provide a nonexclusive list of the various categories of contributions that constitute in-kind contributions requiring disclosure to each member of the general assembly at the beginning of each yearly session and each candidate for state office within one week of the candidate certifying a treasurer with the registry. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 10. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 22, 2026 |
| SB 1689 | Public Records - As introduced, creates an offense for using or selling an individual's personal identifying information obtained from a governmental entity for commercial use, punishable as a Class B misdemeanor. - | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 21, 2026 |
| SB 1688 | Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, authorizes a retail alcohol licensee in a terminal building of a commercial air carrier airport to offer complimentary tastings for samples of the products it sells. - Amends TCA Title 57. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 21, 2026 |
| SB 1415 | Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates the offense of knowingly engaging in conduct that places a child in imminent danger of death, bodily injury, or physical or mental impairment by exposing the child to fentanyl, carfentanil, remifentanil, alfentanil, thiafentanil, or a fentanyl derivative or analogue; punishes the offense as a Class E felony if the child is over 8 and as a Class B felony if the child is 8 or less. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39 and Title 40. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 27, 2025 |
| SB 1413 | Alcoholic Beverage Commission - As enacted, provides for the regulation of the manufacturing, supplying, wholesale distribution, and retail sale of hemp-derived cannabinoid products by the commission and department of revenue; creates licenses for suppliers, wholesalers, and retailers; establishes taxes for such products and the manner in which such taxes are collected and allocated; establishes civil and criminal penalties for violations. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40; Title 43, Chapter 27; Title 53, Chapter 11; Title 57 and Title 67. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 27, 2025 |
| SB 361 | Employees, Employers - As introduced, requires a person who employs an unemancipated minor and who knows or has reasonable cause to suspect that the minor has been subjected to child sexual abuse or attempted child sexual abuse in the course of the minor’s employment or on the premises of the employer to report such knowledge or suspicion to the minor’s parent within 24 hours of discovering the abuse or attempted abuse; imposes a penalty of $1,000 for a first violation or $2,000 for a second or subsequent violation, to be paid to the commissioner of labor and workforce development. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 50. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 16, 2025 |
| SB 773 | Planning, Public - As enacted, specifies that the vesting period established for a construction project or development plan does not expire because of pending litigation challenging a permit; specifies that the vesting period is tolled while such litigation is pending. - Amends TCA Title 13, Chapter 3; Title 13, Chapter 4 and Title 13, Chapter 7. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 15, 2025 |
| SB 621 | Campaigns and Campaign Finance - As enacted, revises present law to designate as a political campaign committee for purposes of reporting expenditures pursuant to campaign finance laws a corporation that uses corporate funds, moneys, or credits for communications expressly supporting or opposing the election or defeat of a clearly identified candidate or elected official, and such funds, moneys, or credits are not used with the cooperation or with the prior consent of, or in consultation with, or at the request of, or suggestion of, a candidate or elected official or any agent or authorized committee of the candidate or elected official. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 10. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 15, 2025 |
| SB 229 | Campaigns and Campaign Finance - As enacted, makes various changes to campaign finance laws and related laws. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 3 and Title 67. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 15, 2025 |
| SB 136 | Local Government, General - As enacted, authorizes a member of a local government's legislative body to participate in a scheduled meeting by electronic means if the member is dealing with a family or medical emergency, has been called into military service, or is unable to attend in person due to inclement weather. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 8, Chapter 44. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 15, 2025 |
| SB 629 | Taxes, Hotel Motel - As enacted, revises present law relative to the privilege tax upon the privilege of occupancy in a hotel levied by municipalities. - Amends TCA Title 7 and Title 67. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 13, 2025 |
| SB 626 | Election Laws - As enacted, revises present law relative to voting and county election commissions, such as requiring the commission to publish a notice of the location of the provisional counting board, prohibiting the commission from tabulating any marked ballots submitted via the internet, prohibiting voting machines from being connected to the internet, and making other changes. - Amends TCA Title 2. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 13, 2025 |
| SB 623 | Public Records - As enacted, requires the office of open records counsel to facilitate the convening of meetings of the advisory committee on open government, including selecting a date for the required annual meeting in the absence of co-chairs. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 4, Part 6. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 13, 2025 |
| SB 365 | Zoning - As enacted, makes certain changes to the powers and duties of county and municipal boards of zoning appeals. - Amends TCA Title 13, Chapter 7. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 13, 2025 |
| SB 359 | Medical Occupations - As enacted, authorizes a healthcare provider’s licensing board to issue a license subject to a private advocacy order that requires the applicant to participate in a peer assistance program approved by the board; designates private advocacy orders as confidential and not public records, as long as the provider does not fail to maintain participation in the peer assistance program and requires the initiation of disciplinary proceedings by the board. - Amends TCA Title 63. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 13, 2025 |
| SB 308 | Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, establishes new premier type tourist resorts, urban park centers, and museums that can offer liquor by the drink; makes certain clarifications with regard to commercial airline travel clubs that can offer liquor by the drink. - Amends TCA Title 57. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 13, 2025 |
| SB 1414 | Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, revises present law relative to 340B entities. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18 and Title 56. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 13, 2025 |
| SJR 535 | Memorials, Retirement - Randy Stamps - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 7, 2025 |
| SJR 468 | Memorials, Retirement - Bryan Merritt - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 5, 2025 |
| SJR 467 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Yeshi Hammann, Valedictorian, Knoxville Christian School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 5, 2025 |
| SJR 466 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Karlee Cronan, Salutatorian, Knoxville Christian School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 5, 2025 |
| SJR 465 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Jack Magee, Valedictorian, Christian Academy of Knoxville - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 5, 2025 |
| SJR 436 | Memorials, Retirement - Terry Carroll - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 1, 2025 |
| SB 940 | Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, expands the immunity from prosecution when seeking medical assistance for a person experiencing, or believed to be experiencing, an overdose to include alcohol-related offenses; clarifies that overdose includes both drugs and alcohol. - Amends TCA Title 63. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 29, 2025 |
| SB 362 | Veterans - As enacted, enacts the "Safeguarding American Veteran Empowerment (SAVE) Act." - Amends TCA Title 47 and Title 58. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 29, 2025 |
| SB 1004 | Abortion - As enacted, clarifies the term "serious risk of substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function" as used in present law provisions relative to criminal abortion. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 29; Title 33; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 53; Title 56; Title 62; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 29, 2025 |
| SB 625 | Public Property - As enacted, clarifies exception to when a state entity must advertise for leasing space when the entity has requirements that are special and unique. - Amends TCA Section 12-2-114. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 28, 2025 |
| SB 622 | Alcoholic Beverage Commission - As enacted, requires a law enforcement agency to provide records related to an accident, the persons involved in such accident, and persons involved in providing or selling alcoholic beverages to persons involved in an accident upon receipt of a request for such records by the commission; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 55 and Title 57. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 28, 2025 |
| SJR 435 | Memorials, Recognition - U.S. Army Reserve, 117th anniversary - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 24, 2025 |
| SJR 363 | Memorials, Heroism - Specialist Ethan M. Ward and Specialist Brandon T. Moore, 2025 National Guardsmen of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 24, 2025 |
| SJR 360 | Memorials, Interns - Abagael Hicks, Mock Session Lieutenant Governor - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 24, 2025 |
| SJR 359 | Memorials, Interns - Nicholas Reynolds, Mock Session Governor - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 24, 2025 |
| SJR 358 | Memorials, Interns - Kilyn Booker, Mock Session Minority Leader - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 24, 2025 |
| SJR 357 | Memorials, Interns - Janeyah Anderson, Mock Session Majority Leader - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 24, 2025 |
| SJR 356 | Memorials, Interns - Malik Abdullah, Mock Session Speaker of the House - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 24, 2025 |
| SB 770 | Local Government, General - As introduced, authorizes local governments to create local boards for the purpose of permitting retailers of hemp-derived cannabinoid products. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 43, Chapter 27. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 15, 2025 |
| SR 123 | Memorials, Interns - Abagael Hicks - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 10, 2025 |
| SB 941 | Charitable Institutions - As enacted, establishes a five-day period after the effective date of this act during which a nonprofit organization may apply to operate a charitable gaming event during the annual period beginning July 1, 2025, until June 30, 2026. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 17. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 8, 2025 |
| SB 306 | Secretary of State - As enacted, clarifies that administrative dissolution is permitted for certain entities if the entity files a signed document with the secretary of state knowing that it contained materially false information; permits administrative dissolution of certain entities if the entity is owned or controlled by a foreign government or foreign non-government person determined to be a foreign adversary by the United States secretary of commerce. - Amends TCA Title 43, Chapter 38; Title 48, Chapter 24; Title 48, Chapter 245; Title 48, Chapter 246; Title 48, Chapter 249; Title 48, Chapter 25; Title 48, Chapter 64; Title 48, Chapter 65 and Title 61, Chapter 3. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 8, 2025 |
| SB 939 | General Assembly, Directed Studies - As enacted, requires TACIR to study the economic impact that the cosmetology and barbering professions have in this state; upon completion of the study, requires TACIR to report its findings and recommendations, including any proposed legislation, to legislative committees having jurisdiction over cosmetology and barbering, and to provide a copy of the report to the legislative librarian. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 3 and Title 62, Chapter 4. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 4, 2025 |
| SB 772 | Utilities, Utility Districts - As enacted, authorizes the members of the board of directors of energy authorities formed under the Municipal Energy Authority Act to receive certain additional compensation for attendance at meetings for each additional utility system over which the board has jurisdiction and health insurance coverage. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 34; Title 7, Chapter 36 and Title 7, Chapter 52. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 4, 2025 |
| SB 462 | Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As enacted, designates the month of November as "Diabetes Awareness Month." - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2, Part 1. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 4, 2025 |
| SB 1230 | Real Property - As enacted, specifies certain persons who may submit electronic records for registration with a register of deeds that accepts electronic records under the Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act; makes other changes related to the act. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 10, Part 1 and Title 66, Chapter 24, Part 2. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 4, 2025 |
| SB 771 | Taxes, Ad Valorem - As introduced, removes the condition that a taxpayer or owner must obtain consent of the assessor of property before appealing the valuation of industrial and commercial real and tangible personal property directly to the state board of equalization; makes other related revisions. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 1, 2025 |
| SB 461 | Medical Occupations - As introduced, establishes the scope of practice for anesthesiologist assistants, subject to regulatory oversight by the board of medical examiners as part of such practice. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 63 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 26, 2025 |
| SR 57 | Memorials, Recognition - Jasmine Smith - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 25, 2025 |
| SB 1425 | Abortion - As introduced, defines the terms "serious risk of substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function" and "lethal fetal anomaly"; specifies that a physician does not commit the offense of criminal abortion if, under certain circumstances, the physician performs or attempts to perform an abortion to address a lethal fetal anomaly or a premature delivery of an unborn child with a lethal fetal anomaly. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 29; Title 33; Title 37; Title 39; Title 40; Title 53; Title 56; Title 62; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 24, 2025 |
| SB 305 | Human Rights - As introduced, prohibits an organization or entity receiving financial assistance from this state for programs or activities from denying benefits to, excluding from participation in, or discriminating against a person otherwise eligible for the program or activity on the basis of race, color, religion, or national origin. - Amends TCA Title 4. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 20, 2025 |
| SJR 55 | Memorials, Recognition - National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month, September 2025 - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 13, 2025 |
| SB 548 | Ethics - As introduced, specifies that an impermissible indirect gift to candidates for public office and certain officials and their family members includes, but is not limited to, a gift provided by an entity that is related to, and its business or political activities are intertwined with, an employer of a lobbyist; requires the governor and officers of the governor's cabinet to disclose certain travel expenses. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 6 and Title 8, Chapter 50, Part 5. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 11, 2025 |
| SB 775 | Taxes, Ad Valorem - As introduced, requires 10 percent of the excess proceeds from a delinquent property tax sale to be used for tax relief for homeowners who are elderly low-income, disabled, or a disabled veteran or widow of a disabled veteran. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| SB 774 | Taxes, Ad Valorem - As introduced, adds a 5 percent penalty on delinquent property taxes with the penalty to be used to provide tax relief for the homeowners who are elderly low-income, disabled, or a disabled veteran or widow of a disabled veteran. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| SB 628 | Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As introduced, requires the department of economic and community development to submit an annual report to certain legislative committees that includes the names of the municipalities involved in the creation of an authority in the prior calendar year, the amount of land acquired and improved, specific details about the financing of the project, and any other information the department deems relevant. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 49 and Title 64. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| SB 562 | Tobacco, Tobacco Products - As introduced, regulates retail vapor product stores and makes various changes to provisions regarding youth access to tobacco, smoking hemp, and vapor products. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 15 and Title 43, Chapter 27, Part 2. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| SB 549 | Highways, Roads and Bridges - As introduced, requires TACIR to study transportation user fee alternatives and submit its recommendations to the chair of the committee in the house of representatives with jurisdiction over transportation issues, the chair of the transportation and safety committee of the senate, and the legislative librarian on or before January 1, 2026. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 54; Title 55 and Title 67. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| SB 463 | Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, enacts the "Freedom to Grow Our Tennessee Families Act." - Amends TCA Title 56 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| SB 460 | Public Health - As introduced, adds the legislative librarian as a party to which the department of health must submit an annual report based on data received by a county or district health department that operates a needle and hypodermic syringe exchange program, including the number of people served, number of needles, syringes, and supplies dispensed and returned to the program, number of naloxone kits distributed, and the number and type of treatment referrals provided. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 14; Title 29; Title 33; Title 37; Title 39; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| SB 370 | Credit and Debit Cards - As introduced, requires state and local taxes and fees be excluded from the calculation of interchange fees by payment card networks for electronic payment transactions. - Amends TCA Title 67. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| SB 369 | Purchasing and Procurement - As introduced, requires local governments to obtain, when possible, three written quotations for purchases costing less than the threshold established pursuant to law but more than 40 percent of such threshold, or some lower amount as may be established by the governing body of the local government. - Amends TCA Section 5-14-204; Section 5-14-205 and Section 6-56-305. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| SB 366 | Election Laws - As introduced, requires the officers of a party to file with the secretary of state and with the coordinator of elections a copy of the rules under which the party and its subdivisions operate within 15 days, instead of 30 days, following adoption in order for the party to have nominees on a ballot or exercise other rights of a political party. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 3; Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 10; Title 17; Title 27; Title 39; Title 40; Title 49; Title 54; Title 57 and Title 67. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| SB 363 | Health Care - As introduced, reduces, from 30 days to 14 days, the period of time within which a licensing board that assesses discipline or a penalty against a healthcare provider for a violation of pain management rules must notify the department of health of such discipline or penalty. - Amends TCA Title 63. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| SB 360 | Zoning - As introduced, prohibits the construction of correctional facilities, hospitals, and nursing homes in areas designated as 100-year flood plains; applies to all applications for construction permits submitted on or after July 1, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 13. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| SB 358 | General Assembly, Directed Studies - As introduced, requires TACIR to study the economic impact that the cosmetology and barbering professions have in this state; upon completion of the study, requires TACIR to report its findings and recommendations, including any proposed legislation, to legislative committees having jurisdiction over cosmetology and barbering, and to provide a copy of the report to the legislative librarian. - Amends TCA Title 64, Chapter 3 and Title 64, Chapter 4. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| SB 309 | Alcoholic Beverage Commission - As introduced, changes from March 1 to February 15 the date by which the executive director of the commission must file an annual report concerning rules promulgated during the prior year with the appropriate standing committees of the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 57. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| SB 307 | Local Government, General - As introduced, authorizes a local government having a population of 100,000 or more and having centralized purchasing with a full-time purchasing agent to use any project delivery method that the local government determines most effectively meets the needs of the local government for the construction of local projects or additions to existing buildings. - Amends TCA Title 12, Chapter 3, Part 12. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| SB 137 | Planning, Public - As introduced, requires a local legislative body to approve an application for a proposed development without allowing public comment, if the legislative body determines that the proposed development is in substantial compliance with the zoning regulations or map that was previously made available for public review and comment. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 44 and Title 13, Chapter 7. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 3, 2025 |
| SB 176 | Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, extends from five to 10 days the amount of time a law enforcement officer has to file a written informational statement with the county court clerk after taking possession of illicit intoxicating liquors. - Amends TCA Title 57. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 27, 2025 |
| SB 183 | Veterans - As introduced, declares certain actions by a person advising, assisting, or consulting on veterans' benefits matters for compensation to be an unfair or deceptive act or practice affecting trade or commerce and to be subject to the penalties and remedies as provided in the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act of 1977. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18 and Title 58, Chapter 3. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | January 23, 2025 |
| SB 47 | Tourism - As introduced, requires a tourism development authority to file its annual audit and report with the members of the general assembly who represent the municipality that granted permission to the authority to organize; authorizes the audit and report to be filed electronically. - Amends TCA Title 7 and Title 67. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 15, 2025 |