Tennessee · Current officeholder
Adam Lowe
Republican Tennessee Senate, District 1
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Sponsored legislation
131 bills in the current data (131 as primary sponsor), sorted by most recent official action. Linked by Open States person ID.
| Bill | Title | Role | Stage | Last action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SB 2725 | Niota - Subject to local approval, rewrites the charter of the City of Niota. - Amends Chapter 48 of the Private Acts of 1919; as amended and rewritten. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 27, 2026 |
| SB 1771 | Zoning - As enacted, authorizes certain counties to adopt a resolution prohibiting a municipality or regional zoning commission from exercising zoning authority outside of the boundaries of the municipality. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 13. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 27, 2026 |
| SB 2027 | Highways, Roads and Bridges - As enacted, authorizes a county or municipality to request the department of transportation to conduct a highway traffic noise study for residential properties located along the sound propagation path of a state or interstate highway if certain criteria are met. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3 and Title 54. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 26, 2026 |
| SB 2025 | Judges and Chancellors - As enacted, creates a pilot project to provide for criminal magistrates in the 10 counties in which the criminal courts experience the highest judicial caseload, if authorized by the legislative body of an eligible county; authorizes the judges of the county with criminal jurisdiction to appoint the criminal magistrate, who shall serve at the pleasure of the majority of the judges of the county with criminal jurisdiction. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 17 and Title 40. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 26, 2026 |
| SB 2030 | Sexual Offenders - As enacted, requires sexual offenders and violent sexual offenders to notify the owner or operator of any campground on which the offender intends to stay overnight of the offender's status as a sexual offender or violent sexual offender prior to beginning the stay; creates the offense of knowingly staying overnight at a campground without providing the required notice, which is punished as a Class E felony. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 39, Part 2. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 18, 2026 |
| SB 1823 | Public Contracts - As enacted, requires a state department, agency, or official who contracts with a business to acquire property or services to make payments under the contract to the business within a certain time frame after receipt of the invoice; requires such state departments, agencies, and officials to annually report to the chairs of the appropriate standing committees of the senate and house of representatives the number and aggregate amount of late payments made for the preceding fiscal year and the amount of interest paid and outstanding on such late payments. - Amends TCA Title 12, Chapter 4. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 18, 2026 |
| SB 1822 | Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires an LEA that operates a public high school that meets certain criteria to permit certain high school students who are enrolled in private schools to participate in interscholastic athletics at the public high school. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 18, 2026 |
| SJR 1206 | Memorials, Retirement - Dina Swafford, Bradley County Register of Deeds - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 11, 2026 |
| SJR 1164 | Memorials, Sports - Meigs Middle School girls' basketball team, TMSAA District 8-AA Championship - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 11, 2026 |
| SJR 1163 | Memorials, Public Service - Bill Winters - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 11, 2026 |
| SJR 1162 | Memorials, Public Service - Josh Rogers - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 11, 2026 |
| SJR 1161 | Memorials, Public Service - Thomas Crye - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 11, 2026 |
| SJR 1160 | Memorials, Sports - Cleveland High School, Class AA state girls' dual wrestling champions - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 11, 2026 |
| SJR 1159 | Memorials, Sports - Cleveland High School, Class AA state boys' dual wrestling champions - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 11, 2026 |
| SJR 1156 | Memorials, Sports - Bradley Central High School girls' basketball team - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 11, 2026 |
| SJR 1121 | Memorials, Retirement - Michael J. "Mike" Smith, Bradley County Trustee - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 11, 2026 |
| SJR 1120 | Memorials, Death - Charles Richard Riggs - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 11, 2026 |
| SJR 1119 | Memorials, Sports - Walker Valley High School boys' basketball team - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 11, 2026 |
| SB 2032 | Employees, Employers - As enacted, requires a public safety employer to provide an employee or prospective employee with reasonable access to the employee's or prospective employee's full employment record, including the results of any mental health evaluation or screening; makes certain other changes relative to employment by a public safety employer. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 38; Title 50; Title 62 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 5, 2026 |
| SB 1968 | Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires a director of schools to refer to juvenile court certain students who were formerly enrolled in the LEA, who were receiving certain truancy interventions, who withdrew from the LEA, and who did not transfer to another LEA; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 1, Part 1; Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 6. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 5, 2026 |
| SB 2652 | Agriculture, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to promulgate rules to implement and administer a voluntary program for the promotion of meat and byproducts from livestock raised in Tennessee, which may be labeled with an appropriate statement that indicates the meat or byproduct is a Tennessee meat or byproduct. - Amends TCA Title 43; Title 44 and Title 53. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 4, 2026 |
| SB 2262 | Consumer Protection - As enacted, authorizes a small business that believes an online search engine has blacklisted the small business to contact the online search engine and request a response concerning the action; authorizes a small business affected by an online search engine's failure to comply with the response requirement to bring a civil action. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 29; Title 47 and Title 65. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 4, 2026 |
| SB 1593 | Taxes, Severance - As enacted, extends from 30 to 90 days, the time following the end of a county's fiscal year within which a county must submit an annual report to the commissioner of transportation and the chairs of the house and senate transportation committees regarding mineral severance tax revenue the county deposits into its county road fund; removes the comptroller of the treasury as a recipient of the report; subjects the report to audit by the comptroller. - Amends TCA Section 67-7-207. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 4, 2026 |
| SJR 1088 | Memorials, Retirement - Howard Thompson, Bradley County Commissioner - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 1, 2026 |
| SJR 1087 | Memorials, Retirement - Dewey V. Woody, Jr. - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 1, 2026 |
| SJR 1086 | Memorials, Death - Captain Phillip Shelton - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 1, 2026 |
| SJR 1085 | Memorials, Death - Johnny Ray Aikman - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 1, 2026 |
| SJR 1084 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Dr. Charles Paul Conn - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 1, 2026 |
| SJR 1077 | Memorials, Recognition - Aubri Whaley, Boys & Girls Clubs of Tennessee Youth of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 1, 2026 |
| SB 2699 | Athens - Subject to local approval, sets compensation of mayor and council members by ordinance rather than specific dollar amounts; does not alter compensation amounts of current mayor or council members. - Amends Chapter 455 of the Private Acts of 1953; as amended. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 1, 2026 |
| SB 2031 | Healthcare Liability - As enacted, authorizes a person to bring a civil action against a healthcare professional for an injury that is a result of a medical procedure, if the procedure was for enabling the person to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the person's sex or treating purported discomfort or distress from a discordance between the person's sex and asserted identity, and the person consented; or if the person was a minor at the time of the procedure, the person's parent, guardian, or representative consented due to an act of coercion by the professional. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 63 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 28, 2026 |
| SB 2259 | Education, Higher - As enacted, requires the board of regents, state university boards, and the board of trustees for the University of Tennessee system to adopt and implement policies that clearly distinguish between tenure decisions and disciplinary actions for faculty members. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, Chapter 8 and Title 49, Chapter 9. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 27, 2026 |
| SB 1704 | Game and Fish Laws - As enacted, repeals statutory requirements related to raccoon hunting, thereby permitting the Tennessee fish and wildlife commission to regulate such activities through proclamations and rules. - Amends TCA Title 70, Chapter 4. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 27, 2026 |
| SB 777 | Election Laws - As introduced, specifies that the reasonable period for candidates to remove signs, posters, or placards advocating their candidacy is two weeks after the election instead of three weeks. - Amends TCA Title 2. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 24, 2026 |
| SB 2220 | Children's Services, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to make an initial screening, and potentially an assessment, upon receiving a report of harm that includes a report of harm alleging facts that involve a caregiver; makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 24, 2026 |
| SB 2118 | TennCare - As enacted, prohibits the division from providing coverage or reimbursement for a medical procedure performed on, or administered to, an individual if the performance or administration of the procedure is for the purpose of enabling the individual to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the individual's sex, or treat purported discomfort or distress from a discordance between the individual's sex and asserted identity. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 24, 2026 |
| SB 1821 | Food and Food Products - As enacted, clarifies that a person 19 or older does not need a license or permit to sell bakery goods, homemade or otherwise; soft drinks; or other similar food commodities if the person is supporting a 501(c)(3) organization, and a component of such organization's mission is to provide temporary accommodations for children in relationship to their placement in the custody of the department of children's services. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 14. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 24, 2026 |
| SB 2264 | Lobbying, Lobbyists - As introduced, provides that a school board, municipal utility, utility district, and department, agency, or entity of county or municipal government that employs a contractor, subcontractor, or representative for purposes of lobbying is deemed to be an employer of a lobbyist. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 3 and Title 8. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 22, 2026 |
| SB 417 | Criminal Offenses - As introduced, decreases from 150 grams to 50 grams or more the amount of any substance containing fentanyl, carfentanil, remifentanil, alfentanil, thiafentanil, or any fentanyl derivative or analogue that is punished as a Class A felony for the knowing manufacture, delivery, or sale of the substance, or possession with intent to manufacture, deliver, or sell the substance. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 20, 2026 |
| SB 341 | Education, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to allocate to each local education agency sufficient funds for the LEA to employ one full-time licensed professional school counselor at each high school in the LEA that enrolls at least 600 students in grades 10 through 12; requires each LEA to employ one full-time licensed professional school counselor at each high school for which the LEA receives such funding from the department. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 20, 2026 |
| SB 1967 | Education - As introduced, requires local education agencies and public charter schools to provide all high school students, instead of only high school seniors, the opportunity to take a nationally recognized career readiness assessment; requires the board of regents to establish a framework for institutions governed by the board to provide transcribable credit to students who earned a credential on a nationally recognized career readiness assessment in high school that may be applied toward the student's attainment of a postsecondary degree. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 20, 2026 |
| SB 1954 | Sexual Offenses - As introduced, revises the offense of continuous sexual abuse of a child, including the required number of victims, required number of incidents of sexual abuse, and time frame within which the incidents must have occurred. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 5. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 20, 2026 |
| SB 1577 | Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, allows a student who was ineligible for the Tennessee HOPE scholarship as an entering freshman based on their high school grade point average or composite ACT score to regain their eligibility for the HOPE scholarship as a transfer student if the student meets certain requirements. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 20, 2026 |
| SB 1480 | Autopsies - As introduced, requires the expenses of an autopsy ordered by a district attorney general to be paid by this state. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 7. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 20, 2026 |
| SB 1465 | Taxes, Sales - As introduced, exempts from sales and use tax labor and service costs made as part of the sale of a taxable item of tangible personal property; exempts from sales and use tax repair and installation labor performed on tangible personal property. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 20, 2026 |
| SJR 28 | Memorials, Congress - Expresses support for the Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of the 119th U.S. Congress. - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 17, 2026 |
| SB 2028 | Game and Fish Laws - As enacted, clarifies that local governmental entities shall not regulate the manner and means of taking wildlife, including the discharge of a firearm while lawfully hunting, and that such taking is regulated pursuant to rules promulgated and proclamations issued by the fish and wildlife commission. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1314; Section 70-1-206 and Section 70-4-107. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 13, 2026 |
| SB 2026 | Agriculture, Dept. of - As introduced, bases indemnity payments for an animal that is destroyed to prevent the spread of disease on the fair market value of the animal, subject to available funds. - Amends TCA Title 44. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 13, 2026 |
| SB 1649 | State Universities - As introduced, requires all gubernatorial appointments to a state university board to be confirmed by joint resolution of the senate and house of representatives prior to commencing a term of office; requires the terms of all state university board members to commence on February 1. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 13, 2026 |
| SB 1951 | School Transportation - As enacted, authorizes a school bus that is used exclusively to transport students from school to an after-school program to be used until the bus reaches the 20th year from the in-service date of the bus, or until the bus accumulates 300,000 miles of recorded travel, whichever occurs later; requires the owner of a bus that reaches the later of 20 years of service or 300,000 miles of recorded travel to, at the conclusion of the school year, discontinue use of, or replace, the bus; requires certain notice to, and inspections by, the commissioner for certain buses. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | Passed both chambers | April 6, 2026 |
| SJR 847 | Memorials, Recognition - 2026 Outdoors Day on the Hill - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 31, 2026 |
| SB 1824 | Taxes, Real Property - As introduced, eliminates liability for rollback taxes on agricultural, forest, or open space land with a greenbelt classification when the land is sold; requires that a buyer of property with a greenbelt classification submit a new application to renew the property's greenbelt classification. - Amends TCA Section 11-14-307; Section 11-14-406; Section 11-7-109; Title 66; Section 67-4-409; Title 67, Chapter 5, Part 10 and Section 67-5-2402. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 31, 2026 |
| SB 1953 | Education, Curriculum - As enacted, beginning with the 2027-2028 school year, requires each LEA and public charter school to, as part of the social studies curriculum, present a civics instructional video approved by the state board of education at least once to students in grades six through eight and at least once to students in grades nine through 12. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1 and Title 49, Chapter 6. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 30, 2026 |
| SB 178 | Open Meetings - As enacted, requires a local governing body subject to the open meetings laws to reserve a period of public comment to provide the public with the opportunity to comment on any matter germane to the jurisdiction of the governing body, regardless of whether the matter is listed on the agenda for the meeting. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 44. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 30, 2026 |
| SB 328 | Education - As introduced, deletes an antiquated section, which required the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy at the University of Tennessee to, by December 15, 2014, perform a study on the economic feasibility of creating and utilizing a statewide comprehensive energy policy and submit its final report to the energy task force of the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 23, 2026 |
| SB 2263 | Consumer Protection - As introduced, authorizes the attorney general and reporter to submit the required annual report regarding the activities of the consumer affairs division in the office of the attorney general and reporter to the general assembly electronically. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 37; Title 39 and Title 47. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 23, 2026 |
| SB 1955 | Criminal Offenses - As introduced, defines "criminally negligent conduct,” as used in the offense of criminally negligent homicide, to include failing or refusing to render aid to another person who is unconscious or in need of medical care and the person failing to act knows or reasonably should know that the unconsciousness or need for medical care occurred after the consumption of any controlled substance. - Amends TCA Title 39. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 23, 2026 |
| SB 1573 | Criminal Offenses - As introduced, adds the advisement or encouragement to commit suicide to the offense of assisted suicide under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 39. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 23, 2026 |
| SB 1227 | Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, renames enhanced and concealed handgun carry permits as enhanced and concealed firearm carry permits and authorizes a permit holder to carry any firearms, rather than handguns, that the permit holder legally owns or possesses. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 7; Title 8; Title 10; Title 33; Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 49; Title 50; Title 57; Title 67; Title 68 and Title 70. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 23, 2026 |
| SB 912 | Education - As introduced, deletes obsolete provisions regarding implementation of the school grading system. - Amends Chapter __ of the Public Acts of 2025 (1st Ex. Sess. – SB 6001 / HB 6004); and TCA Title 4, Chapter 49; Title 8 and Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 18, 2026 |
| SB 317 | Ethics - As introduced, prohibits a person from acting as an agent of a hostile foreign principal unless the person has filed a registration statement with the Tennessee ethics commission; requires each foreign-supported political organization to register with the Tennessee ethics commission. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 6 and Title 4. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 17, 2026 |
| SB 16 | Education - As enacted, generally provides that a middle school student or high school student who transfers from one member school to another is immediately eligible to participate in interscholastic athletics at the member school to which the student transfers if certain criteria are met. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 16, 2026 |
| SB 2260 | Education, Dept. of - As introduced, changes from September 1 to November 1 the day by which the department is required to compile and publish to its website a directory of the name and contact information for the apprenticeship training program contact for each public high school. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 11, 2026 |
| SB 1950 | Driver Licenses - As introduced, authorizes the department of safety to issue a for-hire endorsement to operate a Class D vehicle to an applicant who would otherwise qualify for a for-hire endorsement but for the requirement of at least two years of unrestricted driving prior to the date of application if the applicant has completed a sentence of incarceration after conviction for an offense and currently has a restricted license for unpaid fines and court costs and is making payments in accordance with a payment plan. - Amends TCA Title 55. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 11, 2026 |
| SB 1027 | Education, Dept. of - As introduced, establishes October 15 of each year as the date by which the department must submit an early grades reading report; updates the committees for which the department must submit the early grades reading report to be the education committee of the senate and the committee of the house of representatives having jurisdiction over education. - Amends Chapter __ of the Public Acts of 2025 (1st Ex. Sess. – SB 6001 / HB 6004); and TCA Title 4; Title 8 and Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 11, 2026 |
| SJR 610 | Constitutional Amendments - Proposes adding a provision establishing the right to food that includes the right to save and exchange seeds and the right to grow, raise, harvest, produce, and acquire and consume the food of their own choosing for their own nourishment, sustenance, bodily health, and well-being. - | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 10, 2026 |
| SB 226 | Professions and Occupations - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Professionals' Freedom of Religion Act." - Amends TCA Title 4. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 10, 2026 |
| SB 1572 | Criminal Offenses - As introduced, enacts the "Safe Highways and Roads Enforcement (SHARE) Act," which requires the court to assess an additional fine against a person convicted of a moving traffic violation or driving under the influence of an intoxicant; requires the additional fines be deposited into the state highway fund. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 55. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 10, 2026 |
| SB 2261 | Corporations, Not for Profit - As introduced, requires a nonprofit organization that receives state or federal grants to compile, maintain, and publish in a publicly available location the salaries of the nonprofit organization's employees. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 10, Chapter 7; Title 35; Title 48 and Title 50. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 3, 2026 |
| SB 2033 | Employees, Employers - As introduced, requires employers that condition employment or prospective employment upon an employee or prospective employee submitting to a mental health evaluation to grant the employee or prospective employee reasonable access to the results of the mental health evaluation, including any report from a mental health professional or other evaluator; provides a private right of action for an employee or prospective employee who is denied such access. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 50. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 3, 2026 |
| SB 1092 | Landlord and Tenant - As introduced, changes, from three days to three business days from the date written notice is received by a tenant, the date on which a landlord may terminate a rental agreement if the tenant or another person on the premises with the tenant's consent willfully or intentionally commits a violent act; behaves in a manner which constitutes or threatens to be a real and present danger to the health, safety, or welfare of the life or property of other tenants or persons on the premises; creates a hazardous or unsanitary condition on the property that affects the health, safety, or welfare or the life or property of other tenants or persons on the premises; or refuses to vacate the premises after entering the premises as an unauthorized subtenant or other unauthorized occupant. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13; Title 56; Title 62; Title 66; Title 67 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 3, 2026 |
| SB 2651 | Environment and Conservation, Department of - As introduced, clarifies process and sanctions when a county's or municipal solid waste region's solid waste plan is noncompliant under the Solid Waste Management Act of 1991; defines noncompliance; outlines sanctions. - Amends TCA Section 68-211-816. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 9, 2026 |
| SB 2315 | Alcoholic Beverage Commission - As introduced, requires the commission to submit its biennial report on underage drinking, drunk driving, and other harmful uses of alcohol to the governor in addition to members of the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 57. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2026 |
| SB 2268 | Anatomical Gifts - As introduced, changes from July to January, the month when a medical facility and research institution covered under the Tennessee Genomic Security and End Organ Harvesting Act must certify to the commissioner of health that the facility and institution are compliant with the requirements in the act. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2026 |
| SB 2029 | Real Property - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Uniform Real Property Transfer on Death Act." - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 30; Title 31; Title 32; Title 35; Title 55; Title 66 and Section 67-4-409. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2026 |
| SB 1575 | State Government - As introduced, authorizes a governmental entity to publish notices of public meetings on a secure website of the governmental body; authorizes a person to request an electronic or hard copy of an e-newsletter or notice published by the governmental body if the governmental body provides such documents electronically. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 44, Part 1. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2026 |
| SB 1574 | Lobbying, Lobbyists - As introduced, increases time an employer of a lobbyist or a lobbyist must register or update their registration with the ethics commission from not later than seven days to not later than seven business days. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 3; Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8 and Title 12. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2026 |
| SJR 540 | Memorials, Sports - Walker Valley High School Lady Mustangs Softball team, 2025 4A state champions - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 3, 2026 |
| SB 1703 | Children - As introduced, adds to the definition of a dependent and neglected child a child whose parent or guardian is unable to provide care and control of the child due to circumstances beyond the parent's or guardian's control; requires this finding to be made by a court at an adjudicatory hearing. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 22, 2026 |
| SB 1705 | Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires director of schools to report a student who was formally truant and now enrolled in a home school to juvenile court; establishes that unexcused absences accumulated by a transfer student at their former school or LEA during the school year in which they transfer follow the student to the receiving school or LEA to determine habitual truancy, to implement a progressive truancy plan, and to identify cases of educational neglect. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 1, Part 1; Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 6. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | January 20, 2026 |
| SB 1570 | Agriculture, Dept. of - As introduced, bases indemnity payments for an animal that is destroyed to prevent the spread of disease on the value of the animal, subject to available funds; makes the state responsible for cost of disposition of a dead animal when ordered by the commissioner or the state veterinarian. - Amends TCA Title 44. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 20, 2026 |
| SB 1576 | Education, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to make the standardized form for reporting student allergies publicly available on its website. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 14, 2026 |
| SB 1571 | Anatomical Gifts - As introduced, specifies that genome sequencing data may be stored within a foreign adversary or remotely accessed by a foreign adversary if the data is collected as part of a clinical trial or other biomedical research study conducted in accordance with federal rules. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 30. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | January 13, 2026 |
| SB 844 | Taxes - As introduced, increases, from 10 to 12, the number of days from an action taken by the department of revenue that a person may be afforded an opportunity for a formal hearing before the commissioner for an issue in connection with an application, entitlement, or proposed revocation of or to a certificate, license, permit, privilege, or right, or for any other adverse action proposed or taken to implement any revenue regulatory or registration law. - Amends TCA Title 67. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 8, 2026 |
| SB 845 | Local Government, General - As enacted, sets up a process by which the attorney general and reporter may review whether a local government action violates state law or the Constitution of Tennessee. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8 and Title 9. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 27, 2025 |
| SB 778 | Driver Licenses - As enacted, limits to four the number of points that may be assessed to a person's driver record for the offense of operating a motor vehicle while the person's driving privilege is canceled, suspended, or revoked. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 27, 2025 |
| SB 727 | Real Property - As enacted, revises present law relative to advertising the sale of land to foreclose a deed of trust, mortgage, or other lien securing the payment of money or other thing of value or under judicial orders or process. - Amends TCA Title 35. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 27, 2025 |
| SB 1060 | Campaigns and Campaign Finance - As enacted, prohibits political campaign committees formed to support or oppose a measure from receiving, soliciting, or accepting contributions or expenditures from a foreign national; requires such political campaign committees and persons making independent expenditures supporting or opposing a measure to file certain disclosures regarding funding sources with the registry of election finance. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 10. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 27, 2025 |
| SB 415 | Education - As enacted, creates an advisory committee on innovations in K-12 education. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 49. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 15, 2025 |
| SB 147 | Highway Signs - As enacted, requires the department of transportation to install signs or markers displaying language or an appropriate symbol indicating to motorists that a rest area or welcome center has a family restroom; requires the department to post on its website rest areas and welcome centers that have family restrooms. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3; Title 12 and Title 54. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 15, 2025 |
| SB 7 | Historical Commission - As enacted, prohibits the commission, and any other state entity other than the state building commission engaged in the historic preservation of real property, from regulating the renovation, alteration, or demolition of improved public or private real property that is not listed on the Tennessee register of historic places, or taking any adverse action against the owner of such real property, if the real property meets certain criteria. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 8; Title 13 and Title 66. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 13, 2025 |
| SB 481 | Forfeiture of Assets - As enacted, removes the requirement for a claimant to post a bond when filing a claim to seized property. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 33. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 13, 2025 |
| SB 111 | Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, authorizes a licensee that holds more than a 50 percent ownership interest in a manufacturer and a winery that are located on the same deeded property to offer product tastings and make retail sales for consumption on or off of such premises of its wine or spirits manufactured on such deeded property at a location on the overlapping premises other than on the bonded premises of the manufacturer or winery. - Amends TCA Title 57. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 13, 2025 |
| SB 110 | Disabled Persons - As enacted, authorizes a residential facility for persons with disabilities to operate in the eastern grand division of this state under an existing residential pilot program authorizing such facilities to operate in the western and middle grand divisions of this state that is administered by the department of disability and aging. - Amends TCA Title 33 and Title 52. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 13, 2025 |
| SB 817 | Drugs, Prescription - As enacted, authorizes a healthcare practitioner to prescribe and a pharmacist to dispense a prescribed, bronchodilator rescue inhaler to an authorized entity to be administered to a person believed to be experiencing asthma symptoms or respiratory distress in an emergency situation, under a standing protocol from the healthcare practitioner; encourages schools in LEAs and public charter schools to keep bronchodilator rescue inhalers to be administered to students believed to be having asthma symptoms or in respiratory distress in an emergency situation. - Amends TCA Title 49; Title 53; Title 63 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 8, 2025 |
| SB 8 | Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As enacted, enacts the "Fairness in Benefits Act." - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 27; Title 8, Chapter 34; Title 8, Chapter 35; Title 8, Chapter 36 and Title 8, Chapter 37. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 8, 2025 |
| SB 1059 | Election Laws - As enacted, revises the definition of "contribution," for purposes of financial disclosures under the state's campaign finance laws, to include an activity done independently of or in coordination with a candidate, candidate's political campaign committee, or agent, related to the development, production, and use of canvassing literature and scripts to be used in a door-knocking campaign for a candidate's election. - Amends TCA Title 2. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 8, 2025 |
| SB 816 | Consumer Protection - As enacted, adds as unlawful under the Consumer Protection Act of 1977 the making of false statements or misrepresentations of fact to a consumer to indicate or imply that the consumer is a party to a civil lawsuit or a defendant in a criminal prosecution in order to induce the consumer to pay for services related to the purported lawsuit or prosecution or to pay costs, fines, penalties, or other assessments related to the purported lawsuit or prosecution. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 39; Title 47 and Title 65. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 30, 2025 |
| SB 729 | Local Education Agencies - As enacted, authorizes an LEA to adopt and implement a merit-based pay structure for educators to award additional compensation to high-performing educators and to incentivize educators to meet and exceed expectations. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 29, 2025 |
| SB 728 | Motor Vehicles - As enacted, authorizes utility terrain vehicles to operate on county roads and state highways throughout the state, subject to certain restrictions. - Amends TCA Title 55. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 29, 2025 |
| SB 1112 | Education - As enacted, prohibits a local board of education or public charter school governing body from removing a material from a library collection for the sole reason that the material is religious. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 29, 2025 |
| SB 179 | Election Laws - As enacted, defines "district," for purposes of municipal elections, to mean a district, region, precinct, sector, territory, ward, or other geographical area prescribed for the purposes of nominating and electing candidates. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 6, Chapter 53. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 28, 2025 |
| SB 170 | Juvenile Offenders - As enacted, requires suspension of a minor's driving privileges or ability to obtain a driver license for a period of one year as part of the disposition if a minor is adjudicated delinquent for an act that would constitute the offense of harassment by bullying or cyber-bullying. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39 and Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 7. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 28, 2025 |
| SR 122 | Memorials, Recognition - 100th anniversary of the Education Act of Tennessee - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 10, 2025 |
| SB 780 | Driver Licenses - As enacted, authorizes an honorably discharged member of the national guard to receive "veteran" designation on driver license; specifies documentation that must be provided to receive such designation. - Amends TCA Section 55-50-354. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 4, 2025 |
| SB 318 | Anatomical Gifts - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Genomic Security and End Organ Harvesting Act." - Amends TCA Title 56 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 4, 2025 |
| SB 146 | Education - As enacted, specifies that in an educational neglect case a subpoena may be issued for a student's attendance record, including all previous school years that the student attended a public school, in accordance with relevant privacy laws. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 4, 2025 |
| SB 349 | Law Enforcement - As introduced, specifies that a commissioned reserve deputy sheriff or commissioned reserve or auxiliary police officer receiving compensation for services as a guard, patrol, or watchperson under a contract with a private business that is properly licensed by the state is exempt from the private protective services licensing and regulation requirements. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39 and Title 62, Chapter 35. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 2, 2025 |
| SJR 219 | Memorials, Death - Lewis Theodore Gobble - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 31, 2025 |
| SJR 42 | Memorials, Recognition - "Arts in Education Week," March 2-8, 2025 - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 25, 2025 |
| SB 779 | Environment and Conservation, Department of - As introduced, requires the department to make the catalog of materials on source reduction and recycling created by the department available on the department's website. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 68, Chapter 211. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 19, 2025 |
| SB 342 | Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires school board members to be elected at the same election beginning in 2028. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 19, 2025 |
| SB 723 | Consumer Protection - As introduced, makes it a violation of the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act of 1977 for a weather-related company to conduct certain weather modification activities. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18 and Title 68, Chapter 201. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 7, 2025 |
| SB 447 | Boats, Boating - As introduced, prohibits certain activities, such as fishing, near public boat launches, docks, boats, and marinas so as to interfere with the use of such facilities. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 102, Part 6; Title 69 and Title 70. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 25, 2025 |
| SB 913 | State Universities - As introduced, expands the list of those who are prohibited from serving on a state university board to include those who hold the position of a member of a governing body for another institution of higher education, not just public institutions of higher education. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29; Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, Chapter 8 and Title 49, Chapter 9. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| SB 910 | Education, Dept. of - As introduced, changes a department's reporting requirement, regarding local education agencies' and public charter schools' compliance with notice to an association that regulates interscholastic athletics of a student's placement in foster care who is seeking to participate in interscholastic athletics, from annually to upon the request of the education committee of the senate or the committee of the house of representatives having jurisdiction over education. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| SB 730 | Public Records - As introduced, authorizes records custodians to charge a fee to view records if the records requested reasonably require more than one hour of an employee's time to collect for inspection by the requestor; specifies that the hourly rate for inspection be set in proportion to the rate of pay of the employee who is collecting the records. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| SB 726 | Alcoholic Beverage Commission - As introduced, requires the commission to submit its biennial report on underage drinking, drunk driving, and other harmful uses of alcohol to the governor in addition to members of the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 57. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| SB 725 | Parks, Natural Areas Preservation - As introduced, removes the two-mile buffer between class II scenic rivers and new and expanded landfill sites. - Amends TCA Title 11, Chapter 13 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| SB 724 | Public Employees - As introduced, provides a five-day grace period for assistant district attorneys general and criminal investigators to submit expense accounts. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 7. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| SB 340 | Zoning - As introduced, specifies that a privately owned property built after 1899 that is located in a tourism development zone is not subject to the authority of a historic zoning commission or a historic zoning law, rule, review guideline, or regulation, with respect to certain aspects of a project. - Amends TCA Title 13, Chapter 7, Part 4. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| SB 339 | Zoning - As introduced, extends the terms of members of historic zoning commissions from five years to six years. - Amends TCA Title 13, Chapter 7, Part 4. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| SB 1226 | State Government - As introduced, requires each state department and agency to post to the department's or agency's website the report provided annually to the general assembly that describes the department's or agency's progress in achieving economic efficiency. - Amends TCA Title 4. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| SB 122 | Schools, Home - As introduced, eliminates various requirements for parents conducting a home school if the parent provides a normed curriculum to their child at home; prohibits this state from regulating, overseeing, or otherwise imposing requirements on a home school parent or student unless the home school parent or student is participating in a state program or applies for and receives state funds. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| SB 197 | Medical Occupations - As introduced, deletes transitional language pertaining to the appointment and length of terms of members of the former board of medical examiners’ committee on physician assistants who were transferred to the new board of physician assistants in 2021, with the longest remaining term expiring in 2024; removes language limiting former committee members to a maximum of two consecutive four-year terms on the new board, inclusive of time as a member of the former committee. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Title 63. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 10, 2025 |
| SB 1251 | Health, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the report on drug overdoses by a student enrolled in grades K-12 to be reported to the public school officials within seven business days of the diagnosis or treatment of such a student. - Amends TCA Title 28; Title 29; Title 33; Title 38; Title 39; Title 53; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | February 7, 2025 |
| SB 123 | Political Parties - As introduced, prescribes a process by which a person must declare a statewide political party or recognized minor party affiliation before voting in a primary election; designates unaffiliated registered voters as independents who have not affiliated with a political party prior to the primary election in August of 2026. - Amends TCA Title 2. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 4, 2025 |
| SB 140 | Public Officials - As introduced, creates a recall process for members of a municipal legislative body and of a city or county school board. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8 and Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 16, 2025 |
| SB 139 | Health, Dept. of - As introduced, requires hospitals that accept medicaid to inquire about a person's citizenship status and submit a quarterly report to the department on the number of hospital admissions and emergency department visits by persons lawfully and not lawfully present in the United States; requires the department to submit an annual report to the governor, speaker of the senate, and speaker of the house of representatives regarding the impact of uncompensated care for persons not lawfully present in the United States and other related information. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 68 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 16, 2025 |
| SB 121 | Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires public charter schools to adopt an internet acceptable use policy in the same manner required for LEAs; prohibits LEAs and public charter schools from tracking or monitoring a person's use of a personal electronic device on school property, except for instances in which a student uses such device during a test. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 15, 2025 |
| SB 120 | Criminal Offenses - As introduced, expands the Class C felony offense of aggravated assault against a first responder to include knowingly possessing fentanyl, carfentanil, remifentanil, alfentanil, thiafentanil, or a fentanyl analogue in a manner that would be reasonably foreseen to expose a first responder to the substance while the first responder is discharging or attempting to discharge the first responder's official duties and the first responder is exposed resulting in the serious bodily injury or death of the first responder. - Amends TCA Title 39. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 15, 2025 |