Tennessee · Current officeholder
Brent Taylor
Republican Tennessee Senate, District 31
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Sponsored legislation
129 bills in the current data (129 as primary sponsor), sorted by most recent official action. Linked by Open States person ID.
| Bill | Title | Role | Stage | Last action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SB 855 | Utilities, Utility Districts - As enacted, establishes a process for a municipality that operates a sewerage system outside of its corporate boundaries and has imposed a moratorium on new sewer connections outside of its corporate boundaries for a period of five or more consecutive years to extend sanitary sewer service or allow sewer connection only to property located within an adjacency area if the property owner or developer agrees to pay, or the municipality assesses, a housing surcharge. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 12; Title 13; Title 29; Title 54; Title 64; Title 65; Title 68 and Title 69. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 27, 2026 |
| SB 714 | Education - As enacted, requires an educational oversight board to be created for an LEA that meets certain criteria and is established to annually conduct a comprehensive needs assessment of the LEA to determine the factors that may be contributing to the LEA meeting such criteria; requires the oversight board to develop a transformation plan that identifies performance and operational goals for the LEA and benchmarks for assessing the LEA's progress toward meeting such goals; makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 49. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 27, 2026 |
| SB 2729 | Shelby County - Subject to local approval, changes the conditions under which the occupancy tax will no longer be levied; changes the allocation of the revenue from the occupancy tax if the tenant of the indoor sports facility no longer occupies such facility. - Amends Chapter 131 of the Private Acts of 1969; as amended. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 27, 2026 |
| SB 2265 | Criminal Offenses - As enacted, makes various changes relative to the offense of organized retail crime. - Amends TCA Title 18; Title 38, Chapter 6, Part 1 and Title 39. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 27, 2026 |
| SB 2213 | Public Utilities - As enacted, requires a utility to provide material that is required for construction of utility infrastructure for the customer's or approved contractor's use at the same price as the utility paid for the material, if such material is available only from the utility; authorizes a customer or approved contractor installing utility infrastructure to install street lights; prohibits a utility from requiring a customer or approved contractor from installing street lights; prohibits certain fees for inspections and review of plans and designs from exceeding a combined total of 10% of the proposed cost of the project. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 13, Chapter 7; Title 65 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 27, 2026 |
| SB 2102 | Public Utility Commission - As enacted, requires, for an electric utility providing services outside the corporate limits of the home municipality, expansion of the utility board to provide representation on the board for such outside locality. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 12; Title 13; Title 54; Title 64; Title 65; Title 68 and Title 69. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 27, 2026 |
| SB 2057 | Sewage - As enacted, clarifies that a utility system providing waste water service must provide a connection if certain criteria are met. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 35; Title 7, Chapter 82 and Title 68, Chapter 221. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 27, 2026 |
| SB 1826 | Open Meetings - As enacted, authorizes emergency communications district boards of directors to participate in board meetings electronically under the open meetings law. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 86, Part 3 and Title 8, Chapter 44, Part 1. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 27, 2026 |
| SB 2405 | Law Enforcement - As enacted, establishes a Tennessee safe initiative task force, which is administratively attached to the Tennessee bureau of investigation. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 38 and Title 39. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 26, 2026 |
| SB 2191 | Utilities, Utility Districts - As enacted, authorizes a political subdivision to enter into a cost-sharing agreement with a developer for the development of certain public infrastructure. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13; Title 65 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 26, 2026 |
| SB 2101 | Business and Commerce - As enacted, revises law relative to commercial litigation financiers and litigation financing contracts. - Amends TCA Title 47. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 26, 2026 |
| SB 1985 | Real Property - As enacted, requires a description of real property contained within a deed of conveyance of a property not previously described in a recorded instrument to be prepared by a registered land surveyor, or by a licensed attorney utilizing a survey prepared by a registered land surveyor. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 23; Title 39; Title 45; Title 47, Chapter 18; Title 56; Title 62 and Title 66. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 26, 2026 |
| SB 1486 | Immigration - As enacted, requires a memorandum of understanding entered between certain law enforcement agencies and federal officials concerning enforcement of federal immigration laws to include a requirement that the agency accept and honor any immigration detainer received from federal immigration authorities. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 38 and Title 41. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 26, 2026 |
| SB 2128 | Computers and Electronic Processing - As enacted, generally prohibits a municipality or electric utility to pay or absorb the cost of electrical infrastructure incurred to serve a data center; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13 and Title 65. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 18, 2026 |
| SB 1983 | Taxes, Real Property - As enacted, revises standards for the length of the redemption period for a property subject to a tax sale based on whether the period of delinquency is three years or less or is more than three years. - Amends TCA Section 67-5-2701. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 18, 2026 |
| SB 1889 | Motor Vehicles - As enacted, adds certain language comprehension requirements for certain driver licenses; requires documentation as a U.S. citizen or lawfully permitted in the U.S. for certain vehicle registrations; requires documentation as a U.S. citizen for certain driving and related licenses. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4; Title 55, Chapter 50 and Title 65, Chapter 15. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 18, 2026 |
| SB 846 | Courts - As enacted, enacts the "Violent Criminal Court Act." - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 10; Title 16; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41 and Title 55. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 15, 2026 |
| SB 676 | Health Care - As enacted, revises law relative to gender clinics and related services. - Amends TCA Title 1; Title 4; Title 33; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 15, 2026 |
| SB 1708 | Bail, Bail Bonds - As enacted, makes various changes related to entities seeking to secure the release of a defendant. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 15, 2026 |
| SB 1467 | Criminal Offenses - As enacted, enacts "The Memphis Safe Task Force Accountability Act." - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 7 and Title 39. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 15, 2026 |
| SB 671 | Criminal Offenses - As enacted, increases from a Class E felony to a Class D felony the offense of burglary of a conveyance. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 14, 2026 |
| SB 443 | District Attorneys - As enacted, authorizes the attorney general to conduct a study of a district attorney general's disposition of charges and other ancillary matters within the 30th judicial district; authorizes the attorney general to petition the supreme court for appointment of a district attorney general pro tem if a district attorney general in this state has peremptorily and categorically refused to prosecute criminal offenses based on an unjustifiable and unconstitutional standard, without regard to facts or circumstances or taken other official action that constitutes a failure or refusal to prosecute according to the law. - Amends TCA Title 8. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 14, 2026 |
| SB 225 | Chiropractors - As enacted, requires certain insurers to reimburse chiropractic physicians at the same rate as physicians for the same services. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7 and Title 63. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 14, 2026 |
| SB 712 | Comptroller, State - As enacted, prohibits an LEA or public charter school from using public funds to initiate or maintain any civil action or proceeding against this state or an agency or officer of this state to challenge a school or district accountability measure established under state law. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 5, 2026 |
| SB 2212 | Firefighters - As enacted, extends the period for the estate of an emergency responder killed in the line of duty from three years from the date of death to the later of such date or the date of a final order of a court, administrative law judge, or authorized state or local official designating the death as being in the line of duty; extends the period for an estate to file an appeal of a denial from 90 days to one year; adds a mechanism of appeal of a denial of a claim for the estates of firefighters, volunteer rescue squad workers, and emergency medical technicians. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 24; Title 7, Chapter 51, Part 2; Title 38, Chapter 8 and Title 68, Chapter 140. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 5, 2026 |
| SB 1473 | Courts, Municipal - As enacted, prohibits a municipality from remediating a property maintenance violation if the cost may negatively impact the municipality's financial position, or if the cost is budgetarily prohibitive; specifies that, in addition to assessing remediation costs against a property owner in the form of a lien, a municipality may recover remediation costs through all other legal means. - Amends TCA Title 6; Title 7; Title 13; Title 16, Chapter 18 and Title 29, Chapter 3. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 4, 2026 |
| SB 1930 | Criminal Offenses - As enacted, requires a person convicted of second degree murder by knowingly killing another to be sentenced as no lower than a Range II offender. - Amends TCA Section 39-13-210 and Title 40. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 24, 2026 |
| SB 672 | Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases the penalty for obstruction of a highway, street, sidewalk, railway, waterway, elevator, aisle, hallway, or other place used for the passage of persons or vehicles from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony; establishes an increased penalty of a Class D felony if the offense was committed by intentionally obstructing a highway, street, or other place used for the passage of vehicles. - Amends TCA Title 39. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 23, 2026 |
| SB 2258 | School Transportation - As enacted, requires a local education agency that installs cameras on the exterior of school buses for the purpose of recording images of motor vehicles that fail to stop upon approaching a school bus to either enter into a memorandum of understanding with local law enforcement that includes the review of evidence from a camera and overall enforcement, or authorize school safety personnel to review evidence from a camera to determine whether a violation has occurred. - Amends TCA Section 55-8-151. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 23, 2026 |
| SB 719 | Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, adds William R. Moore College of Technology as an eligible institution for receipt of the Wilder-Naifeh reconnect grant and Wilder-Naifeh technical skills grant; specifies that the amount of the scholarship for such students enrolled is the average cost of tuition and mandatory fees at TCATs less all other gift aid. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 20, 2026 |
| SB 673 | Criminal Offenses - As introduced, enacts the "Comprehensive Assault Crime Intervention Act." - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 20, 2026 |
| SB 222 | Criminal Procedure - As introduced, increases, from 30 to 45, the number of days a sheriff has to provide the department of safety with any information that is within the knowledge of the sheriff concerning an applicant's truthfulness on an application for an enhanced handgun carry permit. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 20, 2026 |
| SB 2200 | Local Government, General - As introduced, requires that a reduction of the allocations and distributions of certain tax and other revenues to counties and municipalities due to a population loss based on the revised populations certified by the department of economic and community development be implemented incrementally in 20 percent increments over a five-year period. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3; Title 4, Chapter 49; Section 9-16-101; Title 54, Chapter 4; Title 55, Chapter 4; Title 57, Chapter 5, Part 2; Title 57, Chapter 3, Part 3 and Title 67. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 20, 2026 |
| SB 2193 | Labor and Workforce Development, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the governor to approve all eligible workforce training programs for the purposes of federal workforce Pell grants and coordinate approval of eligible workforce training programs with other state and federal workforce programs to avoid duplicative payments for the same student costs that are covered by federal workforce Pell grants. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 14. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 20, 2026 |
| SB 2135 | Taxes, Sales - As introduced, urges the department of revenue to study the amount of revenue derived during the previous five fiscal years from the sales tax imposed on retail sales of non-prepared food, and from the general sales tax imposed on retail sales of prepared food; requires a report be submitted to the chairs of the finance, ways and means committees and the office of legislative budget analysis. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 20, 2026 |
| SB 2042 | Taxes, Sales - As introduced, authorizes the commissioner of revenue to issue a certificate of exemption to a taxpayer who qualifies for the sales and use tax exemption on qualified building materials used in the construction, expansion, or renovation of one or more qualified, new, or expanded warehouse or distribution facilities in paper or electronic medium. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 20, 2026 |
| SB 1982 | Sentencing - As introduced, states that there is a rebuttable presumption that a defendant convicted of aggravated assault is not a favorable candidate for probation if the offense involved the use or display of a firearm during the commission of the offense. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 35. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 20, 2026 |
| SB 1929 | Criminal Procedure - As introduced, adds to the list of certain offenses required to be served at 100 percent of the sentence imposed by the court undiminished by any sentence reduction credits, the attempt, conspiracy, or solicitation to commit those offenses. - Amends TCA Section 40-35-501. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 20, 2026 |
| SB 1928 | Criminal Offenses - As introduced, adds "a victim" to the definition of an individual involved in the judicial process for purposes of the criminal offense of harming or threatening to harm an individual involved in the judicial process; makes various other changes regarding victims of crime. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 39 and Title 40. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 20, 2026 |
| SB 1827 | Public Funds and Financing - As introduced, adds certain definitions concerning precious metals; makes precious metal coins legal tender; prohibits a person from compelling another to accept precious metal coins as legal tender. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 1. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 20, 2026 |
| SB 1709 | Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Civics Education Act," which requires persons seeking the first issuance of a practitioner teacher license or practitioner occupational teacher license to achieve a passing score on a United States civics test prepared by the department of education in order to obtain the license. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 20, 2026 |
| SB 1475 | Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases the penalty for aggravated cruelty to animals from a Class E felony to a Class D felony; adds aggravated cruelty to animals as an offense for which a juvenile may be classified as a serious youthful offender. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 39. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 20, 2026 |
| SB 1474 | Criminal Offenses - As introduced, restates the criminal offense of drag racing as street drag racing; expands the offense to include acts committed on commercial property; authorizes a vehicle used in the commission of the offense or to flee after commission of the offense to be impounded for the purpose of collecting evidence; makes various other changes regarding the offense of street drag racing. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 39; Title 40; Title 55 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 20, 2026 |
| SB 1984 | District Attorneys - As introduced, requires TACIR to study and prepare a report on pay equity for assistant district attorneys general in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 8, Chapter 7. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 13, 2026 |
| SB 1707 | Registers of Deeds - As introduced, requires that a deed of conveyance of real property be prepared by an attorney licensed to practice in this state, a title insurance agent licensed in this state, the owner of the real property being transferred, or a person with legal authority to act on behalf of the owner of the real property being transferred; makes other changes related to deeds of conveyance. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 13; Title 23, Chapter 3; Title 66, Chapter 5, Part 1 and Title 66, Chapter 24. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 9, 2026 |
| SB 2653 | Business and Commerce - As introduced, creates the "Tennessee Data Center Impact Review Act." - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 10; Title 62; Title 65; Title 68 and Title 69. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 7, 2026 |
| SB 2209 | Consumer Protection - As introduced, authorizes the attorney general to establish a do not call registry; places certain restrictions upon telephone solicitations and robocallers; authorizes the attorney general to enforce restrictions and sets monetary amounts for penalties imposed by a court that makes a finding of a violation. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 47 and Title 65. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 7, 2026 |
| SB 2126 | Business Organizations - As introduced, requires the comptroller of the treasury to submit a report, on or before December 31, 2026, to the governor, the speaker of the senate, the speaker of the house of representatives, the chair of the state and local government committee of the senate, and the chair of the committee of the house of representatives having jurisdiction over housing containing a summary of certain de-identified information related to real estate investment trusts' purchases and sales of single-family homes in this state in 2025. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13; Title 47; Title 48; Title 61; Title 66 and Title 67. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 7, 2026 |
| SB 2059 | Public Utility Commission - As introduced, authorizes the commission to electronically provide to the general assembly its annual report of all matters relating to the commissioner's office for the preceding year, including practical workings of companies under its jurisdiction in this state and an abstract of the minutes of all of the commission's meetings. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 12; Title 13; Title 54; Title 64; Title 65; Title 68 and Title 69. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 7, 2026 |
| SB 2044 | Health, Dept. of - As introduced, directs the department to conduct a study on health concerns of, and identifying obstacles for receiving better care for, persons whose biological sex is female; requires the department to submit a report to the members of the general assembly on the results of the study on or before January 1, 2027. - Amends TCA Title 28; Title 29; Title 49; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 7, 2026 |
| SB 273 | Criminal Offenses - As enacted, clarifies that a school employee does not commit the criminal offense of falsifying educational and academic documents for altering, creating, or duplicating the grade of a student in an educational or academic document if the alteration, creation, or duplication is due to the student obtaining the grade through a program that allows students to retake a failed course, exam, or assignment and earn credit. - Amends TCA Section 39-14-136 and Title 49. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 6, 2026 |
| SB 2255 | Drugs, Prescription - As enacted, requires the bureau of TennCare to biannually publish two comprehensive statewide data reports on the use of psychotropic medications and the psychotropic medications' associated costs with certain list categories and data points that must be included in each report. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 68 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 6, 2026 |
| SB 218 | Bail, Bail Bonds - As enacted, establishes a presumption that a defendant should not be released on the defendant’s personal recognizance if the defendant is charged with a felony offense that involved the use or display of a firearm or resulted in the serious bodily injury or death of the victim; requires a magistrate who determines that the presumption has been rebutted to include in the bail order written findings for each factor considered in making such a determination. - Amends TCA Title 40. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 30, 2026 |
| SB 2058 | Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, enacts the "Supporting Troopers though Advanced Retirement (STAR) Act"; authorizes current state troopers to elect to participate in an alternative defined benefit retirement plan that offers enhanced benefits; authorizes state troopers participating in the alternative plan to elect to defer retirement and continue working full-time for up to eight years while their retirement benefits are deposited into an interest-bearing account until they elect to retire. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 7 and Title 8. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 25, 2026 |
| SB 1825 | Election Laws - As introduced, prohibits a person from qualifying as a candidate in a primary election for federal office who holds dual citizenship or is not a natural-born citizen of the United States. - Amends TCA Title 2. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 25, 2026 |
| SB 1466 | Public Officials - As introduced, authorizes recall elections for elected members of a local legislative body, city and county mayors, sheriffs, trustees, registers, clerks, assessors of property, and members of a school board. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 8, Chapter 47 and Title 49, Chapter 2. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 25, 2026 |
| SB 2429 | Criminal Procedure - As introduced, changes from April 1 to April 30, the date by which a county legislative body must submit to the judges of the general sessions criminal court of the county and the chairs of the legislative committees having jurisdiction over criminal matters a written report setting forth findings and the overall evaluation of the use of judicial commissioners. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 24, 2026 |
| SB 2257 | County Government - As introduced, requires each county to create a county ethics commission. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 6 and Title 5. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 24, 2026 |
| SB 2129 | Taxes, Real Property - As introduced, requires a written notice of the intended seizure of personal property given by the county trustee, deputy trustee, or delinquent tax attorney that is mailed to the taxpayer's last known address be provided by certified, registered, or first class mail. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 24, 2026 |
| SB 2056 | Judicial Districts - As introduced, creates an additional criminal court in the thirtieth judicial district to be designated as part IX; requires the governor to appoint a criminal court judge to serve until the person's successor is elected at the August 2028 general election. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 2. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 23, 2026 |
| SB 2043 | Sheriffs - As introduced, prohibits the county legislative body of a county with a charter form of government from adopting a budget that reduces the budget for the sheriff below the budgeted amount for the previous fiscal year unless the reduction is approved in writing by the sheriff; authorizes a sheriff to approve or disapprove a budget amendment that would reduce personnel, operational, or capital expenditures below the level proposed by the sheriff; authorizes the county legislative body to override the sheriff's disapproval by a two-thirds vote. - Amends TCA Title 5, Chapter 1, Part 2; Title 5, Chapter 9, Part 4 and Title 8, Chapter 20, Part 1. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 23, 2026 |
| SB 2195 | Education - As introduced, requires the state to elect to participate in the federal tax credit established under federal law for individuals who make qualified contributions to scholarship granting organizations. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 18, 2026 |
| SB 717 | Utilities, Utility Districts - As enacted, clarifies that prior to the acquisition of assets of a natural gas utility regulated by the Tennessee public utility commission by a new owner or any other change in control of such assets, the commission has exclusive authority to approve the acquisition or change in control, including the assignment of franchise rights, upon a finding by the commission that such transfers of assets or control is in the public interest. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 65; Title 68 and Title 69. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 16, 2026 |
| SB 674 | Employees, Employers - As enacted, clarifies that the general assembly preempts and occupies the entire field of regulating the terms and conditions of employment; prohibits local governments from adopting or enforcing any law, rule, or policy that requires a term or condition of employment that exceeds or conflicts with state or federal law. - Amends TCA Title 7 and Title 50. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 16, 2026 |
| SB 1913 | Traffic Safety - As introduced, authorizes the seizure and impoundment of a motor vehicle used in drag racing, based on probable cause, for a maximum of 72 hours; authorizes owner of motor vehicle to contest seizure in administrative or judicial hearing. - Amends TCA Title 6; Title 7; Title 16; Title 40 and Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 5. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 16, 2026 |
| SB 1706 | Taxes, Real Property - As introduced, prohibits a city or county collecting official from requiring a taxpayer to pay the full tax due for an assessment for which an appeal is pending before the county or state boards of equalization. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 3, 2026 |
| SB 2437 | Drugs, Prescription - As introduced, authorizes an owner or person in legal possession of drugs or devices deemed adulterated to request a show cause hearing electronically, rather than strictly in writing. - Amends TCA Title 47; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2026 |
| SB 2134 | Banks and Financial Institutions - As introduced, increases, from 24 hours to 48 hours, the time that a state bank has to report to the commissioner of financial institutions any change in chief executive officers. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 12; Title 45; Title 46; Title 47; Title 48; Title 50; Title 61; Title 62; Title 65; Title 66 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2026 |
| SB 2104 | Fireworks - As introduced, increases, from fewer than 90 days to fewer than 95 days, the time that a firework exhibitor licensee has after expiration of the exhibitor's license to renew the license and have it retroactive to the date the old license expired. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 12; Title 45; Title 46; Title 47; Title 48; Title 50; Title 61; Title 62; Title 63; Title 65 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2026 |
| SB 2103 | Consumer Protection - As introduced, deletes an obsolete provision staggering the effective date of the prohibition on printing more than five digits of a credit or debit card number or the expiration date on the receipt retained by the merchant or the receipt provided to the cardholder at the point of sale or transaction for a cash register or other machine or device that electronically prints receipts and that was in use prior to January 1, 2005, or first put into use on or after January 1, 2005. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 12; Title 45; Title 46; Title 47; Title 48; Title 62; Title 65 and Title 66. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2026 |
| SB 2045 | Public Health - As introduced, requires healthcare provider regulatory authorities to report quarterly to the department of health the number and type of disciplinary actions taken against a healthcare provider for knowingly performing or offering to perform on a minor, or administering or offering to administer to a minor, a prohibited medical procedure. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68, Chapter 33. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2026 |
| SB 2127 | Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates the criminal offense of intentionally communicating a threat of harm to a public official or a member of the public official's immediate family; punishes a violation as a Class E felony. - Amends TCA Title 39. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | February 3, 2026 |
| SB 1485 | Process, Service of - As introduced, clarifies that the name and address required pursuant to the receipt of a deed of conveyance of real property may be used as the basis for obtaining service of process upon either party as an agent thereof, for failure to pay real property taxes. - Amends TCA Title 66, Chapter 24. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 22, 2026 |
| SB 1484 | Tort Liability and Reform - As introduced, creates a cause of action through which a victim can recover from a person, other than a professional bondsman or person with a bailable interest, who posts bail for a defendant and the defendant is subsequently convicted for a criminal offense that occurred while the defendant was on bail; allows the victim to recover for damage to property, injury, or death arising from the subsequent criminal offense. - Amends TCA Title 40. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 15, 2026 |
| SB 1476 | Finance and Administration, Dept. of - As introduced, creates a law enforcement officer recruitment fund and grant program administered by the department for the purpose of assisting eligible law enforcement agencies in officer recruitment. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 9 and Title 38. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 15, 2026 |
| SB 1472 | Taxes, Real Property - As introduced, requires, instead of allows, a city or county collecting official to accept the disputed portion of property tax under appeal if the taxpayer pays the full tax due before the delinquency date. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | January 12, 2026 |
| SB 384 | Taxes, Hotel Motel - As enacted, requires a hotel operator to remit the hotel tax to the municipality when a person has maintained occupancy for 30 continuous days and to cease collecting the tax from the person for the remainder of their stay in the operator's hotel. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 14. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | June 4, 2025 |
| SB 1439 | Germantown - Subject to local approval, makes the office of mayor a full-time position, with the salary of the office to be set by ordinance. - Amends Chapter 87 of the Private Acts of 1985. | Primary sponsor | In committee | June 4, 2025 |
| SB 1336 | Local Education Agencies - As enacted, authorizes a local legislative body for a county that has adopted a charter form of government to require elections for the county board of education to be held at the same time and on the same election cycle as elections for members of the local legislative body for the county, members of the county board of education to have successive terms of office if members of the local legislative body for the county have successive terms of office and members of the county board of education to have the same term limits as members of the local legislative body for the county. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 5; Title 7; Title 8 and Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 27, 2025 |
| SB 1139 | Utilities, Utility Districts - As enacted, makes revisions to present law relative to utilities. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 13, Chapter 7; Title 65 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 27, 2025 |
| SB 857 | Housing - As enacted, authorizes any county having made loans in excess of the amount of funds in the initial capitalization of the loan fund pool for the county to terminate its participation in the homebuyers' revolving loan fund pool with notice to the Tennessee housing development agency and to retain all funds, including any funds used for initial capitalization or interest earnings on repayments. - Amends TCA Title 13, Chapter 23. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 15, 2025 |
| SB 670 | Water Pollution - As enacted, requires the division of water resources in the department of environment and conservation, in collaboration with U.S. army corps of engineers, as necessary, to annually report information concerning compensatory mitigation provisions in aquatic resource alteration permits issued during the prior fiscal year to the governor, the comptroller of the treasury, and the chairpersons of the commerce committees; and to establish four categories of isolated wetlands for regulatory purposes; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 11, Chapter 14, Part 4; Title 66; Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 4 and Title 69. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 15, 2025 |
| SB 392 | Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates the offense of human smuggling; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 39. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 15, 2025 |
| SB 239 | General Assembly, Directed Studies - As enacted, requires TACIR to study the availability of housing and other treatment facilities for juvenile offenders who have been adjudicated delinquent and committed to the department of children's services, and the availability of local juvenile detention centers and other facilities for the housing and treatment of juvenile offenders who have been detained by the juvenile court prior to an adjudicatory hearing; requires TACIR to report its findings and recommendations. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39 and Title 40. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 15, 2025 |
| SB 221 | Juvenile Offenders - As enacted, permits a court to use juvenile court records, including the disposition and evidence, in pretrial reports used to set bond for certain criminal offenses; requires the magistrate to consider the defendant's prior juvenile record in determining the defendant's risk of danger to the community. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 40. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 15, 2025 |
| SB 1138 | Sewage - As enacted, prohibits a municipal sewer system or utility district that has operated a sewerage system outside of the corporate boundaries of the city or town for 25 years or more from ceasing operation of the sewerage system outside the corporate boundaries so long as the sewerage system maintains sufficient capacity; requires a utility system that provides wastewater service to provide a connection to the owner of real property for wastewater service when the utility system meets certain requirements. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 35; Title 7, Chapter 82 and Title 68, Chapter 221. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 15, 2025 |
| SB 713 | Education - As enacted, requires each public senior high school to provide official recruiting representatives of the armed forces of this state and the United States access to the high school at least once a month during student lunch periods for the purpose of informing students of educational and career opportunities available in the military and at least once every other month when school is in session to provide further information to students who have expressed interest; provides additional related access. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 13, 2025 |
| SB 227 | Tort Liability and Reform - As enacted, allows a charitable organization that provides housing to a person whom the charitable organization knows is unlawfully present in the United States to be held liable for a loss, damages, injury, or death resulting from a criminal offense committed by the person who is unlawfully present in the United States while the person is receiving housing services from the charitable organization if the charitable organization's conduct in providing housing constitutes negligence, gross negligence, or willful and wanton misconduct. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 34. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 13, 2025 |
| SB 217 | Transportation, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to develop and implement a policy regarding the removal of personal property used for camping from the shoulder, berm, or right-of-way of highways under its jurisdiction or under a bridge or overpass under its jurisdiction; prohibits the department from commencing initial clean-up activities, vegetation removal, or site securing activities until the municipal or county government whose geographic boundaries include the camping removal site has ensured that no persons are occupying the site. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 13; Title 39; Title 54; Title 55 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 13, 2025 |
| SB 664 | Water Pollution - As enacted, expands from wetlands to all areas that an aquatic resource alteration permit may apply to the areas for which the department of environment and conservation is required to exempt from compensatory mitigation an amount of area equal in size to the area for which mitigation would not be required if the permit applicant qualified for coverage under a general permit, if the only factor that disqualifies an applicant for an aquatic resource alteration permit from having the activities for which a permit is sought covered under a general permit is the size of the area that the permit will apply to. - Amends TCA Title 69, Chapter 3. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 8, 2025 |
| SB 228 | Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As enacted, enacts the "Law Enforcement’s Safer Tennessee Electronic Registration (LESTER) Act," which clarifies that law enforcement is required to accept a digital copy of vehicle registration as proof of registration. - Amends TCA Title 38 and Title 55. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 2, 2025 |
| SB 856 | Bail, Bail Bonds - As enacted, allows a magistrate to consider hearsay evidence when determining whether a defendant should be released on bail pending trial and the amount of bail necessary to reasonably assure the appearance of the defendant while at the same time protecting the safety of the public. - Amends TCA Title 24; Title 39 and Title 40. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 29, 2025 |
| SB 718 | Courts, Juvenile - As enacted, requires a juvenile court conducting a child custody, detention, or adjudicatory proceeding to conduct the proceeding in a dedicated courtroom provided by the county that is closest in proximity to an approved detention center. - Amends TCA Title 37. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 29, 2025 |
| SB 274 | County Government - As enacted, declares that the offices of sheriff, register, county clerk, assessor of property, and trustee are the constitutional officers of a county that has adopted a charter form of government; specifies the duties for each constitutional officer. - Amends TCA Title 5. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 29, 2025 |
| SB 191 | Public Funds and Financing - As enacted, redefines "local government" to include a water, wastewater, or energy authority for purposes of the present law applicable to bonds and notes issued by local governments; makes other related revisions. - Amends TCA Section 9-21-133 and Title 9, Chapter 21, Part 4. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 29, 2025 |
| SB 238 | Bail, Bail Bonds - As enacted, specifies that venue for prosecution of the offense of knowingly violating a condition of release is generally the county in which the conduct constituting the violation of a condition of release occurred; clarifies that if one or more elements of the offense are committed in different counties, then the offense may be prosecuted in either county. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 28, 2025 |
| SR 120 | General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Urges Supreme Court to draft and adopt codes of conduct in the court rules for district attorneys general, district public defenders, and court clerks; urges Supreme Court to create panel to investigate current complaints of misconduct regarding three elected district attorneys general. - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 23, 2025 |
| SB 351 | Local Government, General - As introduced, requires county and city attorneys to consult with and advise elected county and city officials, the officials' deputies, and the officials' employees as to the proper application and enforcement of federal and state laws that are pertinent to carrying out the duties of the officials' respective offices. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 12 and Title 13. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 10, 2025 |
| SB 715 | Cemeteries - As enacted, changes the way that the fair market value of an improvement care trust fund is calculated for certain purposes; clarifies that the fee that a cemetery company charges for the memorial care of a commodity installed in the cemetery cannot exceed the fee charged by the company for installation of the commodity; makes other changes related to cemeteries. - Amends TCA Title 46. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 8, 2025 |
| SB 669 | Infectious Diseases - As enacted, deletes all references to the world health organization; requires a pandemic to be declared by the federal centers for disease and prevention control, rather than the world health organization, with a subsequent declaration of a state of emergency by the governor for the governor to have exclusive jurisdiction to issue executive orders and directives related to the pandemic until the pandemic ceases to exist. - Amends TCA Title 7 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 8, 2025 |
| SB 668 | Death - As enacted, removes the limitation that a death must have been anticipated for a registered nurse to make the actual determination and pronouncement of death if a deceased was a patient or resident at a nursing home, hospital, or assisted-care living facility. - Amends TCA Title 68. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 8, 2025 |
| SB 224 | Athletic Trainers - As enacted, authorizes athletic trainers to use dry needling to carry out the practice of prevention, recognition, evaluation, management, disposition, treatment, or rehabilitation of athletic injuries; requires the board of athletic trainers to establish minimum competency requirements for an athletic trainer to demonstrate in order to practice dry needling. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 63. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 8, 2025 |
| SB 240 | Criminal Offenses - As enacted, expands the offense of organized retail crime to include certain acts, including knowingly using an online marketplace or social media platform to coordinate a meeting with one or more persons to sell, barter, or trade stolen merchandise for monetary or other gain; increases the punishment for the offense under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 4, 2025 |
| SB 627 | Campaigns and Campaign Finance - As introduced, prohibits the registry of election finance from charging a member of the public more than the registry's actual costs when providing a copy of a report regarding a required disclosure statement filed with the registry. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 39 and Title 47. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 1, 2025 |
| SB 389 | Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates a Class C felony of reckless endangerment involving community terrorism, which is committed against a population within a geographic territory by members of a criminal gang or within 1,000 feet of a school or park; requires the sentencing court to revoke or prohibit the issuance of a driver license to individuals convicted of such offense for a five-year period following conviction. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13 and Title 40, Chapter 35. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 31, 2025 |
| SB 275 | County Government - As introduced, requires the offices of sheriff, register, county clerk, assessor of property, and trustee in a county that has adopted a charter form of government to independently develop the budget for such office and submit the budget directly to the county legislative body; authorizes such offices to approve transfers between line items within the total amount of each category of personnel and operational maintenance; prohibits the county legislative body from implementing any kind of personnel restriction or operational maintenance restrictions on these offices. - Amends TCA Title 5. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 31, 2025 |
| SB 236 | Criminal Offenses - As introduced, requires a law enforcement agency to release calls for emergency assistance services at rental homes and apartment complexes to qualified nonprofit organizations for the purpose of distributing the calls to rental property managers and owners to detect and act on escalating crime patterns. - Amends TCA Title 38. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 31, 2025 |
| SB 386 | Education - As introduced, enacts the "Early Behavioral Intervention and Reporting Act"; clarifies that public charter schools are required to have a threat assessment team in the same manner as required of local education agencies. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 37 and Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 26, 2025 |
| SB 858 | State Employees - As introduced, requires the attorney general to annually report by January 15 of each year to the governor, speaker of the senate, and speaker of the house of representatives the number of injunctions brought against persons who committed harassment against a state employee in the preceding calendar year. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 1. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 25, 2025 |
| SB 853 | Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Healthcare Quality and Access Act of 2025." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 34; Title 42; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68; Title 71 and Chapter 985 of the Public Acts of 2024. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 25, 2025 |
| SB 241 | Mental Illness - As introduced, requires the chief officer of an inpatient mental health treatment resource to notify the committing court if a patient who was involuntarily committed for mental health treatment becomes eligible for discharge; permits the court to hold a hearing to determine whether to order the person's return to the hospital under the original commitment or order the person's release from involuntary commitment in accordance with the recommendations of the chief officer. - Amends TCA Title 33 and Title 52. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 24, 2025 |
| SB 220 | Taxes, Ad Valorem - As introduced, creates the commercial development board; with respect to new commercial property developed by private entities in certain taxing jurisdictions, authorizes the private entities to enter into agreements for payments in lieu of ad valorem taxes and leases with the commercial development board. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 9; Title 13; Title 48 and Title 67. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 19, 2025 |
| SB 219 | Juvenile Offenders - As introduced, requires a juvenile court, upon finding a child has committed a third or subsequent delinquent act, to enter an order of restitution against the parent, legal custodian, or guardian who had custody of the child at the time of the act for the expenses incurred by any law enforcement agency in responding to and investigating the delinquent act. - Amends TCA Title 37. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 17, 2025 |
| SB 859 | Criminal Offenses - As introduced, specifies that a person using force intended or likely to cause death or serious bodily injury from within the person's residence or dwelling is presumed to have acted in self-defense when that force is used against an individual armed with a deadly weapon who is unlawfully present on the person's property and outside of the enclosed structure of the person's residence or dwelling. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 11 and Title 40. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 11, 2025 |
| SB 854 | District Attorneys - As introduced, extends the time within which each district attorney general must submit a funding report to the district attorneys general conference from 90 days after the end of the fiscal year to 120 days after the end of the fiscal year. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 10 and Title 17. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| SB 716 | Health Care - As introduced, extends from January 15 to March 1, the date by which the commissioner of health, in consultation with the department of finance and administration and any other state agency involved in the administration of the safety net program, must annually report to the general assembly on data relating to access to care and safety net adequacy related issues. - Amends TCA Title 49; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| SB 667 | Election Laws - As introduced, increases the time a person may be absent from work to vote, from three hours to four hours. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 8. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| SB 666 | Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, requires the executive director of the health facilities commission to submit a report no later than July 1, rather than February 1, of each year to the governor, the chief clerk of the house of representatives, and the chief clerk of the senate, regarding the commission's nursing home inspection and enforcement activities during the previous year. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 33; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| SB 388 | Bail, Bail Bonds - As introduced, requires a court or magistrate to impose global positioning monitoring as a condition of release for a defendant accused of certain offenses, unless the court or magistrate enters written findings that the defendant does not pose a threat to the victim or public safety; requires the administrative office of the courts to compile an annual report of the number of defendants subject to such an order. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40; Title 55; Chapter 969 of the Public Acts of 2024 and Chapter 1033 of the Public Acts of 2024. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| SB 387 | Public Officials - As introduced, authorizes local governments to adopt a process by which local elected officials may be removed from office in a recall election. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 8, Chapter 47 and Title 49, Chapter 2. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| SB 383 | Courts - As introduced, specifies that certain actions for declaratory judgments or injunctive relief regarding the legality or constitutionality of a governmental action must be brought in state court and that the privileges and immunities afforded to this state, state entities, and state officials under state or federal law are not waived for purposes of such actions. - Amends TCA Title 1, Chapter 3 and Title 27, Chapter 1. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| SB 1341 | Aircraft and Airports - As introduced, increases, from 30 days to 30 business days, the amount of time before the start of a fiscal year that a joint board composed of public agencies overseeing a county or municipal airport has to submit its total expenditures to be made to the governing bodies of its constituent public agencies. - Amends TCA Title 42. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| SB 675 | Local Government, General - As introduced, requires the attorney general and reporter, at the request of a member of the general assembly, to investigate an ordinance, regulation, order, or other official action adopted or taken by the chief executive officer or governing body of a political subdivision or any written policy, written rule, or written regulation adopted by any agency, department, or other entity of the political subdivision that the member alleges violates state law or the Constitution of Tennessee; creates penalties for violations. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8 and Title 67. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | February 10, 2025 |
| SB 665 | Environment and Conservation, Department of - As introduced, requires the department to submit an annual report regarding the number of applications filed pursuant to the Water Quality Control Act; requires the department to include information on the mechanism of compensatory mitigation provided for in permits that are required to have a provision for adequate compensatory mitigation; requires additional information when the mechanism of compensatory mitigation is an in-lieu fee program or mitigation banking. - Amends TCA Title 69. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | February 10, 2025 |
| SB 385 | Human Services, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department, on a monthly basis, to analyze electronic benefit card data to identify food assistance recipients who have made purchases out of state for 90 consecutive days or more, send written notice to the identified recipients to request proof of in-state residency, and remove any recipients who fail to provide proof of Tennessee residency or fail to respond within 30 days; prohibits the department from granting a homelessness exception to work requirements unless the department has verified that the recipient is a homeless individual based on certain proof. - Amends TCA Title 71. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | February 10, 2025 |
| SB 382 | Local Government, General - As introduced, prohibits local governments from adopting or enforcing an ordinance, resolution, regulation, code, requirement, or policy that creates a program under which an individual is issued an unconditional cash payment on a regular basis to be used for any purpose by the individual. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | February 10, 2025 |
| SB 237 | Juvenile Offenders - As introduced, requires a juvenile 16 years of age or older accused of a delinquent act to be transferred from juvenile court to criminal court to be tried as an adult if the juvenile has a prior adjudication of delinquency for any offense and the juvenile court finds probable cause to believe the juvenile committed the delinquent act. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39 and Chapter 1007 of the Public Acts of 2024. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 10, 2025 |
| SB 216 | Criminal Offenses - As introduced, raises from $3,000 to $4,000, the maximum fine that a jury may impose for the offense of conveyance by general warranty deed with knowledge of existing liens. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 39; Title 62 and Title 66. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 10, 2025 |
| SJR 26 | General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Authorizes the Speaker of Senate to appoint a committee to meet with a like committee from the House of Representatives to consider the removal of Steven J. Mulroy from the office of District Attorney General for the Thirtieth Judicial District by the Tennessee General Assembly acting pursuant to Article VI, Section 6 of the Constitution of Tennessee. - | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 27, 2025 |