Tennessee · Current officeholder
Janice Bowling
Republican Tennessee Senate, District 16
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Sponsored legislation
101 bills in the current data (101 as primary sponsor), sorted by most recent official action. Linked by Open States person ID.
| Bill | Title | Role | Stage | Last action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SB 1748 | Motor Vehicles - As enacted, revises law relative to out-of-service orders issued to commercial drivers and related penalties. - Amends TCA Title 55 and Title 65, Chapter 15. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | June 18, 2026 |
| SB 468 | Safety - As enacted, enacts the "Riley Gaines Women's Safety and Protection Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 37; Title 41; Title 49 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 27, 2026 |
| SB 2730 | Grundy County - Subject to local approval, creates the Southern Cumberland Plateau Regional Water and Wastewater Authority. - | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 27, 2026 |
| SB 2726 | Tullahoma - Subject to local approval, allocates 3.8 percent of each annual operating budget, but not less than $1.5 million, to the maintenance of streets and roads within the city limits of the City of Tullahoma. - Amends Chapter 553 of the Acts of 1903. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 27, 2026 |
| SB 2707 | Winchester - Subject to local approval, expands the board of public utilities' jurisdiction to wastewater treatment systems; requires the mayor to serve as a standing member of the board during the mayor's term; creates four-year terms for members; and makes various other changes. - Amends Chapter 34 of the Private Acts of 2019. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 27, 2026 |
| SB 1747 | Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates an offense of recklessly discharging a firearm into the air, ground, a body of water, or an object in close proximity to the person if the firearm is discharged at a place of public gathering or at a public event where there are at least 25 people in attendance at the time of the discharge; punishes the offense as a Class A misdemeanor; specifies certain exceptions to the offense. - Amends TCA Title 39. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 27, 2026 |
| SB 2566 | Sexual Offenses - As enacted, provides that a person commits the offense of grooming of a minor when the person engages in a course of grooming conduct directed at a minor with the specific intent to commit, or facilitate the commission by another person of, a sexual offense or violent sexual offense against the minor; or to cause or induce the minor to engage in simulated sexual activity that is patently offensive or sexual activity; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 26, 2026 |
| SB 2481 | Obscenity and Pornography - As enacted, prohibits the issuance of a license to operate certain adult-oriented establishments unless certain signage is posted. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51 and Title 39. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 26, 2026 |
| SJR 7005 | Constitutional Amendments - Proposes additional language in Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution of Tennessee requiring the General Assembly to establish congressional districts after each decennial census made by the Bureau of Census of the United States is available and prohibiting changes to the congressional districts between decennial censuses. - | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 6, 2026 |
| SB 1890 | Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires, beginning with the next adoption of academic standards in the subject of social studies, the standards recommendation committee to include in their final recommendations of academic standards in the subject of social studies to the state board of education, and the state board, to adopt, grade-appropriate academic standards on the history of communism. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 5, 2026 |
| SB 2483 | Veterans Services, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to conduct a study that includes an evaluation of county veterans service office resources; the identification of underserved areas; operational capacity; local outreach efforts, community outreach events, partnerships, and other entities providing, or sources of, assistance for veterans at the local level; and the identification of potential funding mechanisms to support local veterans service offices; requires the department to compile a report of the study by December 31, 2026. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 25 and Title 58, Chapter 3. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 4, 2026 |
| SJR 1075 | Memorials, Interns - Kermina Wadeh - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 30, 2026 |
| SB 485 | Children - As enacted, requires certain procedures currently found in the federal Indian Child Welfare Act to be applied by courts in child custody proceedings involving an Indian child. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 24, 2026 |
| SB 486 | Appropriations - As introduced, appropriates $25 million to the legislature for planning and construction of a new parking garage that has at least 400 parking spaces, is attached to the Cordell Hull Building, and is used solely by legislative employees. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 8; Title 9 and Title 12. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 20, 2026 |
| SB 482 | Criminal Offenses - As introduced, expands the offense of unlawful photography to include a photograph that the defendant knew would include the victim engaged in sexual activity; increases the penalty for the offense of unlawful photography from a Class A misdemeanor or a Class E felony to a Class D felony in certain circumstances; authorizes the issuance of an order of protection for a person who has been subjected to, threatened with, or placed in fear of unlawful photography. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13 and Title 40. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 20, 2026 |
| SB 478 | Law Enforcement - As introduced, requires an annual training pay bonus supplement for eligible campus police officers and public safety officers in the amount of $800. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 38 and Section 49-7-118. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 20, 2026 |
| SB 473 | Veterans - As introduced, enacts the "Veterans Assistance for Livelihood, Opportunity, and Relief (VALOR) Act," which exempts disabled veterans who have 100 percent permanent and total disability from a service-connected cause from the payment of certain taxes and fees. - Amends TCA Section 5-8-102; Title 55, Chapter 4; Title 67 and Title 70, Chapter 2. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 20, 2026 |
| SB 2485 | Local Education Agencies - As introduced, allows an LEA or public charter school to install, maintain, and use, subject to parental approval, a video camera surveillance system in the special education classrooms operated by the LEA or public charter school to continuously monitor students, teachers, and staff in the classroom while special education or related services are being provided. - Amends TCA Title 10 and Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 20, 2026 |
| SB 2480 | Public Funds and Financing - As introduced, enacts the "Greenbelt Initiative Fund Transfer (GIFT) Act," which creates the rural revenue equity fund; authorizes the commissioner of economic and community development to distribute amounts from the fund to rural counties based on certain agricultural, demographic, and fiscal criteria, including greenbelt acreage. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 9 and Title 67. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 20, 2026 |
| SB 1896 | Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires boards of education that contract for transportation services with persons owning equipment to provide school transportation facilities to all students who live more than 1.5 miles by the nearest accessible route from the school to which they are assigned by the board of education and in which they are enrolled. - Amends TCA Title 49; Title 55, Chapter 4; Title 55, Chapter 50 and Title 55, Chapter 8. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 20, 2026 |
| SJR 593 | Naming and Designating - Designates Marlene Edwards Tidwell as "Poet Laureate Emerita of Tennessee." - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 16, 2026 |
| SB 2122 | General Assembly, Directed Studies - As introduced, establishes a nine-member Tennessee K-12 nutrition task force to evaluate the prevalence of ultra-processed foods (UPFs) and other substances in public school meal programs and the impact of UPFs on student health, to report its findings by December 1, 2026, and to terminate January 31, 2027. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 8, 2026 |
| SB 1891 | Education, Dept. of - As enacted, allows a local board of education or public charter school governing body that has not received funding from the department for purposes of awarding its teachers the bonus authorized in the Education Freedom Act of 2025 to pass the required resolution and notify the department of the same within 21 calendar days from the date the Act becomes a law, to receive funding from the department to award bonuses to teachers employed in the 2024-2025 school year. - Amends Chapter 7 of the Public Acts of the First Extraordinary Session of 2025. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 6, 2026 |
| SJR 611 | General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Recognizes the first Thursday in May each year as the "National Day of Prayer." - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 26, 2026 |
| SB 2657 | General Assembly - As introduced, enacts the "Restoring State Sovereignty Through Nullification Act," which establishes processes by which the general assembly may nullify an unconstitutional federal statute, regulation, agency order, or executive order. - Amends TCA Title 3 and Title 4. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 25, 2026 |
| SB 1048 | State Government - As introduced, prohibits a person, political subdivision, or public official, in connection with a state emergency, from categorizing or proclaiming by order, rule, or regulation that a lawful occupation is non-essential, or otherwise proclaiming by order, rule, or regulation that a lawful occupation is prohibited from operating based on what the lawful occupation is; specifies that a person harmed by a violation of the prohibition may bring a civil action for actual damages or declaratory relief. - Amends TCA Title 58, Chapter 2. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 25, 2026 |
| SB 1029 | Election Laws - As introduced, makes changes to the process for voting absentee under the federal Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 6, Part 5. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 25, 2026 |
| SB 2484 | Election Laws - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Ballot Access Act." - Amends TCA Title 2. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 24, 2026 |
| SB 2479 | Safety - As introduced, requires newly installed storm drains and culverts constructed after July 1, 2026, to be equipped with a safety cover or grate if the opening is large enough that a child could reasonably fall into or become trapped within the structure. - Amends TCA Title 12 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 24, 2026 |
| SB 1895 | DUI Offenses - As introduced, allows a person convicted of driving under the influence of an intoxicant involving alcohol or opioids to agree to receive naltrexone injections at the person's own expense for a period of 12 continuous months in lieu of being required to operate only a motor vehicle equipped with an ignition interlock device. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55, Chapter 10. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 24, 2026 |
| SB 1749 | Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class C felony the available sentence for an aggravated criminal trespass if, while in commission of the trespass, the trespasser encounters the owner using or displaying a firearm in self-defense; upgrades trespass offenses to Class C felonies. - Amends TCA Section 39-11-611; Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 10 and Title 39, Chapter 14, Part 4. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 24, 2026 |
| SB 1743 | Tort Liability and Reform - As introduced, expands the definition of a person for whom a wrongful death action may be brought to include an unborn child beginning at fertilization, rather than in utero; extends the period of time from two to three years after which a spouse is rebuttably presumed to have abandoned a deceased spouse for purposes of bringing a wrongful death claim. - Amends TCA Title 20 and Section 63-6-1102. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 24, 2026 |
| SB 1035 | Criminal Offenses - As introduced, requires the administrative office of the courts to report by October 1, 2025, to the speaker of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives the number of persons found guilty of the Class A misdemeanor of, as an employer, dismissing from employment an employee because of jury service by that employee, from January 1, 1990, until January 1, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 39. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 24, 2026 |
| SB 1032 | Search & Seizure - As introduced, requires officials who are employed or contracted by the federal government, the state government, or a local government within this state, or an agency or department thereof, to obtain a search warrant that identifies the person or property that is the subject of the search before entering private property, unless a judicially recognized exception to the warrant requirement exists. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 44. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 24, 2026 |
| SB 1893 | Juries and Jurors - As enacted, requires a breastfeeding mother to be excused from jury service upon submitting to the jury coordinator a written request to be excused and a supporting medical statement from a licensed physician or a certified professional midwife. - Amends TCA Title 22, Chapter 1 and Title 22, Chapter 2. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 23, 2026 |
| SB 1746 | Marriage - As introduced, states that private citizens and organizations are not bound by the Fourteenth Amendment or the Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell v. Hodges to recognize a marriage between individuals of the same sex; prohibits the board of professional responsibility from disciplining or sanctioning an attorney for declining to officiate a marriage between two persons of the same sex. - Amends TCA Title 17, Chapter 5 and Title 36. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 23, 2026 |
| SB 1745 | Sex Discrimination - As introduced, enacts the "Banning Bostock Act." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 21. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 23, 2026 |
| SB 2121 | School Transportation - As introduced, lowers the minimum age, from 25 to 23, that is necessary to receive an initial school bus endorsement; authorizes local boards of education and public charter school governing bodies to adopt policies prescribing the qualifications of school bus drivers in the interest of the safety and health of school pupils. - Amends TCA Section 5-8-102; Title 49 and Title 55. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 19, 2026 |
| SB 474 | Medical Occupations - As introduced, prohibits a healthcare provider from inquiring as to a patient's ownership, possession of, or access to firearm ammunition or firearm accessories; subjects the healthcare provider to disciplinary action and a fine of $1,000 if the healthcare provider makes such inquires. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 18, 2026 |
| SJR 79 | Constitutional Amendments - Proposes an amendment to Article XI, Section 12 of the Constitution of Tennessee to establish that parents have the inherent right to direct the education of the parent's child; prohibits the state from interfering with such rights through the adoption or enforcement of any law or rule that abridges, infringes upon, or restricts a parent's right to provide home-based education. - | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 17, 2026 |
| SB 1039 | Controlled Substances - As introduced, prohibits a healthcare facility from authorizing a licensed healthcare professional from performing a drug or alcohol test or screen on a patient who is pregnant, less than one year postpartum, or a newborn without written and oral consent; allows for a drug or alcohol test or screen to be performed without the consent of the patient in certain listed situations. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 63 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 17, 2026 |
| SB 2486 | Agriculture - As introduced, enacts the "Freedom to Farm Act." - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4; Title 40 and Title 43. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 11, 2026 |
| SB 1767 | Health Care - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee mRNA Pharmaceutical Sovereignty and Safety Act," which prohibits individuals, including professional providers of health care and veterinary medicine, from administering any vaccine or other injectable solution that contains an mRNA vaccine or vaccine material. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 37; Title 44; Title 47; Title 49; Title 53; Title 63 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 11, 2026 |
| SB 1750 | Water - As introduced, prohibits the department of environment and conservation from prohibiting a utility that provides drinking water from pumping or otherwise withdrawing water from natural waters for purposes of providing drinking water, including as a prerequisite to renewal of the utility's permit, unless the prohibition is required to comply with federal law. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 68, Chapter 221 and Title 69. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 11, 2026 |
| SB 1108 | Education - As introduced, requires local boards of education to notify the department of education when a board declares itself to be a high performing school district; requires the department to maintain a list of high performing school districts on the department's website. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 11, 2026 |
| SB 2565 | Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, requires each public and private electric utility and electric project developer, owner, or operator to conduct a technical assessment of certain electrical transformers to determine vulnerability to geomagnetically induced current; requires such entities to file a report on the assessment with the general assembly, governor, board of utility regulation, and the public utilities commission. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7 and Title 65. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 10, 2026 |
| SB 1897 | Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, states that a person who has not been convicted of a violent, felony crime and who is lawfully able to own or to possess a firearm under the Constitution of Tennessee is considered to be individually licensed and verified by this state within the meaning of the provisions regarding individual licensure and verification in the federal Gun-Free School Zones Act. - Amends TCA Title 39. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 10, 2026 |
| SB 1744 | Law Enforcement - As introduced, entitles qualified law enforcement officers upon retirement or separation from service from their employing law enforcement agency to continue to maintain annual POST-certification upon meeting certain requirements. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 8. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 10, 2026 |
| SB 1028 | Election Laws - As introduced, requires all ballots cast in an election to have a secure watermark; requires the official tabulation count of a ballot scanner to be based on the text or machine mark portion of a ballot; makes certain other changes related to ballots and elections; creates programs for the scanning and auditing of ballots. - Amends TCA Title 2. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 10, 2026 |
| SB 2488 | Civil Procedure - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Foreign Law Non-Recognition Act." - Amends TCA Title 20 and Title 29. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 9, 2026 |
| SB 1030 | Children - As introduced, deletes the responsibility of a parent or legal guardian to ensure that such person's child receives vaccines as recommended by guidelines of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or the American Academy of Pediatrics. - Amends TCA Title 37. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 9, 2026 |
| SJR 667 | Memorials, Death - Colonel Thomas B. Vaughn - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 6, 2026 |
| SJR 666 | General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Expresses support for the reconstruction of the Columbia Dam Project on the Duck River and recognizes it as a critical priority to establish an adequate water supply system for sustained growth, economic development, and recreational use. - | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 4, 2026 |
| SB 1947 | Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, requires a blood bank to comply with a physician's order for an autologous blood donation or directed blood donation for a specific patient; requires a hospital to allow a patient who is scheduled for a medical procedure to provide an autologous blood donation or directed blood donation upon order of a physician. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 32. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 2, 2026 |
| SB 2567 | Environment and Conservation, Department of - As introduced, requires an operator seeking a permit for the removal of minerals by surface mining and a person who applies for permits under the water quality control act to provide documentation from the county or counties in which the proposed project is located, certifying that the project is in compliance with all relevant zoning laws of such county or counties as a condition to the receipt of such permits. - Amends TCA Title 59, Chapter 8 and Title 69, Chapter 3. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2026 |
| SB 2564 | Election Laws - As introduced, repeals convenience voting; provides requirements for satellite voting locations during early voting. - Amends TCA Title 2. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2026 |
| SB 2563 | Anatomical Gifts - As introduced, prohibits a procurement organization from contacting a deceased individual's family, next of kin, or authorized representative to procure an anatomical gift from the deceased unless the deceased authorized such a gift in a documented anatomical gift authorization. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 30. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2026 |
| SB 2487 | State Employees - As introduced, creates a procedure for a state employee who has reasonable cause to suspect that improper government conduct or a crime has occurred to report the matter to a supervisor and for the supervisor to report that information to the attorney general and reporter. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 50. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2026 |
| SB 2124 | Election Laws - As introduced, requires each county election commission to check each applicant with the systematic alien verification for entitlements (SAVE) program database prior to placing a registrant on the voter rolls in order to ensure non-United States citizens are not registered to vote in the county; requires, at least once each quarter, the county election commission to check the county's entire voter registration list through the SAVE program database to ensure that non-United States citizens are not on the voter rolls in the county. - Amends TCA Title 2. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2026 |
| SB 2123 | Statutes of Limitations and Repose - As introduced, specifies that certain statutes of limitation in civil matters apply to the state and the state's political subdivisions. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 28 and Title 29. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2026 |
| SB 2120 | Eminent Domain - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Just Compensation for Property Owners Act," which requires an airport authority that exercises eminent domain to acquire private property to pay enhanced damages and costs to the owner of the subject real property. - Amends TCA Title 29 and Title 42. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2026 |
| SB 2119 | Children - As introduced, enacts the "Parental Rights Protection Act," which makes various changes to the termination of parental rights, including raising the burden of proof the state must show to beyond a reasonable doubt and establishing the right to a trial by jury. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2026 |
| SB 1894 | Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires each LEA and public charter school to install, maintain, and use, subject to parental approval, a video camera surveillance system in the special education classrooms operated by the LEA or public charter school to continuously monitor students, teachers, and staff in the classroom while special education or related services are being provided. - Amends TCA Title 10 and Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 3, 2026 |
| SB 1892 | Environment and Conservation, Department of - As introduced, requires proposed subdivision plans to be approved by a local planning commission or other agency authorized to approve such plans prior to their submission to the department for approval rather than such plans being approved by the department first. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13 and Title 68, Chapter 221. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 3, 2026 |
| SB 1949 | Criminal Offenses - As introduced, enacts the "mRNA Bioweapons Prohibition Act," which prohibits the manufacture, acquisition, possession, or making accessible to others of mRNA injections and products; requires state and local government officials to use all lawful means necessary to investigate or enforce suspected violations; punishes violations the same as manufacturing, acquiring, possessing, or transferring a weapon of mass destruction, which is a Class B felony. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 14; Title 39; Title 40; Title 53; Title 63 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 2, 2026 |
| SB 1948 | Autopsies - As introduced, requires a county medical examiner to report certain instances of the natural death of an infant or young person under 20 to the federal Sudden Unexpected Infant Death and Sudden Death in the Young Case Registry; requires the county medical examiner to review the deceased infant's or young person's immunization and medical records; authorizes civil penalties and license sanctions for violations. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 63 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 2, 2026 |
| SB 1440 | Tullahoma - Subject to local approval, extends the term of the current city judge by one year in order to have the election of the city judge coincide with the elections for members of the board of mayor and aldermen. - Amends Chapter 553 of the Acts of 1903; as amended. | Primary sponsor | In committee | June 4, 2025 |
| SB 476 | Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires, beginning August 1, 2027, each LEA and public charter school to prohibit food or beverage items that contain Allura Red AC, which is Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 25956-17-6 and also known as Red 40, to be sold, offered for sale, or provided to students on school property through the school nutrition program provided by the LEA, public charter school, or a third party expressly authorized by the LEA or public charter school. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 27, 2025 |
| SB 484 | Food and Food Products - As enacted, adds certain conditions in order to produce and sell homemade food items. - Amends TCA Title 53 and Title 68, Chapter 14, Part 7. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 15, 2025 |
| SB 1034 | Historical Sites and Preservation - As enacted, includes in the definition of a "memorial", for purposes of Tennessee heritage protection, an official governmental seal of a city or county government that contains imagery representative of any historic conflict, historic entity, historic event, historic figure, or historic organization. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 4. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 13, 2025 |
| SB 1038 | Game and Fish Laws - As enacted, increases the fee that county clerks and other agents are authorized to collect from purchases of hunting and fishing licenses from $1.00 to $3.00 for annual licenses and $.50 to $3.00 for temporary licenses. - Amends TCA Section 70-2-106. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 8, 2025 |
| SB 471 | Education, Curriculum - As enacted, establishes that family life curriculum must include age-appropriate instruction and evidence regarding the positive personal and societal outcomes associated with the method by which a person completes the following in sequential order: obtains a high school diploma or high school equivalency credential; enters into the workforce or pursues a postsecondary degree or credential; enters into marriage; and has children. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 13. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 29, 2025 |
| SR 135 | Memorials, Interns - Serena Prince - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 24, 2025 |
| SB 494 | Education - As introduced, enacts the "Family Right to Educational Emancipation (FREE) Act," which creates a new category of independent home schools that are not subject to the data collection, reporting, or assessment requirements applicable to existing independent home school programs and that exempts such home school students and parents from compulsory school attendance requirements; prohibits the department of safety from conditioning the issuance of a driver license or learner's permit on a school-aged applicant's attendance record or enrollment status. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 49; Title 50 and Title 55. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 11, 2025 |
| SB 480 | Housing - As enacted, deletes the definition of "blighted area" and defines "blighted property" for purposes of condemnation by housing authorities; clarifies that housing authorities may acquire real property without using eminent domain; authorizes housing authorities to pay more than fair market value for properties that are not blighted but that are in a blighted area; makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 13, Chapter 20; Title 13, Chapter 21 and Title 29, Chapter 17. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 8, 2025 |
| SB 472 | Education - As enacted, requires all residential educational programs in this state that allow minors to participate or to access residential facilities, including staying overnight in such facilities, to segregate certain restrooms, changing areas, and showers by immutable biological sex. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 4, 2025 |
| SB 1031 | Drugs, Prescription - As enacted, enacts the "Restore Trust in Public Health Messaging Act." - Amends TCA Title 53 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 4, 2025 |
| SB 469 | Taxes, Privilege - As introduced, increases from 2.4 to 5 percent, the amount of realty transfer tax and mortgage tax collections retained as commission by county registers for collecting and reporting those taxes; requires 50 percent of such collections to be deposited in the county general fund; allocates the remaining balance to the wetland acquisition fund, local parks land acquisition fund, state lands acquisition fund, agricultural resources conservation fund, and state general fund. - Amends TCA Section 67-4-409. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 2, 2025 |
| SB 1047 | Campaigns and Campaign Finance - As introduced, prohibits foreign entities and domestic entities that receive funding from foreign entities from making contributions to a candidate or a political campaign committee; prohibits the speakers of the senate and the house of representatives and the secretary of state from accepting funds from foreign entities and domestic entities that receive funding from foreign entities for conducting elections. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 3. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 2, 2025 |
| SB 1040 | Campaigns and Campaign Finance - As introduced, prohibits out-of-state political campaign committees from making contributions to influence a state or local primary election for the Republican Party. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 3. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 2, 2025 |
| SB 1037 | Open Meetings - As introduced, increases, from 30 to 45, the number of days the office of open records counsel has to acknowledge and approve a plan submitted by a governing body detailing how the body plans to comply with electronic communication requirements that address meeting by means of an internet forum. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 44. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 2, 2025 |
| SB 493 | Forfeiture of Assets - As introduced, increases the burden of proof required to be met by the state in civil asset forfeiture proceedings from a preponderance of evidence standard to a clear and convincing evidence standard. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 33. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 1, 2025 |
| SB 1263 | Solid Waste Disposal - As introduced, creates exception to the state regulation of biosolids by authorizing the legislative body of Grundy County to regulate such activities. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 68, Chapter 211; Title 68, Chapter 221 and Title 69. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 26, 2025 |
| SB 1033 | Air Pollution - As introduced, designates the intentional injection, release, or dispersion, by any means, of chemicals, chemical compounds, substances, or apparatus within the borders of this state into the atmosphere with the express purpose of affecting temperature, weather, or the intensity of the sunlight, or supplying or otherwise providing the chemicals, chemical compounds, substances, or apparatus required for the conduct, as a Class A misdemeanor; makes other changes related to investigations and enforcement related to weather modification. - Amends TCA Title 58, Chapter 2 and Title 68, Chapter 201. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 26, 2025 |
| SB 475 | Sentencing - As introduced, reduces the percentage of sentence that a person convicted of first degree murder on or after July 1, 1995, and sentenced to life imprisonment is required to serve before becoming eligible for release from 100 percent of 60 years less sentence credits earned and retained to 60 percent of 60 years less sentence credits earned and retained; prohibits a defendant becoming eligible for parole before serving 25 years of the sentence, if the defendant was 25 years of age or younger at the time of the offense, or 30 years of the sentence, if the defendant was 26 years of age or older at the time of the offense. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 2 and Title 40. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 25, 2025 |
| SB 492 | Driver Licenses - As introduced, requires an enforcement officer to issue an out-of-service order to a driver issued a commercial driver license if the officer determines during a safety inspection that the driver is unable to read and speak the English language in violation of federal requirements for commercial driver license holders; applies penalties against employers of such drivers. - Amends TCA Title 55 and Title 65, Chapter 15. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 19, 2025 |
| SB 483 | Aircraft and Airports - As introduced, prohibits public airports that provide commercial services from entering into an agreement that authorizes a private third-party vendor that provides expedited security screening to use the standard security lane or the transportation security administration PreCheck security lane; exempts an agreement between a public airport and a private third-party vendor if the private third-party vendor has obtained dedicated transportation security administration security lanes solely for use by the private third-party vendor at that public airport. - Amends TCA Title 42. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 19, 2025 |
| SB 1044 | Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires a parent or guardian who wishes to enroll the parent's or guardian's student into an LEA or public charter school to submit one of the listed documents to the LEA or public charter school upon enrollment of the student unless the parent or guardian pays an amount equal to the amount representing the per pupil state and local funds generated and required through the Tennessee investment in student achievement formula for the LEA in which the participating student resides. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 19, 2025 |
| SB 1042 | Driver Licenses - As introduced, lowers the minimum age, from 25 to 21, that is necessary to receive an initial school bus endorsement. - Amends TCA Section 5-8-102; Title 49 and Title 55. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 19, 2025 |
| SB 467 | Obscenity and Pornography - As introduced, specifies that a commercial entity that knowingly possesses, promotes, purchases, produces, sells, sends, transports, or distributes obscene matter in violation of state law may be held civilly liable to an individual for nominal damages, actual damages, punitive damages, court costs, and reasonable attorney fees. - Amends TCA Title 28 and Title 39. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 18, 2025 |
| SB 466 | Civil Procedure - As introduced, specifies the damages that may be awarded against a person or commercial entity that publishes or distributes a website containing a substantial portion of content harmful to minors includes actual damages, nominal damages, and punitive damages; specifies that a person or entity that violates certain obscenity laws may be found civilly liable to an injured party for nominal damages, actual damages, court costs, reasonable attorney fees, and punitive damages; provides that the attorney general and reporter may issue guidance to assist commercial entities in complying with age requirements for websites containing a substantial portion of content that is harmful to minors. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 9; Title 47, Chapter 18 and Chapter 1021 of the Public Acts of 2024. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 18, 2025 |
| SB 490 | Expunction - As introduced, permits the expunction of a Class E felony conviction for official misconduct. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40, Chapter 32. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 11, 2025 |
| SB 479 | General Assembly - As introduced, enacts the "Restoring State Sovereignty Through Nullification Act," which establishes processes by which the general assembly may nullify an unconstitutional federal statute, regulation, agency order, or executive order. - Amends TCA Title 3 and Title 4. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 11, 2025 |
| SB 489 | Health Care - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Medical Cannabis Act," which establishes a medical cannabis program to be administered by the Tennessee medical cannabis program commission. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 38, Chapter 3; Title 39, Chapter 17; Title 43; Title 50; Title 53; Title 63; Title 67 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 25, 2025 |
| SB 491 | Criminal Procedure - As introduced, specifies that for purposes of carrying out a sentence of death, lethal injection protocol may include the use of pharmaceutical fentanyl. - Amends TCA Title 40. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| SB 488 | Local Government, General - As introduced, removes abandonment as an option for a property owner after a municipality determines the structure located on the property is unfit for human occupation or use; authorizes all municipalities to adopt ordinances to inspect residential dwelling units that are deteriorated. - Amends TCA Title 13, Chapter 21. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| SB 487 | Consumer Protection - As introduced, reduces, from $100 billion to $50 billion, the amount of assets held by a state or national bank, savings and loan association, savings bank, credit union, industrial loan and thrift, or mortgage lender that are necessary to fall within the definition of a financial institution for purposes of the application of certain consumer protections. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 45; Title 47 and Title 56. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| SB 1109 | Children - As introduced, deletes obsolete language regarding initial reports submitted by zero to three court programs and safe baby courts to the department of children's services, the department of mental health and substance abuse services, the administrative office of the courts, and the council of juvenile and family court judges. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| SB 1046 | Civil Procedure - As introduced, specifies that an unauthorized alien does not have standing to commence or appear as a plaintiff in any civil action in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 16; Title 20; Title 28 and Title 29. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| SB 1043 | Parks, Natural Areas Preservation - As introduced, designates the new swimming pool at Henry Horton State Park as the "Riley Gaines Aquatic Center." - | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| SB 1036 | Driver Licenses - As introduced, requires that all driver licenses and photo identification licenses be manufactured and printed in this state; requires the department of safety to review and determine the cost-effectiveness of having such licenses manufactured and printed by the department or another state department or agency or through a contract with a private vendor; requires that licenses be manufactured and printed in this state using the most cost-effective means. - Amends TCA Title 12 and Title 55, Chapter 50. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |