Tennessee · Current officeholder
Ferrell Haile
Republican Tennessee Senate, District 18
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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 2320 | Campaigns and Campaign Finance - As enacted, clarifies that expenditures of campaign funds to enhance security for an officeholder's personal residence are not deemed for personal use and that such expenditures are limited to home security consultation, home security equipment, home security monitoring services, safe rooms, and the use of security guards at an officeholder's personal residence for non-campaign purposes; clarifies that such expenditures must not exceed $12,000 per calendar year and must be disclosed as "residential security." - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 10. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 27, 2026 |
| SB 2136 | Gambling - As enacted, clarifies that gambling, the operation or possession of gambling devices, and the operation, conducting, or commercial promoting of online sweepstakes games and other forms of online or app-based gambling are unlawful and a violation of the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act; expands the authority of the sports wagering council to investigate illegal gambling and gaming activity; expands the investigative authority of the attorney general to investigate unlawful activity within the purview of the attorney general. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 4, Chapter 49; Title 8, Chapter 6, Part 4; Title 40, Chapter 2 and Title 47. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 27, 2026 |
| SB 1992 | Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates a Class E felony offense when a person, for the purpose of deriving a pecuniary benefit, engages in conduct intended to influence the occurrence or nonoccurrence of an event while the person, or another acting in active concert with the person, is a party to a contract traded on a prediction-market by which the person will derive such pecuniary benefit directly from the settlement of that contract based on the occurrence or a nonoccurrence of the event. - Amends TCA Title 39. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 27, 2026 |
| SB 198 | Taxes, Real Property - As enacted, authorizes, until June 30, 2041, a county or municipality that levies a property tax to pay a property tax refund owed to a taxpayer through annual installments applied as credits against the taxpayer's future property taxes if certain criteria are met. - Amends TCA Title 67. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 27, 2026 |
| SB 1762 | Schools, Charter - As enacted, authorizes the establishment of adult public charter schools, which are defined as public charter schools that exclusively serve students who are 18 or older by providing instruction to such students in accordance with the rules for adult high schools promulgated by the state board of education to assist such students in obtaining course credit leading to the attainment of a high school diploma. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 27, 2026 |
| SB 1490 | Historical Sites and Preservation - As enacted, authorizes local historical boards to lease land owned or managed by such boards for agricultural purposes, with all proceeds received by the boards to be used for the preservation of historic sites and structures. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 11; Title 12; Title 29 and Title 43. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 27, 2026 |
| SB 2161 | Bail, Bail Bonds - As enacted, removes the requirement to place a defendant on a state or federal list or database as a fugitive from justice for failure to appear, unless it is on a felony; authorizes a court to relieve the surety of liability for an undertaking if the defendant has not been placed on the available state or federal list or database within five business days of the entering agency's receipt of the bench warrant or capias. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 26, 2026 |
| SB 1939 | Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As enacted, enacts the "Annual Coverage Assessment Act of 2026." - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 26, 2026 |
| SB 502 | Athletic Trainers - As enacted, expands the scope of practice for athletic trainers by authorizing them to treat conditions that limit or prevent a person's participation in certain physical activities rather than just treating injuries that limit or prevent such participation; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 24. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 18, 2026 |
| SB 2533 | Drugs, Prescription - As enacted, requires the Tennessee opioid abatement council to allocate funds held in the opioid abatement fund in a certain manner. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 38 and Title 41. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 18, 2026 |
| SB 2133 | Animal Cruelty and Abuse - As enacted, adds starvation resulting in death of a livestock animal to the types of conduct that constitute the Class E felony of aggravated cruelty to a livestock animal, when done in a depraved and sadistic manner without justifiable or lawful purpose. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14, Part 2. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 18, 2026 |
| SB 1945 | Bail, Bail Bonds - As enacted, allows the court to temporarily revoke a defendant's bond and order the defendant held without bail for no more than 10 days pending a bail revocation hearing if the defendant violates a condition of release, is charged with an offense committed during the defendant's release, or engages in conduct that results in the obstruction of the orderly and expeditious progress of the trial. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 11. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 18, 2026 |
| SB 1584 | Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As enacted, lowers the age of an inpatient from 65 to 50 or older when a hospital, each year from October 1 through March 1, must offer immunization against influenza disease prior to discharge; requires a hospital to offer immunization against pneumococcal disease to an inpatient aged 50 or older prior to discharge. - Amends TCA Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 18, 2026 |
| SB 1495 | Opioids - As enacted, adds Alvogen, Inc., Apotex Corp., and Zydus Pharmaceuticals (USA) Inc. to the list of companies that may be released by the attorney general for pending or future claims regarding opioids. - Amends TCA Title 20 and Title 33. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 18, 2026 |
| SJR 551 | Constitutional Amendments - Proposes an amendment to Article VII, Section 5 of the Constitution of Tennessee to change the date of elections for judicial and other civil officers, excluding assessors of property, from the first Thursday in August to the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. - | Primary sponsor | Passed both chambers | May 7, 2026 |
| SB 2323 | Drugs, Over the Counter - As enacted, increases the amount of products containing ephedrine or pseudoephedrine a person may purchase in a one-year period from 43.2 grams to 61.2 grams; changes references to the "National Precursor Log Exchange" to the "electronic sales tracking system"; requires any manufacturer of an ephedrine or pseudoephedrine product that is sold in or into this state to, on a monthly basis, pay fees to the administrator of the electronic sales tracking system. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 5, 2026 |
| SB 2210 | Courts - As enacted, requires the clerks of the criminal courts to provide the Tennessee sheriffs' association with all court data necessary for the administration of the criminal proceedings notification system. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 16; Title 18; Title 40 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 6. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 5, 2026 |
| SB 2201 | Juvenile Offenders - As enacted, specifies that if a student is referred to juvenile court for being unlawfully absent from school and is ultimately adjudicated to be unruly, that the disposition made by the juvenile judge or magistrate may include the suspension of the student's driving privileges or ability to obtain a driver license for a period of up to one year. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 30 and Title 55, Chapter 10. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 5, 2026 |
| SB 2165 | Foster Care - As enacted, requires the department of children's services to provide a copy of a petition to terminate parental rights for a child in the custody of the department to the child's foster parent, if the foster parent has served as the physical placement for the child for a period of nine or more consecutive months; requires the department to provide the required copy within seven days of the filing or being served with the petition. - Amends TCA Section 36-1-113 and Section 37-2-415. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 5, 2026 |
| SB 1931 | Schools, Charter - As enacted, requires the department of education to annually collect and report certain data for opportunity public charter schools on the department's website; requires a director of schools, juvenile court judge, or department of children's services caseworker who has knowledge that a student is an at-risk student and is eligible to attend an opportunity public charter school to provide the student and the student's parent or legal guardian with information regarding the student's eligibility to enroll in an opportunity public charter school and the location of any opportunity public charter schools that are located in or adjacent to the student's county of residence. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 5, 2026 |
| SB 1751 | Adoption - As enacted, clarifies that a court may waive the requirement for a home study in an adoption when the prospective adoptive parent or parents are not related to the child if certain requirements are met. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 5, 2026 |
| SB 2324 | Children - As enacted, revises various provisions regarding children, including requiring a parent educational seminar in certain juvenile cases. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 4, 2026 |
| SB 1720 | Public Records - As enacted, generally makes the addresses on a nominating petition for the office of judge, chancellor, district attorney general, and public defender confidential; clarifies that such addresses may be made open to public inspection upon the request of a candidate or law enforcement authority in anticipation of, or as part of, a contest of candidacy or contest of election. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 10, Chapter 7. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 4, 2026 |
| SJR 1109 | Memorials, Sports - Station Camp High School wrestling team - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 1, 2026 |
| SJR 1107 | Memorials, Recognition - Station Camp JROTC Drill team - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 1, 2026 |
| SJR 1067 | Memorials, Recognition - YMCA, 175th anniversary - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 1, 2026 |
| SB 2219 | Court Rules - As enacted, requires each juvenile court, through the juvenile court clerk or juvenile court staff, each month within the statewide juvenile case management system prescribed by the administrative office of the courts to report to the administrative office of the courts each new dependency and neglect case, including for each child named in the petition, certain information. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 1. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 29, 2026 |
| SB 591 | Criminal Offenses - As enacted, clarifies, for purposes of criminal offenses relative to threats of mass violence on school property or at a school-related activity or failing to report such threats, that a threat of mass violence is credible if the threat causes another to reasonably expect the commission of an act of mass violence. - Amends TCA Title 39. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 28, 2026 |
| SB 400 | Education, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to develop guidance for Tennessee accelerating literacy and learning corps (TALLC) members on how to align tutoring services for students with the remediation the student needs and with the academic standards adopted by the state board of education for the student's grade level; requires the department to provide LEAs with a list of secure data management systems that utilize platforms capable of tracking the effectiveness of intervention methods, resource allocation, and student progress in real time across all schools in the LEA; makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 28, 2026 |
| SB 1753 | Health Care - As enacted, adds clinical informatics, lifestyle medicine, and medical virtualist to the list of words or abbreviations that a person may attach to a name to indicate or induce another person to believe that the person is engaged in the practice of medicine or osteopathic medicine. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 6 and Title 63, Chapter 9. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 28, 2026 |
| SB 1581 | Welfare - As enacted, makes various changes to law relative to respite care services, including, but not limited to, increasing the number of hours an adult may attend a limited respite care services program from 12 to 16 hours in any one week, and authorizing such a program to provide care services for up to 20 adults at the same time, rather than 15. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 2. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 28, 2026 |
| SB 1683 | Tort Liability and Reform - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Child Care Hosting Safe Harbor Act." - Amends TCA Title 29 and Title 71, Chapter 3. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 27, 2026 |
| SB 1603 | Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services, Dept. of - As enacted, clarifies that if marijuana is rescheduled or deleted as a controlled substance under federal law, the commissioner is prohibited from rescheduling or deleting marijuana under state law, unless the general assembly has established a regulatory framework for marijuana and authorized the commissioner to reschedule or delete marijuana as a controlled substance. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 24; Title 29; Title 33; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41; Title 43; Title 45; Title 50; Title 53; Title 57; Title 63; Title 67; Title 68 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 27, 2026 |
| SB 1099 | Taxes, Privilege - As enacted, clarifies that all privilege taxes on litigation that clerks of certain courts fail to collect and pay to the department of revenue are debts of the clerks; adds certain reporting requirements. - Amends TCA Title 40 and Title 67. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 27, 2026 |
| SJR 1057 | Memorials, Recognition - Glenda Akin - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 22, 2026 |
| SJR 1056 | Memorials, Recognition - Grady Eades, Hillcourt Bronze Medal - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 22, 2026 |
| SJR 1055 | Memorials, Recognition - Rita Taylor - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 22, 2026 |
| SJR 1044 | Memorials, Recognition - Westmoreland High School robotics team - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 22, 2026 |
| SB 924 | District Attorneys - As introduced, adds an additional assistant district attorney general position and criminal investigator position in each judicial district that includes a state correctional facility. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 16 and Title 41. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 20, 2026 |
| SB 907 | Taxes, Business - As introduced, exempts from business tax, receipts from the sale of a prescription drug or medicine with a cost for a 30-day equivalent supply that exceeds the medicare cost threshold for 2025 plan years and services necessary for proper preparation, storage, handling, administration, patient education, or post-sale monitoring of such exempted drugs or medicines. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 7. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 20, 2026 |
| SB 872 | Taxes, Sales - As introduced, exempts from the sales and use tax the retail sale of infant formula and diapers and wipes designed to be used by infants and children. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 3. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 20, 2026 |
| SB 2569 | Public Funds and Financing - As introduced, requires the state treasurer to allocate and deposit 10 percent of the investment income earned by the state pooled investment fund each fiscal year to the state highway fund. - Amends TCA Section 9-4-603. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 20, 2026 |
| SB 249 | Parks, Natural Areas Preservation - As introduced, requires that veterans who are Tennessee residents be offered the same discounts at state parks at the same rates and with the same frequency as discounts offered to state employees at state parks. - Amends TCA Title 11, Chapter 3 and Title 58. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 20, 2026 |
| SB 2346 | Children - As introduced, prohibits private schools participating in the individualized education account program, education savings account program, or that enroll recipients of an education freedom scholarship from employing an individual that has committed child abuse, severe child abuse, child sexual abuse, or child neglect; requires the department of human services to review, upon the request of certain child care agencies, an employee or potential employee to determine whether the individual has a record of perpetrating the abuse or neglect of children or adults. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5; Title 37; Title 49 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 20, 2026 |
| SB 2156 | Education - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Teacher Residency Program Act." - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 20, 2026 |
| SB 1236 | Controlled Substances - As introduced, removes Tetrahydrocannabinolic acid (THCa) and Tetrahydrocannabiphorol (THCp) from the list of authorized hemp-derived cannabinoids. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4 and Title 43, Chapter 27. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 20, 2026 |
| SB 117 | Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, deletes obsolete language concerning a one-time sales tax holiday that occurred in August 2020. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 3. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 20, 2026 |
| SJR 993 | Memorials, Personal Achievement - Jeremiah James, Eagle Scout - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 16, 2026 |
| SJR 935 | Memorials, Death - Anna Armstrong Coile Durham - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 8, 2026 |
| SB 1758 | School Transportation - As introduced, allows, as an alternative to undergoing an annual physical and mental examination, a school bus driver to annually verify to the local board of education that they possess a valid certificate issued by a medical examiner certified by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration within the United States department of transportation signifying that the school bus driver is medically qualified to operate a commercial motor vehicle. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 55. | Primary sponsor | Passed both chambers | April 6, 2026 |
| SB 1605 | Courts, Juvenile - As enacted, expands the goals of zero to three court programs to include cases involving children five years of age or younger, with priority given to cases involving children younger than three years of age. - Amends TCA Title 37. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 6, 2026 |
| SB 1589 | Jails, Local Lock-ups - As enacted, authorizes the Tennessee corrections institute to establish certification requirements for corrections officers and to inspect and certify local correctional training academies; makes various changes regarding plans of action that may be submitted by a local certified facility following annual inspection; allows the director and full-time employees of the Tennessee corrections institute to carry a handgun under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 41. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 6, 2026 |
| SB 1482 | Portland - Subject to local approval, deletes provisions requiring a referendum to sell, lease, or otherwise dispose of the city's water or light plant. - Amends Chapter 568 of the Private Acts of 1939; as amended. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 6, 2026 |
| SR 357 | Memorials, Interns - Cicely Tharp - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 1, 2026 |
| SB 2570 | Psychologists - As introduced, creates prescribing authority for certain psychologists if certain conditions and prerequisites are met. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 53; Title 63 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 1, 2026 |
| SB 2337 | Taxes, Sales - As introduced, enacts the "Healthy Tennessee Grocery Tax Reform of 2026." - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 27, 2026 |
| SB 1591 | Traffic Safety - As introduced, imposes state and local litigation taxes on a person who violates the prohibition against using a wireless telecommunications device or stand-alone electronic device while operating a motor vehicle; removes the ten-dollar cap on court costs imposed for such violations. - Amends TCA Section 55-8-199. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 26, 2026 |
| SB 459 | Controlled Substances - As introduced, changes from January 1 to January 15 the date by which the medical cannabis commission must submit its annual findings and recommendations to the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 43; Title 49; Title 50; Title 53; Title 63; Title 67 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 25, 2026 |
| SB 2328 | Judicial Districts - As introduced, requires the advisory task force to review composition of judicial districts to submit its findings and recommendations by January 15, 2027, rather than January 1, 2027. - Amends TCA Title 16. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 25, 2026 |
| SJR 823 | Memorials, Recognition - Sumner County and Trousdale County emergency services agencies and volunteers in Senate District 18 for their efforts during Winter Storm Fern - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 18, 2026 |
| SB 2568 | Taxes, Sales - As introduced, applies the sales and use tax to advertising services purchased by or on behalf of a business entity that generates annual revenue in amount equal to or greater than $100 million. - Amends TCA Title 67. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 17, 2026 |
| SB 2322 | Zoning - As introduced, reduces from 21 to 14 calendar days, the duration of the notice that a chief governing body must provide to the public before holding a public hearing to adopt a zoning ordinance or amendment. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13 and Title 67. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 17, 2026 |
| SB 1596 | Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, during a five-year period, authorizes excise and franchise tax credit for businesses that make monetary contributions to eligible charitable organizations approved by the governor's office of faith-based and community initiatives. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 56 and Title 67, Chapter 4. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 17, 2026 |
| SB 2131 | Housing - As introduced, provides for the regulation of accessory dwelling units. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13; Title 66 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 10, 2026 |
| SB 1987 | Children - As introduced, requires, in contested child custody, dependency and neglect, adoption, and guardianship proceedings in which the court has appointed a guardian ad litem, a court to order the child to be evaluated by a qualified expert unless the court determines an examination is unnecessary; requires the expert to submit a report containing certain information; specifies that the submitted report constitutes prima facie evidence of the child's condition and the factors relevant to the child's best interest; specifies various other requirements for the guardian ad litem's consideration of the report and the allocation of the examination costs. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 10, 2026 |
| SB 1755 | Courts, Juvenile - As introduced, requires the department of children's services, and others, to provide certain information to court-appointed special advocates in order to provide judicial officers with the most comprehensive information to be used in the consideration of the placement and custody of a child. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 1, Part 1. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 10, 2026 |
| SB 1601 | Local Government, General - As introduced, authorizes a municipality to create and require the use of a landlord registry for a real estate investment trust that owns, operates, or finances 10 or more dwelling units located within the municipality. - Amends TCA Title 66. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 10, 2026 |
| SJR 875 | Memorials, Death - Donald Kenton Wright - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 27, 2026 |
| SJR 557 | Memorials, Personal Occasion - Robert Earl Dudgeon, 90th birthday - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 3, 2026 |
| SJR 552 | Memorials, Death - Susan O. Binns - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 3, 2026 |
| SB 1496 | Health Care - As introduced, adds clinical informatics, lifestyle medicine, and medical virtualist to the list of words or abbreviations that a person may attach to a name to indicate or induce another person to believe that the person is engaged in the practice of medicine or osteopathic medicine. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 6. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 21, 2026 |
| SB 1457 | Portland - Subject to local approval, deletes obsolete and superseded provisions of the city charter. - Amends Chapter 568 of the Private Acts of 1939; as amended. | Primary sponsor | In committee | June 4, 2025 |
| SB 1453 | Gallatin - Subject to local approval, removes charter provision restricting appointed officers from being employed outside of city business hours. - Amends Chapter 67 of the Private Acts of 1953; as amended. | Primary sponsor | In committee | June 4, 2025 |
| SB 901 | Education, Dept. of - As enacted, extends the school turnaround pilot program for priority schools administered by the department and that is scheduled to conclude at the end of the 2024-2025 school year to a permanent school turnaround program for priority schools; increases, from five to 15, the maximum number of priority schools that may participate in the school turnaround program. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 27, 2025 |
| SB 1245 | Bonding, Surety and Professional - As enacted, makes revisions to law relative to bondsmen. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 13; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41; Title 56; Title 62 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 8. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 27, 2025 |
| SB 416 | Education, Curriculum - As enacted, requires the state textbook and instructional materials quality commission, in consultation with the department of education, to develop a plan for the commission to review and submit to the state board of education for approval of electronic textbooks and instructional materials for use by virtual schools established by LEAs. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 15, 2025 |
| SB 262 | Children - As enacted, increases the age of an infant from 14 days or younger to 45 days or younger who can be received by a facility without the mother being subject to criminal liability. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 1, Part 1 and Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 2. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 15, 2025 |
| SB 1002 | Cooperatives - As enacted, specifies that the privilege tax exemption for subsidiaries of agricultural cooperatives applies without regard to whether the subsidiary was formed as a corporation, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, or other legal entity, association, or body vested with the power or function of a legal entity. - Amends TCA Title 43, Chapter 16, Part 1 and Section 67-4-102. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 15, 2025 |
| SB 48 | Opioids - As enacted, adds Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC, Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc., Sun Pharmaceutical Industries, Inc., Indivior Inc., Viatris Inc., and Purdue Pharma L.P. to the list of companies that may be released by the attorney general and reporter for pending or future claims regarding opioids. - Amends TCA Title 20 and Title 33. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 13, 2025 |
| SB 252 | Treasurer, State - As enacted, sets the maximum award of compensation under the Criminal Injuries Compensation Act of 1976 at 105% of the national average of the maximum compensation award provided by the 50 states within the United States, the District of Columbia, and the United States Virgin Islands, rounded up to the nearest $100; requires the state treasurer to publish on the department of treasury website the maximum compensation award for claims filed for crimes occurring on or after July 1, 2025. - Amends TCA Section 29-13-106. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 13, 2025 |
| SB 245 | District Attorneys - As enacted, expands the proceedings for which a district attorney general pro tem may be appointed to include certain civil proceedings; declares meetings of the district attorneys general conference to be open meetings except for meetings related to certain matters; specifies that the executive director of the district attorneys general conference must provide legal counsel and advice to district attorneys general and their staff and that the legal counsel and advice may be provided by attorneys employed with the district attorneys general conference. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 7, Part 1 and Title 8, Chapter 7, Part 3. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 13, 2025 |
| SB 1237 | Bail, Bail Bonds - As enacted, requires every bondsman licensed in this state to file a quarterly report with the department of revenue detailing the total number of bonds issued by the bondsman in the preceding quarter, the number of bonds issued in each county in which the bondsman operated, and the total amount of the bondsman's liability in each county; requires each clerk of a court that admits defendants to bail to file a quarterly report with the department detailing the total number of bonds accepted from bondsmen and the total amount of the bonds accepted from bondsmen in the preceding quarter; authorizes the department to use the reports to complete audits on the bail bonding tax. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 13; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41; Title 56; Title 62 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 8. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 13, 2025 |
| SB 1116 | Vital Records - As enacted, requires certain records or papers for a person relating to the adoption or attempted adoption of a person in the possession of the office of the clerk of the adoption court; the offices of the department of health; the office of any child-placing agency, whether or not it is chartered or licensed; or any other information source, to be made available to the department of children's services for the purpose of searching for a kinship foster care placement. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 13, 2025 |
| SB 1114 | Public Records - As enacted, deletes the automatic repeal on July 1, 2025, of a provision that authorizes records custodians to seek an injunction against a person who makes requests to view or copy public records with the intent to disrupt government operations. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 13, 2025 |
| SB 1052 | Children - As enacted, specifies that a biological father or alleged biological father who makes token financial support to or for the benefit of a child or the child's mother during the pregnancy or when the mother had physical custody of the child is not a putative father; makes various other changes regarding final orders of adoption. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 63. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 13, 2025 |
| SB 1015 | Foster Care - As enacted, requires the department of children's services, to the extent not otherwise prohibited by state or federal law, to promulgate rules to implement certain rights for any foster child in the custody of the department or an agency that contracts with the department to place children in foster care. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 37; Title 49 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 13, 2025 |
| SB 1005 | Adoption - As enacted, allows petitioners to include all children in one adoption petition if the petitioners are seeking to adopt more than one child at the same time, unless the court issues a written order finding that it is in the best interest of the children that separate petitions be filed; specifies that the clerk of court must charge only one filing fee for such a petition. - Amends TCA Title 18; Title 36 and Title 37. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 13, 2025 |
| SB 895 | Children - As enacted, makes various changes and additions to the Families' Rights and Responsibilities Act, and to present law concerning parental consent for the treatment of minors. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 36; Title 37; Title 49; Title 63 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 8, 2025 |
| SB 129 | Tennessee Housing Development Agency - As enacted, increases, from $4 billion to $5 billion, the maximum aggregate principal amount for which the agency may issue bonds and notes at any one time. - Amends TCA Section 13-23-121. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 8, 2025 |
| SJR 423 | Memorials, Retirement - Dr. Clint A. Satterfield - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 2, 2025 |
| SB 41 | Consumer Protection - As enacted, prohibits a provider of certain services from billing a consumer for an extra billing cycle if the consumer terminates the contract or agreement for services within the first half of a billing cycle; designates a violation as an unfair or deceptive act or practice affecting trade or commerce in violation of the Consumer Protection Act of 1977. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 47 and Title 65. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 2, 2025 |
| SB 304 | Evidence - As enacted, permits the introduction into evidence of a video recording of a child victim being interviewed by a forensic interviewer regarding sexual or physically violent contact with the child if the forensic interviewer confirms the accuracy of the recording and the child is available for cross examination; makes other changes relative to forensic interviews. - Amends TCA Title 24, Chapter 7. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 2, 2025 |
| SJR 401 | Memorials, Death - David Roy Baldwin - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 30, 2025 |
| SJR 1 | Constitutional Amendments - Proposes additional language in Article II, Section 28 to prohibit the general assembly from levying, authorizing, or otherwise permitting a state tax on property. - | Primary sponsor | Passed both chambers | April 30, 2025 |
| SB 992 | Courts, Juvenile - As enacted, requires the administrative office of the courts to maintain a criminal justice information services compliant centralized statewide juvenile case management system; requires all juvenile court clerks to adopt and convert to the new juvenile case management system on a schedule to be determined in consultation with the administrative office of the courts; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 16; Title 18 and Title 37. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 30, 2025 |
| SB 955 | Health Care - As enacted, enacts the "Medical Ethics Defense Act." - Amends TCA Title 63. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 29, 2025 |
| SB 916 | Criminal Offenses - As enacted, expands the definition of "racketeering activity" to include committing, conspiring to commit, aiding, attempting to aid, soliciting, coercing, facilitating, or intimidating another person to commit the criminal offense of animal fighting. - Amends TCA Title 39. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 29, 2025 |
| SB 576 | TennCare - As enacted, revises present law relative to the annual coverage assessment. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 29, 2025 |
| SB 299 | Boards and Commissions - As enacted, changes the qualifications for membership on the medical cannabis commission to include a patient caregiver and a subject matter expert with knowledge of how cannabis is cultivated, processed, shipped, distributed, or prescribed for medical use; specifies that the recommendations made by the commission to the general assembly may include policy recommendations. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 68, Chapter 7. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 29, 2025 |
| SR 138 | Memorials, Interns - Austin Parker - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 24, 2025 |
| SB 909 | Real Property - As enacted, requires a buyer engaged in wholesaling real property to disclose certain information related to the buyer's equitable interest in the real property to the seller and a subsequent purchaser. - Amends TCA Title 47 and Title 66. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 8, 2025 |
| SB 797 | State Employees - As enacted, clarifies that full-time employees of the general assembly are eligible for a waiver of tuition and fees for purposes of continuing education for more than one course at a time if the employees work more hours each week than typically required of full-time employment for at least four weeks per year. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 50. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 8, 2025 |
| SB 577 | TennCare - As enacted, makes revisions regarding determining when the annual coverage assessment is implemented and imposed; sets limits on the expenditures for directed payments to hospitals in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 8, 2025 |
| SB 988 | Local Government, General - As enacted, requires each department, agency, or official of a local government that assesses and collects a fee of more than $250 to document the justification and cost basis of the fee; makes such documentation a public record; subjects such documentation to an annual audit by the comptroller of the treasury. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 10 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 29. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 4, 2025 |
| SB 897 | Students - As enacted, requires local boards of education and public charter school governing bodies to adopt a policy to prohibit students from using wireless communication devices during instructional time, except in certain circumstances; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 4, 2025 |
| SB 39 | County Government - As enacted, authorizes certain county legislative bodies, by a two-thirds vote, to remove any member of an appointed board or commission, if such removal is recommended by the appointing authority and the member of the board or commission is given at least five business days' notice of the meeting when the vote on removal will occur. - Amends TCA Title 5. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 4, 2025 |
| SB 247 | Real Property - As enacted, clarifies that property that is qualified as agricultural, forest land, or open space land, owned by two individuals, and held under the titles of tenancy by the entireties or of joint tenancy with right of survivorship, is deemed to have unchanged ownership upon the death of an owner if the property is retained by the other owner through a right of survivorship or upon the divorce of the owners if the property is retained by either owner through division and distribution of property in the divorce proceeding. - Amends TCA Title 11, Chapter 14, Part 2; Title 11, Chapter 15 and Title 67, Chapter 5. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 4, 2025 |
| SJR 313 | Memorials, Recognition - Tracy Cannon, 2025 Westmoreland Citizen of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 2, 2025 |
| SJR 223 | Memorials, Recognition - Westmoreland High School, Reward School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 31, 2025 |
| SJR 218 | Memorials, Recognition - Sumner County Museum, 50th anniversary - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 31, 2025 |
| SB 297 | Game and Fish Laws - As enacted, extends the time within which the guardian for an adoptee who is less than 13 may apply for a lifetime sportsman license for adopted children from 36 months immediately following the adoption date to any time following the adoption that is prior to the adoptee's thirteenth birthday. - Amends TCA Title 70, Chapter 1, Part 5 and Section 70-2-201. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 31, 2025 |
| SB 1234 | Civil Procedure - As introduced, revives causes of action based on a sexual assault that occurred when the injured party was 18 years of age or older and are time-barred because the applicable statute of limitations has expired; allows such actions to be commenced within a certain time period. - Amends TCA Title 28, Chapter 3; Title 39 and Title 40. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 31, 2025 |
| SB 911 | Psychologists - As introduced, creates prescribing authority for certain psychologists if certain conditions and prerequisites are met. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 53; Title 63 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 26, 2025 |
| SB 860 | Anatomical Gifts - As introduced, creates a process by which an individual or terminal patient can refuse to make an anatomical gift that cannot be amended by another person; requires a procurement organization to follow certain procedures for contacting a decedent's family member or other authorized person. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 26, 2025 |
| SB 852 | Physicians and Surgeons - As introduced, increases from 10 to 30 business days, the period of time that must be included in a non-compete agreement between an employing entity and a physician regarding the time after which, if no agreement on the fair market value of the practice can be determined when an attempt to repurchase the practice is made, the physician may remove any restrictions on the physician’s ability to practice by tendering the amount that was paid to the physician for the sale of the practice. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 26, 2025 |
| SB 127 | Local Education Agencies - As introduced, specifies that the comptroller of the treasury is authorized to determine how soon after June 30 of each year charter schools are required to submit audits of their accounts and records. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 13. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 26, 2025 |
| SJR 213 | Memorials, Recognition - Barbara Towns, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 25, 2025 |
| SJR 212 | Memorials, Recognition - Austin Spangler, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 25, 2025 |
| SB 945 | Comptroller, State - As introduced, deletes antiquated language that required the office of research and education accountability in the office of the comptroller to submit a report by November 1, 2018, to the education committees of the senate and house of representatives regarding the formation and operation of community schools. - Amends Chapter __ of the Public Acts of 2025 (1st Ex. Sess. – SB 6001 / HB 6004); and TCA Title 4; Title 8 and Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 19, 2025 |
| SB 125 | Education, Higher - As introduced, requires the Tennessee higher education commission, in consultation with the department of labor and workforce development, to study all state-funded financial aid and scholarship programs in this state to determine whether programs may be expanded to provide greater financial aid opportunities for individuals interested in pursuing a workforce credential; requires the commission to report its findings and any legislative recommendations to the committee of the house of representatives having jurisdiction over higher education and to the education committee of the senate no later than January 15, 2026. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 49 and Title 50. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 19, 2025 |
| SJR 171 | Memorials, Recognition - SRO Chris Jennings - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 13, 2025 |
| SR 29 | Memorials, Public Service - Carragan Laine Fields - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 7, 2025 |
| SB 1435 | Gallatin - Subject to local approval, authorizes the city council to impose impact fees on new development. - Amends Chapter 67 of the Private Acts of 1953; as amended and rewritten. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 27, 2025 |
| SB 6006 | Public Funds and Financing - As enacted, creates the Tennessee transportation financing authority to provide financing and refinancing for the development, maintenance, and improvement of transportation facilities within the state; makes related revisions. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 54. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 25, 2025 |
| SB 590 | Campaigns and Campaign Finance - As introduced, requires, by September 1, 2025, the registry of election finance to issue a report to the speakers, the legislative librarian, and the office of legislative budget analysis on the use of digital currency being contributed to candidates and political campaign committees throughout the last five years. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 10; Title 2, Chapter 19; Title 3, Chapter 6; Title 4, Chapter 29; Title 4, Chapter 55 and Title 8, Chapter 50, Part 5. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| SB 1242 | Drugs, Prescription - As introduced, deletes an obsolete provision that required the comptroller of the treasury, in conjunction with any appropriate TennCare drug utilization review committees, to study the use of prescription drugs in nursing homes and the costs of those prescription drugs for residents of nursing homes; to examine prescription use overall; to focus on any practices that would improve the quality of resident care while reducing costs to the TennCare program; and to report by January 1, 2005, to the speaker of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| SB 1057 | Drugs, Prescription - As introduced, deletes an obsolete provision that required the comptroller of the treasury, in conjunction with any appropriate TennCare drug utilization review committees, to study the use of prescription drugs in nursing homes and the costs of those prescription drugs for residents of nursing homes; to examine prescription use overall; to focus on any practices that would improve the quality of resident care while reducing costs to the TennCare program; and to report by January 1, 2005, to speaker of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | February 10, 2025 |
| SB 414 | Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires LEAs and public charter schools to prohibit students from displaying, using, or accessing an electronic device during the school day unless an exception applies; requires local boards of education and public charter school governing bodies to develop and adopt a policy to implement the prohibition and to submit its policy to the department of education no later than July 31, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | February 4, 2025 |
| SB 131 | Taxes, Privilege - As introduced, specifies that the privilege tax exemption for subsidiaries of agricultural cooperatives applies without regard to whether the subsidiary was formed as a corporation, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, or other legal entity, association, or body vested with the power or function of a legal entity. - Amends TCA Title 43, Chapter 16, Part 1 and Section 67-4-102. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 4, 2025 |