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.
Tom Leatherwood (R)
Calendar & Rules, Cities & Counties Subcommittee, State & Local Government
114th Regular Session (2025-2026) Latest Action: June 4, 2025
Introduced
Tennessee
HB 324
Governor - As enacted, prohibits orders, proclamations, or rules issued by the governor under the governor's emergency management powers from contravening, suspending, or conflicting with a provision of the Tennessee Constitution; restricts governor's ability under such powers to suspend certain procedural provisions of a law, order, rule, or regulation. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 58, Chapter 2.
Rusty Grills (R)
Public Service Subcommittee, State & Local Government
114th Regular Session (2025-2026) Latest Action: June 4, 2025
Signed by Governor
Tennessee
HB 219
Real Property - As enacted, requires foreign persons who purchase land in this state and who file a report of such purchase to the United States department of agriculture under the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act to also file the report with the commissioner of agriculture. - Amends TCA Title 66, Chapter 2, Part 3.
Jay Reedy (R)
Agriculture and Natural Resources, Government Operations, Calendar & Rules, Cities & Counties Subcommittee, Agriculture and Natural Resources Subcommittee, State & Local Government
114th Regular Session (2025-2026) Latest Action: June 4, 2025
Passed Upper
Tennessee
SB 1431
Appropriations - As enacted, makes appropriations for the fiscal years beginning July 1, 2024, and July 1, 2025. -
Johnson
Calendar, Finance, Ways & Means
114th Regular Session (2025-2026) Latest Action: May 27, 2025
Passed Upper
Tennessee
SB 1430
Bond Issues - As enacted, authorizes the state to issue and sell bonds. -
Johnson
Calendar, Finance, Ways & Means
114th Regular Session (2025-2026) Latest Action: May 27, 2025
Passed Upper
Tennessee
SB 1429
Budget Procedures - As enacted, authorizes, in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025, transfers from the Access Tennessee health insurance program fund, created or referenced in the Access Tennessee Act of 2006. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 10; Title 11; Title 12; Title 13; Title 16; Title 17; Title 18; Title 29; Title 33; Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41; Title 43; Title 44; Title 45; Title 47; Title 48; Title 49; Title 50; Title 53; Title 54; Title 55; Title 56; Title 57; Title 58; Title 59; Title 60; Title 61; Title 62; Title 63; Title 64; Title 65; Title 66; Title 67; Title 68; Title 69; Title 70 and Title 71.
Johnson
Calendar, Finance, Ways & Means
114th Regular Session (2025-2026) Latest Action: May 27, 2025
Passed Upper
Tennessee
SB 1426
TennCare - As enacted, enacts "Lucca's Law," which addresses TennCare coverage of treatment for pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections (PANDAS) and pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome (PANS). - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56 and Title 71.
Bo Watson (R)
Commerce and Labor, Calendar
114th Regular Session (2025-2026) Latest Action: May 27, 2025
Passed Upper
Tennessee
SB 1415
Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates the offense of knowingly engaging in conduct that places a child in imminent danger of death, bodily injury, or physical or mental impairment by exposing the child to fentanyl, carfentanil, remifentanil, alfentanil, thiafentanil, or a fentanyl derivative or analogue; punishes the offense as a Class E felony if the child is over 8 and as a Class B felony if the child is 8 or less. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39 and Title 40.
Richard Briggs (R)
Judiciary, Calendar
114th Regular Session (2025-2026) Latest Action: May 27, 2025
Passed Upper
Tennessee
SB 1413
Alcoholic Beverage Commission - As enacted, provides for the regulation of the manufacturing, supplying, wholesale distribution, and retail sale of hemp-derived cannabinoid products by the commission and department of revenue; creates licenses for suppliers, wholesalers, and retailers; establishes taxes for such products and the manner in which such taxes are collected and allocated; establishes civil and criminal penalties for violations. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40; Title 43, Chapter 27; Title 53, Chapter 11; Title 57 and Title 67.
Richard Briggs (R)
Transportation and Safety, Finance, Ways and Means, Calendar, State and Local Government
114th Regular Session (2025-2026) Latest Action: May 27, 2025
Passed Upper
Tennessee
SB 1390
TennCare - As enacted, directs the director to establish an additional PACE program as a pilot in one of the two grand divisions where a PACE program did not exist in 2024; permits a current PACE program in a county with a specific population to expand into contiguous counties having specifically listed populations. - Amends TCA Title 71.
Bo Watson (R)
Health and Welfare, Finance, Ways and Means, Calendar
114th Regular Session (2025-2026) Latest Action: May 27, 2025
Passed Upper
Tennessee
SB 1382
Commerce and Insurance, Dept. of - As enacted, revises law relative to the treatment and coverage of treatment for stage 4 advanced metastatic cancer, blood cancer, metastatic blood cancer, and associated conditions; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
Bo Watson (R)
Commerce and Labor, Calendar
114th Regular Session (2025-2026) Latest Action: May 27, 2025
Passed Upper
Tennessee
SB 1381
Housing - As enacted, authorizes local governments to regulate sober living homes for recovery from alcohol, drug, and substance abuse to the extent such regulation complies with the Fair Housing Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13 and Title 33.
Bo Watson (R)
Health and Welfare, Calendar
114th Regular Session (2025-2026) Latest Action: May 27, 2025
Passed Upper
Tennessee
SB 1366
Federal Aid - As enacted, establishes a process for reviewing requests for federal aid. -
Bo Watson (R)
Finance, Ways and Means, Calendar
114th Regular Session (2025-2026) Latest Action: May 27, 2025
Passed Upper
Tennessee
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.
Brent Taylor (R)
Education, Calendar
114th Regular Session (2025-2026) Latest Action: May 27, 2025
Passed Upper
Tennessee
SB 1316
Boards and Commissions - As enacted, enacts the "Less is More Act of 2025." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 20; Title 33; Title 38; Title 40; Title 52; Title 55; Title 62; Title 63; Title 68; Title 70 and Title 76.
Johnson
Commerce and Labor, Judiciary, Government Operations, Calendar, State and Local Government, Energy, Ag., and Nat. Resources
114th Regular Session (2025-2026) Latest Action: May 27, 2025
Passed Upper
Tennessee
SB 1306
Tourist Development, Dept. of - As enacted, creates a marketing division within the department to replace the tourism division; authorizes the department to enter into agreements with the department of transportation to assist with maintenance of welcome center facilities; creates a welcome centers division within the department to oversee such centers throughout the state; directs the commissioner of finance and administration to transfer from highway user taxes allocated to the highway fund an amount sufficient to support the annual appropriation for implementation and administration of all welcome centers in the state. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 22.
Johnson
Calendar, Energy, Ag., and Nat. Resources, Finance, Ways & Means
114th Regular Session (2025-2026) Latest Action: May 27, 2025
Passed Upper
Tennessee
SB 1296
Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates the criminal offense of threatening to commit an act of mass violence; creates the criminal offense of posting on a publicly accessible website the telephone number or home address of an individual with the intent to cause harm or a threat of harm to the individual or a member of the individual's family or household. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 8 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 3.
Johnson
Judiciary, Finance, Ways and Means, Calendar
114th Regular Session (2025-2026) Latest Action: May 27, 2025
Passed Upper
Tennessee
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.
Ferrell Haile (R)
Judiciary, Government Operations, Finance, Ways and Means, Calendar
114th Regular Session (2025-2026) Latest Action: May 27, 2025
Passed Upper
Tennessee
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.
Brent Taylor (R)
State & Local Government, Finance, Ways and Means, Calendar, State and Local Government
114th Regular Session (2025-2026) Latest Action: May 27, 2025
Passed Upper
Tennessee
SB 1135
Nuisances - As enacted, revises nuisance laws. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13; Title 16; Title 29; Title 39; Title 67 and Title 68.
Paul Bailey (R)
Judiciary, Calendar
114th Regular Session (2025-2026) Latest Action: May 27, 2025
Passed Upper
Tennessee
SB 1083
Local Government, General - As enacted, enacts "Dismantle DEI in Employment Act." - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8 and Title 49.
Johnson
Calendar, State and Local Government
114th Regular Session (2025-2026) Latest Action: May 27, 2025
Passed Upper
Tennessee
SB 1082
Criminal Offenses - As enacted, adds certain criminal offenses to the list of dangerous felonies for purposes of the offense of possessing a firearm or antique firearm during commission or attempt to commit a dangerous felony. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
Johnson
Judiciary, Finance, Ways and Means, Calendar
114th Regular Session (2025-2026) Latest Action: May 27, 2025
Passed Upper
Tennessee
SB 1075
Fire Prevention and Investigation - As enacted, expands the definition of "machine gun" to include any part, or combination of parts, designed and intended solely for use in converting a firearm into a machine gun; increases the classification for the intentional or knowing possession, manufacture, transport, repair, or sale of a machine gun from a Class E to a Class C felony; reclassifies certain other offenses involving the possession of firearm or handgun ammunition; makes a defendant ineligible for parole if convicted of aggravated assault that involved the use of a firearm from within a motor vehicle. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.
Johnson
Judiciary, Finance, Ways and Means, Calendar
114th Regular Session (2025-2026) Latest Action: May 27, 2025
Passed Upper
Tennessee
SB 1072
Wine & Wineries - As enacted, exempts the sale of wine for consumption on the premises of a winery or farm wine producer, including the premises of a satellite facility, including tastings and sealed bottles sold at retail for consumption on the premises, from the liquor-by-the-drink tax on alcoholic beverages. - Amends TCA Section 57-3-207.
Johnson
Finance, Ways and Means, Calendar, State and Local Government
114th Regular Session (2025-2026) Latest Action: May 27, 2025
Passed Upper
Tennessee
SB 1065
County Officers - As enacted, revises present law relative to constables. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 10 and Title 38, Chapter 8.
Jessie Seal (R)
Judiciary, Calendar, Finance, Ways & Means
114th Regular Session (2025-2026) Latest Action: May 27, 2025