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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee Senate Bill SB0032
Introduced
1/6/25
As introduced, allows a taxpayer to annually elect to take a bonus depreciation deduction of 40 percent of the cost of assets purchased on or after January 1, 2026, during the tax year in which the assets were purchased when calculating net earnings or net losses for excise tax purposes; allows the taxpayer to take the federal depreciation percentage if it exceeds 40 percent. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 20.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee Senate Bill SB0033
Introduced
1/6/25
As introduced, enacts "MaKayla's Law," which amends the offense of reckless endangerment to specifically include a person's reckless failure to render inoperable or safely secure or lock a firearm, resulting in a child under 13 gaining possession of the firearm and injuring or killing the child or another. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee Senate Bill SB0034
Introduced
1/6/25
As introduced, creates a Class A misdemeanor for knowingly giving, selling, lending, delivering, or otherwise transferring a firearm to a person when the transferor knows or reasonably should know that the person receiving the firearm is prohibited from purchasing or possessing a firearm under state or federal law. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
TN
Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee Senate Bill SB0035
Introduced
1/6/25
As introduced, prohibits a third-party reseller from selling or offering for sale a speculative ticket; requires the division of consumer affairs in the attorney general's office to enforce the prohibition; authorizes an individual or entity that believes that a third-party reseller has sold or offered for sale a speculative ticket to bring a cause of action. - Amends TCA Title 47.
TN
Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee Senate Bill SB0036
Introduced
1/6/25
As introduced, exempts child care agencies from business tax; requires the state to annually allocate the amount of such taxes derived from child care services and received from counties and municipalities in the 2023-2024 fiscal year. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4.
TN
Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee Senate Bill SB0037
Introduced
1/6/25
As introduced, increases from $20 to $300 the annual report filing fee for for-profit business corporations and nonprofit corporations; changes from $50 per member to a $100 initial filing fee, and from $50 per member totaling not less than $300 or not more than $3,000, to a $300 annual report filing fee for limited liability corporations. - Amends TCA Title 48.
TN
Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee Senate Bill SB0038
Introduced
1/6/25
As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Waste Reduction and Recycling Act"; changes from January 1 to January 10 of each year the date by which the department of environment and conservation is required to make available on its website forms and information used by municipal solid waste regions to make annual reports. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 68, Chapter 211.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee Senate Bill SB0039
Introduced
1/6/25
Chaptered
4/4/25
Passed
4/4/25
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.
TN
Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee Senate Bill SB0040
Introduced
1/7/25
As introduced, enacts the "Employee Ownership, Empowerment, and Expansion Act" to support the growth and expansion of employee-owned businesses. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 9; Title 12, Chapter 3; Title 45; Title 50; Title 56, Chapter 1 and Title 67.
TN
Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee Senate Bill SB0041
Introduced
1/7/25
Engrossed
2/24/25
Enrolled
3/28/25
Passed
4/11/25
Chaptered
5/2/25
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.
TN
Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee Senate Bill SB0042
Introduced
1/7/25
As introduced, creates the State Disaster Relief Program to be administered by TEMA for the purpose of providing grants to local governments where a natural disaster has occurred that does not exceed the threshold for federal disaster relief. - Amends TCA Title 58, Chapter 2, Part 1.
TN
Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee Senate Bill SB0043
Introduced
1/7/25
As introduced, authorizes a county legislative body to elect not to permit persons within the county to lawfully carry a handgun without a handgun carry permit by passage of a resolution; requires a county that has passed such a resolution to provide notice to persons present within the county by posting notice of the resolution in conspicuous public locations throughout the county. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
TN
Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee Senate Bill SB0044
Introduced
1/7/25
Engrossed
3/20/25
As introduced, adds doula services performed by a person with a verification of certification to the list of services that may be provided as medical assistance under the TennCare program; directs the department of health to establish by rule a process for the verification of certification to a person who demonstrates that the person has completed a doula training program that meets certain requirements. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 71.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee Senate Bill SB0045
Introduced
1/7/25
As introduced, adds as an enhancement factor to be used in determining the sentence within the permissible range for a criminal offense that the defendant is an adult and committed the offense with a minor, regardless of whether the minor was convicted of the offense. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee Senate Bill SB0046
Introduced
1/8/25
Engrossed
1/16/25
Enrolled
3/4/25
Passed
3/12/25
Chaptered
3/21/25
Subject to local approval, increases the number of aldermen from three to five. - Amends Chapter 90 of the Private Acts of 1991; as amended.