TN
Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee Senate Bill SB0137
Introduced
1/14/25
As introduced, requires a local legislative body to approve an application for a proposed development without allowing public comment, if the legislative body determines that the proposed development is in substantial compliance with the zoning regulations or map that was previously made available for public review and comment. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 44 and Title 13, Chapter 7.
TN
Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee Senate Bill SB0138
Introduced
1/14/25
As introduced, requires the bureau to reimburse a public or private air ambulance service that bills for transports and has a base of operations in this state that provides a covered emergency or nonemergency service to a TennCare recipient at a rate not less than 67.5 percent of the federal medicare program's allowable charge for participating providers. - Amends TCA Title 68 and Title 71.
TN
Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee Senate Bill SB0139
Introduced
1/14/25
As introduced, requires hospitals that accept medicaid to inquire about a person's citizenship status and submit a quarterly report to the department on the number of hospital admissions and emergency department visits by persons lawfully and not lawfully present in the United States; requires the department to submit an annual report to the governor, speaker of the senate, and speaker of the house of representatives regarding the impact of uncompensated care for persons not lawfully present in the United States and other related information. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 68 and Title 71.
TN
Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee Senate Bill SB0140
Introduced
1/14/25
As introduced, creates a recall process for members of a municipal legislative body and of a city or county school board. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8 and Title 49.
TN
Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee Senate Bill SB0141
Introduced
1/14/25
Engrossed
3/31/25
As introduced, requires the department of transportation to establish and administer a student pedestrian protection grant program; under certain conditions, authorizes grants to be awarded to local governments for designing, constructing, and repairing sidewalk infrastructure around public schools. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 49; Title 54 and Title 55.
TN
Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee Senate Bill SB0142
Introduced
1/14/25
As introduced, requires each local school board to establish a school lunch program and a school breakfast program that provide a free breakfast and lunch to each student enrolled in a school under the board's jurisdiction; requires the state to reimburse each LEA for the cost of providing a free breakfast and lunch to each student enrolled in the LEA after all available federal funds have been applied. - Amends TCA Title 49.
TN
Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee Senate Bill SB0143
Introduced
1/14/25
As introduced, requires the department of health to provide free diapers for new mothers and working parents of children less than two years old; requires LEAs and public charter schools to provide free feminine hygiene products in all women's and girl's bathrooms and locker rooms used by students in grades four through 12 in certain schools; requires public health campaigns dedicated to both purposes. - Amends TCA Title 49; Title 63; Title 67 and Title 68.
TN
Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee Senate Bill SB0144
Introduced
1/14/25
Chaptered
5/27/25
Passed
5/27/25
As enacted, generally requires that all monies received under the sales and use tax from the sale, use, consumption, or distribution of new or used tires on or after July 1, 2025, must be earmarked and allocated to the highway fund. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 54; Title 55; Title 65 and Title 67.
TN
Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee Senate Bill SB0145
Introduced
1/14/25
As introduced, extends indefinitely the time frame, by deleting the June 30, 2028, termination date, that a municipality that continues to receive an allocation of state sales tax revenue pursuant to the now-repealed Courthouse Square Revitalization Pilot Project Act of 2005, will continue to receive the allocation of the revenue. - Amends TCA Title 6 and Title 67, Chapter 6.
TN
Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee Senate Bill SB0146
Introduced
1/14/25
Chaptered
4/4/25
Passed
4/4/25
As enacted, specifies that in an educational neglect case a subpoena may be issued for a student's attendance record, including all previous school years that the student attended a public school, in accordance with relevant privacy laws. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 49.
TN
Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee Senate Bill SB0147
Introduced
1/14/25
Engrossed
3/24/25
Enrolled
4/23/25
Passed
5/9/25
Chaptered
5/15/25
As enacted, requires the department of transportation to install signs or markers displaying language or an appropriate symbol indicating to motorists that a rest area or welcome center has a family restroom; requires the department to post on its website rest areas and welcome centers that have family restrooms. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3; Title 12 and Title 54.
TN
Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee Senate Bill SB0148
Introduced
1/15/25
As introduced, excludes a cell-cultured food product from the definitions of meat and poultry for purposes of the Tennessee Meat and Poultry Inspection Act; prohibits local education agencies (LEAs), public charter schools, and public institutions of higher education from offering or distributing a cell-cultured food product through its school nutrition program, food service center, or another source through which the LEA, public charter school, or public institution of higher education provides food to students. - Amends TCA Title 40; Title 44; Title 47; Title 49 and Title 53.
TN
Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee Senate Bill SB0149
Introduced
1/15/25
As introduced, decreases from 10 business days to 10 calendar days the amount of time the state fire marshal or another state agency, department, or entity must conduct a requested inspection for new construction or the renovation of an existing building. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 7; Title 13; Title 68 and Title 69.
TN
Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee Senate Bill SB0150
Introduced
1/15/25
As introduced, allows students to use their score on the Classic Learning Test (CLT) to satisfy the eligibility requirements for certain grants and scholarships funded using net proceeds of the state lottery; requires the Tennessee student assistance corporation to include information concerning testing dates for the CLT when informing students about lottery scholarship opportunities; allows public institutions of higher education to accept student scores on the CLT for admissions purposes. - Amends TCA Title 49.
TN
Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee Senate Bill SB0151
Introduced
1/15/25
As introduced, requires each local board of education and governing body of a public charter school to display the Ten Commandments, the first sentence of the second paragraph of the preamble to the Declaration of Independence, and the preamble to the United States Constitution in a prominent location in each school building. - Amends TCA Title 49.