Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session All Bills
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0301
Introduced
1/22/25
Refer
2/3/25
As introduced, 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, including prescribing a distance requirement for such homes from primary schools, preschools, and daycares, regulating the location and operation of such homes, and requiring that prospective residents receive a clinical referral for placement in a sober living home. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13 and Title 33.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0302
Introduced
1/22/25
Refer
2/3/25
Refer
3/11/25
Refer
3/18/25
Chaptered
5/2/25
Passed
5/2/25
As enacted, creates the offense of an occupant of a vehicle parking, leaving standing, or stopping the vehicle on a street or highway and blocking or impeding the normal movement of traffic for the purpose of soliciting, negotiating, or consummating an employment transaction with a person standing on or in proximity to the street or highway. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17; Title 54 and Title 55.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0303
Introduced
1/22/25
Refer
2/3/25
Refer
2/12/25
Refer
3/12/25
Chaptered
4/8/25
Passed
4/8/25
As enacted, authorizes the sale or purchase of previously titled antique or unique motor vehicles without a motor vehicle dealer license through auction formats held in Hamilton County that meet certain criteria. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 17 and Title 62, Chapter 19.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0304
Introduced
1/22/25
Refer
2/3/25
As introduced, prohibits state and local government entities from displaying or allowing display of flags other than Tennessee and U.S. flags on courthouses and public roads and sidewalks; prohibits LEAs and public charter schools from displaying in public schools flags other than the official United States flag and the official Tennessee state flag. - Amends TCA Title 4; Section 5-5-114; Section 6-54-144; Title 7; Section 15-2-116; Title 49; Title 55; Title 58 and Title 65, Chapter 31, Part 1.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0305
Introduced
1/22/25
Refer
2/3/25
As introduced, requires a law enforcement agency to release calls for emergency assistance services at rental homes and apartment complexes to qualified nonprofit organizations for the purpose of distributing the calls to rental property managers and owners to detect and act on escalating crime patterns. - Amends TCA Title 38.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0306
Introduced
1/22/25
Refer
2/3/25
Refer
2/26/25
Failed
4/2/25
As introduced, requires the offices of sheriff, register, county clerk, assessor of property, and trustee in a county that has adopted a charter form of government to independently develop the budget for such office and submit the budget directly to the county legislative body; authorizes such offices to approve transfers between line items within the total amount of each category of personnel and operational maintenance; prohibits the county legislative body from implementing any kind of personnel restriction or operational maintenance restrictions on these offices. - Amends TCA Title 5.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0307
Introduced
1/22/25
Refer
2/3/25
Refer
2/26/25
Refer
4/2/25
Chaptered
4/29/25
Passed
4/29/25
As enacted, declares that the offices of sheriff, register, county clerk, assessor of property, and trustee are the constitutional officers of a county that has adopted a charter form of government; specifies the duties for each constitutional officer. - Amends TCA Title 5.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0308
Introduced
1/22/25
Refer
2/3/25
Refer
2/26/25
Failed
4/8/25
As introduced, authorizes certain counties to levy a local option sales tax at the rate of 3.75 percent, instead of a maximum of 2.75 percent, if the revenue from the increase in such tax is used by the county exclusively for the construction of a new county jail or to retire debt, including principal and interest and related expenses, on such construction. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 7.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0309
Introduced
1/22/25
Refer
2/3/25
As introduced, requires the bureau of parks and conservation to designate at least one day per year, instead of just one day per year, during which access to and use of all state parks, including campgrounds and golf courses, must be free of charge for all veterans. - Amends TCA Title 58, Chapter 3.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0310
Introduced
1/22/25
Refer
2/3/25
Refer
3/19/25
Refer
4/8/25
Refer
4/17/25
Refer
4/17/25
Engrossed
4/21/25
Enrolled
4/28/25
Passed
5/21/25
Chaptered
5/27/25
As enacted, creates a presumption that the diagnosis of a law enforcement officer or emergency medical responder with post-traumatic stress disorder as the result of responding to certain incidents was incurred in the line of duty for purposes of workers' compensation coverage. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51 and Title 50, Chapter 6.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0311
Introduced
1/22/25
Refer
2/3/25
As introduced, enacts the "Autism Spectrum Online Protection Act." - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 37; Title 39 and Title 52.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0312
Introduced
1/22/25
Refer
2/3/25
As introduced, creates a Class A misdemeanor for recklessly storing a firearm in a manner that a person knows or reasonably should know will allow a child younger than 18 years of age to access the firearm and the child brings the firearm to a school. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0313
Introduced
1/22/25
Refer
2/3/25
Refer
3/5/25
Refer
3/12/25
Chaptered
5/2/25
Passed
5/2/25
As enacted, establishes that a retiree who is a member of the Tennessee consolidated retirement system must have had a bona fide separation of service before the retiree is allowed to accept temporary reemployment without a loss or suspension of benefits in the retirement system; makes other changes to the present law relative to reemployment after retirement from public employment. - Amends TCA Section 8-25-213 and Title 8, Chapter 36, Part 8.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0314
Introduced
1/22/25
Refer
2/3/25
Refer
4/1/25
Refer
4/9/25
Chaptered
5/13/25
Passed
5/13/25
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.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0315
Introduced
1/22/25
Refer
2/3/25
As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Covenant Marriage Act" to create covenant marriage, which is entered into by one male and one female, who understand and agree that marriage is a lifelong relationship; permits a spouse in a covenant marriage to obtain a judgment of divorce under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 10; Title 16; Title 36; Title 39; Title 67 and Title 68.