Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session All Bills
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0346
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
2/3/25
Refer
2/24/25
Refer
3/5/25
As introduced, names the desk of house chamber seat number 60 as the “Legislative Desk of Representative John J. Deberry, Jr.”; directs the chief clerk of the house of representatives, or the chief clerk’s designee, to design and provide for the installation of a commemorative plaque on the side of the desk of house chamber seat number 60 to recognize the official name of such desk. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 1 and Title 4, Chapter 8.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0347
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
2/3/25
Refer
3/18/25
Refer
4/2/25
Chaptered
5/13/25
Passed
5/13/25
As enacted, clarifies that the economic disadvantage of a parent or guardian alone is not a ground for termination of parental rights; clarifies that, for purposes of laws relative to juvenile courts and proceedings, "neglect" does not exist solely on the basis of economic disadvantage. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 37 and Title 39.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0348
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
2/3/25
Refer
3/18/25
Refer
4/2/25
As introduced, requires, if a local government adopts a budget that includes the required maintenance of effort for education funding but fails to appropriate or allocate the full amount budgeted to the LEA, the local government, in the following fiscal year, to appropriate and allocate the unfunded portion to the LEA; specifies that the maintenance of local funding effort required for a fiscal year following a fiscal year in which the local government failed to appropriate or allocate the full amount budgeted to the LEA must be determined based on the amount budgeted to the LEA for the previous fiscal year instead of the amount actually appropriated or allocated to the LEA by the local government. - Amends TCA Section 49-3-314.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0349
Introduced
1/23/25
As introduced, deletes an antiquated section, which required the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy at the University of Tennessee to, by December 15, 2014, perform a study on the economic feasibility of creating and utilizing a statewide comprehensive energy policy and submit its final report to the energy task force of the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0350
Introduced
1/23/25
As introduced, adds the legislative librarian as a recipient of the report submitted by the commissioner of correction to the general assembly on the transactions of state correctional facilities during the two years preceding the report. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 8; Title 9; Title 27; Title 29; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 41.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0351
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
2/3/25
Refer
3/4/25
Refer
3/25/25
Refer
4/2/25
Chaptered
5/13/25
Passed
5/13/25
As enacted, requires, if a prisoner is released for paid employment, the cost of the electronic monitoring device to be deducted from the prisoner's wages by the sheriff and paid directly to the electronic monitoring device provider by the county or state, as applicable; requires, if a prisoner is released for unpaid work, the entity utilizing the prisoner for work to pay the costs of the electronic monitoring device. - Amends TCA Title 41.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0352
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
2/3/25
As introduced, clarifies that the plans for an acquisition of a right-of-way by the state must be filed and recorded with the office of the register in each county where the project is located if the project is located in multiple counties. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 54 and Title 55.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0353
Introduced
1/23/25
As introduced, reduces from 60 to 45 days, the time period following the end of each calendar year during which the commissioner must annually report to the governor. - Amends TCA Title 45.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0354
Introduced
1/23/25
As introduced, requires the department to prominently advertise on the home page of the department's website the toll-free telephone service that enables citizens to report abuse, neglect, or exploitation of elderly or vulnerable adults. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 38; Title 39; Title 45; Title 68 and Title 71.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0355
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
2/3/25
Refer
2/18/25
Refer
3/18/25
Chaptered
4/30/25
Passed
4/30/25
As enacted, requires a public school under the jurisdiction of an LEA that offers students the opportunity to participate in interscholastic athletic competitions to allow the LEA's virtual school students to participate in interscholastic athletics at the public school in the LEA for which they are zoned and that they are otherwise eligible to attend. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0356
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
2/3/25
As introduced, requires local education agencies (LEAs) and public charter schools to recognize November 7 of each year as Victims of Communism Day to honor the people who have fallen victim to communist regimes across the world; requires LEAs and public charter schools to provide students enrolled in a world history and geography course with at least 45 minutes of instruction on Victims of Communism Day. - Amends TCA Title 15; Title 49, Chapter 1 and Title 49, Chapter 6.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0357
Introduced
1/24/25
Refer
2/3/25
Refer
2/18/25
Refer
3/12/25
Refer
3/17/25
As introduced, enacts the "Rescue Squad Recognition Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8 and Title 68.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0358
Introduced
1/24/25
Refer
2/3/25
As introduced, requires a court or magistrate to impose global positioning monitoring as a condition of release for a defendant accused of certain offenses, unless the court or magistrate enters written findings that the defendant does not pose a threat to the victim or public safety; requires the administrative office of the courts to compile an annual report of the number of defendants subject to such an order. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40; Title 55; Chapter 969 of the Public Acts of 2024 and Chapter 1033 of the Public Acts of 2024.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0359
Introduced
1/27/25
Refer
2/5/25
Refer
2/18/25
Refer
2/25/25
As introduced, increases the penalty for driving upon a highway without a valid driver license for the vehicle being driven from a Class C misdemeanor to a Class B misdemeanor for a first offense and a Class A misdemeanor for a second or subsequent offense committed within 10 years of a prior offense. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 55.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0360
Introduced
1/27/25
Refer
2/5/25
As introduced, authorizes a county that has adopted the County Purchasing Law of 1957 to require a competitive bid process for insurance brokerage services. - Amends TCA Title 5 and Title 12, Chapter 3, Part 12.