Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session All Bills
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0526
Introduced
1/29/25
Refer
2/25/25
As introduced, authorizes the commissioner of revenue to change the due date of the taxpayer's business tax return to a date that is not less than 60 calendar days, rather than two calendar months, following the end of the taxpayer's business tax period for purposes of the commissioner changing a taxpayer's business tax period to correspond to the taxpayer's fiscal year. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 7.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0527
Introduced
1/29/25
Refer
2/5/25
Refer
4/1/25
Refer
4/8/25
As introduced, removes the limitations on the board of parole's authority to deny parole based solely on the seriousness of the offense for certain offenses to allow denial based on the seriousness of the offense for any offense. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 35, Part 5.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0528
Introduced
1/29/25
Refer
2/5/25
Refer
4/1/25
Refer
4/9/25
Chaptered
5/13/25
Passed
5/13/25
As enacted, makes changes to the law relative to professional bondsmen and agents of insurance companies making appearance bonds of a criminal nature. - Amends TCA Title 40.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0529
Introduced
1/29/25
Refer
2/5/25
As introduced, revises the definition of "signature" for purposes of certain election-related documents, including absentee ballot and voter registration forms, and petitions for nomination, referendum, or another purpose; revises requirements for signing such petitions. - Amends TCA Title 2.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0530
Introduced
1/29/25
Refer
2/5/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/25/25
Refer
3/19/25
Refer
3/25/25
Refer
3/25/25
Chaptered
4/29/25
Passed
4/29/25
As enacted, removes the monitoring requirement for boating safety examinations; replaces statutory fees for boating safety certificates and replacement cards with authorization for TWRA to set such fees. - Amends TCA Title 69, Chapter 9.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0531
Introduced
1/29/25
Refer
2/5/25
Refer
3/4/25
As introduced, requires local education agencies and public charter schools to provide age-appropriate instruction to students on how to access, utilize, and critically evaluate various artificial intelligence tools within the curriculum taught by the educator; requires the department of education to issue guidance on how to implement the required instruction; requires the department to provide a professional development program in artificial intelligence education for educators, subject to available funding. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0532
Introduced
1/29/25
Refer
2/5/25
As introduced, requires a person who employs an unemancipated minor and who knows or has reasonable cause to suspect that the minor has been subjected to child sexual abuse or attempted child sexual abuse in the course of the minor’s employment or on the premises of the employer to report such knowledge or suspicion to the minor’s parent within 24 hours of discovering the abuse or attempted abuse; imposes a penalty of $1,000 for a first violation or $2,000 for a second or subsequent violation, to be paid to the commissioner of labor and workforce development. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 50.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0533
Introduced
1/29/25
Refer
2/5/25
Refer
3/11/25
Refer
3/25/25
Chaptered
4/29/25
Passed
4/29/25
As enacted, enacts the "Fertility Treatment and Contraceptive Protection Act." - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0534
Introduced
1/29/25
Refer
2/5/25
Refer
3/4/25
Refer
3/18/25
Refer
4/2/25
Chaptered
5/13/25
Passed
5/13/25
As enacted, prohibits governmental entities or local boards of education from extending immunity granted to independent school bus contractors rather than independent school bus owners and operators for providing school-related transportation services; requires liability insurance coverage in a contract or agreement between a local board of education and an independent school bus contractor for such services to be in an amount sufficient to satisfy applicable law; permits evidence of such coverage to include a certificate of insurance from an insurance provider that lists the local board of education as an additional insured. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 20.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0535
Introduced
1/29/25
Refer
2/5/25
Refer
3/5/25
Refer
3/12/25
Refer
3/12/25
Chaptered
5/13/25
Passed
5/13/25
As enacted, establishes that certain public officials, including members of the general assembly, who take office on or after July 1, 2025, have mandatory membership in the Tennessee consolidated retirement system (TCRS); allows a retiree to reannuitize retirement benefits in favor of a new spouse beneficiary following cancellation of a former spouse beneficiary due to divorce; makes other revisions to provisions governing the TCRS. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 25; Title 8, Chapter 34; Title 8, Chapter 35; Title 8, Chapter 36 and Title 8, Chapter 37.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0536
Introduced
1/29/25
Refer
2/5/25
Refer
3/11/25
As introduced, authorizes a dealer applicant without an established place of business to be issued a motor vehicle dealer license if the applicant is a nonprofit religious organization that is organized or incorporated in this state, has its certificate of incorporation or authority in good standing with the secretary of state, and has an established program of receiving donations of motor vehicles that it donates to individuals and providing free vehicle repair services to individuals with demonstrated need of a motor vehicle or repair services necessary to the individual's effort to become a self-sufficient member of the workforce. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 17.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0537
Introduced
1/29/25
Refer
2/5/25
Refer
3/18/25
Refer
3/25/25
Chaptered
5/2/25
Passed
5/2/25
As enacted, enacts the "Law Enforcement’s Safer Tennessee Electronic Registration (LESTER) Act," which clarifies that law enforcement is required to accept a digital copy of vehicle registration as proof of registration. - Amends TCA Title 38 and Title 55.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0538
Introduced
1/29/25
Refer
2/5/25
As introduced, requires county election commissions to set uniform hours for each polling place used for early voting such that each polling place opens and closes at the same time on a single day. - Amends TCA Title 2.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0539
Introduced
1/29/25
Refer
2/5/25
As introduced, prohibits healthcare providers from reporting a patient's medical debt to a consumer reporting agency; prohibits consumer reporting agencies from including on a consumer report a record of a medical debt. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 8; Title 16; Title 18; Title 20; Title 21; Title 27; Title 28; Title 29; Title 45; Title 47; Title 63 and Title 68.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0540
Introduced
1/29/25
Refer
2/5/25
Refer
3/19/25
Refer
4/2/25
Chaptered
4/29/25
Passed
4/29/25
As enacted, expands the definition of "racketeering activity" to include committing, conspiring to commit, aiding, attempting to aid, soliciting, coercing, facilitating, or intimidating another person to commit the criminal offense of animal fighting. - Amends TCA Title 39.