Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session All Bills
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0541
Introduced
1/29/25
Refer
3/12/25
Refer
3/26/25
Refer
4/1/25
Refer
4/17/25
Refer
4/17/25
Chaptered
5/15/25
Passed
5/15/25
As introduced, prohibits the department of environment and conservation from applying criteria that will result in the classification of real property as a wetland, or otherwise regulating real property as a wetland, unless the property is classified as a wetland under federal law. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 11, Chapter 14, Part 4; Title 66; Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 4 and Title 69.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0542
Introduced
1/29/25
Refer
2/5/25
Refer
3/19/25
Refer
3/26/25
Refer
4/17/25
Refer
4/17/25
Engrossed
4/21/25
Enrolled
4/24/25
Passed
5/21/25
Chaptered
5/27/25
As enacted, makes revisions to present law relative to utilities. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 13, Chapter 7; Title 65 and Title 68.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0543
Introduced
1/29/25
Refer
2/5/25
Refer
3/26/25
Refer
4/1/25
Refer
4/17/25
Refer
4/17/25
Chaptered
5/15/25
Passed
5/15/25
As enacted, prohibits a municipal sewer system or utility district that has operated a sewerage system outside of the corporate boundaries of the city or town for 25 years or more from ceasing operation of the sewerage system outside the corporate boundaries so long as the sewerage system maintains sufficient capacity; requires a utility system that provides wastewater service to provide a connection to the owner of real property for wastewater service when the utility system meets certain requirements. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 35; Title 7, Chapter 82 and Title 68, Chapter 221.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0544
Introduced
1/29/25
Refer
2/5/25
As introduced, creates the commercial development board; with respect to new commercial property developed by private entities in certain taxing jurisdictions, authorizes the private entities to enter into agreements for payments in lieu of ad valorem taxes and leases with the commercial development board. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 9; Title 13; Title 48 and Title 67.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0545
Introduced
1/29/25
Refer
2/5/25
Refer
2/25/25
Refer
3/25/25
As introduced, requires the department to provide at least one professional development course that provides asynchronous instruction on the use of artificial intelligence in the classroom and that is made available, at no cost, to teachers in grades 6-12; requires such teachers to complete at least one department-approved professional development course on the use of artificial intelligence in the classroom by August 1, 2027, or within two years of becoming licensed as a teacher in this state, whichever is later. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0546
Introduced
1/29/25
Refer
2/5/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/26/25
Engrossed
3/4/25
Enrolled
3/11/25
Passed
3/28/25
Chaptered
4/4/25
As enacted, authorizes a local government to execute a cooperative purchasing agreement with other local, state, and federal governmental entities for purposes of purchasing materials, labor, and services used for maintenance, operations, component replacement, or repairs of existing facilities and grounds owned or operated by a local education agency or by a local government agency. - Amends TCA Section 12-3-1205.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0547
Introduced
1/29/25
Refer
2/5/25
Refer
3/5/25
Refer
3/12/25
Refer
4/2/25
Refer
4/14/25
Chaptered
5/13/25
Passed
5/13/25
As enacted, requires the clerk of every court having jurisdiction of criminal offenses to include a $12.50 charge in every cost bill, to be remitted to the county government to provide support services for the purpose of promoting public safety at the sole discretion of the district attorney general; takes effect upon two-thirds vote of the county legislative body; requires a district attorney general receiving funding to submit an annual report. - Amends TCA Title 40.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0548
Introduced
1/29/25
Refer
2/5/25
Refer
3/12/25
Refer
3/26/25
As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Procurement Protection Act." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 56.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0549
Introduced
1/29/25
Refer
2/5/25
As introduced, creates the "Tennessee Critical Infrastructure Act." - Amends TCA Title 4.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0550
Introduced
1/29/25
Refer
2/5/25
Refer
3/19/25
Refer
3/26/25
Engrossed
4/1/25
Enrolled
4/17/25
Passed
5/2/25
Chaptered
5/8/25
As enacted, enacts the "Fairness in Benefits Act." - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 27; 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 HB0551
Introduced
1/29/25
Refer
2/5/25
As introduced, urges the human rights commission to study problems of discrimination against healthcare providers in this state because of their decision to decline to participate in a healthcare service on the basis of religious, moral, or ethical beliefs. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 20; Title 29; Title 39; Title 49; Title 50; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0552
Introduced
1/29/25
Refer
2/5/25
Failed
3/11/25
As introduced, enacts the "Family Right to Educational Emancipation (FREE) Act," which creates a new category of independent home schools that are not subject to the data collection, reporting, or assessment requirements applicable to existing independent home school programs and that exempts such home school students and parents from compulsory school attendance requirements; prohibits the department of safety from conditioning the issuance of a driver license or learner's permit on a school-aged applicant's attendance record or enrollment status. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 49; Title 50 and Title 55.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0553
Introduced
1/29/25
Refer
2/5/25
Refer
2/26/25
Refer
3/5/25
As introduced, expands "law enforcement officer" to include a correctional officer employed by a county jail, the department of correction, or a private prison contractor and a probation or parole officer employed by the department of correction or a private probation provider for purposes of the offense of assault against a law enforcement officer. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 1.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0554
Introduced
1/29/25
Refer
2/5/25
Failed
4/2/25
As introduced, creates a civil action against any person or government entity that infringes upon a person's right to bear arms under the Tennessee or United States Constitutions; requires the person or entity to be liable for actual or statutory damages, punitive damages, attorney's fees, and court costs. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 54.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0555
Introduced
1/29/25
Refer
2/5/25
Refer
3/5/25
Refer
3/19/25
As introduced, increases from a Class E felony to a Class D felony the offense of burglary of a conveyance. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.