Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session All Bills
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0676
Introduced
2/3/25
Refer
2/6/25
Refer
3/4/25
Refer
3/18/25
Refer
3/26/25
Refer
4/1/25
Engrossed
4/8/25
Enrolled
4/9/25
Passed
4/24/25
Chaptered
4/28/25
As enacted, requires that certain employees of state special schools receive the same leave and certain other benefits as employees of LEAs and public charter schools. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 50 and Title 49.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0677
Introduced
2/3/25
Refer
2/6/25
As introduced, requires that test materials and test data from psychological or neuropsychological testing be kept secure to avoid compromising the validity of the testing; makes other changes related to security of psychological or neuropsychological test materials and test data. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 11.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0678
Introduced
2/3/25
As introduced, specifies that the office of early learning is required, by February 1, to provide an annual report to the governor and the general assembly on the status of pre-kindergarten programs, which must include, at a minimum, the number, location, and types of providers of pre-kindergarten classrooms and the number of at-risk children served. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0679
Introduced
2/3/25
Refer
2/6/25
Refer
3/26/25
Refer
4/2/25
Engrossed
4/8/25
As introduced, increases from $1,000 to $2,500 the amount of compensation that may be awarded from the criminal injuries compensation fund to a health care provider who performed a forensic medical examination on a victim of a sexually oriented crime; requires the Tennessee bureau of investigation to perform serology or DNA analysis on a sexual assault evidence collection kit within 120 days of the bureau's receipt of the sexual assault evidence collection kit from a law enforcement agency. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 38 and Title 39.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0680
Introduced
2/3/25
Refer
2/6/25
As introduced, prohibits an agricultural employer from retaliating against an agricultural employee who asserts a protected right or based on the agricultural employee's immigration status; creates related protections and penalties related to agricultural employees. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 43; Title 50 and Title 68.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0681
Introduced
2/3/25
Refer
2/6/25
Failed
2/26/25
As introduced, enacts the "Healthy Soil Act." - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 43, Chapter 14.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0682
Introduced
2/3/25
Refer
2/6/25
Failed
2/25/25
As introduced, enacts the "Student Comfort through Alternative Restorative Environments (CARE) Act"; requires local education agencies and public charter schools to allow students of a school in the LEA or public charter school where an act of mass violence occurs to voluntarily participate in remote instruction or a virtual education program for at least 31 calendar days. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 37 and Title 49.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0683
Introduced
2/3/25
Refer
2/6/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
3/5/25
Refer
3/10/25
Refer
3/19/25
Refer
3/25/25
Engrossed
4/1/25
Enrolled
4/17/25
Passed
5/2/25
Chaptered
5/8/25
As enacted, creates the enhanced armed guard registration that may be obtained upon completion of certain training and other requirements by an armed security guard/officer who has at least five years of full-time experience as a law enforcement officer or four years of active duty military experience in a combat arms military occupational specialty; directs the commissioner of commerce and insurance to approve an enhanced armed guard training course. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 39 and Title 62, Chapter 35.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0684
Introduced
2/3/25
Refer
2/6/25
As introduced, requires the department of human services to annually identify federal waivers it deems necessary to alleviate federal regulatory limitations that inhibit the department's ability to timely review and approve applications and deliver benefits for the food assistance program and to submit, no later than October 31 of each year, as applicable, applications for such waivers; requires the department to annually submit a report describing any waiver applications submitted and the status of such applications, and including recommendations for statutory changes needed to facilitate efficient processing and delivery of such benefits. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5, Part 3.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0685
Introduced
2/3/25
As introduced, changes, from June 30 to July 15, the date on which a pesticide product's annual registration with the department of agriculture expires. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 28; Title 43, Chapter 8; Title 53, Chapter 1; Title 53, Chapter 7; Title 62, Chapter 21 and Title 68, Chapter 212.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0686
Introduced
2/3/25
Refer
2/6/25
Refer
3/19/25
Refer
4/8/25
Refer
4/16/25
As introduced, enacts the "African American Cultural and Historical Grant Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9 and Title 13.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0687
Introduced
2/3/25
Refer
2/6/25
As introduced, removes the permanent deprivation of the right of suffrage upon conviction of first degree murder, aggravated rape, treason, or voter fraud; removes the requirement that a person must have paid all court costs in order to be eligible for restoration of the right of suffrage; requires a person to be compliant with all current child support orders rather than current in all child support obligations in order to be eligible for restoration of the right of suffrage. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 40.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0688
Introduced
2/3/25
Refer
2/6/25
As introduced, authorizes the commissioner to develop and maintain an essential buffer stock of necessary medicines and healthcare supplies to be distributed during a natural or man-made disaster, mass casualty event, or public health emergency. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 53; Title 58; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0689
Introduced
2/3/25
Refer
2/6/25
As introduced, authorizes court clerks in certain counties to implement an automatic expunction processing program that initiates processing the expunction of public records without petition by the person, certification of eligibility from the TBI, or court order in certain limited circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 32.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0690
Introduced
2/3/25
As introduced, designates December 14 of each year as "Hazel Moore Day." - Amends TCA Title 3 and Title 4.