Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session All Bills
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0766
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/6/25
Refer
3/12/25
As introduced, adds a 5 percent penalty on delinquent property taxes with the penalty to be used to provide tax relief for the homeowners who are elderly low-income, disabled, or a disabled veteran or widow of a disabled veteran. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0767
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/6/25
As introduced, exempts from business tax, receipts from the sale of a prescription drug or medicine with a cost for a 30-day equivalent supply that exceeds the medicare cost threshold for 2025 plan years and services necessary for proper preparation, storage, handling, administration, patient education, or post-sale monitoring of such exempted drugs or medicines. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 7.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0768
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/6/25
As introduced, requires public charter schools to adopt an internet acceptable use policy in the same manner required for LEAs; prohibits LEAs and public charter schools from tracking or monitoring a person's use of a personal electronic device on school property, except for instances in which a student uses such device during a test. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0769
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/6/25
Refer
4/1/25
Refer
4/9/25
Chaptered
4/29/25
Passed
4/29/25
As enacted, creates a criminal offense of possessing, distributing, or producing technology, software, or digital tools designed for the purpose of creating material that includes a minor engaged in sexual activity or simulated sexual activity that is patently offensive; establishes relevant factors to be considered in determining whether artificial technology, software, or digital tools are used or possessed with intent to create material that includes a minor engaged in sexual activity or simulated sexual activity that is patently offensive. - Amends TCA Title 39.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0770
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/6/25
Failed
3/4/25
As introduced, increases, to the extent permissible under federal law, the maximum gross vehicle weight of a vehicle with an axle group of three axles that can be operated on the public highways of this state to 85,000 pounds. - Amends TCA Title 55.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0771
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/6/25
Failed
3/26/25
As introduced, requires a person to purchase a permit in order to operate a vessel on the intrastate waters of this state that is exempt from being numbered for identification in this state due only to the vessel having a valid number awarded to it pursuant to a federally approved numbering system of another state. - Amends TCA Title 69, Chapter 9.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0772
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/6/25
Refer
3/19/25
Refer
3/26/25
Chaptered
4/29/25
Passed
4/29/25
As enacted, authorizes a premium finance company to impose and collect a convenience fee from an insured for use of certain payment methods; authorizes a premium finance company to charge and collect a handling charge for certain payment instruments when the payment instrument is not paid by the financial institution from which the instrument is drawn. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 37.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0773
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/12/25
Refer
3/12/25
Refer
4/9/25
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, specifies that the website where legal notices must be posted must not require a fee or a subscription for a person to view the website; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 1, Chapter 3.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0774
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/6/25
As introduced, authorizes a retired campus police officer to be reemployed in a position covered by TCRS as a law enforcement officer without the loss or suspension of the retired officer's TCRS benefits; extends the repeal date for the provision authorizing retired law enforcement officers to be reemployed without the loss or suspension of retirement benefits from June 30, 2025, to June 30, 2027. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 36, Part 8.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0775
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/6/25
Refer
3/5/25
Refer
3/12/25
Chaptered
4/8/25
Passed
4/8/25
As enacted, increases, from 30 to 36 percent per annum, the maximum permitted effective rate of interest that may be contracted for by an industrial loan and thrift company on an unpaid balance where the amount financed is $100 or more; makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 45, Chapter 5.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0776
Introduced
2/4/25
As introduced, increases, from 10 to 15 business days, the time that the commissioner has after receipt of an application for a certificate of authority or any accompanying documents for organization of a business authorized to conduct banking business that do not comply with requirements for the documents to return the certificate or documents to the incorporators with notice of the defect in the application. - Amends TCA Title 34; Title 45 and Title 47.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0777
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/6/25
As introduced, allows a private postsecondary institution that is a candidate for accreditation by a regional accrediting association and that has its primary campus domiciled in this state to serve as an institution at which a student may be enrolled for purposes of receiving financial aid funded using net proceeds of the state lottery. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0778
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/6/25
As introduced, requires the office of research and education accountability (OREA), in the office of the comptroller of the treasury, to study and make recommendations for the implementation of an incentive program for educators who have 15 or more years' experience in education; requires OREA to report its findings and recommendations for implementation of the incentive program by December 31, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 49.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0779
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/6/25
Refer
3/25/25
Refer
4/8/25
Chaptered
4/29/25
Passed
4/29/25
As enacted, corrects a reference in the charitable solicitations law that requires educational institutions be approved as such by the Tennessee public charter school commission rather than the state board of education to be exempt from registration requirements. - Amends TCA Title 48, Chapter 101, Part 5.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0780
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/6/25
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, requires the department to revise and certify the population of each county and municipality, and the aggregate population of the state, prior to July 1 each year during the interim between the regular decennial federal census to ensure equitable allocation and distribution of the local share of revenue; requires the Boyd Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Tennessee, through the Tennessee state data center, to generate annual population estimates for each county and municipality and provide the estimates to the department for review and certification. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3; Title 4, Chapter 49; Section 9-16-101; Title 54, Chapter 4; Title 55, Chapter 4; Title 57, Chapter 5, Part 2; Title 57, Chapter 3, Part 3; Title 67, Chapter 3, Part 9; Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 9 and Title 67.