Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session All Bills
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0931
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/6/25
As introduced, specifies that a person using force intended or likely to cause death or serious bodily injury from within the person's residence or dwelling is presumed to have acted in self-defense when that force is used against an individual armed with a deadly weapon who is unlawfully present on the person's property and outside of the enclosed structure of the person's residence or dwelling. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 11 and Title 40.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0932
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/6/25
Refer
2/18/25
Refer
2/25/25
Engrossed
3/4/25
Enrolled
3/13/25
Passed
3/28/25
Chaptered
4/4/25
As enacted, requires local boards of education and public charter school governing bodies to adopt a policy to prohibit students from using wireless communication devices during instructional time, except in certain circumstances; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0933
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/6/25
As introduced, requires the department to establish and administer a three-year artificial intelligence weapons detection system grant pilot program to award grants to eligible LEAs for the purchase of artificial intelligence weapons detection systems for schools without an artificial intelligence weapons detection system. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0934
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/6/25
As introduced, makes changes to the forms of identification used to verify a person's identity for voting purposes. - Amends TCA Title 2.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0935
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/6/25
Refer
3/19/25
Refer
4/9/25
Chaptered
5/13/25
Passed
5/13/25
As enacted, 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.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0936
Introduced
2/4/25
As introduced, treats nieces and nephews of the whole or half-blood of a primary caregiver as being related to the caregiver for purposes of present laws governing child care agencies. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 3, Part 5.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0937
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/6/25
As introduced, establishes automatic restoration of voting rights for people who complete their sentence, including any parole or probationary period. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 40 and Title 41.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0938
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/6/25
Refer
3/19/25
Refer
3/25/25
Refer
3/25/25
Refer
4/16/25
Refer
4/22/25
Refer
4/22/25
Chaptered
5/15/25
Passed
5/15/25
As enacted, creates a bait privilege license to allow hunting or taking of whitetail deer using bait on privately owned or privately leased land. - Amends TCA Title 70.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0939
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
3/5/25
Refer
3/12/25
As introduced, requires the attorney general to annually report by January 15 of each year to the governor, speaker of the senate, and speaker of the house of representatives the number of injunctions brought against persons who committed harassment against a state employee in the preceding calendar year. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 1.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0940
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/6/25
Refer
3/19/25
Refer
4/1/25
Refer
4/17/25
Refer
4/17/25
Engrossed
4/22/25
As introduced, increases from 12 to 16, the minimum age for operating a personal watercraft without direct adult supervision; requires persons operating personal watercraft to maintain financial responsibility in the same amounts applicable to motor vehicles. - Amends TCA Title 69, Chapter 9.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0941
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/6/25
As introduced, revises the property tax relief program for elderly, low-income homeowners to provide tiered property tax reimbursements based on the taxpayer's age. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5, Part 7.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0942
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/6/25
Failed
3/11/25
As introduced, authorizes the issuance of a retail package store license to an operator within the general services district of a metropolitan government that has approved the retail sale of liquor for off-premises consumption by local option election. - Amends TCA Title 7 and Title 57.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0943
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/6/25
Failed
3/11/25
As introduced, requires a candidate's name on a nominating petition to match the candidate's name as it appears on the candidate's voter registration record; prohibits the use of nicknames, abbreviations, and variations in spelling of candidates' names on ballots. - Amends TCA Title 2.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0944
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/6/25
As introduced, prohibits the possession of an assault weapon; directs those in possession of an assault weapon before July 1, 2025, to apply for a certificate of possession; creates the Class E felony offense of purchasing, selling, possessing, or using a part, component, device, or attachment designed to accelerate the fire of a semiautomatic rifle and makes any semiautomatic rifle that includes an accelerated fire part, component, or device a prohibited weapon. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 54; Section 38-3-119 and Title 39, Chapter 17.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0945
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
3/5/25
Failed
3/18/25
As introduced, requires the commissioner to report to the chairs of legislative committees having jurisdiction over health-related matters on the standards and policies for assisted reproductive technology in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 29; Title 36; Title 63 and Title 68.