Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session All Bills
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0946
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/10/25
As introduced, requires an applicant and an electric utility service to perform and submit to the locality a site assessment prior to the approval of a rezoning request, special exception, or special use permit for the siting of a new high energy use facility (HEUF). - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13; Title 54; Title 65 and Title 68.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0947
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/10/25
Refer
3/26/25
As introduced, enacts "Akilah's Law," which creates the offense of selling, offering to sell, delivering, or transferring a firearm to a person knowing the person has been a patient in a mental institution at any time within the previous five years. - Amends TCA Title 33 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0948
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/10/25
As introduced, requires a person who is convicted of domestic assault or subject to an order of protection to dispossess any firearm in the person's possession by transferring the firearm to a law enforcement agency and to provide the court with an affidavit of dispossession of firearms and a receipt from the law enforcement agency. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 39 and Title 40.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0949
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/10/25
As introduced, creates a criminal offense of storing or keeping a firearm in any place if the firearm is not secured in a locked container or equipped with a tamper-resistant mechanical lock or other safety device that is properly engaged so as to render the firearm inoperable by any person other than the owner or another lawfully authorized user; punishes a violation of the offense as a Class A misdemeanor. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0950
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/10/25
As introduced, creates a grant program to facilitate green spaces in urban areas; authorizes the technical secretary of the air pollution control board to establish a program to encourage community-led programs that reduce air pollution. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 5; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 11; Title 43, Chapter 24 and Title 68, Chapter 201.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0951
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/10/25
As introduced, enacts the "Clean Energy and Jobs Act"; creates the Clean Energy Workforce Training Grant Fund; establishes a tax credit for certain systems, methods, improvements, structures, devices, or appliances used by renewable energy businesses, and small businesses to implement or improve the business's sustainable practices. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 5 and Title 67.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0952
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/10/25
As introduced, enacts the "Small Business Growth and Empowerment Act"; authorizes business tax credits for small businesses hiring locally or providing workforce training; creates grants for minority-owned and women-owned businesses in underserved areas. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 7 and Title 67, Chapter 4.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0953
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/10/25
As introduced, enacts the "School Safety and Mental Health Act." - Amends TCA Title 49.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0954
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/10/25
As introduced, requires each law enforcement agency to develop and implement an alternative crisis response unit; requires the Tennessee peace officer standards and training commission to establish uniform training standards for alternative crisis response units in all law enforcement agencies. - Amends TCA Title 33 and Title 38.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0955
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/10/25
As introduced, enacts the "Affordable Housing and Tenant Protection Act"; allows local governments to adopt ordinances and resolutions to control rent for private residential rental units; creates the increased housing program and increased housing fund; authorizes the Tennessee housing development agency to make grants from the fund to eligible developers and first-time homebuyers to assist in gap financing and down payment assistance. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 53; Title 9; Title 12; Title 13; Title 66 and Title 67.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0956
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/10/25
As introduced, requires, subject to certain exemptions, that a sale or transfer of a firearm be done through a federally licensed gun dealer; creates a Class B misdemeanor offense for sales or transfers that are not conducted through a gun dealer. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 54; Title 38, Chapter 3, Part 1 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0957
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/10/25
As introduced, grants eligible state employees mandatory paid leave for fostering a minor child. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 50, Part 8.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0958
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
3/4/25
Refer
3/26/25
Refer
4/2/25
Refer
4/17/25
Refer
4/17/25
Chaptered
5/15/25
Passed
5/15/25
As enacted, creates a federal education deregulation cooperation task force to prepare Tennessee for the potential of deregulation of federal laws, regulations, requirements, and guidance for K-12 education. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0959
Introduced
2/5/25
Refer
2/10/25
Refer
2/26/25
Refer
3/4/25
Engrossed
3/11/25
Enrolled
4/3/25
Passed
4/11/25
Chaptered
4/28/25
As enacted, makes various changes relative to marriage and family therapist licensure. - Amends TCA Title 33 and Title 63.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0960
Introduced
2/5/25
Refer
2/10/25
Refer
3/26/25
Refer
4/1/25
Chaptered
4/29/25
Passed
4/29/25
As enacted, requires the department to collaborate with an organization in this state to create or identify a continuing education program to provide healthcare professionals with information or training relative to maternal mental health disorders. - Amends TCA Title 63.