Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session All Bills
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0976
Introduced
2/5/25
As introduced, extends from 10 to 20 days, the time within which a non-contracting spouse must serve the prime contractor with written notice of that spouse's objection to a contract for improving real property after learning of the contract when the contract is made with a husband or a wife who is not separated and living apart from that person's spouse, and the property is owned by the other spouse or by both spouses, in order to avoid the other spouse being deemed the agent of the objecting spouse. - Amends TCA Title 66, Chapter 11.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0977
Introduced
2/5/25
Refer
3/11/25
Refer
3/19/25
Refer
4/9/25
Refer
4/14/25
Refer
4/15/25
Chaptered
5/13/25
Passed
5/13/25
As introduced, expands the time in which education associations whose employees participate in the retirement system must submit a list of retired members of the retirement system who are assigned to perform functions or duties for the association as an employee of a subsidiary of the association or an independent contractor to the board of trustees by allowing them to submit the list annually or at such other intervals set by the board. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 34; Title 8, Chapter 35 and Title 8, Chapter 36.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0978
Introduced
2/5/25
Refer
3/10/25
As introduced, requires a utility governed by the Utilities' Cut-Off Procedures Act to publish its policy governing the discontinuation of service for nonpayment of service on the utility's website in a publicly accessible location. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 65; Title 68 and Title 69.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0979
Introduced
2/5/25
Refer
3/12/25
Refer
3/19/25
Refer
4/1/25
Refer
4/7/25
Refer
4/14/25
Refer
4/15/25
Engrossed
4/16/25
Enrolled
4/25/25
Passed
5/21/25
Chaptered
5/27/25
As introduced, removes an obsolete provision that required health-related boards to report to the general assembly by January 1, 2019, regarding issues relating to implementation of provisions regarding electronic prescriptions for Schedule II, III, IV, or V controlled substances. - Amends TCA Title 47; Title 63 and Title 68.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0980
Introduced
2/5/25
Refer
2/10/25
Refer
3/12/25
As introduced, authorizes a tourism development authority to petition for deannexation of property owned by the authority. - Amends TCA Title 6, Chapter 51 and Title 7, Chapter 69.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0981
Introduced
2/5/25
Refer
2/10/25
As introduced, decriminalizes the possession of less than one ounce of marijuana or less than five marijuana plants; authorizes municipalities and counties to impose civil penalties on the possession of marijuana in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 18, Part 3; Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4 and Title 40.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0982
Introduced
2/5/25
Refer
2/25/25
As introduced, increases from $25,000 to $50,000 the jurisdictional dollar limit for general sessions courts in civil cases generally. - Amends TCA Title 13; Title 16 and Title 29.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0983
Introduced
2/5/25
Refer
3/12/25
As introduced, authorizes the commissioner to designate an existing organizational unit of the department as the office of rural prosperity and consolidate within that office some or all of the department's duties related to improving the well-being of rural communities in this state. - Amends TCA Section 1-3-105; Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 9; Title 13; Title 43; Title 44; Title 48; Title 49; Title 50; Title 61; Title 64; Title 66; Title 67; Title 68 and Title 69.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0984
Introduced
2/5/25
As introduced, extends from March 1 to April 1, the date by which the department of health must submit to the governor, the speaker of the senate, the speaker of the house of representatives, and legislative committees with subject matter jurisdiction over health a report with de-identified aggregate claims data on every inpatient and outpatient discharge that includes coded drug poisonings as reported for the calendar year two years prior to the current year by licensed hospitals to the commissioner of health. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 37; Title 44; Title 47; Title 49; Title 53; Title 63 and Title 68.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0985
Introduced
2/5/25
Refer
2/10/25
As introduced, removes the criminal offense of possession of a weapon in a building or on property that is properly posted; removes the requirement that the department of safety suspend or revoke a handgun carry permit for a violation of that offense by a handgun permit holder. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0986
Introduced
2/5/25
Refer
2/10/25
As introduced, abolishes various estates and reversion interests in land. - Amends TCA Title 66, Chapter 1.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0987
Introduced
2/5/25
Refer
2/10/25
As introduced, requires cigarettes that are defined as heated tobacco products to be taxed at a rate of 0.15 cents per cigarette. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0988
Introduced
2/5/25
Refer
2/10/25
Refer
4/17/25
Refer
4/17/25
Chaptered
5/15/25
Passed
5/15/25
As enacted, specifies that the privilege tax exemption for subsidiaries of agricultural cooperatives applies without regard to whether the subsidiary was formed as a corporation, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, or other legal entity, association, or body vested with the power or function of a legal entity. - Amends TCA Title 43, Chapter 16, Part 1 and Section 67-4-102.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0989
Introduced
2/5/25
As introduced, requires the administrative office of the courts to report by October 1, 2025, to the speaker of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives the number of persons found guilty of the Class A misdemeanor of, as an employer, dismissing from employment an employee because of jury service by that employee, from January 1, 1990, until January 1, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 39.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0990
Introduced
2/5/25
Refer
3/4/25
Refer
3/11/25
Refer
4/1/25
Chaptered
4/29/25
Passed
4/29/25
As enacted, clarifies the term "serious risk of substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function" as used in present law provisions relative to criminal abortion. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 29; Title 33; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 53; Title 56; Title 62; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.