Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session All Bills
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0991
Introduced
2/5/25
As introduced, allows, instead of requires, the governor to consult with medical groups in making appointments to the board of medical examiners. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29; Title 63 and Title 68.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0992
Introduced
2/5/25
Refer
2/10/25
As introduced, enacts the "Child Care Workforce Improvement Act," which directs the commissioner of human services to develop a program to provide longevity payments to eligible child care workers and a program to provide child care assistance payments to certain early childhood educators. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 3.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0993
Introduced
2/5/25
Refer
2/10/25
As introduced, removes restriction prohibiting county officers from serving on industrial development corporation boards; adds county assessor of property and county trustee as members of such boards. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 53.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0994
Introduced
2/5/25
As introduced, changes from March 31 to February 1, the date by which each region must submit its annual report to the commissioner of environment and conservation for the immediately preceding calendar year that includes data on collection, recycling, transportation, disposal, public costs, and other information deemed relevant to solid waste planning and management. - Amends TCA Title 68 and Title 69.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0995
Introduced
2/5/25
Refer
2/10/25
Refer
3/19/25
Refer
4/2/25
Chaptered
4/29/25
Passed
4/29/25
As enacted, expands the immunity from prosecution when seeking medical assistance for a person experiencing, or believed to be experiencing, an overdose to include alcohol-related offenses; clarifies that overdose includes both drugs and alcohol. - Amends TCA Title 63.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0996
Introduced
2/5/25
Refer
2/10/25
As introduced, creates prescribing authority for certain psychologists if certain conditions and prerequisites are met. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 53; Title 63 and Title 68.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0997
Introduced
2/5/25
Refer
2/10/25
Refer
3/4/25
Refer
4/2/25
Chaptered
5/13/25
Passed
5/13/25
Aa enacted, prohibits a county LEA or public charter school authorized to operate in a county LEA from charging registration fees, enrollment fees, or tuition for a student who resides in the county and who transfers to a public charter school authorized to operate in the county LEA from another LEA located in the same county. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 13 and Title 49, Chapter 6.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0998
Introduced
2/5/25
As introduced, adds the general assembly to the list of entities that each public institution of higher education must submit its annual foreign gifts and contracts disclosure report. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 14; Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, Chapter 8 and Title 49, Chapter 9.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB0999
Introduced
2/5/25
Refer
2/10/25
As introduced, requires all ballots cast in an election to have a secure watermark; requires the official tabulation count of a ballot scanner to be based on the text or machine mark portion of a ballot; makes certain other changes related to ballots and elections; creates programs for the scanning and auditing of ballots. - Amends TCA Title 2.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1000
Introduced
2/5/25
Refer
2/25/25
Refer
3/4/25
Refer
3/12/25
Chaptered
4/8/25
Passed
4/8/25
As enacted, makes revisions regarding determining when the annual coverage assessment is implemented and imposed; sets limits on the expenditures for directed payments to hospitals in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1001
Introduced
2/5/25
Refer
2/10/25
Failed
3/25/25
As introduced, requires the state board of education to authorize a student who is working toward completing a career and technical education elective focus to substitute up to four career and technical education course credits for the required chemistry course credit, computer science course credit, world language course credit, and Algebra II course credit necessary to earn a full diploma upon graduation from high school. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1002
Introduced
2/5/25
Refer
2/10/25
Refer
2/25/25
Refer
4/2/25
Chaptered
5/13/25
Passed
5/13/25
As enacted, requires, if an approved universal reading screener is administered to pre-k students at an LEA or public charter school, the LEA or public charter school to allow the pre-k teacher whose students were administered the screener to use the results as an approved alternative student growth model or the pre-k/kindergarten portfolio growth model to generate individual growth scores for teachers pursuant to the evaluation guidelines developed by the department of education. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1003
Introduced
2/5/25
Refer
2/10/25
Refer
3/25/25
Refer
4/2/25
Chaptered
5/13/25
Passed
5/13/25
As enacted, prohibits the state board of education from requiring a private school that provides a fully online, self-paced educational program to comply with certain class size, school calendar, vaccination, and assessment requirements in order to operate in this state as an approved Category III nonpublic school. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1004
Introduced
2/5/25
Refer
2/10/25
As introduced, requires the department to award grants to local education agencies that operate or authorize at least one public school located in a county with a county juvenile offense rate that is at least 10 percent higher than the statewide juvenile offense rate to enable such LEAs to provide after school programs for students in grades K-12. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 49.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1005
Introduced
2/5/25
Refer
2/10/25
As introduced, prohibits local education agencies and public charter schools from suspending or expelling a student enrolled in any of the grades pre-K-2 unless the student's behavior endangers the physical safety of others; authorizes local education agencies and public charter schools to suspend such a student for such behavior for no more than three days if certain measures are taken before the student is suspended. - Amends TCA Title 49.