Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session All Bills
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1006
Introduced
2/5/25
Refer
2/10/25
Refer
2/19/25
As introduced, expands the list of those who are prohibited from serving on a state university board to include those who hold the position of a member of a governing body for another institution of higher education, not just public institutions of higher education. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29; 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 HB1007
Introduced
2/5/25
As introduced, deletes an obsolete provision that required the comptroller of the treasury, in conjunction with any appropriate TennCare drug utilization review committees, to study the use of prescription drugs in nursing homes and the costs of those prescription drugs for residents of nursing homes; to examine prescription use overall; to focus on any practices that would improve the quality of resident care while reducing costs to the TennCare program; and to report by January 1, 2005, to speaker of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33 and Title 71.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1008
Introduced
2/5/25
Refer
2/10/25
As introduced, increases, from a Class C to a Class A misdemeanor, the penalty for selling or distributing a vapor product to an individual under 21 years of age; requires retailers of vapor products to obtain a license for such retail sales from the department of commerce and insurance; provides for civil penalties for violations by licensees. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 15 and Title 62.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1009
Introduced
2/5/25
Refer
2/10/25
Refer
3/12/25
Refer
3/19/25
As introduced, increases the amount of the reimbursement that is paid under the provisions for property tax relief for disabled veteran homeowners from the first $175,000 of the full market value of the home to the first $250,000 of the full market value. - Amends TCA Section 67-5-704.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1010
Introduced
2/5/25
Refer
2/10/25
Refer
3/19/25
Refer
4/9/25
Chaptered
5/13/25
Passed
5/13/25
As enacted, authorizes a district attorney general, on the consent of the district attorney general of any other judicial district, to specially appoint another district attorney general, or an assistant to that district attorney general, to conduct specific proceedings under title 8, chapter 47, regarding removal of officers, which the district attorney general is authorized by law to conduct in that district. - Amends TCA Title 8.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1011
Introduced
2/5/25
Refer
2/10/25
Failed
3/19/25
As introduced, prohibits an online payment system from freezing the funds of a user without first providing the user with a written notice of the online payment system's intent to freeze the user's funds; designates a violation as an unfair or deceptive act or practice pursuant to the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act of 1977. - Amends TCA Title 45 and Title 47, Chapter 18.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1012
Introduced
2/5/25
Refer
2/10/25
As introduced, specifies that an attorney who, while acting in the capacity of counsel for a client or an identifiable prospective client, engages in conduct that constitutes the offense of perjury, aggravated perjury, subornation of perjury, tampering with or fabricating evidence, destruction or tampering with governmental records, or coercion or persuasion of a witness is not immune from prosecution. - Amends TCA Title 23, Chapter 3; Title 27 and Title 39.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1013
Introduced
2/5/25
Refer
2/10/25
As introduced, clarifies that the phrase "for the benefit of" includes the beneficiary of the insurance policy or annuity contract for purposes of the exemption from claims of creditors for a policy of life insurance or under an annuity contract made for the benefit of, or assigned to, the spouse or children, or dependent relatives of, the person whose life the policy or annuity contract is based on; clarifies that use of exempt funds does not change the classification of the funds from exempt to nonexempt. - Amends TCA Title 56.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1014
Introduced
2/5/25
Refer
3/4/25
Refer
3/11/25
As introduced, changes the reporting date, from February 1 to January 15, by which the commissioners of education and safety must jointly report to the governor and the general assembly on the implementation of the "Schools Against Violence in Education Act." - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 68.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1015
Introduced
2/5/25
As introduced, deletes antiquated language that required the office of research and education accountability in the office of the comptroller to submit a report by November 1, 2018, to the education committees of the senate and house of representatives regarding the formation and operation of community schools. - Amends Chapter __ of the Public Acts of 2025 (1st Ex. Sess. – SB 6001 / HB 6004); and TCA Title 4; Title 8 and Title 49.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1016
Introduced
2/5/25
Refer
3/12/25
Refer
3/18/25
Refer
3/25/25
Engrossed
4/1/25
As introduced, establishes October 15 of each year as the date by which the department must submit an early grades reading report; updates the committees for which the department must submit the early grades reading report to be the education committee of the senate and the committee of the house of representatives having jurisdiction over education. - Amends Chapter __ of the Public Acts of 2025 (1st Ex. Sess. – SB 6001 / HB 6004); and TCA Title 4; Title 8 and Title 49.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1017
Introduced
2/5/25
Refer
2/10/25
As introduced, requires that all driver licenses and photo identification licenses be manufactured and printed in this state; requires the department of safety to review and determine the cost-effectiveness of having such licenses manufactured and printed by the department or another state department or agency or through a contract with a private vendor; requires that licenses be manufactured and printed in this state using the most cost-effective means. - Amends TCA Title 12 and Title 55, Chapter 50.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1018
Introduced
2/5/25
Refer
2/10/25
As introduced, requires, on and after July 1, 2025, a deed of conveyance of real property to include the zoning classification of the property at the time the deed is recorded; prescribes a process by which a local zoning authority may notify a state department, agency, or officer of a local zoning violation by a business resulting in the revocation or suspension of a license, permit, or certificate of a business in violation of a local zoning ordinance, resolution, or law; prescribes the process for reinstatement or appeal, including the assessment of a reinstatement fee. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8, Chapter 13; Title 13, Chapter 7; Title 62; Title 66 and Title 68.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1019
Introduced
2/5/25
Refer
2/10/25
As introduced, requires personal information of certain state and local officials to be maintained confidentially upon request; authorizes the release of such information by court order, subpoena, or pursuant to an active law enforcement investigation. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1020
Introduced
2/5/25
Refer
2/10/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/26/25
Chaptered
5/2/25
Passed
5/2/25
As enacted, specifies that a law enforcement officer who causes property damage to or inflicts personal injury upon a person during the course of the law enforcement officer's official duties is immune from civil liability if at the time the damage or injury occurred, the person suffering the injury or damage was engaged in conduct that resulted in the person being convicted of the offense of resisting a stop, frisk, halt, arrest, or search of the person. - Amends TCA Title 29 and Title 39.