Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session All Bills
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1216
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/12/25
Failed
3/19/25
As introduced, increases the hourly minimum wage to $20.00, or the federal minimum wage established pursuant to the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, whichever rate is greater. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 23; Title 12, Chapter 4, Part 4 and Title 50, Chapter 2.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1217
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/12/25
Failed
3/18/25
As introduced, deletes the offense of criminal abortion; allows for an abortion before viability of the fetus or when necessary to protect the life or health of the pregnant woman. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 63 and Title 68.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1218
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/12/25
As introduced, exempts the sale or use of menstrual hygiene products from sales and use tax. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1219
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/12/25
As introduced, requires the department to establish and administer a pilot program for the placement of hygiene vending machines that dispense feminine hygiene products to students at no cost to the student in women's restrooms or locker rooms in each eligible school selected to participate in the program. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 68.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1220
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/12/25
Failed
3/18/25
As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Contraceptive Freedom Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1221
Introduced
2/6/25
As introduced, deletes antiquated language regarding the state board of education being an authorizer for public charter schools which expired at 11:59 p.m. on June 30, 2021. - Amends Chapter __ of the Public Acts of 2025 (1st Ex. Sess. – SB 6001 / HB 6004); and TCA Title 8 and Title 49.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1222
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/12/25
Failed
4/1/25
As introduced, allows a court to issue an emergency protection order upon a finding that a person poses an imminent risk of harm to the person or others if allowed to purchase or possess a firearm; authorizes a family member, household member, intimate partner, or law enforcement officer to petition for such an order. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 39.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1223
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/12/25
As introduced, requires Tennessee advisory commission on intergovernmental relations (TACIR) to conduct an evaluation examining the frequency at which health insurers deny healthcare claims or reimbursements for policyholders and healthcare providers and an evaluation of related data for the past five calendar years; requires TACIR to report its findings to the appropriate standing committees of the general assembly by January 15, 2026. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 10 and Title 56.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1224
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/12/25
As introduced, requires TACIR to study overall road safety and submit its recommendations to the chair of the committee in the house of representatives with jurisdiction over transportation matters, the chair of the transportation and safety committee of the senate, and the legislative librarian on or before January 15, 2026. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 54 and Title 55.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1225
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/12/25
As introduced, requires sexual and violent sexual offenders to disclose the name, address, and phone number of any church, temple, or other religious group or organization in this state where the offender is a registered member; specifies that this information is considered public information; requires the TBI to provide all public information about an offender to any church, temple, or other religious group or organization in this state where the offender is a registered member when an offender registers as a sexual or violent sexual offender or updates a registration. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 39, Part 2.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1226
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/12/25
Refer
2/26/25
Refer
3/4/25
Chaptered
4/8/25
Passed
4/8/25
As enacted, deletes all references to the world health organization; requires a pandemic to be declared by the federal centers for disease and prevention control, rather than the world health organization, with a subsequent declaration of a state of emergency by the governor for the governor to have exclusive jurisdiction to issue executive orders and directives related to the pandemic until the pandemic ceases to exist. - Amends TCA Title 7 and Title 68.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1227
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/12/25
Refer
3/5/25
Refer
3/18/25
Chaptered
4/30/25
Passed
4/30/25
As enacted, adds the executive director of the commission to the statutorily prescribed selection process for chief executive officers of public institutions of higher education and removes the repeal date for that process; revises various reporting and other duties of the commission; allows the commission to delegate its approval authority to its executive director in certain areas; expands the quality non-degree credentials for which a student may receive the Wilder-Naifeh technical skills grant. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1228
Introduced
2/6/25
As introduced, authorizes the board of regents to produce and make available a copy of the board's tenure policy in an electronic format or in a printed, physical medium. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 49 and Title 62.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1229
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/12/25
Refer
2/26/25
Refer
3/5/25
Refer
4/2/25
Refer
4/8/25
Chaptered
5/13/25
Passed
5/13/25
As enacted, removes the requirement for a claimant to post a bond when filing a claim to seized property. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 33.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1230
Introduced
2/6/25
As introduced, changes a department's reporting requirement, regarding local education agencies' and public charter schools' compliance with notice to an association that regulates interscholastic athletics of a student's placement in foster care who is seeking to participate in interscholastic athletics, from annually to upon the request of the education committee of the senate or the committee of the house of representatives having jurisdiction over education. - Amends TCA Title 49.