Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session All Bills
TN
Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1231
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/12/25
As introduced, permits the largest municipality in Shelby, Davidson, Knox, or Hamilton county to regulate the manner of storage of firearms, firearm ammunition, and firearm accessories by ordinance, resolution, policy, rule, or other enactment. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
TN
Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1232
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/18/25
Refer
4/1/25
Refer
4/8/25
Refer
4/17/25
Refer
4/17/25
Chaptered
5/15/25
Passed
5/15/25
As enacted, makes various changes to present law concerning criminal justice. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5; Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 53.
TN
Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1233
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/12/25
As introduced, permits a professional bondsman to issue and retain the required receipt for money or other consideration received in a digital format. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 11.
TN
Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1234
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/12/25
As introduced, excludes materials obtained by an individual teacher that are made available in the teacher's classroom to students assigned to the teacher's class from having to be identified in a list of library collection materials posted on the school's website; requires each local board of education and public charter school governing body to adopt a policy for developing and reviewing classroom libraries. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.
TN
Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1235
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/12/25
As introduced, requires the department to conserve any federal funds a child in the department's care is eligible for or may receive for the child's reasonable, foreseeable future needs or use for special needs services not currently being provided by the department. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37.
TN
Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1236
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/12/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
3/4/25
Engrossed
3/11/25
As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Health SNAP Act," which requires the department to submit a request for a waiver from the United States department of agriculture's food and nutrition service to seek authorization to prohibit the use of SNAP benefits for the purchase of candy and soft drinks. - Amends TCA Title 71.
TN
Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1237
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/12/25
Refer
2/25/25
Refer
3/5/25
Engrossed
3/11/25
Enrolled
4/8/25
Passed
4/24/25
Chaptered
4/28/25
As enacted, prohibits the exclusion of persons from membership on state regulatory and health-related boards on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, and national origin; prohibits such boards from establishing or operating under race-based policies pertaining to their composition; removes requirement that appointing authorities strive to ensure certain boards and commissions are represented by members of racial minorities. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 21; Title 9; Title 62; Title 63 and Title 68.
TN
Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1238
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/12/25
As introduced, creates the division of early child care and education within the department of education. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49.
TN
Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1239
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/12/25
Refer
3/19/25
Refer
4/1/25
Engrossed
4/7/25
Enrolled
4/8/25
Passed
4/24/25
Chaptered
4/28/25
As enacted, clarifies that a physician licensed in this state is the only healthcare provider authorized to prescribe a buprenorphine product for a FDA-approved use in recovery or medication-assisted treatment; revises criteria for providers not licensed in this state to prescribe a buprenorphine product for the treatment of opioid use disorder. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 41; Title 53 and Title 63.
TN
Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1240
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/12/25
As introduced, requires an insurance company that is admitted to do business in this state and insures the tangible personal property of a policyholder who resides in this state to provide a discount to the policyholder through the policyholder's homeowners or renters insurance policy if the policyholder secures the policyholder's firearms in a firearm safe or uses a firearm safety device for the firearms and requests to receive the annual discount. - Amends TCA Title 56.
TN
Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1241
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/12/25
As introduced, defines the terms "serious risk of substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function" and "lethal fetal anomaly"; specifies that a physician does not commit the offense of criminal abortion if, under certain circumstances, the physician performs or attempts to perform an abortion to address a lethal fetal anomaly or a premature delivery of an unborn child with a lethal fetal anomaly. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 29; Title 33; Title 37; Title 39; Title 40; Title 53; Title 56; Title 62; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
TN
Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1242
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/12/25
Refer
2/26/25
Refer
3/5/25
Refer
4/9/25
Refer
4/14/25
Chaptered
5/13/25
Passed
5/13/25
As introduced, expands provisions prohibiting discrimination against 340B entities that are covered entities participating in the federal 340B drug discount program under section 340B of the Public Health Service Act, 42 U.S.C. § 256b. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18 and Title 56.
TN
Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1243
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/12/25
As introduced, extends to smoking hemp the existing licensure and certain other requirements for hemp-derived cannabinoid products; imposes a tax on the privilege of engaging in the business of selling smoking hemp and products containing a hemp-derived cannabinoid in this state. - Amends TCA Section 1-3-113; Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 15; Title 43, Chapter 27; Section 53-11-451 and Title 67.
TN
Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1244
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/12/25
Refer
3/19/25
Refer
4/2/25
Refer
4/16/25
Chaptered
5/15/25
Passed
5/15/25
As enacted, removes the aggregate penalty limits for violations of law concerning pharmacy benefits managers; provides that a pharmacy benefits manager regulated under law relative to pharmacy benefits managers is subject to the insurance laws relative to timely reimbursement of health insurance claims and its requirements for timing of payments to pharmacists; provides that a violation of the prompt pay standards is governed by the penalties set out in insurance laws relative to timely reimbursement of health insurance claims. - Amends TCA Title 56.
TN
Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1245
Introduced
2/6/25
As introduced, decreases from six to four the number of hours a juvenile detention facility may delay a telephone call or in-person visit if a child is subject to disciplinary action. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 37 and Title 41.