Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session All Bills
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1246
Introduced
2/6/25
As introduced, requires the office of the attorney general and reporter to submit to the chair of the house committee having jurisdiction over consumer protection and the chair of the commerce and labor committee of the senate a report on the number of investigations into violations of the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act of 1977 in which artificial intelligence was used to effectuate an unfair or deceptive act or practice affecting the conduct of any trade or commerce between January 1, 2024, and December 31, 2025; requires the report to be submitted no later than July 1, 2026; allows the report to be submitted electronically. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 12; Title 39; Title 45; Title 47; Title 48; Title 50; Title 55; Title 61; Title 62; Title 65; Title 66; Title 67 and Title 68.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1247
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/12/25
As introduced, exempts from sales tax, the first $20 of the sales price on a sale of tangible personal property paid for with physical cash declared legal tender, including gold and silver. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 3.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1248
Introduced
2/6/25
As introduced, changes the timeframe within which a permit holder must notify the department in writing of the permit holder's new address from within 60 days of a change in the permit holder's principal place of residence to within 90 days of a change in the permit holder's principal place of residence. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 10; Title 13; Title 16; Title 29; Title 33; Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 47; Title 49; Title 50; Title 52; Title 55; Title 58; Title 62; Title 65; Title 68 and Title 70.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1249
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/12/25
As introduced, designates December 14 of each year as "Hazel Moore Day." - Amends TCA Title 3 and Title 4.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1250
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/12/25
Refer
3/11/25
Refer
3/25/25
Refer
4/2/25
As introduced, authorizes a local board of education and public charter school governing body to employ or accept as a volunteer a school chaplain to provide support, services, and programs for students, school staff, and students' parents. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1251
Introduced
2/6/25
As introduced, exempts an applicant seeking to restore the applicant's rights of citizenship from having to pay for the cost of the application if a court orders otherwise. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 8; Title 39 and Title 40.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1252
Introduced
2/6/25
As introduced, deletes an obsolete provision relating to a tax credit for beer or ale that was destroyed in a flood occurring between May 1, 2010, and May 8, 2010. - Amends TCA Title 57 and Title 67.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1253
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/12/25
Refer
3/4/25
Refer
3/18/25
Engrossed
3/25/25
Enrolled
4/8/25
Passed
4/24/25
Chaptered
4/28/25
As enacted, increases from 20 to 30, the maximum number of consecutive days a substitute teacher may substitute for a regular teacher on leave without having to possess a teaching license; requires the six weeks of paid parental leave for eligible employees to be taken either consecutively or non-consecutively based on certain criteria. - Amends TCA Section 8-50-814; Title 49, Chapter 6 and Title 49, Chapter 3, Part 3.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1254
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/12/25
As introduced, requires a state or local law enforcement officer to be given written notice by a state or local governmental entity or official prior to being placed on a Brady list setting forth the allegations for placement on the list, and to be given at least 10 business days to respond to such allegations before placement on the list is finalized. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 8.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1255
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
3/12/25
Refer
3/18/25
Refer
4/8/25
Chaptered
4/29/25
Passed
4/29/25
As enacted, requires, in a child custody order, the court to include written findings of fact as to whether the limitations in present law relative to restrictions in temporary or permanent parenting plans apply; makes other changes relative to child court proceedings; clarifies, for purposes of domestic abuse law, that "abuse" includes acts inflicted directly by the offending party or indirectly through a third party, including, but not limited to, a family member, friend, significant other, or coworker, on behalf of the offending party. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1256
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
3/19/25
Refer
3/26/25
Refer
4/9/25
Engrossed
4/14/25
Enrolled
4/16/25
Passed
5/2/25
Chaptered
5/8/25
As enacted, revises provisions of present law relative to placing certain defendants on a fugitives list for failure to appear. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 10; Title 33; Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41; Title 49; Title 50; Title 55 and Title 70.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1257
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
3/19/25
Refer
4/1/25
Refer
4/9/25
Chaptered
4/29/25
Passed
4/29/25
As enacted, reorganizes present statutes concerning expunction and specify that facilitation, attempt, or solicitation of an offense that is presently eligible for expunction is also eligible for expunction. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 16; Title 38; Title 40; Title 55 and Title 57.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1258
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
3/12/25
As introduced, requires local boards of education to notify the department of education when a board declares itself to be a high performing school district; requires the department to maintain a list of high performing school districts on the department's website. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1259
Introduced
2/6/25
As introduced, increases, from five to seven days, the amount of time members of the Tennessee board of water quality, oil, and gas must be notified in advance of the time and place of any regular or special meeting. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 63; Title 65; Title 68 and Title 69.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1260
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/12/25
As introduced, requires the department of finance and administration, in collaboration with the department of health and the bureau of TennCare, to apply for federal approval to import prescription drugs from Canada. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 33; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.