Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session All Bills
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1261
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/12/25
As introduced, makes it an offense for farmers to keep breeding pigs and veal calves in certain small enclosures, subject to certain exceptions, effective July 1, 2030. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14; Title 40, Chapter 39; Title 43; Title 44 and Title 53.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1262
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/12/25
Refer
3/18/25
As introduced, makes various changes to the categories of individuals who are not required to use a preferred pronoun, and for whom a preferred pronoun can be disregarded, if the pronoun is inconsistent with the person's biological sex; makes various changes to the civil liability and adverse action protections as it relates to the use of, or the refusal to use, a pronoun or preferred pronoun. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1263
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
3/11/25
As introduced, requires the department to make forms promulgated for use by courts, agencies, and persons in the adoption process available on the department's website. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 37 and Title 68.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1264
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/12/25
As introduced, prohibits a nongovernmental or intergovernmental entity in this state from infringing upon or restricting private property rights without due process or an individual's constitutional rights by virtue of pursuing a policy recommendation originating from or traceable to the United Nations, a subsidiary entity thereof, or an international policymaking organization; makes it an offense for the state or an official or political subdivision in this state to infringe upon or restrict private property rights without due process or an individual's constitutional rights in pursuing United Nations or international policymaking organizational policy. - Amends TCA Section 4-1-422.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1265
Introduced
2/6/25
As introduced, reduces from four to three months, the amount of time following the end of a fiscal year by which the treasurer must submit a report to the governor, comptroller of the treasury, speaker of the senate, and speaker of the house of representatives regarding the operation of the Uniform Unclaimed Property Act during the immediately preceding fiscal year. - Amends TCA Title 47; Title 48 and Title 66.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1266
Introduced
2/6/25
As introduced, requires notice of the Class B misdemeanor of transferring dangerous materials to a metals recycling facility without first obtaining a signed written acknowledgment that the item has been transferred to be posted in a conspicuous location at each public entrance to the facility. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1267
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
3/18/25
As introduced, requires a municipality that adopts an ordinance requiring nonresident property owners to vote by absentee ballot to file such ordinance with the county election commission no later than 75 days, rather than 60 days, before the election. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 41.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1268
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
3/19/25
As introduced, requires the annual written report submitted to the committee of the house of representatives with jurisdiction over criminal justice matters and the judiciary committee of the senate regarding activities of narcotics investigations by the bureau and the assistant director of the narcotics investigation division be submitted by February 15 of each year. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 10; Title 16; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41 and Title 55.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1269
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/12/25
As introduced, restricts the prohibition on holding an interest in or being employed by a distillery, wholesale dealer, or retail dealer, or holding an alcoholic beverage license in this state, only to family members of voting members of the commission. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 1.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1270
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/12/25
Refer
3/18/25
Refer
4/2/25
Refer
4/9/25
Refer
4/14/25
Chaptered
5/15/25
Passed
5/15/25
As introduced, specifies that certain individuals are not required to use another's preferred name or pronoun, if the preferred name or pronoun is not consistent with the individual's legal name or sex; insulates certain individuals from civil liability for using, or refusing to use, certain names or pronouns in reference to another; allows a civil action to be filed against certain employers and public schools that implement certain preferred pronoun policies or that allow certain names or pronouns to be used in reference to an unemancipated minor without first obtaining parental consent. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 9, Chapter 8; Title 29, Chapter 20 and Title 49.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1271
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/12/25
Refer
3/19/25
As introduced, declares that the policy of this state is that there are only two sexes, a biological male and a biological female. - Amends TCA Title 1; Title 3; Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 8.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1272
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/12/25
As introduced, creates a Class B misdemeanor for failure to properly adjust headlights by a person or entity that installs tires on a passenger motor vehicle or truck that are larger in total diameter than the original equipment manufacturer's tires installed; creates a Class B misdemeanor for installing such tires so as to cause the bumper or frame to exceed the maximum heights established in present law. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 9.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1273
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/12/25
As introduced, creates the Class E felony of recklessly, by any means of communication, threatening to commit an act of mass violence on the property of a child care agency, preschool, or religious institution; creates the Class B misdemeanor of failing to report a threat to commit an act of mass violence on the property of a child care agency, preschool, or religious institution. - Amends TCA Title 39.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1274
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/12/25
Refer
3/26/25
Refer
4/8/25
Chaptered
5/13/25
Passed
5/13/25
As enacted, requires the Tennessee bureau of investigation to provide a report to the speakers of the senate and the house of representatives on or before January 1 each year, until July 1, 2029, detailing the instances in the most recent year for which complete data is available in which a person who was arrested for driving under the influence but where no alcohol or other intoxicants are detected in the person's blood or breath. - Amends TCA Title 6; Title 7; Title 8 and Title 38.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1275
Introduced
2/6/25
As introduced, requires the department of education, by July 31 each year, to list on its website each LEA designated as a high performing school district for the upcoming school year and how long the LEA will be designated a high performing school district before having to meet the criteria for re-designation. - Amends TCA Title 49.