Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session All Bills
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1291
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/12/25
As introduced, requires health insurance carriers to provide mental health coverage in parity with alcoholism and drug dependence coverage. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 33; Title 39; Title 49; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1292
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/12/25
As introduced, expands the circumstances under which a law enforcement agency may petition a court for permission to destroy a firearm that has been confiscated by a law enforcement officer and declared to be contraband by a court, to any firearm, rather than only a firearm that is inoperable or unsafe. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1293
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/25/25
Refer
3/12/25
Refer
4/8/25
Chaptered
5/13/25
Passed
5/13/25
As enacted, deletes the automatic repeal on July 1, 2025, of a provision that authorizes records custodians to seek an injunction against a person who makes requests to view or copy public records with the intent to disrupt government operations. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1294
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/12/25
As introduced, prohibits the department from denying the dissemination or availability of books and materials donated by book vendors to state inmates, with certain exceptions for depictions of nudity and sexually explicit material. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3; Title 40 and Title 41.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1295
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/12/25
As introduced, enacts the "Shielding Tennesseans from Oligarchic Power and Eliminating Lawless Obstruction of Necessities Act (STOP ELON Act)," which creates a new offense of interfering with an individual's or entity's receipt of a loan, grant, or financial assistance that the individual or entity is lawfully entitled to receive from the federal, state, or local government, with intent to deprive the individual of the loan, grant, or financial assistance, which is punished as theft; authorizes a victim of an offense to bring a civil action to recover the funds that the victim did not receive because of the offense. - Amends TCA Title 29 and Title 39.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1296
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/12/25
Failed
3/19/25
As introduced, allows a retirement allowance increase equal to the percentage increase in the consumer price index if there is an over-collection of state tax revenue; requires this allowance increase to be used instead of the allowance increase in present law, which cannot exceed 3 percent. - Amends TCA Section 8-36-701.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1297
Introduced
2/6/25
As introduced, changes, from three days to three business days from the date written notice is received by a tenant, the date on which a landlord may terminate a rental agreement if the tenant or another person on the premises with the tenant's consent willfully or intentionally commits a violent act; behaves in a manner which constitutes or threatens to be a real and present danger to the health, safety, or welfare of the life or property of other tenants or persons on the premises; creates a hazardous or unsanitary condition on the property that affects the health, safety, or welfare or the life or property of other tenants or persons on the premises; or refuses to vacate the premises after entering the premises as an unauthorized subtenant or other unauthorized occupant. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13; Title 56; Title 62; Title 66; Title 67 and Title 68.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1298
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/12/25
As introduced, enacts the "Speak UP, Tennessee Scholarship Act"; requires the Tennessee student assistance corporation to establish by rules a program that provides scholarships for students in grade 12 and at public institutions of higher education in this state who demonstrate artistic excellence in spoken word poetry through a competitive, performance-based selection process to pursue higher education to further develop their literary and performance skills. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4 and Title 49, Chapter 7.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1299
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/12/25
Refer
3/26/25
Refer
4/8/25
Refer
4/17/25
Refer
4/17/25
Chaptered
5/15/25
Passed
5/15/25
As enacted, creates a civil and criminal action for individuals who are the subject of an intimate digital depiction that is intentionally disclosed without the individual's consent under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 28 and Title 39, Chapter 17.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1300
Introduced
2/6/25
As introduced, requires state departments and agencies to submit annual reports on achieving economic efficiency to the governor in addition to committees of the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 8 and Title 9.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1301
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/12/25
As introduced, revives causes of action based on a sexual assault that occurred when the injured party was 18 years of age or older and are time-barred because the applicable statute of limitations has expired; allows such actions to be commenced within a certain time period. - Amends TCA Title 28, Chapter 3; Title 39 and Title 40.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1302
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/12/25
Refer
3/12/25
Refer
3/25/25
Refer
3/31/25
Refer
4/17/25
Refer
4/17/25
Chaptered
6/4/25
Passed
6/4/25
As enacted, renames the "Tennessee Meat and Poultry Inspection Act" as the "Tennessee Meat Inspection Act"; revises the act to facilitate the implementation of a state meat inspection program. - Amends TCA Title 53, Chapter 7 and Chapter 380 of the Public Acts of 2023.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1303
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/12/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/25/25
Engrossed
3/4/25
Enrolled
4/2/25
Passed
4/11/25
Chaptered
4/28/25
As enacted, establishes June 30 as the expiration date for certain licenses issued by the department. - Amends TCA Title 43, Chapter 1, Part 1; Section 43-10-118; Section 43-11-405; Section 43-8-104; Section 44-10-203; Section 44-11-105; Section 44-6-104; Section 47-26-1010; Section 53-1-204; Section 53-3-105; Section 53-3-106; Section 53-7-216 and Section 53-8-106.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1304
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/12/25
Refer
3/5/25
Refer
3/12/25
Chaptered
5/2/25
Passed
5/2/25
As enacted, requires a health benefit plan issuer to provide no later than 30 days after a health benefit plan issuer receives a written request for a claims experience report from a plan, plan sponsor, or plan administrator, the report to the requesting party; prohibits coverage by a commercial risk insurance policy of farm risks or real or personal property used in farming from being considered in determining whether property is classified as farm or agricultural property under another law or rule in this state; revises provisions relating to reinsurance and risk insurance; revises provisions relating to the readability, content, and style of life and health insurance policies. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Section 68-1-115.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1305
Introduced
2/6/25
As introduced, changes from 10 to 15, the number of days of prior written notice the department must provide to a relative caregiver of any additional requirements for receiving payments as a relative caregiver. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 71.