Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session All Bills
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1351
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
3/5/25
Refer
3/26/25
Refer
4/1/25
Refer
4/9/25
Chaptered
5/13/25
Passed
5/13/25
As introduced, changes the deadline for the department to submit its annual report of data collected related to the use of medication-assisted treatment for opiate addiction by department-funded providers in this state for the prior fiscal year, from February 15 to March 1. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13; Title 33; Title 47; Title 63 and Title 68.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1352
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/12/25
Refer
4/1/25
Refer
4/9/25
Chaptered
5/13/25
Passed
5/13/25
As enacted, provides that if the victim in an aggravated sexual battery was less than 18 or was mentally defective, mentally incapacitated, or physically helpless, then such battery remains a Class B felony, and the defendant must be punished as a Range II offender; provides that the sentence imposed upon the defendant may, if appropriate, be within Range III but in no case lower than Range II. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 5.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1353
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/12/25
Refer
4/1/25
Refer
4/9/25
Refer
4/17/25
Refer
4/17/25
Chaptered
5/15/25
Passed
5/15/25
As enacted, creates an offense for a person who harms or threatens to harm an individual involved in the judicial process or a family member of such person with the intent to impede, intimidate, interfere with, or retaliate against the justice system participant in connection with their participation in the judicial process, punishable as a Class E felony. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 16.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1354
Introduced
2/6/25
As introduced, requires all persons who disseminate smoking paraphernalia to display the sign providing notice of the legal age for purchasing such products required by the Prevention of Youth Access to Tobacco, Smoking Hemp, and Vapor Products Act; removes authorization for a person to substitute a tobacco-related warning sign required by law prior to April 22, 1994. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39 and Title 40.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1355
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/12/25
Refer
3/18/25
Refer
4/8/25
Chaptered
5/13/25
Passed
5/13/25
As enacted, specifies that a biological father or alleged biological father who makes token financial support to or for the benefit of a child or the child's mother during the pregnancy or when the mother had physical custody of the child is not a putative father; makes various other changes regarding final orders of adoption. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 63.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1356
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
3/5/25
Refer
3/18/25
Refer
4/8/25
Chaptered
5/13/25
Passed
5/13/25
As enacted, requires certain records or papers for a person relating to the adoption or attempted adoption of a person in the possession of the office of the clerk of the adoption court; the offices of the department of health; the office of any child-placing agency, whether or not it is chartered or licensed; or any other information source, to be made available to the department of children's services for the purpose of searching for a kinship foster care placement. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 68.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1357
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/26/25
Refer
3/25/25
Refer
4/8/25
Chaptered
5/13/25
Passed
5/13/25
As enacted, enacts the "End Childhood Hunger Act." - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1358
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
3/12/25
Refer
3/25/25
Refer
4/9/25
Refer
4/22/25
As introduced, requires the department of children's services to study the need for a new juvenile detention facility to be constructed in the western grand division of this state that would serve the detention and treatment needs of juveniles in that grand division; requires the department to report its findings and recommendations to the judiciary committee of the senate and the committee having jurisdiction over criminal justice in the house of representatives on or before January 1, 2026. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 12; Title 16; Title 37; Title 39 and Title 40.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1359
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
3/12/25
Refer
3/18/25
Refer
4/2/25
Refer
4/7/25
Chaptered
5/13/25
Passed
5/13/25
As enacted, requires the department of children's services, to the extent not otherwise prohibited by state or federal law, to promulgate rules to implement certain rights for any foster child in the custody of the department or an agency that contracts with the department to place children in foster care. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 37; Title 49 and Title 71.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1360
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/12/25
Refer
3/25/25
Refer
4/8/25
Chaptered
5/13/25
Passed
5/13/25
As introduced, expands the definition of child abuse to include a person under the age of 18 witnessing the abuse of another child in the person's immediate family or household or domestic abuse of a member of the person's immediate family or household; specifies that reunification between a parent and a child placed in foster care due to abuse must not occur unless the parent has complied with the parent's statement of responsibilities in the permanency plan and the child has received mental health counseling. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 37 and Title 39.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1361
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
3/5/25
Refer
3/11/25
Refer
3/26/25
Chaptered
4/30/25
Passed
4/30/25
As enacted, authorizes Johnson City to set the hours that licensees within a downtown district designated by the municipality are authorized to sell or give away alcoholic beverages. - Amends TCA Title 57.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1362
Introduced
2/6/25
As introduced, extends, from December 1 to January 1, the date by which the office of business enterprise in the department of economic and community development must submit to the general assembly its annual report on advisements to the commissioner regarding disadvantaged businesses and the number of or amount of community block grants received by disadvantaged businesses. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9 and Title 67.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1363
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/12/25
As introduced, permits a person who is serving a sentence of incarceration of eight years or more for an offense committed prior to January 1, 2026, and who is a victim of domestic abuse subjected to substantial physical, sexual, or psychological abuse inflicted by a member of the same family or household as the person to submit to the sentencing court, a request to apply for resentencing. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1364
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/12/25
As introduced, creates the small business recovery grant fund, to be administered by the department, to assist eligible small businesses temporarily with costs incurred as a result of extenuating circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 50 and Title 67.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1365
Introduced
2/6/25
As introduced, changes from March 31 to March 1, the date by which the department of transportation must transmit to the governor and speakers of both houses its annual report listing the litter prevention programs receiving funds from the 0.4 percent increase in the gross receipts tax on bottled soft drinks, the amount of funds received by the programs, and the purpose for which the funds were spent. - Amends TCA Title 67.