Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session All Bills (Page 217)
Page 217 of 305
TN
Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee Senate Bill SB0944
Introduced
2/5/25
Chaptered
5/27/25
Passed
5/27/25
As enacted, requires the department of mental health and substance abuse services to establish a mental health evaluation process for a community mental health center or qualified mental health professional to evaluate a defendant convicted of domestic assault, child abuse, aggravated child abuse, cruelty to animals, aggravated cruelty to animals; requires a court in which a person is convicted of any such offense to order the offender to undergo a mental health evaluation prior to the sentencing hearing. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 39 and Title 40.
TN
Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee Senate Bill SB0945
Introduced
2/5/25
As introduced, deletes antiquated language that required the office of research and education accountability in the office of the comptroller to submit a report by November 1, 2018, to the education committees of the senate and house of representatives regarding the formation and operation of community schools. - Amends Chapter __ of the Public Acts of 2025 (1st Ex. Sess. – SB 6001 / HB 6004); and TCA Title 4; Title 8 and Title 49.
TN
Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee Senate Bill SB0946
Introduced
2/5/25
Engrossed
3/24/25
Enrolled
4/4/25
Passed
4/15/25
Chaptered
4/29/25
As enacted, requires an LEA that receives credible information regarding a threat of violence or significantly disruptive behavior directed toward, or occurring on the grounds of, a public school in the LEA, and that reports the threat or disruptive behavior to a state or local law enforcement agency, to notify the parents and guardians of students enrolled in the public school of the same threat or disruptive behavior within 48 hours of the LEA making its report to law enforcement. - Amends TCA Title 49.
TN
Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee Senate Bill SB0947
Introduced
2/5/25
As introduced, changes the definition of "definable group" for purposes of the Ensuring Likeness, Voice, and Image Security Act of 2024 to include a choral group rather than a glee club. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 25, Part 11.
TN
Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee Senate Bill SB0948
Introduced
2/5/25
Engrossed
4/10/25
Enrolled
4/22/25
Passed
5/5/25
Chaptered
5/13/25
As enacted, requires certain property, projects, and joint ventures to meet certain requirements if a legislative body of a county or municipality adopts by resolution or ordinance an affordable housing program. - Amends TCA Title 47 and Title 67.
TN
Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee Senate Bill SB0949
Introduced
2/5/25
As introduced, changes from March 1 of the second year following a tax year to March 1 of the tenth year following a tax year by which certain corrections to the property tax assessment for that tax year are to be initiated by an assessor or requested by a taxpayer. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5.
TN
Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee Senate Bill SB0950
Introduced
2/5/25
Engrossed
3/27/25
Enrolled
4/28/25
Passed
5/9/25
Chaptered
5/15/25
As enacted, creates a federal education deregulation cooperation task force to prepare Tennessee for the potential of deregulation of federal laws, regulations, requirements, and guidance for K-12 education. - Amends TCA Title 49.
TN
Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee Senate Bill SB0951
Introduced
2/5/25
As introduced, changes the reporting date, from February 1 to January 15, by which the commissioners of education and safety must jointly report to the governor and the general assembly on the implementation of the "Schools Against Violence in Education Act." - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 68.
TN
Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee Senate Bill SB0952
Introduced
2/5/25
As introduced, requires a utility governed by the Utilities' Cut-Off Procedures Act to publish its policy governing the discontinuation of service for nonpayment of service on the utility's website in a publicly accessible location. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 65; Title 68 and Title 69.
TN
Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee Senate Bill SB0953
Introduced
2/5/25
Engrossed
4/14/25
Enrolled
4/22/25
Passed
5/5/25
Chaptered
5/13/25
As enacted, authorizes, after July 1, 2025, a political subdivision to adopt a supplemental bridge benefit for members who are in positions covered by mandatory retirement provisions; makes related changes relative to supplemental bridge benefits. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 34; Title 8, Chapter 35 and Title 8, Chapter 36.
TN
Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee Senate Bill SB0954
Introduced
2/5/25
Engrossed
3/17/25
Enrolled
3/25/25
Passed
4/3/25
Chaptered
4/8/25
As enacted, authorizes counties to delegate authority to the chief administrative officer of the county highway department to set lower speed limits on county roads if the department employs an engineer who is capable of completing required engineering and traffic investigations. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 8.
TN
Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee Senate Bill SB0955
Introduced
2/5/25
Engrossed
3/6/25
Enrolled
4/16/25
Passed
4/24/25
Chaptered
4/29/25
As enacted, enacts the "Medical Ethics Defense Act." - Amends TCA Title 63.
TN
Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee Senate Bill SB0956
Introduced
2/5/25
Engrossed
3/13/25
As introduced, lowers the period of time that must elapse after completion of the sentence imposed before a petitioner may have an eligible criminal offense expunged, for misdemeanors or Class E felonies, from five years to three years, and for Class D felonies, from 10 years to six years. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.
TN
Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee Senate Bill SB0957
Introduced
2/5/25
As introduced, prohibits the possession, manufacture, transport, repair, or sale of a switch or auto sear device designed, made, or adapted for the purpose of converting a weapon to shoot automatically more than one shot, without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger unless certain exceptions apply. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
TN
Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee Senate Bill SB0958
Introduced
2/5/25
As introduced, creates in the department of human services a community grant advisory board for the purpose of administering the community-based organizations grant program to financially support eligible nonprofit organizations that serve communities in the areas of education, public health, housing, social issues, and economic and workforce development. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 67 and Title 71.