Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session All Bills (Page 229)
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee Senate Bill SB1124
Introduced
2/6/25
As introduced, requires a company offering to sell or install a solar energy system to provide written proof that the utility serving the area where the system is to be installed has a net metering program or otherwise offers net metering credits to an owner or user of a system before the company enters into an agreement to sell or install the system; designates a violation as an unfair or deceptive act or practice pursuant to the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act of 1977. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 6; Title 7; Title 9; Title 13; Title 47; Title 65 and Title 66.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB1125
Introduced
2/6/25
As introduced, prohibits an online payment system from freezing the funds of a user without first providing the user with a written notice of the online payment system's intent to freeze the user's funds; designates a violation as an unfair or deceptive act or practice pursuant to the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act of 1977. - Amends TCA Title 45 and Title 47, Chapter 18.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB1126
Introduced
2/6/25
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 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 Senate Bill SB1127
Introduced
2/6/25
Chaptered
4/28/25
Passed
4/28/25
As enacted, removes the cap on the amount of wages or other compensation owed a deceased employee at the time of the employee's death that an employer shall pay directly to the surviving spouse of the decedent or, if there is no surviving spouse, to the surviving children of the decedent as tenants in common. - Amends TCA Title 30 and Title 31.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB1128
Introduced
2/6/25
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 Senate Bill SB1129
Introduced
2/6/25
As introduced, creates a Class E felony that is committed when a person exercises control over a motor vehicle knowing that the person does not have the permission of the owner of the motor vehicle; creates a Class A misdemeanor of possessing a firearm that the person knows or reasonably should know has been stolen. - Amends TCA Title 39.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB1130
Introduced
2/6/25
As introduced, enacts the "Freedom to Read Act"; repeals the "Age-Appropriate Materials Act of 2022." - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1 and Title 49, Chapter 6.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee Senate Bill SB1131
Introduced
2/6/25
As introduced, allows a court to issue an emergency protection order upon a finding that a person poses an imminent risk of harm to the person or others if allowed to purchase or possess a firearm; authorizes a family member, household member, intimate partner, or law enforcement officer to petition for such an order. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 39.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee Senate Bill SB1132
Introduced
2/6/25
As introduced, increases the required assessments of students participating in the education savings account program or the individualized education account program to include all Tennessee comprehensive assessment program tests, Tennessee universal reading screeners or universal reading screeners approved by the state board of education, and the assessment administered to public school students in grade 11 that assesses student readiness for postsecondary education and approved by the commissioner of education. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB1133
Introduced
2/6/25
Chaptered
5/8/25
Passed
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 Senate Bill SB1134
Introduced
2/6/25
As introduced, requires Tennessee advisory commission on intergovernmental relations (TACIR) to conduct an evaluation examining the frequency at which health insurers deny healthcare claims or reimbursements for policyholders and healthcare providers and an evaluation of related data for the past five calendar years; requires TACIR to report its findings to the appropriate standing committees of the general assembly by January 15, 2026. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 10 and Title 56.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB1135
Introduced
2/6/25
Chaptered
5/27/25
Passed
5/27/25
As enacted, revises nuisance laws. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13; Title 16; Title 29; Title 39; Title 67 and Title 68.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB1136
Introduced
2/6/25
As introduced, requires the department to provide a person with a free photo identification license at each location where the department issues a driver license or photo identification license if the person signs an affidavit stating that the person does not have a valid government issued photo identification. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 8 and Title 55, Chapter 50, Part 3.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB1137
Introduced
2/6/25
Engrossed
3/10/25
Enrolled
4/16/25
Passed
4/24/25
Chaptered
4/29/25
As enacted, allows a litigation financier that is not a business entity or partnership to amend or withdraw its registration with the secretary of state by filing a form prescribed by the secretary of state, along with a filing fee of $20. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 16.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB1138
Introduced
2/6/25
Engrossed
4/15/25
Enrolled
4/28/25
Passed
5/9/25
Chaptered
5/15/25
As enacted, prohibits a municipal sewer system or utility district that has operated a sewerage system outside of the corporate boundaries of the city or town for 25 years or more from ceasing operation of the sewerage system outside the corporate boundaries so long as the sewerage system maintains sufficient capacity; requires a utility system that provides wastewater service to provide a connection to the owner of real property for wastewater service when the utility system meets certain requirements. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 35; Title 7, Chapter 82 and Title 68, Chapter 221.