Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session All Bills (Page 241)
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee Senate Bill SB1304
Introduced
2/6/25
Engrossed
3/10/25
Enrolled
3/28/25
Passed
4/11/25
Chaptered
4/30/25
As enacted, extends the Access Tennessee health insurance program from June 30, 2025, to June 30, 2030. - Amends TCA Section 56-7-2916.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB1305
Introduced
2/6/25
Engrossed
3/10/25
Enrolled
3/25/25
Passed
4/3/25
Chaptered
4/8/25
As enacted, extends the CoverKids program from June 30, 2025, to June 30, 2030. - Amends TCA Section 71-3-1113.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB1306
Introduced
2/6/25
Chaptered
5/27/25
Passed
5/27/25
As enacted, creates a marketing division within the department to replace the tourism division; authorizes the department to enter into agreements with the department of transportation to assist with maintenance of welcome center facilities; creates a welcome centers division within the department to oversee such centers throughout the state; directs the commissioner of finance and administration to transfer from highway user taxes allocated to the highway fund an amount sufficient to support the annual appropriation for implementation and administration of all welcome centers in the state. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 22.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB1307
Introduced
2/6/25
As introduced, extends the authority for local governments to levy a surcharge on local privilege taxes to fund a transportation improvement program to all cities instead of only Chattanooga, Clarksville, Knoxville, Nashville, and Memphis, and to all counties instead of only Wilson, Washington, Blount, Sullivan, Sumner, Montgomery, Williamson, Rutherford, Hamilton, Knox, Davidson, and Shelby counties; expands the use of such local surcharge revenue for highway and bridge projects, in addition to mass transit projects. - Amends TCA Section 67-3-901 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 32.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB1308
Introduced
2/6/25
Chaptered
4/8/25
Passed
4/8/25
As enacted, in the event of a transportation system failure or other emergency, grants the commissioner emergency contracting authority to enter into contracts for design-build, construction manager/general contractor (CM/GC), and progressive design-build (PDB) services for the delivery of transportation projects; exempts the department from having to identify such contracts exceeding $100 million in its transportation improvement program submitted annually to the general assembly in support of its annual funding recommendations, if they are issued under such emergency contracting authority; makes other revisions to the CM/GC and PDB process. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 12 and Title 54.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB1309
Introduced
2/6/25
Chaptered
4/4/25
Passed
4/4/25
As enacted, increases, from 30 to 35, the minimum age for an individual to serve as a judge on the workers' compensation appeals board; increases, from two to three, the number of additional terms to which a judge of the workers' compensation appeals board may be reappointed; makes other changes related to workers' compensation. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 6, Part 2.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee Senate Bill SB1310
Introduced
2/6/25
Engrossed
3/24/25
Enrolled
4/16/25
Passed
4/24/25
Chaptered
4/29/25
As enacted, establishes a process by which the governing body of an existing public charter school may replicate that public charter school in the same district by applying to the local board of education or directly to the Tennessee public charter school commission; allows, in certain circumstances, a public charter school sponsor to apply directly to the commission to open a new public charter school; makes various changes to the state agencies responsible for performing certain functions in the Tennessee Public Charter Schools Act of 2002. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 13.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB1311
Introduced
2/6/25
Engrossed
3/24/25
Enrolled
4/21/25
Passed
5/2/25
Chaptered
5/13/25
As enacted, makes various changes to certain teacher licensure requirements. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5 and Title 49, Chapter 6.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB1312
Introduced
2/6/25
As introduced, terminates the governing board of directors for the Tennessee student assistance corporation (TSAC); requires the Tennessee higher education commission to be the governing board for TSAC; changes the name of the "Wilder-Naifeh technical skills grant" to "TennesseeWORKS scholarship." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 49, Chapter 4 and Title 49, Chapter 7.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee Senate Bill SB1313
Introduced
2/6/25
Engrossed
3/31/25
Enrolled
4/28/25
Passed
5/9/25
Chaptered
5/15/25
As enacted, creates a vested property right upon the submission, rather than the approval, of a development plan or building permit; specifies that the vesting period applicable when it is based on the submission of a building permit is three years. - Amends TCA Title 13.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB1314
Introduced
2/6/25
Chaptered
5/8/25
Passed
5/8/25
As enacted, establishes a permanent criminal proceedings notification system, rather than a pilot project; removes the July 1, 2025, termination date for the criminal proceedings notification system. - Amends TCA Section 40-38-507.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB1315
Introduced
2/6/25
Chaptered
5/8/25
Passed
5/8/25
As enacted, reduces from 1.125 percent to 0.75 percent the administrative fee percentage the department takes from the proceeds of the business tax, short-term rental unit occupancy tax, local tax surcharge, coal severance tax, and local option sales tax to assist in defraying the expenses of administration and collection, before remitting proceeds to the appropriate county, city, or town. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4; Title 67, Chapter 6 and Title 67, Chapter 7.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB1316
Introduced
2/6/25
Chaptered
5/27/25
Passed
5/27/25
As enacted, enacts the "Less is More Act of 2025." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 20; Title 33; Title 38; Title 40; Title 52; Title 55; Title 62; Title 63; Title 68; Title 70 and Title 76.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee Senate Bill SB1317
Introduced
2/6/25
As introduced, authorizes the suspension of certain requirements for purposes of obtaining unemployment benefits during emergencies; authorizes the agency to assist local governments and local emergency management agencies with recovery from disasters and emergencies on public property. - Amends TCA Section 50-7-302 and Section 58-2-106.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee Senate Bill SB1318
Introduced
2/6/25
Chaptered
5/8/25
Passed
5/8/25
As enacted, clarifies that an applicant who has a DUI conviction that occurred within five years from the date of application or renewal is not eligible for an enhanced handgun carry permit; lowers the age for an applicant for an enhanced handgun carry permit from 21 to 18 if other eligibility requirements for issuance of the permit are met. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.