Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session All Bills (Page 304)

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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB0561

Introduced
1/29/25  
Refer
2/5/25  
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2/26/25  
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3/5/25  
Refer
3/19/25  
Refer
3/25/25  
Chaptered
4/30/25  
As enacted, authorizes certain utility systems to borrow money in anticipation of revenue collections and to issue negotiable notes to evidence such borrowing to provide emergency cash flow for such systems, with oversight of such actions by the comptroller of the treasury; establishes deadline for the payment of such notes. - Amends TCA Section 7-34-111; Section 7-36-113; Section 7-82-501; Section 7-82-702; Section 68-221-1311 and Section 68-221-611.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB0543

Introduced
1/29/25  
Refer
2/5/25  
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3/26/25  
Refer
4/1/25  
Refer
4/17/25  
Refer
4/17/25  
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.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB0560

As introduced, clarifies that the monthly list of taxpayers delinquent in paying professional privilege tax that the commissioner of revenue transmits to licensing boards and agencies is subject to such restrictions on use as determined by the commissioner. - Amends TCA Title 67.
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Tennessee House Bill HB0545

Introduced
1/29/25  
Refer
2/5/25  
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2/25/25  
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3/25/25  
Refer
4/1/26  
As introduced, requires the department to provide at least one professional development course that provides asynchronous instruction on the use of artificial intelligence in the classroom and that is made available, at no cost, to teachers in grades 6-12; requires such teachers to complete at least one department-approved professional development course on the use of artificial intelligence in the classroom by August 1, 2027, or within two years of becoming licensed as a teacher in this state, whichever is later. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB0553

Introduced
1/29/25  
Refer
2/5/25  
Refer
2/26/25  
As introduced, expands "law enforcement officer" to include a correctional officer employed by a county jail, the department of correction, or a private prison contractor and a probation or parole officer employed by the department of correction or a private probation provider for purposes of the offense of assault against a law enforcement officer. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 1.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB0547

Introduced
1/29/25  
Refer
2/5/25  
Refer
3/5/25  
Refer
3/12/25  
Refer
4/2/25  
Refer
4/14/25  
Chaptered
5/13/25  
As enacted, requires the clerk of every court having jurisdiction of criminal offenses to include a $12.50 charge in every cost bill, to be remitted to the county government to provide support services for the purpose of promoting public safety at the sole discretion of the district attorney general; takes effect upon two-thirds vote of the county legislative body; requires a district attorney general receiving funding to submit an annual report. - Amends TCA Title 40.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB0550

Introduced
1/29/25  
Refer
2/5/25  
Refer
3/19/25  
Refer
3/26/25  
Engrossed
4/1/25  
Enrolled
4/17/25  
Passed
5/2/25  
As enacted, enacts the "Fairness in Benefits Act." - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 27; Title 8, Chapter 34; Title 8, Chapter 35; Title 8, Chapter 36 and Title 8, Chapter 37.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB0555

Introduced
1/29/25  
Refer
2/5/25  
Refer
3/5/25  
Refer
3/19/25  
Refer
4/14/26  
Refer
4/14/26  
Engrossed
4/21/26  
Enrolled
4/28/26  
Passed
5/7/26  
As enacted, increases from a Class E felony to a Class D felony the offense of burglary of a conveyance. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB0546

Introduced
1/29/25  
Refer
2/5/25  
Refer
2/19/25  
Refer
2/26/25  
Engrossed
3/4/25  
Enrolled
3/11/25  
Passed
3/28/25  
As enacted, authorizes a local government to execute a cooperative purchasing agreement with other local, state, and federal governmental entities for purposes of purchasing materials, labor, and services used for maintenance, operations, component replacement, or repairs of existing facilities and grounds owned or operated by a local education agency or by a local government agency. - Amends TCA Section 12-3-1205.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB0557

Introduced
1/29/25  
Refer
2/5/25  
As introduced, creates the State Disaster Relief Program to be administered by TEMA for the purpose of providing grants to local governments where a natural disaster has occurred that does not exceed the threshold for federal disaster relief. - Amends TCA Title 58, Chapter 2, Part 1.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB0549

Introduced
1/29/25  
As introduced, creates the "Tennessee Critical Infrastructure Act." - Amends TCA Title 4.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB0548

Introduced
1/29/25  
Refer
2/5/25  
Refer
3/12/25  
Refer
3/26/25  
Engrossed
3/3/26  
Enrolled
4/7/26  
Passed
4/21/26  
As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Procurement Protection Act." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 56.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee Senate Bill SB0504

Introduced
1/29/25  
As introduced, names the desk of house chamber seat number 60 as the “Legislative Desk of Representative John J. Deberry, Jr.”; directs the chief clerk of the house of representatives, or the chief clerk’s designee, to design and provide for the installation of a commemorative plaque on the side of the desk of house chamber seat number 60 to recognize the official name of such desk. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 1 and Title 4, Chapter 8.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HJR0085

Introduced
1/29/25  
Engrossed
2/5/25  
Enrolled
2/14/25  
Franklin Dewey Shaffer
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee Senate Bill SB0505

Introduced
1/29/25  
Chaptered
5/27/25  
As enacted, permits a court to transfer, upon motion by the defendant, a criminal case to the veterans treatment court program in Montgomery County if the veterans treatment court program would have jurisdiction over the case if the offense had been committed in Montgomery County, the defendant files with the court a written waiver of the right to be tried by an impartial jury of the county in which the crime was committed, and the district attorney general for Montgomery County agrees to accept transfer of the case. - Amends TCA Title 16 and Title 40.