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Tennessee Senate Bill SB0621

Introduced
1/31/25  
Engrossed
4/9/25  
Enrolled
4/25/25  
Passed
5/9/25  
As enacted, revises present law to designate as a political campaign committee for purposes of reporting expenditures pursuant to campaign finance laws a corporation that uses corporate funds, moneys, or credits for communications expressly supporting or opposing the election or defeat of a clearly identified candidate or elected official, and such funds, moneys, or credits are not used with the cooperation or with the prior consent of, or in consultation with, or at the request of, or suggestion of, a candidate or elected official or any agent or authorized committee of the candidate or elected official. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 10.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB0603

As introduced, requires the Tennessee student assistance corporation to submit an annual report, by July 31 each year, to legislative committees having jurisdiction over postsecondary education detailing, for each of the five immediately preceding academic years for which the corporation awarded scholarships, the amount appropriated by the general assembly for the scholarship program, the total number of scholarship applications received by the corporation, the total number of scholarship recipients, and the average scholarship award amount. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB0602

Introduced
1/31/25  
Engrossed
4/9/25  
Enrolled
4/23/25  
Passed
5/9/25  
As enacted, requires the department of education to develop guidelines and criteria for determining how long a student must have been present in a teacher's classroom before the student's record is attributable to the teacher for purposes of evaluating the teacher; authorizes an LEA or public charter school to compensate the estate of a teacher who, on the teacher's death, was in the employ of the LEA or public charter school for the teacher's unused and accrued annual and sick leave in the same manner that the estates of deceased state employees are compensated under present law. - Amends Chapter __ of the Public Acts of 2025 (1st Ex. Sess. – SB 6001 / HB 6004); and TCA Title 4, Chapter 49; Title 8 and Title 49.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB0631

As introduced, designates March 3 of each year as "Sister Sandra Smithson Day." - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB0623

Introduced
1/31/25  
Engrossed
3/31/25  
Enrolled
4/22/25  
Passed
5/5/25  
As enacted, requires the office of open records counsel to facilitate the convening of meetings of the advisory committee on open government, including selecting a date for the required annual meeting in the absence of co-chairs. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 4, Part 6.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB0599

Introduced
1/31/25  
Engrossed
2/19/26  
Enrolled
4/27/26  
Passed
5/22/26  
As introduced, increases from 90 to 180 days the period by which a nonprofit public benefit corporation that partners with the Governor's Books from Birth Fund must report to the governor and the speakers of the senate and house of representatives on its operations and accomplishments after the end of the fiscal year of the nonprofit corporation. - Amends TCA Title 4.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB0609

Introduced
1/31/25  
Engrossed
3/2/26  
Enrolled
4/2/26  
Passed
4/16/26  
As enacted, requires a court to consider the extent to which a parenting schedule provides each parent a meaningful opportunity to participate in the child's life, consistent with the child's best interest, in addition to the other relevant factors, when making a child custody determination. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB0629

Introduced
1/31/25  
Engrossed
4/10/25  
Enrolled
4/22/25  
Passed
5/5/25  
As enacted, revises present law relative to the privilege tax upon the privilege of occupancy in a hotel levied by municipalities. - Amends TCA Title 7 and Title 67.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SJR0057

Introduced
1/31/25  
Engrossed
2/13/25  
Enrolled
2/25/25  
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB0606

Introduced
1/31/25  
Chaptered
5/8/25  
As enacted, rewrites the fee limits for a party requesting a patient's medical record in either paper or electronic format from a provider or the provider's third-party release of information provider. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB0622

Introduced
1/31/25  
Chaptered
4/28/25  
As enacted, requires a law enforcement agency to provide records related to an accident, the persons involved in such accident, and persons involved in providing or selling alcoholic beverages to persons involved in an accident upon receipt of a request for such records by the commission; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 55 and Title 57.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB0612

As introduced, creates a special fund to provide grants to local education agencies and public charter schools for the acquisition, retention, or expansion of digital career and technical education curricula through platforms containing comprehensive courses with lesson plans, media rich content and activities, and interactive assessments. - Amends TCA Title 9 and Title 49.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB0604

As introduced, requires a pharmacy services administrative organization or similar entity that receives maximum allowable cost list or related information from a contracted pharmacy to destroy the shared information within five business days of receipt of a written request for destruction from the sharing pharmacy. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 56.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB0614

Introduced
1/31/25  
As introduced, requires, if a local government adopts a budget that includes the required maintenance of effort for education funding but fails to appropriate or allocate the full amount budgeted to the LEA, the local government, in the following fiscal year, to appropriate and allocate the unfunded portion to the LEA; specifies that the maintenance of local funding effort required for a fiscal year following a fiscal year in which the local government failed to appropriate or allocate the full amount budgeted to the LEA must be determined based on the amount budgeted to the LEA for the previous fiscal year instead of the amount actually appropriated or allocated to the LEA by the local government. - Amends TCA Section 49-3-314.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB0607

As introduced, deletes the offense of unlawful carrying of a firearm or club with the intent to go armed; lowers the age requirement to obtain an enhanced or concealed handgun carry permit from 21 to 18 years of age. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17.