Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session All Bills (Page 62)
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee Senate Bill SB1933
Introduced
1/21/26
As introduced, requires the department of correction to disclose records and information to any member of the general assembly, upon written request, to enable the member to determine whether the laws of this state are being complied with regarding inmates in the department's custody. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 10, Chapter 7; Title 40 and Title 41.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee Senate Bill SB1944
Introduced
1/21/26
Engrossed
3/2/26
Enrolled
4/20/26
Passed
5/5/26
As enacted, authorizes local governmental bodies to conduct certain community meetings via electronic means of communication. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 8, Chapter 44.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1861
Introduced
1/21/26
Refer
2/2/26
As introduced, specifies that if the trial judge finds by a preponderance of the evidence that the defendant has violated conditions of probation and suspension of sentence for a felony offense by engaging in conduct that constitutes a drug offense, then for the first instance of such a violation, the trial judge must order the defendant to attend a substance abuse treatment program and must not revoke the defendant's probation and suspension of sentence. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 35.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee Senate Bill SB1947
Introduced
1/21/26
Engrossed
2/26/26
As introduced, requires a blood bank to comply with a physician's order for an autologous blood donation or directed blood donation for a specific patient; requires a hospital to allow a patient who is scheduled for a medical procedure to provide an autologous blood donation or directed blood donation upon order of a physician. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 32.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1881
Introduced
1/21/26
Refer
2/25/26
Refer
3/24/26
Refer
4/1/26
Refer
4/20/26
Refer
4/20/26
As introduced, deletes references to an obsolete reporting requirement imposed on the department of education regarding the implementation of certain literacy practices, standards, and requirements. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 12; Title 48; Title 49 and Title 67.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee Senate Bill SB1938
Introduced
1/21/26
As introduced, increases from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony the penalty for the criminal offense of violation of an order of protection if the order violated was a lifetime order of protection and the conviction that the lifetime order of protection was based on involved the use of force against a victim. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 39.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee Senate Bill SB1940
Introduced
1/21/26
Chaptered
5/5/26
Passed
5/5/26
As enacted, designates January 22 of each year as "Sanctity of Life Day." - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee Senate Bill SB1922
Introduced
1/21/26
Chaptered
4/27/26
Passed
4/27/26
As enacted, generally requires, beginning July 1, 2026, all state and local governmental employers to verify the work authorization status of each prospective employee through the federal E-Verify program prior to employment; authorizes the attorney general to enforce compliance with the requirement against local governments and subjects a noncompliant local government to the withholding of all funds of this state allocated to the local government via grant, contract, or statute, including, but not limited to, state-shared taxes. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 12 and Title 50.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee Senate Bill SB1951
Introduced
1/21/26
Engrossed
3/2/26
Enrolled
3/17/26
Chaptered
4/6/26
Passed
4/6/26
As enacted, authorizes a school bus that is used exclusively to transport students from school to an after-school program to be used until the bus reaches the 20th year from the in-service date of the bus, or until the bus accumulates 300,000 miles of recorded travel, whichever occurs later; requires the owner of a bus that reaches the later of 20 years of service or 300,000 miles of recorded travel to, at the conclusion of the school year, discontinue use of, or replace, the bus; requires certain notice to, and inspections by, the commissioner for certain buses. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1856
Introduced
1/21/26
Refer
2/2/26
Refer
3/3/26
Refer
3/10/26
Chaptered
4/6/26
Passed
4/6/26
As enacted, authorizes a school bus that is used exclusively to transport students from school to an after-school program to be used until the bus reaches the 20th year from the in-service date of the bus, or until the bus accumulates 300,000 miles of recorded travel, whichever occurs later; requires the owner of a bus that reaches the later of 20 years of service or 300,000 miles of recorded travel to, at the conclusion of the school year, discontinue use of, or replace, the bus; requires certain notice to, and inspections by, the commissioner for certain buses. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee Senate Bill SB1921
Introduced
1/21/26
As introduced, directs the department to annually transfer a portion of the TANF rainy-day fund to the child care and development fund in an amount sufficient to fund participation in the smart steps program for a family that meets certain listed criteria; requires the department to annually publish on the department's website a report on certain listed expenditures and balances. - Amends TCA Title 71.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee Senate Bill SB1945
Introduced
1/21/26
Engrossed
3/30/26
Enrolled
4/20/26
Passed
5/5/26
As enacted, allows the court to temporarily revoke a defendant's bond and order the defendant held without bail for no more than 10 days pending a bail revocation hearing if the defendant violates a condition of release, is charged with an offense committed during the defendant's release, or engages in conduct that results in the obstruction of the orderly and expeditious progress of the trial. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 11.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee Senate Bill SB1932
Introduced
1/21/26
As introduced, requires that certain personally identifying information of elected state and local public officials be maintained confidentially with limited exceptions. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 10, Chapter 7.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee Senate Bill SB1917
Introduced
1/21/26
As introduced, creates a pathway for a person to obtain an alternative instructional leader license for purposes of serving as a principal, an assistant principal, or an instructional supervisor. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1858
Introduced
1/21/26
Refer
2/2/26
Refer
2/11/26
Refer
4/8/26
As enacted, authorizes local governmental bodies to conduct certain community meetings via electronic means of communication. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 8, Chapter 44.