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| Bill | Title | Status | Momentum | Last action | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SB 637 | Tennessee Investment in Student Achievement (TISA) - As introduced, creates a 3 percent weighted allocation for a student who resides in a school district with a membership between 1,001 and 1,250, both inclusive. - Amends TCA Title 49. | In Committee | 30 | Apr 20, 2026 | 3 |
| SB 1963 | Taxes, Privilege - As introduced, removes licensed attorneys who have practiced more than 20 years from the application of the professional privilege tax. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 17. | In Committee | 30 | Apr 20, 2026 | 1 |
| SB 1480 | Autopsies - As introduced, requires the expenses of an autopsy ordered by a district attorney general to be paid by this state. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 7. | In Committee | 30 | Apr 20, 2026 | 3 |
| SB 2277 | Taxes, Sales - As introduced, exempts the retail sale of generic food products from the food retail sales tax. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6. | In Committee | 30 | Apr 20, 2026 | 1 |
| SB 2511 | Taxes - As introduced, enacts the "End the Grocery Tax Act." - Amends TCA Title 57 and Title 67. | In Committee | 30 | Apr 20, 2026 | 1 |
| SB 1736 | Sentencing - As introduced, increases the penalty for leaving the scene of an accident resulting in injury from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony; increases the penalty for leaving the scene of an accident that the person knew or should reasonably have known resulted in death from a Class E felony to a Class D felony. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13 and Title 55, Chapter 10. | In Committee | 30 | Apr 20, 2026 | 1 |
| SB 2314 | Taxes, Sales - As introduced, exempts from the state sales and use tax the retail sale of food and food ingredients. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 3 and Title 67. | In Committee | 30 | Apr 20, 2026 | 1 |
| SB 2498 | Finance and Administration, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to promulgate rules relating to cash transaction rounding. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18 and Title 67. | In Committee | 30 | Apr 20, 2026 | 1 |
| SB 2156 | Education - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Teacher Residency Program Act." - Amends TCA Title 49. | In Committee | 30 | Apr 20, 2026 | 3 |
| SB 2649 | Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As introduced, requires the TBI to establish a cold case division, to be divided into three geographic regions, each staffed by a regional director and no fewer than five cold case detectives; requires each local law enforcement agency to submit unsolved missing person or homicide cases to the cold case division following the passage of 10 years without resolution. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40. | In Committee | 30 | Apr 20, 2026 | 3 |
| SB 2143 | Taxes, Sales - As introduced, expands sales tax exemptions on repair and refurbishment of aircraft and aircraft components, including equipment and parts used, performed by Tennessee-based aircraft repair companies from only large or transport category aircraft to include all aircraft, including helicopters, that will be removed outside the state following repair. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 3. | In Committee | 30 | Apr 20, 2026 | 1 |
| SB 1465 | Taxes, Sales - As introduced, exempts from sales and use tax labor and service costs made as part of the sale of a taxable item of tangible personal property; exempts from sales and use tax repair and installation labor performed on tangible personal property. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6. | In Committee | 30 | Apr 20, 2026 | 1 |
| SB 2116 | Taxes, Sales - As introduced, exempts books from sales tax on the annual sales tax holiday. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6. | In Committee | 30 | Apr 20, 2026 | 1 |
| SB 1715 | Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, requires LEAs to classify school nurses as licensed personnel for salary purposes; requires an LEA to pay a school nurse the base salary established for licensed teachers for the respective school year in certain circumstances; requires an LEA to pay a school nurse more or less than the established base salary per school year if the nurse has more or less training and experience than that required for the base salary. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 68. | In Committee | 30 | Apr 20, 2026 | 1 |
| SB 1982 | Sentencing - As introduced, states that there is a rebuttable presumption that a defendant convicted of aggravated assault is not a favorable candidate for probation if the offense involved the use or display of a firearm during the commission of the offense. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 35. | In Committee | 30 | Apr 20, 2026 | 1 |
| SB 2144 | Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases the penalties for a violation of the offense of introduction or possession of contraband into a penal institution from a Class C felony to a Class B felony for certain acts and certain types of contraband, from a Class D felony to a Class C felony for certain acts and certain types of contraband, and from a Class E felony to a Class D felony for certain acts involving a telecommunication device if the violation resulted in the death of another person. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40. | In Committee | 30 | Apr 20, 2026 | 1 |
| SB 1577 | Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, allows a student who was ineligible for the Tennessee HOPE scholarship as an entering freshman based on their high school grade point average or composite ACT score to regain their eligibility for the HOPE scholarship as a transfer student if the student meets certain requirements. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4. | In Committee | 30 | Apr 20, 2026 | 1 |
| SB 1928 | Criminal Offenses - As introduced, adds "a victim" to the definition of an individual involved in the judicial process for purposes of the criminal offense of harming or threatening to harm an individual involved in the judicial process; makes various other changes regarding victims of crime. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 39 and Title 40. | In Committee | 30 | Apr 20, 2026 | 1 |
| SB 2216 | Firefighters - As introduced, requires this state's employee assistance program, including components for mental health and wellness, to be available to all active members of a volunteer fire department and all active volunteer members of a combination fire department; makes various other changes. - Amends TCA Section 8-50-119 and Title 68, Chapter 102. | In Committee | 30 | Apr 20, 2026 | 1 |
| SB 2109 | Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, allows the state board of education to waive the educator licensure requirement for an individual who does not hold a bachelor's degree from an accredited four-year institution, but who has at least five years of teaching experience at a church-related school or private school approved to operate in this state, if the individual meets certain requirements. - Amends TCA Title 49. | In Committee | 30 | Apr 20, 2026 | 3 |