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| Bill | Title | Status | Momentum | Last action | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SR 258 | Memorials, Recognition - David Baker - | Passed First Chamber | 53 | Jan 21, 2026 | 1 |
| SR 257 | Memorials, Retirement - Doris Watkins Henderson - | Passed First Chamber | 53 | Jan 21, 2026 | 1 |
| SR 259 | Memorials, Sports - Kady Johnson, Hayley Sims, Brooklynn McCoy, and Natilee Wilkerson, All-West Tennessee Soccer Teams - | Passed First Chamber | 53 | Jan 21, 2026 | 1 |
| HB 777 | Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, allows a private postsecondary institution that is a candidate for accreditation by a regional accrediting association and that has its primary campus domiciled in this state to serve as an institution at which a student may be enrolled for purposes of receiving financial aid funded using net proceeds of the state lottery. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9. | In Committee | 31 | Jan 21, 2026 | 1 |
| HB 1386 | Education, Higher - As introduced, requires institutions of higher education to conduct various programs for intercollegiate athletes covering name, image, and likeness; authorizes institutions of higher education to collect talent fees; makes various other changes to intercollegiate athletes' name, image, and likeness authorizations and requirements. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29; Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, Chapter 8 and Title 49, Chapter 9. | In Committee | 31 | Jan 21, 2026 | 1 |
| HB 1047 | Economic and Community Development - As introduced, enacts the "Employee Ownership, Empowerment, and Expansion Act" to support the growth and expansion of employee-owned businesses. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 9; Title 12, Chapter 3; Title 45; Title 50; Title 56, Chapter 1 and Title 67. | In Committee | 31 | Jan 21, 2026 | 1 |
| SB 189 | Education, Higher - As introduced, requires the Tennessee higher education commission to develop a program to award full-time students enrolled in public institutions of higher education in this state a $250 grant for voluntarily obtaining testing for sexually transmitted diseases. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7 and Title 49. | In Committee | 31 | Jan 21, 2026 | 1 |
| HB 673 | Tennessee Higher Education Commission - As introduced, requires the commission, in consultation with the department of finance and administration, to submit a report to the general assembly of the state appropriations made to each land grant institution in this state from 1987 to 2020, on a per pupil basis, by December 31, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 9 and Title 49. | In Committee | 30 | Jan 21, 2026 | 1 |
| HB 663 | Education - As introduced, deletes a pilot program, which was established to improve parent-teacher engagement in any grade from kindergarten through grade two in public schools, that expired in 2021. - Amends TCA Title 49. | In Committee | 30 | Jan 21, 2026 | 2 |
| HB 1656 | Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases the penalty for assault against a firefighter, emergency services personnel, or other person who responds to calls for emergency assistance from a Class A misdemeanor with a mandatory minimum 30-day sentence and $5,000 fine to a Class E felony with a mandatory minimum 60-day sentence and $10,000 fine. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40. | In Committee | 28 | Jan 21, 2026 | 1 |
| HB 1636 | Evidence - As introduced, permits the introduction into evidence of a video recording of a child victim being interviewed by a forensic interviewer regarding sexual or physically violent contact with the child if the forensic interviewer is an employee of the department of children's services and meets certain requirements. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 4, Part 2 and Title 24, Chapter 7, Part 1. | In Committee | 28 | Jan 21, 2026 | 1 |
| HB 1686 | Correction, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to develop and implement a performance-based contracting program for each contractor with which it contracts to operate prison facilities; requires the program to make the payment of an amount equal to 25 percent of the total funds appropriated to the contractor during a fiscal year conditional upon yearly performance improvements based upon a set of performance measures. - Amends TCA Title 41. | In Committee | 28 | Jan 21, 2026 | 1 |
| SB 1496 | Health Care - As introduced, adds clinical informatics, lifestyle medicine, and medical virtualist to the list of words or abbreviations that a person may attach to a name to indicate or induce another person to believe that the person is engaged in the practice of medicine or osteopathic medicine. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 6. | In Committee | 28 | Jan 21, 2026 | 1 |
| HB 1682 | 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 | 28 | Jan 21, 2026 | 1 |
| SB 1644 | Foster Care - As introduced, enacts the "Stable Homes for Foster Youth Act." - Amends TCA Title 37. | In Committee | 27 | Jan 21, 2026 | 1 |
| SB 1648 | Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As introduced, revises various provisions of the Real Estate Infrastructure Development Act of 2025. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 9; Title 12; Title 13; Title 66; Title 67 and Title 68. | In Committee | 27 | Jan 21, 2026 | 1 |
| SB 1671 | Education, Higher - As introduced, increases, from 30 to 45 days before the start of the academic term, the time by which a state government entity that establishes a scholarship using an educational investment plan must select the scholarship beneficiary and notify the board of trustees of the college savings trust fund program of the beneficiary. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 9; Title 10; Title 12; Title 49 and Title 50. | In Committee | 27 | Jan 21, 2026 | 1 |
| SB 1689 | Public Records - As introduced, creates an offense for using or selling an individual's personal identifying information obtained from a governmental entity for commercial use, punishable as a Class B misdemeanor. - | In Committee | 27 | Jan 21, 2026 | 1 |
| HB 1587 | Sunset Laws - As introduced, extends the local government planning advisory committee to June 30, 2027. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 7. | In Committee | 27 | Jan 21, 2026 | 1 |
| SB 1688 | Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, authorizes a retail alcohol licensee in a terminal building of a commercial air carrier airport to offer complimentary tastings for samples of the products it sells. - Amends TCA Title 57. | In Committee | 27 | Jan 21, 2026 | 1 |