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| Bill | Title | Status | Momentum | Last action | Docs |
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| HB 1322 | Schools, Charter - As enacted, establishes a process by which the governing body of an existing public charter school may replicate that public charter school in the same district by applying to the local board of education or directly to the Tennessee public charter school commission; allows, in certain circumstances, a public charter school sponsor to apply directly to the commission to open a new public charter school; makes various changes to the state agencies responsible for performing certain functions in the Tennessee Public Charter Schools Act of 2002. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 13. | Reported from Committee | 48 | Apr 29, 2025 | 3 |
| HB 307 | County Government - As enacted, declares that the offices of sheriff, register, county clerk, assessor of property, and trustee are the constitutional officers of a county that has adopted a charter form of government; specifies the duties for each constitutional officer. - Amends TCA Title 5. | Reported from Committee | 48 | Apr 29, 2025 | 3 |
| HB 392 | Education - As enacted, prohibits the department of education from excluding from the calculation of a school letter grade the data of any group of students within a school if the department collects, aggregates, and reports the data, and if the group of students has at least 20 valid test scores in math or English language arts for at least one grade band; and data for the college and career readiness indicator if the school has at least 20 students in a graduating cohort. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Reported from Committee | 48 | Apr 29, 2025 | 3 |
| HB 763 | Tort Liability and Reform - As enacted, clarifies that any governmental entity may purchase any of the insurance authorized under state law, without the necessity of public bidding, as required by any public or private act or charter restriction, if such insurance is purchased through a plan authorized and approved by any organization of cities, counties, or other governmental entities as contemplated by state law. - Amends TCA Title 12; Title 12, Chapter 3 and Title 29. | Reported from Committee | 48 | Apr 29, 2025 | 1 |
| HB 1309 | Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As enacted, requires that interest income accruing on investments and deposits as a result of the Megasite Authority of West Tennessee's collection of rates to customers of a water system or wastewater system operated by the authority be credited to a separate account and carried forward into each subsequent fiscal year. - Amends TCA Section 64-9-107. | Reported from Committee | 48 | Apr 29, 2025 | 2 |
| HB 199 | Environment and Conservation, Department of - As enacted, requires an agreement or contract entered into between the commissioner and a county health department for the department to implement subsurface sewage disposal requirements to include authority for the commissioner to issue a variance in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 221, Part 4. | Reported from Committee | 48 | Apr 29, 2025 | 3 |
| HB 1175 | Children - As enacted, allows a child care agency to lease or purchase underutilized property from local education agencies; classifies a child care family home as residential property for certain purposes, including zoning and building codes; permits a host-school's fire inspection and facilities to be sufficient for a child care agency's provisional license under the department of human services. - Amends TCA Title 13; Title 49; Title 68 and Title 71. | Reported from Committee | 48 | Apr 29, 2025 | 3 |
| HB 810 | Motor Vehicles - As enacted, authorizes utility terrain vehicles to operate on county roads and state highways throughout the state, subject to certain restrictions. - Amends TCA Title 55. | Reported from Committee | 48 | Apr 29, 2025 | 5 |
| HB 342 | Veterans - As enacted, enacts the "Safeguarding American Veteran Empowerment (SAVE) Act." - Amends TCA Title 47 and Title 58. | Reported from Committee | 48 | Apr 29, 2025 | 3 |
| HB 1338 | Public Funds and Financing - As enacted, redefines "local government" to include a water, wastewater, or energy authority for purposes of the present law applicable to bonds and notes issued by local governments; makes other related revisions. - Amends TCA Section 9-21-133 and Title 9, Chapter 21, Part 4. | Reported from Committee | 48 | Apr 29, 2025 | 1 |
| HB 567 | State Symbols - As enacted, designates Nashville hot chicken as an official state food. - Amends TCA Title 4. | Reported from Committee | 48 | Apr 29, 2025 | 1 |
| HB 344 | Military - As enacted, defines "working day" for purposes of determining the military leave and compensation available to state and local government employees who are members of any reserve component of the armed forces of the United States who are called to active military service. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 33. | Reported from Committee | 48 | Apr 29, 2025 | 1 |
| HB 391 | Charitable Solicitations - As enacted, revises notification requirements regarding the provision to the secretary of state of solicitation materials to be used by a professional solicitor on behalf of a nonprofit organization. - Amends TCA Title 48, Chapter 101, Part 5. | Reported from Committee | 48 | Apr 29, 2025 | 1 |
| HB 896 | Administrative Procedure (UAPA) - As enacted, generally prohibits a governmental agency from adopting a rule or establishing numeric criteria or numeric limitations applicable to a contaminant, pollutant, hazardous substance, solid waste, or hazardous waste that relates to drinking water, water pollution control, hazardous substances, contaminated site remediation, air quality, or solid or hazardous waste handling unless certain conditions are met. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 5. | Reported from Committee | 48 | Apr 29, 2025 | 3 |
| HB 855 | Election Laws - As enacted, generally requires statewide political parties to nominate their candidates in primary elections for all offices for which partisan elections are held at the regular August or regular November election; authorizes, in a county in which a statewide political party nominated a candidate by a method other than a primary election in 2022 or 2024, the statewide political party in such county to continue to use such method with certain exceptions. - Amends TCA Title 2. | Reported from Committee | 48 | Apr 29, 2025 | 3 |
| HB 530 | Boats, Boating - As enacted, removes the monitoring requirement for boating safety examinations; replaces statutory fees for boating safety certificates and replacement cards with authorization for TWRA to set such fees. - Amends TCA Title 69, Chapter 9. | Reported from Committee | 48 | Apr 29, 2025 | 2 |
| HB 1339 | Secretary of State - As enacted, allows a litigation financier that is not a business entity or partnership to amend or withdraw its registration with the secretary of state by filing a form prescribed by the secretary of state, along with a filing fee of $20. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 16. | Reported from Committee | 48 | Apr 29, 2025 | 1 |
| HB 854 | Bail, Bail Bonds - As enacted, allows a magistrate to consider hearsay evidence when determining whether a defendant should be released on bail pending trial and the amount of bail necessary to reasonably assure the appearance of the defendant while at the same time protecting the safety of the public. - Amends TCA Title 24; Title 39 and Title 40. | Reported from Committee | 48 | Apr 29, 2025 | 3 |
| HB 829 | TennCare - As enacted, revises present law relative to the annual coverage assessment. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5. | Reported from Committee | 48 | Apr 29, 2025 | 3 |
| HB 178 | Education, Curriculum - As enacted, establishes that family life curriculum must include age-appropriate instruction and evidence regarding the positive personal and societal outcomes associated with the method by which a person completes the following in sequential order: obtains a high school diploma or high school equivalency credential; enters into the workforce or pursues a postsecondary degree or credential; enters into marriage; and has children. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 13. | Reported from Committee | 48 | Apr 29, 2025 | 4 |