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| Bill | Title | Status | Momentum | Last action | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HB 1137 | Sewage - As enacted, establishes a deadline for consideration of certain subsurface sewage disposal system applications submitted by soil scientists. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 68, Chapter 221 and Title 69, Chapter 3. | Reported from Committee | 46 | Apr 29, 2025 | 3 |
| HB 6 | Local Education Agencies - As enacted, authorizes LEAs to enroll LEAs' employees' children into the voluntary pre-kindergarten program if space is available after enrollment of at-risk children; authorizes LEAs to charge the employee tuition and fees for such enrollment. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6. | Reported from Committee | 46 | Apr 29, 2025 | 1 |
| HB 1088 | Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires an LEA that receives credible information regarding a threat of violence or significantly disruptive behavior directed toward, or occurring on the grounds of, a public school in the LEA, and that reports the threat or disruptive behavior to a state or local law enforcement agency, to notify the parents and guardians of students enrolled in the public school of the same threat or disruptive behavior within 48 hours of the LEA making its report to law enforcement. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Reported from Committee | 46 | Apr 29, 2025 | 2 |
| HB 510 | Medical Occupations - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Physician Workforce Information Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 49; Title 63 and Title 68. | Reported from Committee | 46 | Apr 29, 2025 | 3 |
| HB 1349 | Drugs, Prescription - As enacted, requires a county medical examiner to test for, and obtain certain information concerning, the presence of any drugs in a decedent in certain situations; requires the health science center to conduct certain studies regarding drug interactions and submit quarterly reports to the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 53; Title 63 and Title 68. | Reported from Committee | 46 | Apr 29, 2025 | 3 |
| HB 772 | Banks and Financial Institutions - As enacted, authorizes a premium finance company to impose and collect a convenience fee from an insured for use of certain payment methods; authorizes a premium finance company to charge and collect a handling charge for certain payment instruments when the payment instrument is not paid by the financial institution from which the instrument is drawn. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 37. | Reported from Committee | 46 | Apr 29, 2025 | 1 |
| HB 759 | Local Education Agencies - As enacted, authorizes an LEA to adopt and implement a merit-based pay structure for educators to award additional compensation to high-performing educators and to incentivize educators to meet and exceed expectations. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Reported from Committee | 46 | Apr 29, 2025 | 1 |
| HB 1257 | Expunction - As enacted, reorganizes present statutes concerning expunction and specifies that facilitation, attempt, or solicitation of an offense that is presently eligible for expunction is also eligible for expunction. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 16; Title 38; Title 40; Title 55 and Title 57. | Reported from Committee | 46 | Apr 29, 2025 | 3 |
| HB 995 | Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, expands the immunity from prosecution when seeking medical assistance for a person experiencing, or believed to be experiencing, an overdose to include alcohol-related offenses; clarifies that overdose includes both drugs and alcohol. - Amends TCA Title 63. | Reported from Committee | 46 | Apr 29, 2025 | 3 |
| HB 797 | Courts, Juvenile - As enacted, requires a juvenile court conducting a child custody, detention, or adjudicatory proceeding to conduct the proceeding in a dedicated courtroom provided by the county that is closest in proximity to an approved detention center. - Amends TCA Title 37. | Reported from Committee | 46 | Apr 29, 2025 | 5 |
| HB 904 | Alcoholic Beverage Commission - As enacted, allows a judge, hearing officer, or administrative judge to award a person or entity that prevails in an administrative or civil action brought against the person or entity attorneys' fees and costs incurred as a result of the administrative or civil action. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 5; Title 27, Chapter 1 and Title 57, Chapter 1. | Reported from Committee | 45 | Apr 29, 2025 | 3 |
| HB 466 | Public Health - As enacted, requires a medical laboratory supervisor to be readily available for consultations during all hours when tests are performed; prohibits a medical laboratory supervisor from being required to be on laboratory premises. - Amends TCA Title 68. | Reported from Committee | 45 | Apr 29, 2025 | 3 |
| HB 203 | Nurses, Nursing - As enacted, requires the board of nursing to develop a survey to collect certain information from nurse practitioners who have been issued a certificate of fitness from the board; requires the board to submit a report regarding the survey to legislative committees. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 14; Title 29; Title 33; Title 37; Title 39; Title 53; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71. | Reported from Committee | 45 | Apr 29, 2025 | 3 |
| HB 1139 | Water - As enacted, clarifies that if a point-of-entry treatment device is installed in a facility solely to soften hard water and, because of the installation of such a device, the house, building, or complex of buildings meets the definition of a public water system under the Tennessee Safe Drinking Water Act of 1983, then the facility constitutes a consecutive system, and is required to monitor the influent and finished water for hardness, alkalinity, and pH on a quarterly basis, and sodium on an annual basis, and report the results to the department of environment and conservation within 15 days of the end of the reporting period. - Amends TCA Title 68. | Reported from Committee | 45 | Apr 29, 2025 | 2 |
| HB 830 | Boards and Commissions - As enacted, changes the qualifications for membership on the medical cannabis commission to include a patient caregiver and a subject matter expert with knowledge of how cannabis is cultivated, processed, shipped, distributed, or prescribed for medical use; specifies that the recommendations made by the commission to the general assembly may include policy recommendations. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 68, Chapter 7. | Reported from Committee | 45 | Apr 29, 2025 | 3 |
| HB 990 | Abortion - As enacted, clarifies the term "serious risk of substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function" as used in present law provisions relative to criminal abortion. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 29; Title 33; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 53; Title 56; Title 62; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71. | Reported from Committee | 45 | Apr 29, 2025 | 3 |
| HB 408 | Education - As enacted, requires the Tennessee higher education commission (THEC), to serve as the governing board of directors for the Tennessee student assistance corporation; requires THEC's review committee to aid in the development or revision of state financial aid; terminates the Tennessee teaching scholars program; terminates the minority teaching fellows program. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49. | Reported from Committee | 45 | Apr 29, 2025 | 3 |
| HB 373 | Tattoos and Piercings - As enacted, permits tattoo artists who have been licensed in this state for fewer than three years but licensed in another state for 10 years or more to receive a tattoo artist licensure in this state; requires the tattoo artist to provide the tattoo artist's signature on this state's tattoo apprenticeship completion application signifying that the apprentice tattoo artist has met the requirement of law. - Amends TCA Title 62 and Title 68. | Reported from Committee | 45 | Apr 29, 2025 | 3 |
| HB 589 | Agriculture, Dept. of - As enacted, creates the Tennessee agriculture and forestry hall of fame as the successor to, and a continuation of, the Tennessee agricultural hall of fame; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 43, Chapter 1, Part 6. | Reported from Committee | 45 | Apr 29, 2025 | 3 |
| HB 913 | Election Laws - As enacted, requires a three-judge panel to hear any civil action in which it is alleged that a proposed charter amendment ordinance that is to be submitted to qualified voters at an election is in violation of the Constitution or state law; prohibits an amendment to the charter of a home rule municipality from being placed on any ballot if the amendment is in violation of the Constitution or state law. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 20, Chapter 18. | Reported from Committee | 45 | Apr 29, 2025 | 2 |