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| Bill | Title | Status | Momentum | Last action | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HB 1872 | Healthcare Liability - As enacted, authorizes a person to bring a civil action against a healthcare professional for an injury that is a result of a medical procedure, if the procedure was for enabling the person to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the person's sex or treating purported discomfort or distress from a discordance between the person's sex and asserted identity, and the person consented; or if the person was a minor at the time of the procedure, the person's parent, guardian, or representative consented due to an act of coercion by the professional. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 63 and Title 68. | Reported from Committee | 45 | Apr 28, 2026 | 3 |
| HB 1770 | Health Care - As enacted, 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 and Title 63, Chapter 9. | Reported from Committee | 45 | Apr 28, 2026 | 3 |
| HB 1786 | Boats, Boating - As enacted, creates the Class C misdemeanor offense of mooring a recreational vessel for more than 14 consecutive days at any one place along the water's edge of a reservoir or at any place within one mile of the water's edge; makes other related revisions. - Amends TCA Title 69, Chapter 9. | Reported from Committee | 45 | Apr 28, 2026 | 3 |
| HB 1618 | Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the Tennessee State University, board of trustees to June 30, 2029. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 49, Chapter 8. | Reported from Committee | 43 | Apr 28, 2026 | 1 |
| HB 1625 | Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the department of education to June 30, 2030. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3; Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 49. | Reported from Committee | 43 | Apr 28, 2026 | 1 |
| HB 1575 | Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the department of human services to June 30, 2030. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 4, Chapter 3. | Reported from Committee | 42 | Apr 28, 2026 | 1 |
| SB 1464 | Public Records - As enacted, requires each state governmental entity and official to maintain certain information relative to the operational enforcement of federal and state immigration laws as confidential, and provides that such information is not subject to public inspection. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 10; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41 and Chapter 253 of the Public Acts of 2021. | Enacted | 84 | Apr 27, 2026 | 4 |
| SB 166 | Judicial Districts - As enacted, extends the date by which the advisory task force to review composition of judicial districts has to complete its findings and publish a proposed statewide judicial redistricting plan; extends the date by which the general assembly must reapportion the judicial districts in accordance with such plan. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 2. | Enacted | 84 | Apr 27, 2026 | 3 |
| HB 2279 | Criminal Offenses - As enacted, enacts the "Crush Transnational Repression in Tennessee Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 38 and Title 39. | Enacted | 84 | Apr 27, 2026 | 3 |
| HB 1704 | Immigration - As enacted, creates the Class A misdemeanor of intentionally failing or refusing to depart when a final order of removal is outstanding; creates the Class A misdemeanor of intentionally entering, attempting to enter, or being found in this state after being denied admission, excluded, deported, or removed from the United States. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 41. | Enacted | 84 | Apr 27, 2026 | 3 |
| HB 2255 | State Government - As enacted, makes various changes to certain boards, authorities, and task forces, including, but not limited to, requiring all vacancies on the state capitol commission, the Tennessee local development authority, and the advisory task force on state reimbursement to be filled for the balance of the unexpired term. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 13; Title 16; Title 38; Title 43; Title 49; Title 50; Title 54; Title 58; Title 63; Title 64; Title 65; Title 68; Title 69; Title 70 and Title 71. | Enacted | 84 | Apr 27, 2026 | 3 |
| SB 1632 | Naming and Designating - As enacted, renames the Army National Guard Armory, located on U.S. Highway 321 in Maryville, the "CSM William O. Gregory National Guard Armory." - Amends TCA Title 58, Chapter 1. | Enacted | 84 | Apr 27, 2026 | 2 |
| SB 1683 | Tort Liability and Reform - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Child Care Hosting Safe Harbor Act." - Amends TCA Title 29 and Title 71, Chapter 3. | Enacted | 84 | Apr 27, 2026 | 1 |
| HB 878 | Taxes, Privilege - As enacted, clarifies that all privilege taxes on litigation that clerks of certain courts fail to collect and pay to the department of revenue are debts of the clerks; adds certain reporting requirements. - Amends TCA Title 40 and Title 67. | Enacted | 84 | Apr 27, 2026 | 3 |
| HB 1254 | Law Enforcement - As enacted, requires a prosecuting agency that maintains a Brady list to adopt a policy that meets certain requirements. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 8. | Enacted | 84 | Apr 27, 2026 | 3 |
| HB 548 | Purchasing and Procurement - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Procurement Protection Act." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 56. | Enacted | 84 | Apr 27, 2026 | 4 |
| HB 2030 | Game and Fish Laws - As enacted, repeals statutory requirements related to raccoon hunting, thereby permitting the Tennessee fish and wildlife commission to regulate such activities through proclamations and rules. - Amends TCA Title 70, Chapter 4. | Enacted | 84 | Apr 27, 2026 | 1 |
| SB 1659 | Sentencing - As enacted, adds aggravating circumstances for a jury to consider when determining the sentence of a defendant convicted of certain offenses. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40. | Enacted | 84 | Apr 27, 2026 | 1 |
| HB 1705 | Employees, Employers - 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. | Enacted | 84 | Apr 27, 2026 | 2 |
| HB 1944 | DNA and Genetic Testing - As enacted, directs the department of health to test for the presence of sickle cell trait in each newborn and, if the test results are positive for sickle cell trait, to notify the parent or legal guardian of the newborn tested as soon as practicable. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 5. | Enacted | 84 | Apr 27, 2026 | 1 |