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| Bill | Title | Status | Momentum | Last action | Docs |
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| HB 886 | Election Laws - As introduced, specifies that the reasonable period for candidates to remove signs, posters, or placards advocating their candidacy is two weeks after the election instead of three weeks. - Amends TCA Title 2. | Reported from Committee | 48 | Apr 20, 2026 | 3 |
| HB 2115 | County Boundaries - As introduced, increases from 90 days to 100 days the amount of time that a joint committee on county consolidation has following its receipt of a petition of consolidation to report its findings and recommendations on the feasibility of consolidation of the petitioning county with another county. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 12 and Title 67. | Reported from Committee | 47 | Apr 20, 2026 | 4 |
| HB 1219 | Health, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to establish and administer a pilot program for the placement of hygiene vending machines that dispense feminine hygiene products to students at no cost to the student in women's restrooms or locker rooms in each eligible school selected to participate in the program. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 68. | Reported from Committee | 47 | Apr 20, 2026 | 3 |
| HB 1813 | 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. | Reported from Committee | 47 | Apr 20, 2026 | 3 |
| SJR 27 | Taxes, Exemption and Credits - Authorizes the allocation by the Tennessee housing development agency, and credit by the department of revenue, of the tax credit created by the Tennessee Rural and Workforce Housing Act against a taxpayer's liability for premium tax, retaliatory tax, franchise tax, and excise tax; authorizes $10 million per year to be allocated in credits for the next three calendar years. - | Reported from Committee | 45 | Apr 20, 2026 | 1 |
| SB 422 | Health Care - As introduced, lowers from every three years to every two years, the time within which the advisory committee composed of medical device industry representatives and a representative of the department of economic and community development must review rules regarding the board of pharmacy's oversight of facilities that manufacture, warehouse, and distribute medical devices in order to review the advancements of new medical device technologies. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 47; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 71. | In Committee | 36 | Apr 20, 2026 | 3 |
| SB 673 | Criminal Offenses - As introduced, enacts the "Comprehensive Assault Crime Intervention Act." - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40. | In Committee | 36 | Apr 20, 2026 | 3 |
| SB 1080 | Taxes - As introduced, requires 50 percent of collections of the recordation tax levied on transfers of realty to be remitted to each county; requires counties to use such funds for transportation infrastructure, schools, and other nonrecurring expenses. - Amends TCA Section 67-4-409. | In Committee | 36 | Apr 20, 2026 | 2 |
| SB 185 | TennCare - As introduced, establishes TennCare minimum and maximum reimbursement rate levels for rural hospitals and requires that the reimbursement rate is based on the rural hospital's current federal fiscal year. - Amends TCA Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71, Chapter 5. | In Committee | 35 | Apr 20, 2026 | 1 |
| SB 2183 | Public Funds and Financing - As introduced, requires that 10 percent of the payments paid to or retained by the state from the Tennessee valley authority in lieu of taxes be allocated to the wildlife resources fund and used for boating and wildlife resources purposes. - Amends TCA Title 11; Title 67; Title 69 and Title 70. | In Committee | 35 | Apr 20, 2026 | 1 |
| SB 210 | TennCare - As introduced, establishes separate reimbursement rates for ground-based rural ambulance services and urban ambulance services provided to TennCare recipients; allows for certain rural ambulance service providers to receive emergency medical services equipment grants. - Amends TCA Title 71. | In Committee | 35 | Apr 20, 2026 | 3 |
| SB 2181 | Public Employees - As introduced, requires, instead of authorizes, the state and local governments to provide fully paid health insurance coverage to the immediate family members of state and local law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty on or after January 1, 2020; removes the two-year limitation on the state or local government's full payment of such coverage; adds that family members of officers who suffer catastrophic injuries on or after January 1, 2020, also qualify for such coverage; requires the state to reimburse local governments that provide such coverage. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 27. | In Committee | 35 | Apr 20, 2026 | 3 |
| SB 163 | Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases the penalty for reckless endangerment when the offense is committed by discharging a firearm or antique firearm into a motor vehicle from a Class E felony to a Class C felony, if the motor vehicle is occupied, or a Class D felony, if the motor vehicle is unoccupied. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 1. | In Committee | 34 | Apr 20, 2026 | 3 |
| SB 330 | Correction, Dept. of - As introduced, adds the legislative librarian as a recipient of the report submitted by the commissioner of correction to the general assembly on the transactions of state correctional facilities during the two years preceding the report. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 8; Title 9; Title 27; Title 29; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 41. | In Committee | 34 | Apr 20, 2026 | 3 |
| SB 740 | Education - As introduced, requires local boards of education to establish a program to provide free school breakfast and lunch to disadvantaged students; subject to funding, requires the state to reimburse LEAs for providing such free breakfasts and lunches after all federal funds have been applied. - Amends TCA Title 49. | In Committee | 34 | Apr 20, 2026 | 1 |
| SB 334 | TennCare - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Medicaid Modernization and Access Act of 2025," which aligns TennCare's current Medicaid reimbursement rates for obstetrics/gynecology, primary care, outpatient mental health, and substance use disorder treatment with the Medicare fee schedule or average commercial rates, whichever is higher. - Amends TCA Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71. | In Committee | 34 | Apr 20, 2026 | 1 |
| SB 2067 | Health Care - As introduced, revises requirement for the department of commerce and insurance to report on coverage for mental health, alcoholism, and drug dependency. - Amends TCA Title 56. | In Committee | 34 | Apr 20, 2026 | 3 |
| SB 2200 | Local Government, General - As introduced, requires that a reduction of the allocations and distributions of certain tax and other revenues to counties and municipalities due to a population loss based on the revised populations certified by the department of economic and community development be implemented incrementally in 20 percent increments over a five-year period. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3; Title 4, Chapter 49; Section 9-16-101; Title 54, Chapter 4; Title 55, Chapter 4; Title 57, Chapter 5, Part 2; Title 57, Chapter 3, Part 3 and Title 67. | In Committee | 34 | Apr 20, 2026 | 2 |
| SB 2346 | Children - As introduced, prohibits private schools participating in the individualized education account program, education savings account program, or that enroll recipients of an education freedom scholarship from employing an individual that has committed child abuse, severe child abuse, child sexual abuse, or child neglect; requires the department of human services to review, upon the request of certain child care agencies, an employee or potential employee to determine whether the individual has a record of perpetrating the abuse or neglect of children or adults. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5; Title 37; Title 49 and Title 71. | In Committee | 34 | Apr 20, 2026 | 5 |
| SB 430 | Taxes - As introduced, urges the department of revenue to study the potential economic impact of making all franchise and excise tax credits transferable to any person or entity other than the entity to whom or to which the credits are initially made available pursuant to the statute creating the credit; requires the department to report to the finance, ways and means committee of the senate and the committee in the house of representatives having jurisdiction over tax-related matters on or before January 1, 2026 if such study is conducted. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 20 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 21. | In Committee | 34 | Apr 20, 2026 | 1 |