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| Bill | Title | Status | Momentum | Last action | Docs |
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| HB 1508 | Handgun Permits - As introduced, extends the fee waiver for a lifetime enhanced handgun carry permit to include a retired law enforcement officer who served for less than 10 years prior to retirement, was POST-certified, or had equivalent training, on the date the officer retired, and retired from service due to an injury received in the line of duty as a law enforcement officer. - Amends TCA Title 38 and Title 39. | Reported from Committee | 46 | Apr 15, 2026 | 1 |
| HB 2092 | Health, Dept. of - As introduced, directs the department to create an outreach campaign regarding the ongoing research of Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease; terminates the outreach campaign on July 1, 2027. - Amends TCA Title 68. | Reported from Committee | 45 | Apr 15, 2026 | 1 |
| HB 1761 | Firefighters - As introduced, requires this state's employee assistance program, including components for mental health and wellness, to be available to all active members of a volunteer fire department and all active volunteer members of a combination fire department; makes various other changes. - Amends TCA Section 8-50-119 and Title 68, Chapter 102. | Reported from Committee | 45 | Apr 15, 2026 | 1 |
| HB 2474 | Traffic Safety - As introduced, limits the use of unmanned traffic cameras that are authorized within the designated distance of a marked school zone to those times when a warning flasher or flashers are in operation or during times when children are present if the school zone does not have a warning flasher or flashers. - Amends TCA Section 55-8-198. | Reported from Committee | 45 | Apr 15, 2026 | 3 |
| HB 1818 | Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires boards of education that contract for transportation services with persons owning equipment to provide school transportation facilities to all students who live more than 1.5 miles by the nearest accessible route from the school to which they are assigned by the board of education and in which they are enrolled. - Amends TCA Title 49; Title 55, Chapter 4; Title 55, Chapter 50 and Title 55, Chapter 8. | Reported from Committee | 45 | Apr 15, 2026 | 3 |
| HB 2405 | 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. | Reported from Committee | 45 | Apr 15, 2026 | 3 |
| HB 1962 | Sentencing - As introduced, states that there is a rebuttable presumption that a defendant convicted of aggravated assault is not a favorable candidate for probation if the offense involved the use or display of a firearm during the commission of the offense. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 35. | Reported from Committee | 45 | Apr 15, 2026 | 1 |
| HB 2126 | Criminal Offenses - As introduced, requires a posted sign or notice intended to warn violators that trespassers by motor vehicle will be prosecuted to clearly define the area in which driving, parking, standing, or otherwise operating a motor vehicle is prohibited. - Amends TCA Title 39. | Reported from Committee | 45 | Apr 15, 2026 | 3 |
| HB 2465 | Criminal Procedure - As introduced, adds to the list of certain offenses required to be served at 100 percent of the sentence imposed by the court undiminished by any sentence reduction credits, the attempt, conspiracy, or solicitation to commit those offenses. - Amends TCA Section 40-35-501. | Reported from Committee | 45 | Apr 15, 2026 | 1 |
| HB 2617 | Labor and Workforce Development, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the governor to approve all eligible workforce training programs for the purposes of federal workforce Pell grants and coordinate approval of eligible workforce training programs with other state and federal workforce programs to avoid duplicative payments for the same student costs that are covered by federal workforce Pell grants. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 14. | Reported from Committee | 45 | Apr 15, 2026 | 1 |
| HB 1245 | Juvenile Offenders - As introduced, decreases from six to four the number of hours a juvenile detention facility may delay a telephone call or in-person visit if a child is subject to disciplinary action. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 37 and Title 41. | Reported from Committee | 45 | Apr 15, 2026 | 3 |
| HB 2152 | Agriculture, Dept. of - As introduced, bases indemnity payments for an animal that is destroyed to prevent the spread of disease on the fair market value of the animal, subject to available funds. - Amends TCA Title 44. | Reported from Committee | 45 | Apr 15, 2026 | 3 |
| HB 1695 | Public Funds and Financing - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Strategic Bitcoin Reserve Act." - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 4. | Reported from Committee | 44 | Apr 15, 2026 | 1 |
| HB 1933 | District Attorneys - As introduced, requires TACIR to study and prepare a report on pay equity for assistant district attorneys general in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 8, Chapter 7. | Reported from Committee | 44 | Apr 15, 2026 | 2 |
| HB 1789 | Education, Higher - As introduced, requires each public institution of higher education to classify a student who is the spouse of a service member who has not resided in this state for at least one year as an in-state student for tuition purposes if the service member's spouse resides in this state while enrolled in the institution; adds dependants of active-duty military personnel or veterans residing outside of this state to those who are eligible to receive the in-state tuition rate at a public institution of higher education; requires, instead of allows, the governing board of each such institution to provide the in-state tuition rate to military-affiliated individuals. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Reported from Committee | 44 | Apr 15, 2026 | 3 |
| HB 1675 | Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, requires LEAs to classify school nurses as licensed personnel for salary purposes; requires an LEA to pay a school nurse the base salary established for licensed teachers for the respective school year in certain circumstances; requires an LEA to pay a school nurse more or less than the established base salary per school year if the nurse has more or less training and experience than that required for the base salary. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 68. | Reported from Committee | 44 | Apr 15, 2026 | 1 |
| HB 2361 | Public Funds and Financing - As introduced, enacts "The Mint Act," which establishes a precious metals enterprise fund to be administered by the state treasurer for the purpose of acquiring, converting, storing, and selling bullion and specie. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 4. | Reported from Committee | 43 | Apr 15, 2026 | 3 |
| HB 1171 | Taxes - As introduced, adds the office of legislative budget analysis as a recipient of the annual report submitted by the commissioner of revenue to the members of the committees of the house of representatives and the senate with subject matter jurisdiction over finance-related matters on franchise and excise tax credits claimed under present law. - Amends TCA Title 55 and Title 67. | Reported from Committee | 43 | Apr 15, 2026 | 3 |
| SB 2171 | Safety - As introduced, enacts the "Artificial Intelligence Public Safety and Child Protection Transparency Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 10, Chapter 7; Title 47; Title 58 and Title 68. | In Committee | 35 | Apr 15, 2026 | 9 |
| HB 1218 | Taxes, Sales - As introduced, exempts the sale or use of menstrual hygiene products from sales and use tax. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6. | In Committee | 35 | Apr 15, 2026 | 1 |