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| Bill | Title | Status | Momentum | Last action | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HB 201 | TennCare - As introduced, requires the bureau of TennCare to reimburse certain public or private ground-based ambulance services that bill for transports at a rate not less than 67.5 percent of the federal medicare program's allowable charge for participating providers for emergency services and 100 percent of the federal medicare program's allowable charge for participating providers for nonemergency services. - Amends TCA Title 71. | Reported from Committee | 47 | Mar 5, 2026 | 1 |
| HJR 897 | General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Dr. Gary A. Passons, University of Tennessee Health Science Center - | Reported from Committee | 43 | Mar 5, 2026 | 1 |
| HJR 898 | General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Dr. Randall Davis, University of Tennessee Health Science Center Advisory Board - | Reported from Committee | 43 | Mar 5, 2026 | 1 |
| HJR 1038 | Memorials, Recognition - Gift Horse, Jessica Maloan Vastagh - | In Committee | 28 | Mar 5, 2026 | 1 |
| SB 2422 | Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, changes from February 1 to February 15, the date by which the Tennessee bureau of investigation must report to the judiciary committee of the senate and the criminal justice committee of the house of representatives the amount of any background check fees charged to gun dealers that exceeds the costs associated with conducting background checks. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 33; Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 49 and Title 65. | In Committee | 28 | Mar 5, 2026 | 1 |
| SJR 269 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Brittney Desch, Glendale Elementary School Teacher of the Year - | Enacted | 81 | Mar 4, 2026 | 1 |
| HB 470 | Professions and Occupations - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Professionals' Freedom of Religion Act." - Amends TCA Title 4. | In Committee | 33 | Mar 4, 2026 | 1 |
| SB 1041 | Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, authorizes a local board of education and public charter school governing body to employ or accept as a volunteer a school chaplain to provide support, services, and programs for students, school staff, and students' parents. - Amends TCA Title 49. | In Committee | 31 | Mar 4, 2026 | 2 |
| HB 2025 | Education, Higher - As introduced, requires the governing board for each public institution of higher education to install and maintain a "Charlie Kirk Memorial Courtyard for Civil Debate" at the main campus of each public institution of higher education governed by the board. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49. | In Committee | 30 | Mar 4, 2026 | 1 |
| HB 2037 | Eminent Domain - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Just Compensation for Property Owners Act," which requires an airport authority that exercises eminent domain to acquire private property to pay enhanced damages and costs to the owner of the subject real property. - Amends TCA Title 29 and Title 42. | In Committee | 30 | Mar 4, 2026 | 1 |
| HB 1848 | Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, prohibits an insurer from denying, conditioning the issuance or effectiveness of, or discriminating in the pricing of a medicare supplement policy if an applicant meets certain listed requirements, including a non-age eligible person who submits an application for enrollment in a medicare supplement policy with a different insurer within 60 days of such person's birthday and makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 56. | In Committee | 30 | Mar 4, 2026 | 1 |
| SB 2553 | Livestock - As introduced, broadens the definition of alternative livestock under the Tennessee Livestock Dealer Act to include non-traditional livestock without hooves. - Amends TCA Title 44, Chapter 10. | In Committee | 30 | Mar 4, 2026 | 1 |
| HB 1660 | Nuisances - As introduced, prohibits any cause of action for nuisance, taking, or another claim against a racing facility or racetrack by the owner of a surrounding real property if the racing facility or racetrack was built before the owner of the surrounding real property purchased the real property or built in the area of the racing facility or racetrack, regardless of the date on which the cause of action is alleged to have arisen; prohibits a political subdivision from adopting or enforcing any ordinance, resolution, or regulation that would restrict, limit, or prohibit the operation of a racing facility or racetrack in a manner inconsistent. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 29. | In Committee | 30 | Mar 4, 2026 | 1 |
| HB 1182 | State Government - As introduced, requires each state department and agency to post to the department's or agency's website the report provided annually to the general assembly that describes the department's or agency's progress in achieving economic efficiency. - Amends TCA Title 4. | In Committee | 30 | Mar 4, 2026 | 1 |
| HB 1919 | State Employees - As introduced, enacts the "Parental Right to Participate in Schools Act," which entitles a state employee to up to 48 hours of annual paid or unpaid leave to attend school-related activities of a dependent child. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 50. | In Committee | 30 | Mar 4, 2026 | 1 |
| HB 2004 | Employees, Employers - As introduced, requires private-sector employers to compensate employees for accumulated paid leave upon separation from service from employment. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 50, Chapter 2. | In Committee | 30 | Mar 4, 2026 | 1 |
| SB 1969 | Health Care - As introduced, creates the state uterine fibroids commission. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 63 and Title 68. | In Committee | 30 | Mar 4, 2026 | 1 |
| HB 2088 | Health Care - As introduced, exempts a nurse who provides home health services to four or less patients from hiring staff or maintaining an office in order to qualify for licensure as a home care organization by the health facilities commission; requires a nurse who does not hire staff or maintain an office to submit a request to the department of health for space at a location deemed appropriate by the department to securely store patient records. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68. | In Committee | 30 | Mar 4, 2026 | 1 |
| SB 2332 | Schools, Charter - As introduced, prevents a public charter school that has had its charter agreement renewed on appeal by the Tennessee public charter school commission from mutually agreeing with the local board of education for the LEA in which the public charter school is located for the local board to serve as its authorizer; allows the commission to determine, between five and 10 years, the term of a charter agreement renewed by the commission instead of automatically assigning all charter agreements renewed by the commission a 10-year term. - Amends TCA Title 49. | In Committee | 30 | Mar 4, 2026 | 1 |
| SB 2301 | Education, Dept. of - As introduced, enacts the "School Mental Health Transparency Act"; requires the department to consult relevant agencies to compile a list of mental health resources; requires public schools to use the department's list to compile lists of mental health resources available to enrolled students and provide the lists to students' parents; requires that lists of mental health resources be published on the website of the department and each public school. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7; Title 33 and Title 49. | In Committee | 29 | Mar 4, 2026 | 1 |