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| Bill | Title | Status | Momentum | Last action | Docs |
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| HB 475 | Motor Vehicles - As enacted, prohibits the motor vehicle commission from denying an application for a license, or revoking or suspending the license, of a manufacturer, distributor, distributor branch or factory branch or officer, agent or other representative because such person has failed to deliver motor vehicles within 60 days of a dealer's order due to an act of God, a work stoppage or delay due to a strike or other labor action, a lack of available manufacturing capacity, a freight embargo, or other cause or material issue over which the person has no control; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 55. | Reported from Committee | 48 | May 18, 2026 | 3 |
| HB 2263 | Animal Cruelty and Abuse - As enacted, adds starvation resulting in death of a livestock animal to the types of conduct that constitute the Class E felony of aggravated cruelty to a livestock animal, when done in a depraved and sadistic manner without justifiable or lawful purpose. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14, Part 2. | Reported from Committee | 48 | May 18, 2026 | 1 |
| HB 1932 | Taxes, Real Property - As enacted, revises standards for the length of the redemption period for a property subject to a tax sale based on whether the period of delinquency is three years or less or is more than three years. - Amends TCA Section 67-5-2701. | Reported from Committee | 48 | May 18, 2026 | 1 |
| HB 2420 | Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires an LEA to close a virtual school not meeting certain requirements for continued operation; requires the department of education to maintain and publish on the department's website a list of providers that operated or managed a virtual school that was closed for not meeting the requirements for continued operation; makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Reported from Committee | 48 | May 18, 2026 | 3 |
| HB 658 | Athletic Trainers - As enacted, expands the scope of practice for athletic trainers by authorizing them to treat conditions that limit or prevent a person's participation in certain physical activities rather than just treating injuries that limit or prevent such participation; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 24. | Reported from Committee | 48 | May 18, 2026 | 5 |
| HB 220 | Water Authorities - As enacted, expands the areas served by the West Tennessee River Basin Authority to include Perry, Stewart, Houston, and Humphreys counties. - Amends TCA Title 64, Chapter 1, Part 11. | Reported from Committee | 48 | May 18, 2026 | 1 |
| HB 2257 | Education - As enacted, requires the state board of education to establish a qualified dyslexia interventionist endorsement to allow an educator to provide targeted instructional intervention, academic support, behavioral support, or related services to students demonstrating characteristics of dyslexia. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Reported from Committee | 47 | May 18, 2026 | 3 |
| HB 2284 | Criminal Offenses - As enacted, includes in the offense of criminal trespass intrusion on property, or any portion of property, without the consent of the owner, by driving, parking, or otherwise operating a motorized vehicle or bicycle. - Amends TCA Title 11; Title 29; Title 39; Title 40; Title 44; Title 45; Title 46; Title 59; Title 66; Title 68 and Title 70. | Reported from Committee | 47 | May 18, 2026 | 3 |
| HB 1980 | Bail, Bail Bonds - As enacted, allows the court to temporarily revoke a defendant's bond and order the defendant held without bail for no more than 10 days pending a bail revocation hearing if the defendant violates a condition of release, is charged with an offense committed during the defendant's release, or engages in conduct that results in the obstruction of the orderly and expeditious progress of the trial. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 11. | Reported from Committee | 47 | May 18, 2026 | 1 |
| HB 2276 | Education - As enacted, revises law concerning math education; requires the state board of education, in developing and adopting a uniform grading system for students in grades 9-12, to include in such system the high school course grades achieved by students in eighth grade; specifies that the uniform grading system for students in grades K-8 must include K-8 course work. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Reported from Committee | 47 | May 18, 2026 | 3 |
| HB 1973 | Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, prohibits an educator from engaging in any sexually related behavior with certain students enrolled, graduated, or withdrawn from school; requires violations to be reported to the state board of education. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Reported from Committee | 47 | May 18, 2026 | 3 |
| HB 2013 | Drugs, Prescription - As enacted, authorizes a law enforcement officer to cause to be administered a blood or urine test on a person for the presence of a psychotropic drug if such officer has probable cause to believe that the person committed a mass shooting and the person consents to such test; clarifies that if the person is a minor, then a parent or legal guardian must consent; directs the health science center to study the drug interactions between any drugs found in the person's blood or urine. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 40; Title 53; Title 63 and Title 68. | Reported from Committee | 46 | May 18, 2026 | 3 |
| HB 1696 | Public Contracts - As enacted, requires a state department, agency, or official who contracts with a business to acquire property or services to make payments under the contract to the business within a certain time frame after receipt of the invoice; requires such state departments, agencies, and officials to annually report to the chairs of the appropriate standing committees of the senate and house of representatives the number and aggregate amount of late payments made for the preceding fiscal year and the amount of interest paid and outstanding on such late payments. - Amends TCA Title 12, Chapter 4. | Reported from Committee | 46 | May 18, 2026 | 3 |
| HB 2511 | Appropriations - As enacted, authorizes direct and continuing appropriations by certain airport authorities for the issuance of debt that is not a liability of the state and the payment of debt service thereon. - Amends TCA Title 9. | Reported from Committee | 46 | May 18, 2026 | 3 |
| HB 1354 | Criminal Offenses - As enacted, makes various changes to law relative to human trafficking. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39 and Title 40. | Reported from Committee | 45 | May 18, 2026 | 3 |
| HB 1581 | Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the inmate disciplinary oversight board to June 30, 2028. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 41, Chapter 21, Part 10. | Reported from Committee | 44 | May 18, 2026 | 1 |
| HB 1608 | Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the Tennessee council for career and technical education to June 30, 2027. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 49, Chapter 11, Part 2. | Reported from Committee | 42 | May 18, 2026 | 2 |
| SB 1777 | Health Care - As enacted, enacts the "Caring for Caregivers Act." - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 33; Title 52; Title 67 and Title 68. | In Committee | 36 | May 18, 2026 | 5 |
| SB 1952 | Immigration - As enacted, requires, until February 1, 2029, each court to cooperate with the U.S. department of homeland security and federal immigration authorities acting in the enforcement of federal immigration law; authorizes, until February 1, 2029, a judge who obstructs lawful operations by such department and such authorities acting in the enforcement of federal immigration law to be referred to the board of judicial conduct for proceedings; clarifies that any findings by the board that the judge committed judicial misconduct may be cause for removal. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 8; Title 16; Title 17 and Title 38. | In Committee | 36 | May 18, 2026 | 5 |
| SB 1804 | Correction, Dept. of - As enacted, requires a county incurring expenses pursuant to a criminal prosecution to provide an invoice of the expenses imposed on the county to the department; requires, within 60 days of receiving an invoice, the department to pay the amount of the invoiced expenses permitted by law to the county. - Amends TCA Title 40 and Title 41. | In Committee | 35 | May 18, 2026 | 3 |