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| Bill | Title | Status | Momentum | Last action | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SB 392 | Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates the offense of human smuggling; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 39. | Enacted | 84 | May 15, 2025 | 8 |
| SB 621 | Campaigns and Campaign Finance - As enacted, revises present law to designate as a political campaign committee for purposes of reporting expenditures pursuant to campaign finance laws a corporation that uses corporate funds, moneys, or credits for communications expressly supporting or opposing the election or defeat of a clearly identified candidate or elected official, and such funds, moneys, or credits are not used with the cooperation or with the prior consent of, or in consultation with, or at the request of, or suggestion of, a candidate or elected official or any agent or authorized committee of the candidate or elected official. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 10. | Enacted | 84 | May 15, 2025 | 3 |
| SB 1399 | Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates an offense for a person who harms or threatens to harm an individual involved in the judicial process or a family member of such person with the intent to impede, intimidate, interfere with, or retaliate against the justice system participant in connection with their participation in the judicial process, punishable as a Class E felony. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 16. | Enacted | 84 | May 15, 2025 | 3 |
| SB 950 | Education - As enacted, creates a federal education deregulation cooperation task force to prepare Tennessee for the potential of deregulation of federal laws, regulations, requirements, and guidance for K-12 education. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Enacted | 84 | May 15, 2025 | 3 |
| SB 433 | Animal Cruelty and Abuse - As enacted, prohibits the abandonment of an animal in a person's custody and provides that it is not a defense to prosecution that the person abandoned the animal at or near an animal shelter, veterinary clinic, or other place of shelter if the person did not make reasonable arrangements for the care of the animal. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14, Part 2. | Enacted | 84 | May 15, 2025 | 1 |
| SB 933 | Boards and Commissions - As enacted, makes various revisions to the governing boards of public higher education institutions. - | Enacted | 84 | May 15, 2025 | 3 |
| SB 869 | Licenses - As enacted, creates a bait privilege license to allow hunting or taking of whitetail deer using bait on privately owned or privately leased land. - Amends TCA Title 70. | Enacted | 84 | May 15, 2025 | 3 |
| SB 147 | Highway Signs - As enacted, requires the department of transportation to install signs or markers displaying language or an appropriate symbol indicating to motorists that a rest area or welcome center has a family restroom; requires the department to post on its website rest areas and welcome centers that have family restrooms. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3; Title 12 and Title 54. | Enacted | 84 | May 15, 2025 | 3 |
| SB 229 | Campaigns and Campaign Finance - As enacted, makes various changes to campaign finance laws and related laws. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 3 and Title 67. | Enacted | 84 | May 15, 2025 | 3 |
| SB 1019 | Education, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to allocate the state share of the Tennessee investment in student achievement formula funds generated by student members of a public charter school in the prior school year directly to the public charter school instead of allocating such funds to the local education agency in which the public charter school is located. - Amends Chapter __ of the Public Acts of 2025 (1st Ex. Sess. – SB 6001 / HB 6004); and TCA Title 49, Chapter 13 and Title 49, Chapter 3. | Enacted | 84 | May 15, 2025 | 4 |
| SB 1313 | Real Property - As enacted, creates a vested property right upon the submission, rather than the approval, of a development plan or building permit; specifies that the vesting period applicable when it is based on the submission of a building permit is three years. - Amends TCA Title 13. | Enacted | 84 | May 15, 2025 | 1 |
| SB 932 | DUI Offenses - As enacted, creates a distance to drive program study committee to help determine the feasibility of implementing a distance to drive program that would facilitate reinstatement of suspended and revoked driver licenses for criminal defendants based on meeting the objectives set by the court and completing all the requirements set by the department of safety. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55. | Enacted | 84 | May 15, 2025 | 3 |
| SB 937 | Education - As enacted, prohibits a public school, LEA, or teacher, employee, or contractor of a public school or LEA from requiring a student, teacher, employee, or contractor of the public school or LEA to provide the individual's preferred pronouns; makes related revisions. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 9, Chapter 8; Title 29, Chapter 20 and Title 49. | Enacted | 84 | May 15, 2025 | 7 |
| SB 931 | Food and Food Products - As enacted, prohibits labeling a cell-cultured food product as meat or a meat food product. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 39; Title 40; Title 43; Title 44; Title 47 and Title 53. | Enacted | 84 | May 15, 2025 | 3 |
| SB 769 | Criminal Offenses - As enacted, makes the offense of possession of a used, detached catalytic converter by an unauthorized person punishable by a term of imprisonment not greater than 11 months, 29 days; a fine not to exceed $2,500; or both, instead of only subject to a fine. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title 55 and Title 62. | Enacted | 84 | May 15, 2025 | 3 |
| SB 881 | Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, removes the aggregate penalty limits for violations of law concerning pharmacy benefits managers; provides that a pharmacy benefits manager regulated under law relative to pharmacy benefits managers is subject to the insurance laws relative to timely reimbursement of health insurance claims and its requirements for timing of payments to pharmacists; provides that a violation of the prompt pay standards is governed by the penalties set out in insurance laws relative to timely reimbursement of health insurance claims. - Amends TCA Title 56. | Enacted | 84 | May 15, 2025 | 3 |
| SB 1346 | Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates a civil and criminal action for individuals who are the subject of an intimate digital depiction that is intentionally disclosed without the individual's consent under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 28 and Title 39, Chapter 17. | Enacted | 84 | May 15, 2025 | 3 |
| SB 1273 | Education, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to implement a transition plan to close the achievement school district (ASD) and to release all schools currently assigned to the ASD before the start of the 2026-2027 school year; requires the department to establish a different intervention system for priority schools; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Enacted | 84 | May 15, 2025 | 4 |
| SB 102 | Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the Tennessee technology development corporation to June 30, 2027. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 14, Part 2 and Title 4, Chapter 29. | Enacted | 84 | May 15, 2025 | 2 |
| SB 1089 | Courts, Municipal - As enacted, increases from $1.00 to $2.00 the amount of funds from the court costs collected in municipal court cases that must be forwarded by the municipal court clerk to the state treasurer for deposit and credited to the account for the administrative office of the courts for the sole purpose of defraying the administrative director's expenses in providing training and continuing education courses for municipal court judges and municipal court clerks. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 18 and Title 17, Chapter 3. | Enacted | 84 | May 15, 2025 | 1 |