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| Bill | Title | Status | Momentum | Last action | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SB 346 | Fire Prevention and Investigation - As enacted, changes present law concerning the frequency of fire drills in educational occupancies. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 102. | Enacted | 84 | May 13, 2025 | 3 |
| SB 510 | Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As enacted, establishes that certain public officials, including members of the general assembly, who take office on or after July 1, 2025, have mandatory membership in the Tennessee consolidated retirement system (TCRS); allows a retiree to reannuitize retirement benefits in favor of a new spouse beneficiary following cancellation of a former spouse beneficiary due to divorce; makes other revisions to provisions governing the TCRS. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 25; Title 8, Chapter 34; Title 8, Chapter 35; Title 8, Chapter 36 and Title 8, Chapter 37. | Enacted | 84 | May 13, 2025 | 4 |
| SB 212 | Open Meetings - As enacted, expands the requirement that state and local governing bodies make an agenda available to the public prior to regular public meetings of the body to include the governing bodies of certain nonprofit organizations, including nonprofit community organizations that receive federal funding, nonprofit organizations that receive community grant funds from this state or certain funding from local governments, nonprofit organizations created for the benefit of local governments, and nonprofit organizations that provide the metropolitan government of Nashville/Davidson County with certain utility services; requires, rather than permits, such governing bodies that maintain a website to post the agenda to the website. - Amends TCA Section 8-44-110. | Enacted | 84 | May 13, 2025 | 5 |
| SB 202 | Highways, Roads and Bridges - As enacted, makes revisions regarding the naming of certain roads and bridges. - Amends TCA Title 54. | Enacted | 84 | May 13, 2025 | 5 |
| SB 227 | Tort Liability and Reform - As enacted, allows a charitable organization that provides housing to a person whom the charitable organization knows is unlawfully present in the United States to be held liable for a loss, damages, injury, or death resulting from a criminal offense committed by the person who is unlawfully present in the United States while the person is receiving housing services from the charitable organization if the charitable organization's conduct in providing housing constitutes negligence, gross negligence, or willful and wanton misconduct. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 34. | Enacted | 84 | May 13, 2025 | 3 |
| SB 110 | Disabled Persons - As enacted, authorizes a residential facility for persons with disabilities to operate in the eastern grand division of this state under an existing residential pilot program authorizing such facilities to operate in the western and middle grand divisions of this state that is administered by the department of disability and aging. - Amends TCA Title 33 and Title 52. | Enacted | 84 | May 13, 2025 | 3 |
| SB 408 | Tort Liability and Reform - As enacted, prohibits governmental entities or local boards of education from extending immunity granted to independent school bus contractors rather than independent school bus owners and operators for providing school-related transportation services; requires liability insurance coverage in a contract or agreement between a local board of education and an independent school bus contractor for such services to be in an amount sufficient to satisfy applicable law; permits evidence of such coverage to include a certificate of insurance from an insurance provider that lists the local board of education as an additional insured. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 20. | Enacted | 84 | May 13, 2025 | 1 |
| SB 1414 | Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, revises present law relative to 340B entities. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18 and Title 56. | Enacted | 84 | May 13, 2025 | 6 |
| SB 533 | Jails, Local Lock-ups - As enacted, requires, if a prisoner is released for paid employment, the cost of the electronic monitoring device to be deducted from the prisoner's wages by the sheriff and paid directly to the electronic monitoring device provider by the county or state, as applicable; requires, if a prisoner is released for unpaid work, the entity utilizing the prisoner for work to pay the costs of the electronic monitoring device. - Amends TCA Title 41. | Enacted | 84 | May 13, 2025 | 3 |
| SB 26 | Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As enacted, enacts the "Real Estate Infrastructure Development Act of 2025." - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 9; Title 12; Title 13; Title 66; Title 67 and Title 68. | Enacted | 84 | May 13, 2025 | 4 |
| SB 7 | Historical Commission - As enacted, prohibits the commission, and any other state entity other than the state building commission engaged in the historic preservation of real property, from regulating the renovation, alteration, or demolition of improved public or private real property that is not listed on the Tennessee register of historic places, or taking any adverse action against the owner of such real property, if the real property meets certain criteria. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 8; Title 13 and Title 66. | Enacted | 84 | May 13, 2025 | 4 |
| SB 481 | Forfeiture of Assets - As enacted, removes the requirement for a claimant to post a bond when filing a claim to seized property. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 33. | Enacted | 84 | May 13, 2025 | 1 |
| SB 357 | Sullivan County - As enacted, requires the members of a utility district board of commissioners to serve without compensation for their services, except that, by resolution duly adopted by the board of commissioners, each commissioner may receive per diem payments for not more than 12 meetings of the board of commissioners in any calendar year, at rates not greater than $500 per meeting. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 12; Title 13; Title 66 and Title 67. | Enacted | 84 | May 13, 2025 | 3 |
| SB 503 | Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As enacted, designates the month of June as "Celebration of Life" month, the month of July as "Celebration of Liberty" month, and the month of August as "Celebration of the Pursuit of Happiness" month in Tennessee. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 4. | Enacted | 83 | May 13, 2025 | 1 |
| SB 390 | Public Records - As enacted, authorizes the comptroller of the treasury to publish certain survey data that is otherwise deemed confidential. - Amends TCA Section 10-7-504. | Enacted | 83 | May 13, 2025 | 1 |
| SB 547 | Criminal Procedure - As enacted, requires the clerk of every court having jurisdiction of criminal offenses to include a $12.50 charge in every cost bill, to be remitted to the county government to provide support services for the purpose of promoting public safety at the sole discretion of the district attorney general; takes effect upon two-thirds vote of the county legislative body; requires a district attorney general receiving funding to submit an annual report. - Amends TCA Title 40. | Enacted | 83 | May 13, 2025 | 1 |
| SB 448 | Criminal Offenses - As enacted, removes a definition of "content harmful to minors" from the Protect Tennessee Minors Act. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17. | Enacted | 83 | May 13, 2025 | 1 |
| SB 688 | Education, State Board of - As enacted, expands the state board's power to subpoena the appearance of persons or the production of items the chair of the state board, or the chair's designee, considers material or relevant to an accountability hearing for a local education agency operating a public school, or a public charter school, receiving a "D" or "F" letter grade. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 3 and Title 49, Chapter 5. | Enacted | 83 | May 13, 2025 | 1 |
| SB 111 | Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, authorizes a licensee that holds more than a 50 percent ownership interest in a manufacturer and a winery that are located on the same deeded property to offer product tastings and make retail sales for consumption on or off of such premises of its wine or spirits manufactured on such deeded property at a location on the overlapping premises other than on the bonded premises of the manufacturer or winery. - Amends TCA Title 57. | Enacted | 83 | May 13, 2025 | 1 |
| SB 758 | Industrial Development - As enacted, redefines "remediation site" to include a 501(c)(3) nonprofit entity whose main purpose is to promote industrial development and new nuclear development upon dissolution of the existing nonprofit entity. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 53, Part 3. | Enacted | 83 | May 13, 2025 | 1 |