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| Bill | Title | Status | Momentum | Last action | Docs |
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| HB 514 | Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, requires TACIR to perform a study on the impact of this state's firearm laws on each county's firearm sales, criminal offenses, and use of firearms for self-defense, as well as identifying the similarities and dissimilarities between the impacts on each county. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40. | Reported from Committee | 45 | Apr 9, 2025 | 2 |
| HB 462 | General Assembly - As introduced, requires the board of trustees of the Tennessee consolidated retirement system to convert a person's participation in the retirement system, for service as a member of the general assembly and as a participant in the hybrid plan, from the hybrid plan to the legacy plan upon the person completing 10 years of service as a member of the general assembly if the person became a member of the general assembly on or after July 1, 2014. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 8, Chapter 34; Title 8, Chapter 35 and Title 8, Chapter 36. | Reported from Committee | 45 | Apr 9, 2025 | 1 |
| HB 328 | Parks, Natural Areas Preservation - As introduced, requires that veterans who are Tennessee residents be offered the same discounts at state parks at the same rates and with the same frequency as discounts offered to state employees at state parks. - Amends TCA Title 11, Chapter 3 and Title 58. | Reported from Committee | 45 | Apr 9, 2025 | 1 |
| HB 1165 | Sentencing - As introduced, adds as an enhancement factor to be used in determining the sentence within the permissible range for a criminal offense that the defendant is an adult and committed the offense with a minor, regardless of whether the minor was convicted of the offense. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40. | Reported from Committee | 45 | Apr 9, 2025 | 2 |
| HB 364 | TennCare - As introduced, enacts "Emma's Bill," which requires that when making a determination of medical necessity, the bureau shall take into consideration the patient's overall condition and use such overall condition as a factor to determine the level of funding and what medical items and services the patient receives, even if such determination does not result in the least costly course of diagnosis or treatment. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 71. | Reported from Committee | 44 | Apr 9, 2025 | 1 |
| HB 1009 | Taxes, Ad Valorem - As introduced, increases the amount of the reimbursement that is paid under the provisions for property tax relief for disabled veteran homeowners from the first $175,000 of the full market value of the home to the first $250,000 of the full market value. - Amends TCA Section 67-5-704. | Reported from Committee | 44 | Apr 9, 2025 | 1 |
| HB 4 | Tort Liability and Reform - As introduced, increases the amount that a person may recover in an action brought against a local governmental entity under the Tennessee Governmental Tort Liability Act for claims brought on or after July 1, 2025, to $750,000 for the bodily injury or death of a person, $1.5 million for the bodily injury or death of all persons in an accident, occurrence, or act, and $250,000 for the injury or destruction of property of others. - Amends TCA Title 29. | In Committee | 36 | Apr 9, 2025 | 2 |
| HB 629 | Children - As introduced, authorizes a juvenile court to order a child who is accused of being delinquent or unruly and released prior to a hearing to wear a global positioning monitoring system device; if the court issues such an order, requires the entity operating the global positioning monitoring system to notify the probation officer or other entity ordered to take charge of the child if the child violates the instructions issued by the court upon release; requires students who are expelled for committing a zero tolerance offense for threatening mass violence on school property or at a school-related activity to undergo counseling and a mental health evaluation before returning to school. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39; Title 40, Chapter 11 and Title 49. | In Committee | 36 | Apr 9, 2025 | 1 |
| HB 21 | Taxes, Sales - As introduced, exempts from the state sales and use tax the retail sale of food and food ingredients. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 3 and Title 67. | In Committee | 34 | Apr 9, 2025 | 1 |
| HB 526 | Taxes, Business - As introduced, authorizes the commissioner of revenue to change the due date of the taxpayer's business tax return to a date that is not less than 60 calendar days, rather than two calendar months, following the end of the taxpayer's business tax period for purposes of the commissioner changing a taxpayer's business tax period to correspond to the taxpayer's fiscal year. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 7. | In Committee | 33 | Apr 9, 2025 | 1 |
| HB 1131 | Children's Services, Dept. of - As introduced, clarifies that on or before January 31 of each year, the department shall report information regarding child support to the general assembly and the governor. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 33; Title 34; Title 36; Title 37; Title 41; Title 49; Title 68 and Title 71. | In Committee | 33 | Apr 9, 2025 | 2 |
| HB 845 | Open Meetings - As introduced, increases, from 30 to 45, the number of days the office of open records counsel has to acknowledge and approve a plan submitted by a governing body detailing how the body plans to comply with electronic communication requirements that address meeting by means of an internet forum. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 44. | In Committee | 32 | Apr 9, 2025 | 3 |
| HB 440 | Treasurer, State - As introduced, allows the state treasurer to enter into an agreement with an entity to carry out certain activities in order to serve as a facility to securely produce, store, process, and ship bullion products for the state's depository. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 4. | In Committee | 32 | Apr 9, 2025 | 1 |
| HB 439 | Public Funds and Financing - As introduced, creates in the reserve for revenue fluctuations account a restricted account for the purchase and sale of precious metal bullion or specie; authorizes the state treasurer, with approval of the comptroller of the treasury, to purchase and sell precious metal bullion or specie with funds from that account. - Amends TCA Title 9. | In Committee | 32 | Apr 9, 2025 | 2 |
| HB 987 | Taxes, Tobacco, Tobacco Products - As introduced, requires cigarettes that are defined as heated tobacco products to be taxed at a rate of 0.15 cents per cigarette. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4. | In Committee | 31 | Apr 9, 2025 | 1 |
| HB 909 | Taxes, Sales - As introduced, reallocates the increase in the rate of sales and use tax from 6 percent to 7 percent pursuant to Chapter 856 of the Public Acts of 2002 by apportioning 4.6030 percent of such increase to municipalities. - Amends TCA Section 67-6-103. | In Committee | 30 | Apr 9, 2025 | 1 |
| HB 784 | Taxes, Sales - As introduced, exempts from the sales and use tax the retail sale of infant formula and diapers and wipes designed to be used by infants and children. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 3. | In Committee | 30 | Apr 9, 2025 | 1 |
| HB 574 | Election Laws - As introduced, requires acceptable forms of identification to cast a vote in an election in this state to be valid and unexpired; prohibits the registration of an applicant to vote without such a valid, unexpired identification. - Amends TCA Title 2. | In Committee | 30 | Apr 9, 2025 | 1 |
| HB 477 | Taxes - As introduced, allows a taxpayer to annually elect to take a bonus depreciation deduction of 40 percent of the cost of assets purchased on or after January 1, 2026, during the tax year in which the assets were purchased when calculating net earnings or net losses for excise tax purposes; allows the taxpayer to take the federal depreciation percentage if it exceeds 40 percent. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 20. | In Committee | 30 | Apr 9, 2025 | 1 |
| HB 831 | Taxes, Privilege - As introduced, reallocates 3 percent of revenue derived from the beer barrelage tax that is provided to the general fund to the department of agriculture for the purposes of supporting growth in the utilization of Tennessee agricultural products in brewing and in the promotion of the growth of the Tennessee brewing industry. - Amends TCA Title 57. | In Committee | 30 | Apr 9, 2025 | 1 |