Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session All Bills (Page 11)

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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB2425

Introduced
2/3/26  
Refer
2/5/26  
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3/4/26  
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3/10/26  
Refer
4/15/26  
Recreational Areas - As enacted, expands the purposes for which monies from the Ocoee River recreation and economic development fund may be expended by the Ocoee River recreation and economic development fund board; replaces the park manager member of the board with the director of the division of state parks. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 10 and Title 11, Chapter 8. Companion bill has been assigned Public Chapter Number 981 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB2422

Introduced
2/3/26  
Refer
2/24/26  
Refer
3/17/26  
Refer
3/25/26  
Refer
4/15/26  
Refer
4/15/26  
Engrossed
4/21/26  
Enrolled
4/30/26  
Passed
5/21/26  
Education - As enacted, requires the department of education to implement a pilot program to evaluate whether administering fewer district- and state-mandated assessments results in students achieving greater academic success; adds an additional method by which a student who is not proficient in ELA, as determined by the student's achieving a performance level rating of “approaching” on the ELA portion of the student's most recent TCAP test may be promoted. - Amends TCA Title 49. HB2422 has been assigned Public Chapter Number 1030 by the Secretary of State. Conference Committee ReportsMajority Report # 1 for HB2422 / SB2317
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB2426

Introduced
2/3/26  
Refer
2/18/26  
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3/3/26  
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4/1/26  
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4/1/26  
Education - As enacted, creates an early educator workforce development resource task force. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49. Companion bill has been assigned Public Chapter Number 1133 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB2427

Introduced
2/3/26  
Refer
2/5/26  
Public Funds and Financing - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Transactional Gold and Silver Act," which recognizes gold and silver as legal tender for private transactions and, when accepted, for paying state and local taxes or fees; authorizes the creation of a secure bullion depository and an electronic payment system to support the use of gold and silver; exempts gold and silver transactions from state and local taxation. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 4.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB2429

Introduced
2/3/26  
Refer
2/5/26  
Refer
3/3/26  
Refer
3/23/26  
Chaptered
5/4/26  
Children - As enacted, revises various provisions regarding children, including requiring a parent educational seminar in certain juvenile cases. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37. Companion bill has been assigned Public Chapter Number 730 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB2415

Introduced
2/3/26  
Refer
3/4/26  
Refer
3/18/26  
Refer
3/24/26  
Health Care - As introduced, permits a healthcare organization's quality improvement committee to evaluate the security measures in place at a healthcare organization to ensure the safety of patients and staff. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 38; Title 62 and Title 68.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB2419

Introduced
2/3/26  
Refer
2/5/26  
Refer
3/4/26  
Annexation - As introduced, requires a municipality to obtain approval of a proposed annexation from the county legislative body; requires the municipality to submit certain reports to the county legislative body regarding the proposed annexation. - Amends TCA Title 6, Chapter 51, Part 1.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB2424

Taxes, Ad Valorem - As introduced, requires the notice submitted by the state board of equalization to a county mayor on whether an extension of time to complete a property reappraisal program is justified to be in writing. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 9; Title 12 and Title 67.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB2432

Introduced
2/3/26  
Refer
2/5/26  
Refer
3/11/26  
Refer
4/1/26  
Chaptered
4/29/26  
Statutes of Limitations and Repose - As enacted, requires prosecution for vehicular homicide committed on or after July 1, 2026, to commence within 10 years from the date the offense occurs. - Amends TCA Title 28; Title 39 and Title 40. Companion bill has been assigned Public Chapter Number 793 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB2423

Introduced
2/3/26  
Refer
2/5/26  
Refer
3/10/26  
Refer
3/24/26  
Refer
4/1/26  
Refer
4/7/26  
Chaptered
5/4/26  
Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires the state board of education, in consultation with the department of education, to qualify an advanced degree in media and technology as an advanced degree that leads to a library information specialist endorsement; establishes certain staffing requirements for libraries in public schools that serve students in any combination of grades nine through 12 based on current student enrollment; requires a public school that serves any of the grades 9-12 to employ a full-time library information specialist with an endorsement as a library information specialist if certain criteria is met. - Amends TCA Title 10 and Title 49. Companion bill has been assigned Public Chapter Number 864 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB2428

Introduced
2/3/26  
Refer
2/5/26  
Refer
3/25/26  
Refer
4/1/26  
Refer
4/8/26  
Criminal Offenses - As enacted, increases the penalty for assaulting a first responder from a Class A misdemeanor with a mandatory fine of $5,000 and a mandatory minimum of 30 days incarceration to a Class E felony with a mandatory fine of $10,000 and a mandatory minimum of 60 days incarceration. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40. Companion bill has been assigned Public Chapter Number 1104 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB2430

Introduced
2/3/26  
Welfare - As introduced, requires the commissioner of human services to provide to the commissioner of correction an application for food assistance to be used by inmates in state correctional institutions prior to release; requires the application to contain an option for the inmate to indicate a denial to apply for food assistance and reasons for doing so; requires the commissioner of correction to supply the application to each inmate prior to release; requires reports to the general assembly on certain data collected from the applications and on the number of inmates leaving incarceration who are approved for food assistance. - Amends TCA Title 41 and Title 71.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB2431

Introduced
2/3/26  
Refer
2/5/26  
Refer
3/9/26  
South Pittsburg - Subject to local approval, removes the requirement that the city administrator reside within the municipal limits to instead require residence within a 50-mile radius of the municipal limits. - Amends Chapter 213 of the Private Acts of 1992; as amended.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB2433

Introduced
2/3/26  
Taxes, Sales - As introduced, exempts books from sales tax on the annual sales tax holiday. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB2438

Introduced
2/3/26  
Refer
2/5/26  
Refer
3/2/26  
Refer
4/8/26  
Chaptered
5/4/26  
Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As enacted, designates November 9 of each year as "Gold Star Father's Day," to honor and recognize fathers who have lost children in service to the United States as members of the United States armed forces. - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2. Companion bill has been assigned Public Chapter Number 859 by the Secretary of State.