Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session All Bills (Page 12)

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Tennessee House Bill HB2440

Introduced
2/3/26  
Criminal Offenses - As introduced, requires TACIR to study and prepare a report on marijuana arrests made in this state from 2015 to 2025, including data on race, age, gender, and the location of arrest. - Amends TCA Title 4.
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Tennessee House Bill HB2442

Introduced
2/3/26  
Refer
3/4/26  
Refer
3/25/26  
District Attorneys - As introduced, changes from 10 days to 10 business days the amount of notice the president of the district attorneys general conference must give members before calling a meeting at will. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 7 and Title 9, Chapter 4.
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Tennessee House Bill HB2435

Introduced
2/3/26  
Libraries - As introduced, clarifies that the Age-Appropriate Materials Act of 2022 does not apply to any materials in the Tennessee Electronic Library. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 1, Part 3 and Title 49, Chapter 6.
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Tennessee House Bill HB2434

Introduced
2/3/26  
Refer
2/5/26  
Education - As introduced, prohibits local boards of education and public charter school governing bodies from allowing, through their policies, a material in a library collection to be removed while it is being evaluated by the local board, governing body, or the state textbook and instructional materials quality commission, if applicable, until a determination is made as to whether the material is appropriate for the age and maturity level of the students who may access it, and whether the material is suitable for, and consistent with, the educational mission of the school. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.
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Tennessee House Bill HB2437

Introduced
2/3/26  
Taxes, Sales - As introduced, exempts the retail sale of generic food products from the food retail sales tax. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.
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Tennessee House Bill HB2542

Introduced
2/3/26  
Refer
2/5/26  
Refer
2/18/26  
Refer
3/4/26  
Engrossed
3/12/26  
Enrolled
4/27/26  
Passed
5/21/26  
Unemployment Compensation - As enacted, removes a requirement that work be deemed suitable for a claimant if certain criteria are met and a claimant's gross weekly wages equal or exceed certain threshold percentages of the claimant's weekly wage for insured work for the quarter of the base period when the claimant's wages were greatest. - Amends TCA Section 50-7-303. HB2542 has been assigned Public Chapter Number 1043 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee House Bill HB2543

Introduced
2/3/26  
Refer
2/5/26  
Refer
3/11/26  
Refer
3/18/26  
Refer
3/25/26  
Refer
3/31/26  
Chaptered
5/5/26  
Public Funds and Financing - As enacted, specifies the conditions that must be satisfied for monies from the governor's response and recovery fund to be provided to eligible local governmental entities and to eligible individuals in qualifying counties following an emergency or disaster. - Amends TCA Section 9-4-216. Companion bill has been assigned Public Chapter Number 855 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee House Bill HB2544

Introduced
2/3/26  
Refer
2/5/26  
Refer
3/3/26  
Refer
3/10/26  
Chaptered
4/6/26  
Taxes - As enacted, requires a person using a liquified gas propelled motor vehicle to pay the liquified gas tax on delivery of the liquified gas into the vehicle's fuel supply tank instead of prepaying the tax on an annual basis; eliminates the annual renewal requirement for the liquified gas user permit, instead making it a permanent and valid permit dependent on timely reports and remittance of taxes or until surrendered or canceled; makes other tax-related changes. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 1, Part 18; Title 67, Chapter 3, Part 11 and Title 67, Chapter 6. Companion bill has been assigned Public Chapter Number 653 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee House Bill HB2555

Introduced
2/3/26  
Medical Occupations - As introduced, reduces from 45 to 35 days, the amount of time the board of physician assistants has to either render a decision on a licensure application submitted by an individual licensed, registered, or certified as a physician assistant in another jurisdiction or inform the licensure applicant from another jurisdiction of the need to appear before the board. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 24; Title 33; Title 38; Title 49; Title 53; Title 55; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68; Title 71 and Chapter 1042 of the Public Acts of 2024.
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Tennessee House Bill HB2556

Introduced
2/3/26  
Dentists and Dentistry - As introduced, changes from at least five years to at least six years, the period of residency and practice in this state that each of the two dental hygienist members appointed to the board of dentistry on or after July 1, 2026, must have prior to such appointment. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 56; Title 63, Chapter 5; Title 68 and Title 71.
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Tennessee House Bill HB2554

Introduced
2/3/26  
Nurses, Nursing - As introduced, reduces from 30 to 15 days the period following an election of the officers of the board of nursing within which the executive director must certify to the governor the names of the officers elected; reduces from 30 to 15 days the period following a vacancy in any office or in the board of nursing within which the executive director must certify such vacancy to the governor. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 33; Title 38; Title 53; Title 55; Title 63 and Title 68.
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Tennessee House Bill HB2546

Introduced
2/3/26  
Refer
2/5/26  
Refer
2/17/26  
Refer
3/4/26  
Refer
3/9/26  
Chaptered
4/6/26  
Sports - As enacted, makes changes relative to the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame, including reducing membership on the executive committee from seven to six members; adding to board responsibilities by requiring it to direct the mission of the hall of fame; and making other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 54. Companion bill has been assigned Public Chapter Number 654 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB2547

Introduced
2/3/26  
Refer
2/5/26  
Refer
3/18/26  
Refer
3/24/26  
Chaptered
4/29/26  
Real Property - As enacted, makes changes to law regarding restrictions on land purchases by sanctioned aliens or foreign entities. - Amends TCA Title 66, Chapter 2, Part 3. Companion bill has been assigned Public Chapter Number 806 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee House Bill HB2545

Criminal Offenses - As introduced, reduces, from five to four business days, the amount of time a warden has to report an offense in a penal institution to the appropriate district attorney generals. - Amends TCA Title 39.
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Tennessee House Bill HB2553

Introduced
2/3/26  
Education, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to review and propose revisions to the physical education standards to incorporate guidance published by the President's Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition to reestablish the presidential fitness test pursuant to Executive Order No. 14327 of the president of the United States on July 31, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 49.