Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session All Bills (Page 129)

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Tennessee Senate Bill SB0968

Energy - As introduced, changes the administrative, reporting, oversight, and accountability of the state energy policy council from the state energy policy council to the department of economic and community development and the department of environment and conservation. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 204.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB0967

Landlord and Tenant - As introduced, increases, from 30 to 45, the number of days a tenant or household member and a landlord have to agree upon a date to terminate a residential rental or lease agreement, provided the tenant supplies written notice and documentation to the landlord that the tenant is a domestic abuse, sexual assault, or stalking victim. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 13; Title 20; Title 21; Title 25; Title 26; Title 28; Title 29; Title 40; Title 62; Title 66; and Title 68.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB0966

Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, expands the period of peacetime military service of a member of the Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System (TCRS) that the member may purchase for creditable service in TCRS. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 34.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB0969

Game and Fish Laws - As introduced, extends from January 1 to 15, the deadline by which the wildlife resources agency must submit to legislative committees with subject matter jurisdiction over natural resources a written report containing the estimated acreage managed by the agency that has been closed to recreational hunting and fishing during the previous fiscal year and the reasons for the closures; the estimated acreage managed by the agency that was opened to recreational hunting and fishing to compensate for the acreage that was so closed; and the estimated acreage of new public hunting and fishing lands added. - Amends TCA Title 70.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB0970

Introduced
2/5/25  
Chaptered
4/28/25  
Water Authorities - As enacted, generally authorizes the board of directors of a municipal energy authority to, as part of the transfer of a water and wastewater system, adopt and assume all or any portion of such regulatory powers, authority, duties, obligations, and oversight over the water and wastewater operations as were applicable to the municipal water and wastewater system pursuant to ordinances, resolutions, or other rules or policies that were in effect immediately prior to the transfer of such system to the authority; authorizes later amendment to such rules, regulations, and requirements. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 68. Companion bill has been assigned Public Chapter Number 283 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB0956

Introduced
2/5/25  
Expunction - As introduced, lowers the period of time that must elapse after completion of the sentence imposed before a petitioner may have an eligible criminal offense expunged, for misdemeanors or Class E felonies, from five years to three years, and for Class D felonies, from 10 years to six years. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB0971

Jails, Local Lock-ups - As introduced, exempts a prisoner of a county workhouse or jail who is released from custody on work release from wearing an electronic monitoring device if the prisoner was convicted of a non-violent crime and the sheriff has determined that the prisoner poses a low risk to the public and for escape. - Amends TCA Title 41, Chapter 2.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB0973

Financial Institutions, Dept. of - As introduced, increases, from 10 to 15 business days, the time that the commissioner has after receipt of an application for a certificate of authority or any accompanying documents for organization of a business authorized to conduct banking business that do not comply with requirements for the documents to return the certificate or documents to the incorporators with notice of the defect in the application. - Amends TCA Title 34; Title 45 and Title 47.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB0974

Banks and Financial Institutions - As introduced, reduces, from 60 days to 45 days, the time within which, after the end of the calendar year, the commissioner of financial institutions must submit the department's annual report to the governor. - Amends TCA Title 45.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB0972

Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires an LEA or public charter school to install, maintain, and use, subject to parental request and approval, a video camera surveillance system in each special education classroom operated by the LEA or public charter school to continuously monitor students, teachers, and staff in special education classrooms while special education or related services are being provided to students. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB0976

Tobacco, Tobacco Products - As introduced, urges the department of agriculture to study the effects of the sale and distribution of smokeless nicotine products and other alternative nicotine products to persons under 21; encourages the department to make recommendations to the legislature with regard to reducing such sales and distribution. - Amends TCA Title 1; Title 4; Title 39; Title 43; Title 47; Title 49; Title 62; Title 63; Title 67 and Title 68.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB0977

Financial Institutions, Dept. of - As introduced, reduces from 60 to 45 days, the time period following the end of each calendar year during which the commissioner must annually report to the governor. - Amends TCA Title 45.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB1003

Introduced
2/5/25  
Engrossed
4/7/25  
Enrolled
4/22/25  
Passed
5/5/25  
Education - As enacted, requires, if an approved universal reading screener is administered to pre-k students at an LEA or public charter school, the LEA or public charter school to allow the pre-k teacher whose students were administered the screener to use the results as an approved alternative student growth model or the pre-k/kindergarten portfolio growth model to generate individual growth scores for teachers pursuant to the evaluation guidelines developed by the department of education. - Amends TCA Title 49. SB1003 has been assigned Public Chapter Number 385 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB1004

Introduced
2/5/25  
Engrossed
4/7/25  
Enrolled
4/16/25  
Passed
4/17/25  
Abortion - As enacted, clarifies the term "serious risk of substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function" as used in present law provisions relative to criminal abortion. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 29; Title 33; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 53; Title 56; Title 62; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71. SB1004 has been assigned Public Chapter Number 217 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB1005

Introduced
2/5/25  
Engrossed
3/27/25  
Enrolled
4/22/25  
Passed
5/5/25  
Adoption - As enacted, allows petitioners to include all children in one adoption petition if the petitioners are seeking to adopt more than one child at the same time, unless the court issues a written order finding that it is in the best interest of the children that separate petitions be filed; specifies that the clerk of court must charge only one filing fee for such a petition. - Amends TCA Title 18; Title 36 and Title 37. SB1005 has been assigned Public Chapter Number 386 by the Secretary of State.