Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session All Bills (Page 152)

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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee Senate Bill SB2290

Probate Law - As introduced, permits a petitioner or affiant to proceed pro se in the administration of a small estate if the personal property consists exclusively of one or more life insurance policies that do not exceed $15,000 in value and are intended to be used for the decedent's burial, funeral, or final expenses; specifies that a person who files for a small estate affidavit or limited letters of authority is deemed to be acting in an individual capacity; requires the court clerk to provide a standardized form for filers. - Amends TCA Title 30; Section 56-7-206 and Title 62, Chapter 5.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB2291

Professions and Occupations - As enacted, adds that a managed services provider that provides direct sales, installation, or maintenance service for an IP camera connected to the managed services provider's network; derives less than 25% of the managed services provider's gross annual revenue from those services; and provides proof of employee vetting satisfactory to the commissioner is specifically excluded from the requirements of the Alarm Contractors Licensing Act. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 32. Companion bill has been assigned Public Chapter Number 998 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB2277

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 Senate Bill SB2285

Introduced
2/2/26  
Engrossed
4/2/26  
Enrolled
4/9/26  
Passed
4/27/26  
Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires that, in situations where an order of protection is issued to protect a student who is enrolled in a public school from another student in the same school, the school principal and, when reasonably practicable and appropriate, the building-level school safety team with input from the parent or legal guardian of the student who is named as the petitioner in the order of protection, to develop and implement a student safety plan that includes certain protocols; requires such parent or legal guardian to notify the school within 48 hours of any changes to the order of protection. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 49. SB2285 has been assigned Public Chapter Number 862 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB2286

Introduced
2/2/26  
Engrossed
3/19/26  
Enrolled
3/26/26  
Passed
4/13/26  
Nurses, Nursing - As enacted, requires the commissioner of health to use existing resources to conduct a study of neighboring states to examine the varying levels of practice independence that may or may not be granted to certified nurse midwives in such states; requires the commissioner to compile the findings of the study and any recommendations in a report and transmit the report to the general assembly no later than December 31, 2026. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29; Title 56, Chapter 32, Part 1; Title 56, Chapter 7, Part 24; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71, Chapter 5. SB2286 has been assigned Public Chapter Number 728 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB2287

Health Care - As introduced, requires TennCare to create a methodology to make medicaid facility fee reimbursement rates for birthing centers comparable to rates for similar services provided at a hospital; requires the department of health to give priority to allocating federal rural health transformation program grant funds to birthing centers in rural counties and urban counties that serve residents of rural counties. - Amends TCA Title 68 and Title 71.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB2274

Funeral Directors and Embalmers - As introduced, authorizes the operator of a crematory facility to provide an electronic receipt, instead of a written receipt, to the person who delivers a dead human body or body parts to the facility for cremation. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 10; Title 29; Title 30; Title 31; Title 32; Title 34; Title 35; Title 36; Title 38; Title 39; Title 46; Title 50; Title 55; Title 56; Title 58; Title 62; Title 67; Title 68 and Title 71.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee Senate Bill SB2275

Introduced
2/2/26  
Engrossed
3/9/26  
Enrolled
4/15/26  
Passed
4/27/26  
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. SB2275 has been assigned Public Chapter Number 859 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB2273

Introduced
2/2/26  
Engrossed
3/19/26  
Enrolled
4/1/26  
Passed
4/14/26  
Real Property - As enacted, provides that a provision of a document requiring a transferor or transferee to pay a fee, charge, assessment, dues, contribution, deposit, or other amount to purchase, issue, reissue, maintain, or transfer a club membership that is related to the real property or the community in which the property is sited is not a transfer fee covenant. - Amends TCA Title 66. SB2273 has been assigned Public Chapter Number 727 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee Senate Bill SB2278

Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, increases from quarterly to monthly, the frequency with which licensed hospitals must report claims data to the commissioner of health and adjusts the delinquency deadline to require submission within 60 days following the end of the month, rather than the end of the quarter. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 29; Title 33; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB2283

Introduced
2/2/26  
Engrossed
4/15/26  
Enrolled
5/5/26  
Passed
5/22/26  
Tourism - As enacted, requires revenue that is received by a municipality and that is used to fund a destination marketing entity engaged in tourism promotion on behalf of the municipality be released to the destination marketing entity no later than 120 days after the municipality approves its final budget. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 67. SB2283 has been assigned Public Chapter Number 1125 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB2276

Introduced
2/2/26  
Engrossed
4/2/26  
Enrolled
4/15/26  
Passed
4/27/26  
County Government - As enacted, prohibits the director of accounts and budgets for Overton County from being terminated or discharged without the approval of the county legislative body if such prohibition is approval by a 2/3 vote of the Overton County legislative body. - Amends TCA Title 5. SB2276 has been assigned Public Chapter Number 860 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB2292

Introduced
2/2/26  
Chaptered
4/24/26  
Education, Higher - As enacted, prohibits, until July 1, 2033, public disclosure of certain commercial contracts entered into in furtherance of an intercollegiate athletics program; extends the prohibition on public disclosure of certain records containing information relating to game or player integrity beyond July 1, 2026; clarifies that protecting certain intercollegiate athletics program records from disclosure does not create any private right of action or basis for any injunctive or equitable relief, except for certain claims made by a business. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 1. Companion bill has been assigned Public Chapter Number 759 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB2296

Education - As introduced, creates the task force for educational leadership to publish a comprehensive plan for the state to assume full responsibility for education programs currently administered by the United States department of education; requires the department of education to conduct an inventory of all existing federal education programs and grants administered by the state; requires the attorney general and reporter to conduct a review of all state statutes and rules that reference or incorporate federal education statutes or regulations for purposes of implementing the comprehensive plan. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8 and Title 49.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB2299

Secretary of State - As introduced, requires the secretary of state to create and maintain a publicly accessible, nonpartisan online candidate information page for each local, state, and federal election. - Amends TCA Title 2.