Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session All Bills (Page 166)

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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee Senate Bill SB2709

Jonesborough - Subject to local approval, authorizes the board of mayor and alderman for the Town of Jonesborough to elect a mayor from among the aldermen to fill a vacancy; authorizes the Town recorder to carry liability insurance rather than be bonded in an amount prescribed by Town ordinance; updates the election dates for the mayor and board of aldermen. - Amends Chapter 135 of the Acts of 1903; as amended. Companion bill has been assigned Private Chapter Number 60 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB2710

Introduced
3/2/26  
Chaptered
5/1/26  
Kingsport - Subject to local approval, makes various changes to the charter, including when a vice-mayor is chosen by the board; when warrants to collect delinquent taxes may be issued; removes a requirement that a tentative appropriation ordinance must be published in a newspaper; changes from the 1st of July to the 1st of September when elected board of education members assume office and when such members must choose a president. - Amends Chapter 76 of the Private Acts of 1917; as amended. Companion bill has been assigned Private Chapter Number 49 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB2716

Lafayette - Subject to local approval, moves the date of elections from coinciding with the primary in May to coinciding with the general election in November; increases the compensation of the council members from $100 to $150 for each council meeting and from $50 to $75 for each committee meeting; increases the annual salary of the mayor from $45,000 to $75,000; authorizes the mayor, subject to confirmation of the city council, a superintendent of streets and a superintendent of sanitation. - Amends Chapter 325 of the Private Acts of 1945; as amended. Companion bill has been assigned Private Chapter Number 64 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee Senate Bill SB2708

Introduced
2/25/26  
Engrossed
3/9/26  
Enrolled
4/1/26  
Passed
4/14/26  
Williamson County - Subject to local approval, authorizes the board of the Williamson County hospital district to sell real property owned or operated by the hospital district and lease substantially all of the facilities owned or operated by the hospital district if approved by the Williamson County board of commissioners. - Amends Chapter 107 of the Private Acts of 1957; as amended. SB2708 has been assigned Private Chapter Number 37 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee Senate Bill SB2700

Introduced
2/17/26  
Engrossed
3/23/26  
Enrolled
3/25/26  
Passed
4/13/26  
Greenbrier - Subject to local approval, increases salary of aldermen from $120 per month to $300 per month, with no such increase to apply to an incumbent prior to the end of the term for which the elected official was selected; establishes purchasing limits in accordance with state law rather than by specific amounts in charter. - Amends Chapter 207 of the Private Acts of 1996; as amended and rewritten. SB2700 has been assigned Private Chapter Number 36 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB2714

Introduced
3/3/26  
Chaptered
5/1/26  
Grand Junction - Subject to local approval, authorizes the board of mayor and aldermen to appoint a town administrator; specifies the duties of the town administrator; transfers certain duties of the mayor to the town administrator; changes the appointment of the city recorder from the mayor to the board of mayor and aldermen. - Amends Chapter 75 of the Private Acts of 1969; as amended. Companion bill has been assigned Private Chapter Number 50 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB2715

Introduced
3/3/26  
Chaptered
5/1/26  
Oakland - Subject to local approval, transfers authority to appoint and remove all directors and department heads, excluding the town recorder, from the board of mayor and aldermen to the town manager. - Amends Chapter 167 of the Private Acts of 1994; as amended. Companion bill has been assigned Private Chapter Number 51 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB2717

Introduced
3/4/26  
Chaptered
5/1/26  
Martin - Subject to local approval, rewrites the city charter. - Amends Chapter 158 of the Private Acts of 1992; as amended. Companion bill has been assigned Private Chapter Number 48 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB2718

Weakley County - Subject to local approval, increases, from 15¢ to 20¢, the mineral severance tax in accordance with statutory guidelines. - Amends Chapter 270 of the Private Acts of 1982.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee Senate Bill SB2440

Introduced
2/2/26  
Controlled Substances - As introduced, enacts the "Pot for Potholes Act"; establishes a regulatory structure for the cultivation, processing, and retail sale of marijuana and marijuana products in this state to be administered by the department of agriculture. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 29; Title 33; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41; Title 43; Title 45; Title 50; Title 53; Title 54; Title 63; Title 67; Title 68 and Title 71.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee Senate Bill SB2438

Education, Higher - As introduced, deletes an obsolete requirement that the governing board of each public institution of higher education submit a report on the institution's implementation of a research security policy by July 1, 2025, to the chairs of the education committee of the senate and the education committees of the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 9 and Title 49.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB2439

Taxes, Real Property - As introduced, urges the comptroller of the treasury to study the feasibility and potential impacts of establishing the value of all residential property as the most recent price paid for the property in lieu of assessors of property appraising the value through the use of assessment manuals; requires a report, if the study is conducted, to be submitted to the finance, ways and means committee of the senate and the committee of the house of representatives having jurisdiction over finance matters. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB2432

Education, Dept. of - As introduced, changes from February 1 to October 1, the annual reporting date by which the commissioner of education and the commissioner of safety shall jointly report to the governor and the general assembly the implementation of and compliance with the "Schools Against Violence in Education Act." - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee Senate Bill SB2427

Introduced
2/2/26  
Engrossed
4/2/26  
Enrolled
4/8/26  
Passed
4/23/26  
Nurses, Nursing - As enacted, revises various provisions regarding medication aides, including allowing for a student in good standing enrolled in an approved school of nursing to be eligible to receive a medication aide certificate. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 7. SB2427 has been assigned Public Chapter Number 813 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee Senate Bill SB2431

Introduced
2/2/26  
Engrossed
4/21/26  
Enrolled
4/29/26  
Passed
5/22/26  
Health Care - As enacted, makes various changes to health-related laws, including, but not limited to, requiring the commissioner of health to prescribe conditions under which processed and verified claims data found on the UB-92 form are made available to the public; revising law relative to critical access hospitals, and revising law relative to certificates of need. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 63 and Title 68. SB2431 has been assigned Public Chapter Number 1136 by the Secretary of State.