Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session All Bills (Page 200)

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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee Senate Bill SB2166

Banks and Financial Institutions - As enacted, clarifies that the service of transmitting money from a location originating in this state to a location outside of the United States or its territories is a taxable service and that such a tax is generally levied on the amount of money transmitted; requires revenues generated from such a tax to be allocated to certain funds and purposes. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 38; Title 39; Title 45; Title 47; Title 49 and Title 67. Companion bill has been assigned Public Chapter Number 1035 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee Senate Bill SB2170

Jails, Local Lock-ups - As introduced, requires the monthly report of the warden of a county workhouse for each prisoner placed under a work release program to be filed with the judge by whom the prisoner was sentenced on or before the fifteenth day of the month immediately following the reporting period. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 40 and Title 41.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB2168

Introduced
2/2/26  
Chaptered
4/24/26  
Education - As enacted, requires LEAs and public charter schools to recognize Victims of Communism Day to honor the people who have fallen victim to communist regimes by providing high school students enrolled in a world history and geography course with at least 45 minutes of instruction on such topic. - Amends TCA Title 15; Title 49, Chapter 1 and Title 49, Chapter 6. Companion bill has been assigned Public Chapter Number 757 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB2169

Public Defenders - As introduced, creates five additional social worker positions in the public defender system. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 14 and Title 9, Chapter 4.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB2175

Introduced
2/2/26  
Engrossed
3/16/26  
Enrolled
4/8/26  
Passed
4/23/26  
Water - As enacted, requires the department of environment and conservation to add water system projects located in counties having a population of less than 57,000 according to the 2020 census, or a subsequent census, to the priority list for consideration for loans from the water system revolving loan fund. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 221. SB2175 has been assigned Public Chapter Number 803 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee Senate Bill SB2172

Introduced
2/2/26  
Environment and Conservation, Department of - As introduced, extends from two years to 27 months the amount of time that the commissioner has to designate the boundaries of a scenic river area following the addition of a river segment to the state scenic rivers system. - Amends TCA Title 11, Chapter 13 and Title 68, Chapter 211.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB2173

Introduced
2/2/26  
Engrossed
4/15/26  
Enrolled
4/30/26  
Passed
5/22/26  
Tennessee Fish & Wildlife Commission - As enacted, establishes a statutory schedule of permit fees for the operation of off highway vehicles at North Cumberland Wildlife Management Area. - Amends TCA Title 70, Chapter 9. SB2173 has been assigned Public Chapter Number 1120 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB2162

Open Meetings - As enacted, authorizes a governing body to conduct an executive session for the purpose of interviewing applicants for employment as director-level staff of the body without providing public notice of such session. - Amends TCA Title 8. Companion bill has been assigned Public Chapter Number 1048 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee Senate Bill SB2167

Introduced
2/2/26  
Engrossed
3/2/26  
Enrolled
4/1/26  
Passed
4/14/26  
Boards and Commissions - As enacted, integrates the bureau of TennCare into the statewide planning and policy council’s structure and mission by adding the director of long-term care services and a managed care organization representative to its membership; expands the council’s advisory and reporting duties to include TennCare’s director, services, and waiver implementation alongside existing department programs. - Amends TCA Title 52, Chapter 5, Part 6 and Title 71, Chapter 5. SB2167 has been assigned Public Chapter Number 716 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB2155

Introduced
2/2/26  
Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, establishes the Tennessee commission of insurance review; prohibits a health insurance entity from offering or maintaining a health benefit plan that uses downcoding in a manner that prevents the provider from collecting the fee for actual services performed either from the health benefit plan or the patient; makes other changes related to health insurance and health insurers. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 56 and Title 71.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB2161

Bail, Bail Bonds - As enacted, removes the requirement to place a defendant on a state or federal list or database as a fugitive from justice for failure to appear, unless it's on a felony; authorizes a court to relieve the surety of liability for an undertaking if the defendant has not been placed on the available state or federal list or database within five business days of the entering agency's receipt of the bench warrant or capias. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40. Companion bill has been assigned Public Chapter Number 1026 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee Senate Bill SB2158

Introduced
2/2/26  
Engrossed
3/30/26  
Enrolled
4/8/26  
Passed
4/23/26  
General Assembly - As enacted, revises and clarifies procedures of the joint committee on ways and means, including authorizing the committee to issue notice that a hearing will not be held or to hold a hearing to review the application or acceptance of federal aid in an amount that is less than $25 million. - Amends TCA Section 4-4-116 and Chapter 512 of the Public Acts of 2025. SB2158 has been assigned Public Chapter Number 801 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB2164

Election Laws - As introduced, enacts the "Election Integrity Act of 2026"; creates a process by which a candidate in a local election may challenge the results of the election prior to certification of the election if the candidate has reason to believe errors were made in the adminstration of the election. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 49.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB2165

Introduced
2/2/26  
Engrossed
3/16/26  
Enrolled
4/8/26  
Passed
4/23/26  
Foster Care - As enacted, requires the department of children's services to provide a copy of a petition to terminate parental rights for a child in the custody of the department to the child's foster parent, if the foster parent has served as the physical placement for the child for a period of nine or more consecutive months; requires the department to provide the required copy within seven days of the filing or being served with the petition. - Amends TCA Section 36-1-113 and Section 37-2-415. SB2165 has been assigned Public Chapter Number 802 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB2160

Local Government, General - As enacted, authorizes counties with a metropolitan form of government, by resolution of their governing bodies, to levy a tax on the retail sale of food and food ingredients for human consumption within the county at a rate less than the local option sales tax rate or exempt the retail sale of such food and food ingredients from the local option sales tax; deletes obsolete provisions relating to the timing for reducing the membership of metropolitan councils. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 67, Chapter 6. Companion bill has been assigned Public Chapter Number 1014 by the Secretary of State.