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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee Senate Bill SB2141

Introduced
1/23/26  
Engrossed
3/2/26  
Enrolled
4/20/26  
Education, Higher - As enacted, removes various dates by which various reports must be submitted by various entities; makes various changes to the Tennessee student assistance award; requires new and existing transfer pathways to be reviewed on a rotating basis; authorizes the Tennessee higher education commission to conduct private meetings for certain purposes; makes various other changes related to financial aid and higher education. - Amends TCA Title 43, Chapter 6, Part 5 and Title 49. SB2141 has been assigned Public Chapter Number 899 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB2139

Introduced
1/23/26  
Engrossed
3/23/26  
Enrolled
4/15/26  
Passed
4/27/26  
Education - As enacted, revises the requirements for electronic participation in school board meetings under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 49. SB2139 has been assigned Public Chapter Number 852 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB2144

Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases the penalties for a violation of the offense of introduction or possession of contraband into a penal institution from a Class C felony to a Class B felony for certain acts and certain types of contraband, from a Class D felony to a Class C felony for certain acts and certain types of contraband, and from a Class E felony to a Class D felony for certain acts involving a telecommunication device if the violation resulted in the death of another person. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB2142

Juvenile Offenders - As introduced, deletes an obsolete statute requiring the administrative office of the courts, department of children's services, and the commission on children and youth to jointly submit a report on juvenile justice data collection by January 1, 2019. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 37 and Title 39.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB2143

Taxes, Sales - As introduced, expands sales tax exemptions on repair and refurbishment of aircraft and aircraft components, including equipment and parts used, performed by Tennessee-based aircraft repair companies from only large or transport category aircraft to include all aircraft, including helicopters, that will be removed outside the state following repair. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 3.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB2023

TennCare - As enacted, extends the nursing home annual assessment fee to June 30, 2027; makes other related revisions. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5, Part 10. Companion bill has been assigned Public Chapter Number 990 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB2021

Welfare - As introduced, requires the commissioner of human services to provide to the commissioner of correction an application for food assistance to be used by inmates in state correctional institutions prior to release; requires the application to contain an option for the inmate to indicate a denial to apply for food assistance and reasons for doing so; requires the commissioner of correction to supply the application to each inmate prior to release; requires reports to the general assembly on certain data collected from the applications and on the number of inmates leaving incarceration who are approved for food assistance. - Amends TCA Title 41 and Title 71.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB2022

Highways, Roads and Bridges - As introduced, requires the commissioner of transportation to establish rules governing reimbursement of relocation costs to a utility; requires reimbursement of at least $2.5 million for projects with utility relocation costs exceeding $2.5 million; requires the department to approve a utility owner's plan to accomplish the proposed new location of utility facilities in highway rights-of-way if the proposal would effectuate the relocation at the lowest cost to the utility and its ratepayers; makes other related revisions. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 54.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB2018

Introduced
1/22/26  
Engrossed
2/23/26  
Enrolled
3/19/26  
Passed
4/1/26  
Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As enacted, revises provisions relating to the production of documents in certain proceedings relating to the retirement of a member of the Tennessee consolidated retirement system (TCRS); revises provisions relating to the temporary reemployment of such a member upon retirement. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 25; Title 8, Chapter 34; Title 8, Chapter 35 and Title 8, Chapter 36. SB2018 has been assigned Public Chapter Number 658 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB2019

Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, revises law relative to alcoholic beverages. - Amends TCA Title 57. Companion bill has been assigned Public Chapter Number 999 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee Senate Bill SB2020

Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, prohibits health insurance entities from downcoding reimbursement claims from healthcare professionals except in limited circumstances; makes certain other changes related to health insurance claim adjudication. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB2024

Introduced
1/22/26  
Engrossed
2/23/26  
Enrolled
3/11/26  
Passed
3/25/26  
Employees, Employers - As enacted, exempts from the requirement that wages earned by employees in private employment are due and payable no later than the fifth day of the succeeding month those employees who are employed on a piece-work or commission basis, and requires that compensation for such employees is due and payable by the last day of the succeeding month; makes certain other changes relative to employee compensation. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 2, Part 1. SB2024 has been assigned Public Chapter Number 617 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB2025

Judges and Chancellors - As enacted, creates a pilot project to provide for criminal magistrates in the 10 counties in which the criminal courts experience the highest judicial caseload, if authorized by the legislative body of an eligible county; authorizes the judges of the county with criminal jurisdiction to appoint the criminal magistrate, who shall serve at the pleasure of the majority of the judges of the county with criminal jurisdiction. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 17 and Title 40. Companion bill has been assigned Public Chapter Number 1017 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB2031

Introduced
1/22/26  
Engrossed
3/23/26  
Enrolled
4/8/26  
Passed
4/23/26  
Healthcare Liability - As enacted, authorizes a person to bring a civil action against a healthcare professional for an injury that is a result of a medical procedure, if the procedure was for enabling the person to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the person's sex or treating purported discomfort or distress from a discordance between the person's sex and asserted identity, and the person consented; or if the person was a minor at the time of the procedure, the person's parent, guardian, or representative consented due to an act of coercion by the professional. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 63 and Title 68. SB2031 has been assigned Public Chapter Number 794 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB2030

Introduced
1/22/26  
Engrossed
3/16/26  
Sexual Offenders - As enacted, requires sexual offenders and violent sexual offenders to notify the owner or operator of any campground on which the offender intends to stay overnight of the offender's status as a sexual offender or violent sexual offender prior to beginning the stay; creates the offense of knowingly staying overnight at a campground without providing the required notice, which is punished as a Class E felony. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 39, Part 2. SB2030 has been assigned Public Chapter Number 972 by the Secretary of State.