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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee Senate Bill SB1243

Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, requires an insurance company that is admitted to do business in this state and insures the tangible personal property of a policyholder who resides in this state to provide a discount to the policyholder through the policyholder's homeowners or renters insurance policy if the policyholder secures the policyholder's firearms in a firearm safe or uses a firearm safety device for the firearms and requests to receive the annual discount. - Amends TCA Title 56.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB1241

Introduced
2/6/25  
Engrossed
4/15/25  
Enrolled
4/22/25  
Passed
5/5/25  
Child Abuse - As enacted, expands the definition of child abuse to include a person under the age of 18 witnessing either the abuse of another child in the person's immediate family or household or domestic abuse of a member of the person's immediate family or household; specifies that reunification between a parent and a child placed in foster care due to abuse must not occur unless the parent has complied with the parent's statement of responsibilities in the permanency plan and the child has received mental health counseling. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 37 and Title 39. SB1241 has been assigned Public Chapter Number 398 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB1242

Drugs, Prescription - As introduced, deletes an obsolete provision that required the comptroller of the treasury, in conjunction with any appropriate TennCare drug utilization review committees, to study the use of prescription drugs in nursing homes and the costs of those prescription drugs for residents of nursing homes; to examine prescription use overall; to focus on any practices that would improve the quality of resident care while reducing costs to the TennCare program; and to report by January 1, 2005, to the speaker of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33 and Title 71.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB1238

Children - As enacted, provides, in addition to present law, an alternative method for the voluntary surrender of parental rights if executed within the geographic boundaries of the state. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 37 and Title 68. Companion bill has been assigned Public Chapter Number 936 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB1240

Introduced
2/6/25  
Engrossed
4/15/25  
Enrolled
4/25/25  
Passed
5/8/25  
Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services, Dept. of - As enacted, revises present law relative to recovery residences and alcohol and drug prevention or treatment facilities under certification by the department. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13; Title 33; Title 47; Title 63 and Title 68. SB1240 has been assigned Public Chapter Number 406 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB1247

Recreational Areas - As introduced, changes from January 8 to January 31 the date by which the executive director of the Tennessee wildlife resources agency must submit an annual report on the administration of Reelfoot Lake natural area. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 11; Section 28-3-117; Title 39 and Title 70, Chapter 5.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB1257

Employees, Employers - As introduced, enacts the "Pay Stub Protection Act," which requires an employer to provide a statement to an employee on the employer's payday that contains certain information about the employee and the employee's wages and hours worked during the applicable pay period. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8 and Title 50.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB1284

Introduced
2/6/25  
Engrossed
3/6/25  
Enrolled
3/25/25  
Passed
4/3/25  
Boards and Commissions - As enacted, removes requirement that a license issued by a health related board be signed by members of the board prior to such issuance; authorizes the presiding officer to divide the board into panels to conduct contested case hearings or disciplinary matters; includes patient billing records as part of the medical and practice records that providers must make available for inspection upon the department's request; clarifies that identifying information of certain parties to a contested case hearing involving disciplinary charges filed against a provider must only be produced by the provider in response to a subpoena from a law enforcement agency. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 63 and Title 68. SB1284 has been assigned Public Chapter Number 127 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB1286

Introduced
2/6/25  
Chaptered
4/4/25  
Children - As enacted, removes the requirement that grants under the child care improvement pilot program be provided explicitly to nonprofit organizations in order to establish or make improvements to a child care agency. - Amends TCA Title 71. Companion bill has been assigned Public Chapter Number 80 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB1285

Introduced
2/6/25  
Engrossed
3/10/25  
Enrolled
3/18/25  
Passed
3/25/25  
State Employees - As enacted, expands bereavement leave for certain state officers and employees upon the death of certain relatives. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 50, Part 1. SB1285 has been assigned Public Chapter Number 74 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB1283

Introduced
2/6/25  
Engrossed
3/3/25  
Enrolled
3/7/25  
Passed
3/20/25  
Public Health - As enacted, adds as a disease for which a laboratory must test during a standard serological test of a pregnant woman hepatitis C antibody (anti-HCV) with automatic reflex to HCV RNA if anti-HCV is reactive, and makes certain other changes to the process of conducting required pregnancy serological tests. - Amends TCA Section 68-5-602. SB1283 has been assigned Public Chapter Number 46 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB1288

Introduced
2/6/25  
Chaptered
4/4/25  
Human Services, Dept. of - As enacted, makes various changes to the licensing exemption categories for programs and activities that fall within the definition of a child care agency; makes related changes, such as exempting home schools from licensure. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 71, Chapter 3, Part 5. Companion bill has been assigned Public Chapter Number 135 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB1289

Employees, Employers - As introduced, changes the maximum penalty amount from $7,000 for each violation by an employer of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1972, and from $70,000 for each willful and repeated violation of the act, to the maximum penalty allowed by the federal occupational safety and health administration. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 3, Part 4.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB1290

Introduced
2/6/25  
Engrossed
3/10/25  
Enrolled
3/25/25  
Passed
4/3/25  
Criminal Offenses - As enacted, makes permanent the exclusion of narcotic testing equipment used to determine whether a controlled substance contains a synthetic opioid, unless the narcotic testing equipment is possessed for purposes of the commission of a drug offense, from the definition of drug paraphernalia; removes the July 1, 2025, repeal date for that exclusion. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-402. SB1290 has been assigned Public Chapter Number 128 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee Senate Bill SB1291

Introduced
2/6/25  
Chaptered
5/8/25  
Scholarships and Financial Aid - As enacted, makes various changes to the Tennessee Support, Training, and Renewing Opportunity for National Guardsmen (STRONG) Act. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 10. Companion bill has been assigned Public Chapter Number 334 by the Secretary of State.