Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session All Bills (Page 289)
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1935
Filed/Introduced
8/16/26
Introduced
1/22/26
Refer
2/4/26
Taxes, Real Property - As introduced, prohibits a city or county collecting official from requiring a taxpayer to pay the full tax due for an assessment for which an appeal is pending before the county or state boards of equalization. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1938
Filed/Introduced
8/16/26
Introduced
1/22/26
Refer
2/4/26
Failed
3/17/26
Prisons and Reformatory Institutions - As introduced, prohibits this state or a local government from entering into a new contract or renewing an existing contract for the provision of correctional services for an inmate under the custody and care of the department of correction or the local government. - Amends TCA Title 41, Chapter 24.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1939
Filed/Introduced
8/16/26
Introduced
1/22/26
Refer
2/4/26
Refer
3/10/26
Children's Services, Dept. of - As introduced, changes the caseload requirement for case managers in the department from a monthly average of 20 active cases or 20 children monitored to a cap of no more than 12 active cases involving no more than 12 families or 20 children monitored; requires the department to resolve each active case within 12 months and a status review hearing to be held if the case is not resolved within 12 months. - Amends TCA Section 37-5-132.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1940
Filed/Introduced
8/16/26
Introduced
1/22/26
Refer
2/4/26
Failed
3/18/26
Landlord and Tenant - As introduced, states that unlawful detainer actions are confidential and shielded from public inspection if the action was filed on or after July 1, 2026, the case was dismissed by the court or a party, an appeal is not pending in the case, and three years have passed since the date the action was filed or the parties have agreed in writing to shield the records from public disclosure. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5; Title 29, Chapter 18 and Title 66.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1897
Filed/Introduced
8/16/26
Introduced
1/22/26
Refer
2/4/26
Failed
3/10/26
Election Laws - As introduced, requires each county election commission to check each applicant with the systematic alien verification for entitlements (SAVE) program database prior to placing a registrant on the voter rolls in order to ensure non-United States citizens are not registered to vote in the county; requires, at least once each quarter, the county election commission to check the county's entire voter registration list through the SAVE program database to ensure that non-United States citizens are not on the voter rolls in the county. - Amends TCA Title 2.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1941
Filed/Introduced
8/16/26
Introduced
1/22/26
Refer
2/4/26
Failed
3/17/26
Appropriations - As introduced, prohibits this state from obligating, appropriating, or otherwise expending state funds, personnel, or other state resources to support any United States immigration and customs enforcement activities in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 10; Title 4, Chapter 4; Title 8; Title 9; Title 38 and Title 39.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1863
Filed/Introduced
8/16/26
Introduced
1/21/26
Refer
2/2/26
Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, requires the Tennessee higher education commission to submit a report to the education and finance committees of the senate and house of representatives identifying any fiscal year, beginning with the 2004 fiscal year, for which net lottery proceeds were insufficient to fully fund certain scholarships and grants, resulting in a pro rata reduction in award amounts or a draw upon the general shortfall reserve subaccount. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 49; Title 4, Chapter 51 and Title 49, Chapter 4.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1842
Filed/Introduced
8/16/26
Introduced
1/21/26
Refer
2/2/26
Taxes, Sales - As introduced, exempts from the state sales and use tax the retail sale of food and food ingredients. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 3 and Title 67.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1843
Filed/Introduced
8/16/26
Introduced
1/21/26
Refer
2/2/26
Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, prohibits a utility that provides electric, water, wastewater, or natural gas services from increasing the rate charged to customers who are 65 years of age or older upon notice that the customer qualifies for such rate cap pursuant to an age verification process established by the Tennessee public utilities commission (TPUC) by rule; requires notification to customers of the rate cap program within 90 days of a final rule; authorizes TPUC to promulgate a rule to develop an age verification and notification process. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 47, Chapter 18; Title 64; Title 65; Title 67 and Title 68.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1838
Filed/Introduced
8/16/26
Introduced
1/21/26
Refer
2/2/26
Refer
3/25/26
Refer
4/8/26
Education - As introduced, requires local education agencies and public charter schools to provide all high school students, instead of only high school seniors, the opportunity to take a nationally recognized career readiness assessment; requires the board of regents to establish a framework for institutions governed by the board to provide transcribable credit to students who earned a credential on a nationally recognized career readiness assessment in high school that may be applied toward the student's attainment of a postsecondary degree. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1840
Filed/Introduced
8/16/26
Introduced
1/21/26
Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires each LEA to submit a report to the department of education by July 31 each year that includes, for the immediately preceding school year, the number of students the LEA provided with information on the career and technical education opportunities offered by the LEA after the students were administered a career aptitude assessment in grade seven or eight. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1841
Filed/Introduced
8/16/26
Introduced
1/21/26
Refer
2/2/26
Local Education Agencies - As introduced, adds sixth grade to the grade levels for which a local board of education is required to establish an alternative school for students who have been suspended or expelled from the regular school program; requires a student in sixth grade who has been suspended for more than 10 days or expelled from the regular school program to attend an alternative school if there is space and staff available, with certain exceptions. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1773
Filed/Introduced
8/16/26
Introduced
1/20/26
Refer
1/22/26
Refer
3/4/26
Refer
4/8/26
Refer
4/14/26
Refer
4/14/26
Open Meetings - As enacted, authorizes emergency communications district boards of directors to participate in board meetings electronically under the open meetings law. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 86, Part 3 and Title 8, Chapter 44, Part 1.
Companion bill has been assigned Public Chapter Number 1099 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1779
Filed/Introduced
8/16/26
Introduced
1/20/26
Refer
3/4/26
Taxes, Real Property - As introduced, requires a written notice of the intended seizure of personal property given by the county trustee, deputy trustee, or delinquent tax attorney that is mailed to the taxpayer's last known address be provided by certified, registered, or first class mail. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tennessee House Bill HB1780
Filed/Introduced
8/16/26
Introduced
1/20/26
Education, Higher - As introduced, extends, from January 1 to January 15, the deadline for the department of correction to submit its annual report on higher education opportunities available to incarcerated individuals to the chairs of the judiciary and education committees of the senate and the criminal justice and education administration committees of the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 49.