Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session All Bills (Page 294)

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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB2202

Introduced
2/2/26  
Refer
3/10/26  
Refer
3/18/26  
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 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB2186

Introduced
2/2/26  
Refer
2/5/26  
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3/4/26  
Refer
3/11/26  
Refer
3/18/26  
Refer
3/24/26  
Engrossed
4/6/26  
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. HB2186 has been assigned Public Chapter Number 1014 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee House Bill HB2188

Introduced
2/2/26  
Refer
2/5/26  
Refer
3/3/26  
Refer
3/25/26  
Chaptered
4/29/26  
Children's Services, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department and the department of disability and aging to collaborate to ensure that children with an intellectual or developmental disability who are in the custody of the department of children's services or at risk of entering the custody of the department receive appropriate services and supports for individuals with a disability; makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 9; Title 33; Title 37 and Title 52. Companion bill has been assigned Public Chapter Number 811 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB2187

Introduced
2/2/26  
Refer
2/5/26  
Refer
3/3/26  
Refer
3/10/26  
Refer
3/16/26  
Chaptered
5/5/26  
Federal Aid - As enacted, enacts the "Federal Tax Credit Scholarship Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9 and Title 49. Companion bill has been assigned Public Chapter Number 720 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee House Bill HB2197

Health Care - As introduced, authorizes an individual to submit a request for a pre-application determination of eligibility for an occupational license based on criminal history either in writing or electronically, rather than exclusively in writing, and updates the provision regarding judicial review to clarify that the 30-day window to petition the Davidson County chancery court is triggered by the receipt of either written or electronic notice of disqualification. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.
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Tennessee House Bill HB2198

Introduced
2/2/26  
State Government - As introduced, enacts the "DEI Compliance Certification Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8 and Title 49.
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Tennessee House Bill HB2195

Introduced
2/2/26  
Refer
2/5/26  
Safety - As introduced, requires an air medical communication specialist to be certified within six months of employment by certain listed certified flight programs. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 140.
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Tennessee House Bill HB2194

Introduced
2/2/26  
Refer
2/5/26  
Refer
2/18/26  
Refer
3/3/26  
Engrossed
3/10/26  
Enrolled
3/24/26  
Passed
4/16/26  
Education, Higher - As enacted, requires the board of regents, state university boards, and the board of trustees for the University of Tennessee system to adopt and implement policies that clearly distinguish between tenure decisions and disciplinary actions for faculty members. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, Chapter 8 and Title 49, Chapter 9. HB2194 has been assigned Public Chapter Number 761 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB2196

Introduced
2/2/26  
Refer
2/5/26  
Refer
2/18/26  
Refer
4/8/26  
Refer
4/8/26  
Local Government, General - As enacted, authorizes Putnam County and incorporated cities within the county to regulate sober living homes for recovery from alcohol, drug, and substance abuse to the extent such regulation complies with the "Fair Housing Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act." - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51, Part 26. Companion bill has been assigned Public Chapter Number 1073 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB2179

Introduced
2/2/26  
Refer
2/5/26  
Refer
3/18/26  
Refer
4/1/26  
Chaptered
5/5/26  
Workers Compensation - As enacted, adds a requirement that an award of attorneys' fees and costs incurred when an employer unreasonably denies a workers' compensation claim or unreasonably fails to timely initiate any of the benefits associated with the claim must be based on a finding by the workers' compensation judge that the employer's conduct was unreasonable; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 6. Companion bill has been assigned Public Chapter Number 845 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB2181

Introduced
2/2/26  
Corporations, Not for Profit - As introduced, requires a nonprofit organization that receives state or federal grants to compile, maintain, and publish in a publicly available location the salaries of the nonprofit organization's employees. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 10, Chapter 7; Title 35; Title 48 and Title 50.
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Tennessee House Bill HB2192

Introduced
2/2/26  
Agriculture, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to prohibit the sale of a food product that includes certain chemical ingredients, unless it has a warning label, if the FDA requires the ingredient to be disclosed and the food product is intended to be consumed by humans. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18 and Title 53.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB2189

Criminal Procedure - As introduced, requires the clerk of the court in which a person charged with a violent felony and for whom a biological specimen is taken for the purpose of DNA analysis to submit the clerk's notification to the TBI of the final disposition of the criminal proceeding against the person in writing. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 6; Title 39 and Title 40.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB2190

Introduced
2/2/26  
Environmental Preservation - As introduced, enacts the "Climate Resilient Tennessee Act." - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 68.
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Tennessee House Bill HB2191

Introduced
2/2/26  
Agriculture - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Agriculture Recovery and Investment in Family Farm (TARIFF) Relief Act," which creates a fund within the state treasury for the purpose of making grants to family farmers who have struggled with high input costs and market losses resulting from tariffs on agricultural goods, equipment, and machinery. - Amends TCA Title 9 and Title 43.