Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session All Bills (Page 324)

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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB2274

Election Laws - As introduced, changes the deadline, from January 31 to January 15, for the coordinator of elections to file a report with the state and local government committee of the senate and the local government committee of the house of representatives following an election conducted under a convenience voting pilot project. - Amends TCA Title 2.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB2264

Introduced
2/2/26  
Refer
2/5/26  
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3/11/26  
Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates the Class B misdemeanor offense of interfering with a religious institution if a person acts to intentionally obstruct, disturb, or interfere with the activities of the religious institution by making an utterance, gesture, or display in a manner that is offensive to the sensibilities of an ordinary person, either within the place where the meeting is held or so near it as to disturb the order and solemnity of the activities; defines "religious institution" as a church, temple, synagogue, mosque, or other place of worship. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.
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Tennessee House Bill HB2260

Introduced
2/2/26  
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2/5/26  
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3/11/26  
Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases the penalty for arson committed at a pregnancy resource center from a Class C felony to a Class B felony; defines "pregnancy resource center" as a nonprofit organization that provides care and resources to assist women and families facing difficult or unexpected pregnancies, including providing counseling, financial assistance, food, clothing, and medical assistance to pregnant women and reimbursing social service providers who prepare adoptions throughout the state for services and programs targeting at-risk women and families with immediate and ongoing needs related to unexpected pregnancy. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14, Part 3.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB2263

Introduced
2/2/26  
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2/5/26  
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3/18/26  
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3/23/26  
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4/15/26  
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4/15/26  
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4/17/26  
Animal Cruelty and Abuse - As enacted, adds starvation resulting in death of a livestock animal to the types of conduct that constitute the Class E felony of aggravated cruelty to a livestock animal, when done in a depraved and sadistic manner without justifiable or lawful purpose. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14, Part 2. Companion bill has been assigned Public Chapter Number 974 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB2259

Introduced
2/2/26  
Refer
2/5/26  
Refer
3/25/26  
Refer
3/31/26  
Engrossed
4/6/26  
Enrolled
4/20/26  
Health Care - As enacted, specifies that a good faith disclosure of information related to an activity of a quality improvement committee (QIC) made by a healthcare provider or healthcare organization to a patient or a family member of a patient is not a waiver of the privilege and confidentiality protections provider under current law if made in an open discussion; makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 11. HB2259 has been assigned Public Chapter Number 1019 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB2257

Introduced
2/2/26  
Refer
3/4/26  
Refer
3/10/26  
Education - As enacted, requires the state board of education to establish a qualified dyslexia interventionist endorsement to allow an educator to provide targeted instructional intervention, academic support, behavioral support, or related services to students demonstrating characteristics of dyslexia. - Amends TCA Title 49. Companion bill has been assigned Public Chapter Number 902 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB2258

Introduced
2/2/26  
Refer
2/11/26  
Refer
2/18/26  
Refer
4/8/26  
Refer
4/8/26  
Refer
4/14/26  
Engrossed
4/21/26  
Enrolled
4/29/26  
Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As enacted, enacts the "The Jeff Burkhart Act," which adds counties to the forms of local government that may establish a self-financing central business improvement district under the "Central Business Improvement District Act of 1990." - Amends TCA Title 5 and Title 7, Chapter 84, Part 5. HB2258 has been assigned Public Chapter Number 1018 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB2282

Introduced
2/2/26  
Public Employees - As introduced, allows up to five days' leave for any eligible employee who is a foster parent or kinship caregiver regarding appearances in court or counseling sessions related to the placement of the foster child. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 50.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB2343

Introduced
2/2/26  
Refer
2/5/26  
Refer
2/17/26  
Refer
3/24/26  
Engrossed
4/6/26  
Enrolled
4/29/26  
Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, revises law relative to leave for teachers. - Amends TCA Title 49. HB2343 has been assigned Public Chapter Number 1022 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee House Bill HB2340

Introduced
2/2/26  
Housing - As introduced, encourages municipalities to study and assess housing affordability and inventory availability, and to adopt a pattern book for purposes of encouraging the construction of medium-density housing. - Amends TCA Title 6; Title 7 and Title 13.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB2341

Introduced
2/2/26  
Refer
2/5/26  
Refer
4/1/26  
Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, authorizes the consumption of alcoholic beverages and beer on the premises of a temporary special event zone located in Davidson County, subject to certain requirements. - Amends TCA Title 7 and Title 57. Companion bill has been assigned Public Chapter Number 1138 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB2342

Criminal Offenses - As introduced, allows the warden or chief administrative officer's report to the district attorney general of certain offenses that occur within a penal institution to be submitted electronically. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 55; Title 64 and Title 65.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB2344

Introduced
2/2/26  
Public Contracts - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Businesses First Act," which requires local governmental entities to provide a 30-day local bidding period for certain contracts, during which only local businesses may submit bids; creates a bidding preference for local businesses. - Amends TCA Title 9 and Title 12.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB2294

Introduced
2/2/26  
Correction, Dept. of - As introduced, prohibits governmental entities from preventing certain persons from entering correctional institutions used to house aliens for the purpose of conducting oversight. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 6; Title 4, Chapter 4; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 41.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB2312

Criminal Offenses - As introduced, clarifies that the criminal offense of knowingly accessing a communication or computer system for the purpose of fraud or theft includes accessing a cloud computing service. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 10; Title 35; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 45; Title 47; Title 65; Title 66; Title 67 and Title 71.