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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB1323

Filed/Introduced
8/16/26  
Introduced
2/6/25  
Refer
2/12/25  
Refer
3/4/25  
Refer
3/18/25  
Refer
4/2/25  
Refer
4/8/25  
Chaptered
5/13/25  
Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, makes various changes to certain teacher licensure requirements. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5 and Title 49, Chapter 6. Companion bill has been assigned Public Chapter Number 328 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB1383

Filed/Introduced
8/16/26  
Introduced
2/6/25  
Refer
2/12/25  
Refer
2/18/25  
Refer
4/2/25  
Engrossed
4/15/25  
Enrolled
4/25/25  
Passed
5/21/25  
Local Education Agencies - As enacted, authorizes a local legislative body for a county that has adopted a charter form of government to require elections for the county board of education to be held at the same time and on the same election cycle as elections for members of the local legislative body for the county, members of the county board of education to have successive terms of office if members of the local legislative body for the county have successive terms of office and members of the county board of education to have the same term limits as members of the local legislative body for the county. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 5; Title 7; Title 8 and Title 49. HB1383 has been assigned Public Chapter Number 527 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB1419

Filed/Introduced
8/16/26  
Introduced
3/4/25  
Refer
3/10/25  
Refer
3/17/25  
Refer
4/8/25  
Engrossed
4/14/25  
Enrolled
4/23/25  
Passed
5/21/25  
Montgomery County - Subject to local approval, creates a fifth General Sessions and Juvenile Court of Montgomery County. - Amends Chapter 232 of the Private Acts of 1953; as amended. HB1419 has been assigned Private Chapter Number 14 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB1441

Filed/Introduced
8/16/26  
Introduced
6/27/25  
Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases the penalty for criminal impersonation of a law enforcement officer from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony if the offense occurs while the defendant is committing or attempting to commit a crime of violence. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB0970

Filed/Introduced
8/16/26  
Introduced
2/5/25  
Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Healthcare Quality and Access Act of 2025." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 34; Title 42; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68; Title 71 and Chapter 985 of the Public Acts of 2024.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB1020

Filed/Introduced
8/16/26  
Introduced
2/5/25  
Refer
2/10/25  
Refer
2/19/25  
Refer
2/26/25  
Chaptered
5/2/25  
Tort Liability and Reform - As enacted, specifies that a law enforcement officer who causes property damage to or inflicts personal injury upon a person during the course of the law enforcement officer's official duties is immune from civil liability if at the time the damage or injury occurred, the person suffering the injury or damage was engaged in conduct that resulted in the person being convicted of the offense of resisting a stop, frisk, halt, arrest, or search of the person. - Amends TCA Title 29 and Title 39. Companion bill has been assigned Public Chapter Number 160 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB1024

Filed/Introduced
8/16/26  
Introduced
2/5/25  
Forfeiture of Assets - As introduced, increases the burden of proof required to be met by the state in civil asset forfeiture proceedings from a preponderance of evidence standard to a clear and convincing evidence standard. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 33.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB1311

Filed/Introduced
8/16/26  
Introduced
2/6/25  
Refer
2/12/25  
Refer
3/5/25  
Refer
3/11/25  
Chaptered
4/8/25  
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. Companion bill has been assigned Public Chapter Number 127 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB1353

Filed/Introduced
8/16/26  
Introduced
2/6/25  
Refer
2/12/25  
Refer
4/1/25  
Refer
4/9/25  
Refer
4/17/25  
Refer
4/17/25  
Chaptered
5/15/25  
Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates an offense for a person who harms or threatens to harm an individual involved in the judicial process or a family member of such person with the intent to impede, intimidate, interfere with, or retaliate against the justice system participant in connection with their participation in the judicial process, punishable as a Class E felony. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 16. Companion bill has been assigned Public Chapter Number 468 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB1077

Filed/Introduced
8/16/26  
Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, removes an obsolete reference to the length of the validity for an insurance producer license issued on or after January 1, 2007; changes, from March 1 to March 15, the date that a business entity license under the Tennessee Insurance Producer Licensing Act of 2002 expires biennially. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB1079

Filed/Introduced
8/16/26  
Commerce and Insurance, Dept. of - As introduced, removes an obsolete requirement for the commissioner to conduct a study of this state's insurance laws to determine what impediments, if any, exist under the laws or policies that may be deterrents for insurance companies in this state to underwrite policies of insurance to insure a person who has used force that is justified, including deadly force, in protecting such person's self or property, and to report the results of the study to the general assembly no later than March 1, 2012. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB1078

Filed/Introduced
8/16/26  
Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, removes an obsolete reference to January 1, 2010, as the date by which group health plans and health insurance issuers were required to begin providing electronic health insurance claims data for state residents to the commissioner of commerce and insurance or a designated entity authorized by the commissioner each month. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB1080

Filed/Introduced
8/16/26  
Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, increases, from 30 to 35 days, the time that an insurance company has to remove a person as an officer or director of the company after receipt of an order from the commissioner of commerce and insurance to do so. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 56 and Title 71.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB1197

Filed/Introduced
8/16/26  
Introduced
2/6/25  
Refer
2/12/25  
Refer
3/4/25  
Refer
4/1/25  
Chaptered
5/13/25  
Education, Curriculum - As enacted, makes various changes to the approval process and notice requirements for nonsectarian, nonreligious Bible courses; clarifies that public charter schools are authorized to provide nonsectarian, nonreligious Bible courses in the same manner as local education agencies. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6. Companion bill has been assigned Public Chapter Number 314 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB1198

Filed/Introduced
8/16/26  
Introduced
2/6/25  
Refer
2/12/25  
Refer
3/12/25  
Refer
3/19/25  
Engrossed
3/31/25  
Enrolled
4/2/25  
Passed
4/11/25  
Drugs, Prescription - As enacted, adds mandating the use of biosimilar drugs as a cost-saving measure the bureau of TennCare may implement; adds that a health carrier, health benefit plan, or utilization review organization may require a patient to try a biosimilar product prior to providing coverage for the equivalent branded prescription drug; requires the TennCare pharmacy advisory committee to consider as a factor the use of biosimilar drugs in the committee's recommendation to the bureau of TennCare on any drugs to be added to the state preferred drug list. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 53; Title 56; Title 68 and Title 71. HB1198 has been assigned Public Chapter Number 206 by the Secretary of State.