Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session All Bills (Page 562)

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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB1199

Filed/Introduced
8/16/26  
Introduced
2/6/25  
Refer
2/12/25  
Refer
3/11/25  
Refer
3/25/25  
Refer
4/2/25  
Refer
4/14/25  
Chaptered
5/13/25  
Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires each board of education for an LEA that operates at least one high school to adopt and implement a policy to authorize a high school student to serve as an advisory, nonvoting representative on the board during meetings that are open to the public. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 2. Companion bill has been assigned Public Chapter Number 359 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB1201

Filed/Introduced
8/16/26  
Introduced
2/6/25  
Refer
2/12/25  
Refer
3/19/25  
Refer
3/25/25  
Medical Occupations - As introduced, limits a foreign training license of limited duration to an internationally licensed physician who meets certain listed criteria. - Amends TCA Title 63.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB1202

Filed/Introduced
8/16/26  
Introduced
2/6/25  
Law Enforcement - As introduced, requires law enforcement agencies and officials to communicate with federal officials regarding the immigration status only for an individual who has been arrested for a criminal offense; sets a civil penalty of up to $1,000 for a law enforcement agency that does not comply to be enforced by the attorney general and reporter. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 40 and Chapter 716 of the Public Acts of 2024.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB1203

Filed/Introduced
8/16/26  
Introduced
2/6/25  
Refer
2/12/25  
Refer
3/19/25  
Refer
4/1/25  
Chaptered
5/13/25  
Medical Occupations - As enacted, authorizes a healthcare provider’s licensing board to issue a license subject to a private advocacy order that requires the applicant to participate in a peer assistance program approved by the board; designates private advocacy orders as confidential and not public records, as long as the provider does not fail to maintain participation in the peer assistance program and requires the initiation of disciplinary proceedings by the board. - Amends TCA Title 63. Companion bill has been assigned Public Chapter Number 317 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB2223

Filed/Introduced
8/16/26  
Introduced
2/2/26  
Refer
3/2/26  
Refer
3/18/26  
Refer
4/1/26  
Refer
4/8/26  
Fireworks - As enacted, requires a person who offers sparkling devices for sale and who does not hold a fireworks permit to register each location at which the person offers such devices for sale with the state fire marshal; makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 68. Companion bill has been assigned Public Chapter Number 1135 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB2035

Filed/Introduced
8/16/26  
Introduced
1/22/26  
Refer
2/4/26  
Judicial Districts - As introduced, creates an additional criminal court in the thirtieth judicial district to be designated as part IX; requires the governor to appoint a criminal court judge to serve until the person's successor is elected at the August 2028 general election. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 2.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB2238

Filed/Introduced
8/16/26  
Introduced
2/2/26  
Election Laws - As introduced, requires the secretary of state to direct each county election commission to place a ballot question on the ballot for the November general election in 2026 asking voters whether this state should legalize the sale, possession, and use of medical cannabis. - Amends TCA Title 2.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB2257

Filed/Introduced
8/16/26  
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 HB2358

Filed/Introduced
8/16/26  
Introduced
2/2/26  
Refer
2/5/26  
Refer
3/4/26  
Refer
3/17/26  
Refer
3/23/26  
Refer
4/20/26  
Refer
4/20/26  
Engrossed
4/22/26  
Enrolled
4/29/26  
Human Resources, Department of - As enacted, requires the department to annually publish on the department's website a report on the temporary assistance for needy families program's and the child care and development fund's balances and expenditures. - Amends TCA Title 71. HB2358 has been assigned Public Chapter Number 1023 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB2397

Filed/Introduced
8/16/26  
Introduced
2/3/26  
Refer
2/5/26  
Veterans - As introduced, requires local governmental entities to invite honorably discharged veterans who apply for employment or promotion to interview; requires preference be given to such veteran if the minimum qualifications and the skills, abilities, competencies, and knowledge of the veteran and any another applicant being interviewed for the position are equal; requires state and local application forms to provide the option for an applicant to declare veteran status. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51; Title 8, Chapter 30, Part 3 and Title 58, Chapter 2.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB2426

Filed/Introduced
8/16/26  
Introduced
2/3/26  
Refer
2/18/26  
Refer
3/3/26  
Refer
4/1/26  
Refer
4/1/26  
Education - As enacted, creates an early educator workforce development resource task force. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49. Companion bill has been assigned Public Chapter Number 1133 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB2438

Filed/Introduced
8/16/26  
Introduced
2/3/26  
Refer
2/5/26  
Refer
3/2/26  
Refer
4/8/26  
Chaptered
5/4/26  
Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As enacted, designates November 9 of each year as "Gold Star Father's Day," to honor and recognize fathers who have lost children in service to the United States as members of the United States armed forces. - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2. Companion bill has been assigned Public Chapter Number 859 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB2477

Filed/Introduced
8/16/26  
Introduced
2/3/26  
Refer
2/5/26  
Refer
3/4/26  
Refer
3/11/26  
Chaptered
5/5/26  
Firefighters - As enacted, extends the period for the estate of an emergency responder killed in the line of duty from three years from the date of death to the later of such date or the date of a final order of a court, administrative law judge, or authorized state or local official designating the death as being in the line of duty; extends the period for an estate to file an appeal of a denial from 90 days to one year; adds a mechanism of appeal of a denial of a claim for the estates of firefighters, volunteer rescue squad workers, and emergency medical technicians. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 24; Title 7, Chapter 51, Part 2; Title 38, Chapter 8 and Title 68, Chapter 140. Companion bill has been assigned Public Chapter Number 721 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB2485

Filed/Introduced
8/16/26  
Introduced
2/3/26  
Refer
2/5/26  
Refer
3/10/26  
Refer
3/25/26  
Refer
4/15/26  
Refer
4/15/26  
Engrossed
4/21/26  
Enrolled
4/28/26  
Passed
5/21/26  
Tennessee Investment in Student Achievement (TISA) - As enacted, requires the TISA review committee to study and include in its annual report recommendations for how this state may revise the ways in which it identifies economically disadvantaged students to ensure this state is accurately identifying the students in need of additional resources and recommendations for how this state may better support economically disadvantaged students through the TISA. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1 and Title 49, Chapter 3. HB2485 has been assigned Public Chapter Number 1032 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB2523

Introduced
2/3/26  
Refer
2/5/26  
Health Care - As introduced, enacts the "Maternal Health Care Protection Act," which prohibits the exercise of a healthcare provider's right of conscience under the Medical Ethics Defense Act from allowing the provider to refuse to participate in or pay for pregnancy-related healthcare procedures, treatments, or services that are within the scope of the provider's license and professional obligations; prohibits the exercise of such right from allowing a healthcare institution or healthcare payer to adopt or enforce a policy, guideline, or contractual provision that results in the denial of pregnancy-related healthcare procedures, treatments, or services. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 1, Part 9.