Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session All Bills (Page 589)

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Tennessee House Bill HB2575

Introduced
2/3/26  
Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, enacts the "Reckless Bullet Prevention Act," which creates an offense of recklessly discharging a firearm into the air, ground, a body of water, or an object in close proximity to the person if the firearm is discharged at a place where other people are or may be present; punishes the offense as a Class A misdemeanor; specifies certain exceptions to the offense; requires handgun safety courses for enhanced handgun carry permits to instruct on the offense. - Amends TCA Title 39.
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Tennessee House Bill HB2399

Filed/Introduced
8/16/26  
Introduced
2/3/26  
Hotels and Restaurants - As introduced, creates a voluntary community storm emergency relief program administered by the department of tourist development in collaboration with the department of agriculture to authorize hotels and food service establishments to better serve the needs of their communities during a declared state or local emergency based upon a severe weather event. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 53, Chapter 8; Title 58, Chapter 2; Title 62, Chapter 7 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 14.
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Tennessee House Bill HB0058

Filed/Introduced
8/16/26  
Introduced
1/6/25  
Law Enforcement - As introduced, requires an employing law enforcement agency to contact any prior law enforcement agency that employed the agency's officer or special deputy as part of the thorough investigation into the person's good moral character. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 8.
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Tennessee House Bill HB0089

Filed/Introduced
8/16/26  
Introduced
1/9/25  
Refer
1/16/25  
Law Enforcement - As introduced, expands the notification and uniform requirements for peace officers who provide security or other duties outside of their primary jurisdiction to apply statewide rather than only in certain counties. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 35.
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Tennessee House Bill HB0179

Filed/Introduced
8/16/26  
Introduced
1/15/25  
Refer
1/28/25  
Abortion - As introduced, specifies that the offense of criminal abortion does not include an abortion that was necessary due to a medical emergency affecting the physical or mental health of the pregnant person or performed on a patient whose pregnancy was the result of rape or incest. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 15; Title 63 and Title 68.
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Tennessee House Bill HB0346

Filed/Introduced
8/16/26  
Introduced
1/23/25  
Refer
2/3/25  
Refer
2/24/25  
Naming and Designating - As introduced, names the desk of house chamber seat number 60 as the “Legislative Desk of Representative John J. Deberry, Jr.”; directs the chief clerk of the house of representatives, or the chief clerk’s designee, to design and provide for the installation of a commemorative plaque on the side of the desk of house chamber seat number 60 to recognize the official name of such desk. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 1 and Title 4, Chapter 8.
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Tennessee House Bill HB0410

Filed/Introduced
8/16/26  
Introduced
1/28/25  
Refer
2/5/25  
Refer
3/4/25  
Refer
3/25/25  
Refer
4/17/25  
Refer
4/17/25  
Chaptered
5/15/25  
Education, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to convene a working group to study and develop best practices, strategies, and programming for English language learner (EL) educators in this state to utilize in educating EL students enrolled in a public school in this state in any of the grades K-12. - Amends TCA Title 49. Companion bill has been assigned Public Chapter Number 419 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee House Bill HB0453

Filed/Introduced
8/16/26  
Introduced
1/28/25  
Refer
2/5/25  
Refer
3/11/25  
Refer
3/25/25  
Chaptered
5/13/25  
Fire Prevention and Investigation - As enacted, changes present law concerning the frequency of fire drills in educational occupancies. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 102. Companion bill has been assigned Public Chapter Number 315 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee House Bill HB1543

Filed/Introduced
8/16/26  
Introduced
1/13/26  
Refer
1/15/26  
Refer
3/2/26  
Refer
3/11/26  
Chaptered
4/23/26  
State Symbols - As enacted, designates "Tennessee" by Drew Holcomb as an official state song. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3. Companion bill has been assigned Public Chapter Number 668 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee House Bill HB1632

Filed/Introduced
8/16/26  
Introduced
1/14/26  
Refer
1/21/26  
Refer
2/11/26  
Refer
2/17/26  
Refer
3/9/26  
Refer
4/15/26  
Refer
4/15/26  
Hazardous Materials - As enacted, makes various changes to the "Tennessee Drycleaner's Environmental Response Act." - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 217, Part 1. Companion bill has been assigned Public Chapter Number 970 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee House Bill HB0674

Filed/Introduced
8/16/26  
Introduced
2/3/25  
Refer
2/6/25  
Refer
2/17/26  
Refer
4/1/26  
Chaptered
4/28/26  
Correction, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to conduct a study concerning subjects related to access of family members to incarcerated persons for visitation; requires the department to report its findings to each member of the general assembly and to provide a copy of the report to the legislative librarian by no later than January 31, 2027. - Amends TCA Title 41, Chapter 51. Companion bill has been assigned Public Chapter Number 783 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee House Bill HB0947

Filed/Introduced
8/16/26  
Introduced
2/4/25  
Refer
2/10/25  
Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, enacts "Akilah's Law," which creates the offense of selling, offering to sell, delivering, or transferring a firearm to a person knowing the person has been a patient in a mental institution at any time within the previous five years. - Amends TCA Title 33 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
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Tennessee House Bill HB0948

Filed/Introduced
8/16/26  
Introduced
2/4/25  
Refer
2/10/25  
Domestic Violence - As introduced, requires a person who is convicted of domestic assault or subject to an order of protection to dispossess any firearm in the person's possession by transferring the firearm to a law enforcement agency and to provide the court with an affidavit of dispossession of firearms and a receipt from the law enforcement agency. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 39 and Title 40.
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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 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.