Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session All Bills (Page 592)

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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB1552

Filed/Introduced
8/16/26  
Introduced
1/13/26  
Refer
1/15/26  
Refer
2/4/26  
Refer
2/11/26  
Chaptered
3/16/26  
Victims' Rights - As enacted, adds persons required by law to register as a persistent domestic violence offender to the list of persons who are not eligible to participate in the address confidentiality program; makes various other changes to the address confidentiality program. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 38, Part 6. Companion bill has been assigned Public Chapter Number 582 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB1615

Filed/Introduced
8/16/26  
Introduced
1/13/26  
Refer
1/21/26  
Refer
3/9/26  
Chaptered
4/6/26  
Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the Tennessee public charter school commission to June 30, 2030. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 49, Chapter 13. Companion bill has been assigned Public Chapter Number 646 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB1648

Filed/Introduced
8/16/26  
Introduced
1/14/26  
Refer
2/18/26  
Refer
3/11/26  
Refer
3/24/26  
Chaptered
4/27/26  
Auditing - As enacted, clarifies that, as of November 1, 2026, a non-governmental entity receiving in-kind funding from the state or a political subdivision of the state pursuant to the federal Public Health Service Act is eligible to qualify as a 340B entity, only if the entity is also a recipient of one or more state or federal grant awards that are subject to audit, reporting, and oversight requirements under state and federal law; authorizes the comptroller of the treasury and any state agency or political subdivision providing in-kind funding to verify eligibility and enforce compliance. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 4; Title 9; Title 47, Chapter 18; Title 56 and Title 63. Companion bill has been assigned Public Chapter Number 790 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB1669

Filed/Introduced
8/16/26  
Introduced
1/14/26  
Refer
3/9/26  
Refer
3/17/26  
Refer
3/24/26  
Chaptered
4/27/26  
Election Laws - As enacted, makes various changes to election laws, including, but not limited to, requiring certain reimbursements to county election commissions for primary elections to be processed in the same manner as expenses for the presidential preference primary, and eliminating authorization for certain state entities and officers to accept or expend grants, gifts, or funding from private persons, corporations, organizations, or political parties for conducting an election. - Amends TCA Title 2. Companion bill has been assigned Public Chapter Number 690 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB1322

Filed/Introduced
8/16/26  
Introduced
2/6/25  
Refer
2/12/25  
Refer
3/4/25  
Refer
4/1/25  
Refer
4/7/25  
Chaptered
4/29/25  
Schools, Charter - As enacted, establishes a process by which the governing body of an existing public charter school may replicate that public charter school in the same district by applying to the local board of education or directly to the Tennessee public charter school commission; allows, in certain circumstances, a public charter school sponsor to apply directly to the commission to open a new public charter school; makes various changes to the state agencies responsible for performing certain functions in the Tennessee Public Charter Schools Act of 2002. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 13. Companion bill has been assigned Public Chapter Number 275 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB1725

Filed/Introduced
8/16/26  
Introduced
1/20/26  
Refer
1/22/26  
Refer
2/10/26  
Refer
2/17/26  
Refer
4/1/26  
Chaptered
5/5/26  
Local Education Agencies - As enacted, revises law relative to LEAs providing enrollment and services to certain students who are the dependent children of service members. - Amends TCA Title 49. Companion bill has been assigned Public Chapter Number 834 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB1729

Filed/Introduced
8/16/26  
Introduced
1/20/26  
Refer
1/22/26  
Refer
3/3/26  
Refer
3/17/26  
Engrossed
3/26/26  
Enrolled
4/14/26  
Education - As enacted, allows student performance on the Classic Learning Test to be used alongside the ACT and SAT for various purposes; makes various changes to home school testing requirements and opportunities available to home school students. - Amends TCA Title 49. HB1729 has been assigned Public Chapter Number 912 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB1764

Filed/Introduced
8/16/26  
Introduced
1/20/26  
Refer
1/22/26  
Refer
3/16/26  
Refer
3/25/26  
Refer
4/15/26  
Military - As enacted, designates the national guard armory in McNairy County as the "Brigadier General Donald F. Hawkins Army National Guard Armory." - Amends TCA Title 58, Chapter 1. Companion bill has been assigned Public Chapter Number 1064 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB1733

Filed/Introduced
8/16/26  
Introduced
1/20/26  
Refer
1/22/26  
Refer
3/3/26  
Refer
3/10/26  
Refer
3/23/26  
Refer
4/15/26  
Refer
4/15/26  
Students - As enacted, creates a criminal offense for certain school employees who intentionally engage in bullying or cyberbullying of a student; clarifies that a teacher or school employee of a local education agency who is found to have committed an act of harassment, intimidation, bullying, or cyberbullying is subject to dismissal or suspension. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 3; Title 40; Title 49 and Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 7. Companion bill has been assigned Public Chapter Number 1093 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB1787

Filed/Introduced
8/16/26  
Introduced
1/21/26  
Refer
2/2/26  
Refer
3/25/26  
Refer
4/1/26  
Engrossed
4/14/26  
Enrolled
4/28/26  
Passed
5/7/26  
Criminal Offenses - As enacted, increases the penalty for patronizing prostitution from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class B or Class A felony under certain circumstances that are currently punished as trafficking for a commercial sex act. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13. HB1787 has been assigned Public Chapter Number 959 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB1802

Filed/Introduced
8/16/26  
Introduced
1/21/26  
Refer
2/2/26  
Refer
3/25/26  
Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, lowers the standard for the use of deadly force to protect property. - Amends TCA Title 39. Companion bill has been assigned Public Chapter Number 1100 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB1835

Filed/Introduced
8/16/26  
Introduced
1/21/26  
Refer
2/2/26  
Refer
3/4/26  
Human Services, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to apply for federal grants and other federal funds available to the state through the federal summer electronic benefits transfer (SEBT) for children program during any year in which the program is offered, for the purpose of providing nutrition assistance through SEBT during the summer months for each eligible child. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 71.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB1848

Filed/Introduced
8/16/26  
Introduced
1/21/26  
Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, prohibits an insurer from denying, conditioning the issuance or effectiveness of, or discriminating in the pricing of a medicare supplement policy if an applicant meets certain listed requirements, including a non-age eligible person who submits an application for enrollment in a medicare supplement policy with a different insurer within 60 days of such person's birthday and makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 56.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB1872

Filed/Introduced
8/16/26  
Introduced
1/21/26  
Refer
2/2/26  
Refer
3/11/26  
Refer
3/23/26  
Chaptered
4/28/26  
Healthcare Liability - As enacted, authorizes a person to bring a civil action against a healthcare professional for an injury that is a result of a medical procedure, if the procedure was for enabling the person to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the person's sex or treating purported discomfort or distress from a discordance between the person's sex and asserted identity, and the person consented; or if the person was a minor at the time of the procedure, the person's parent, guardian, or representative consented due to an act of coercion by the professional. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 63 and Title 68. Companion bill has been assigned Public Chapter Number 794 by the Secretary of State.
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Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB1895

Filed/Introduced
8/16/26  
Introduced
1/22/26  
Refer
2/4/26  
Refer
2/17/26  
Refer
4/1/26  
Chaptered
5/5/26  
Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, requires the principal or the principal's designee provide notification to the parent or legal guardian of each student who was in the classroom or instructional area at the time that a classroom evacuation occurred by the end of the day in which the classroom evacuation occurred unless the event that prompted the classroom evacuation is an ongoing emergency or is otherwise under investigation by a state or local law enforcement agency, in which case the notification must not be provided to parents and legal guardians until the emergency event is resolved or the principal or the principal's designee determines that providing the notification does not impede an ongoing investigation, as applicable. - Amends TCA Title 49. Companion bill has been assigned Public Chapter Number 850 by the Secretary of State.