AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, relative to assessments.
In plain English Requires the education department to pilot a program testing whether fewer mandated assessments improve student academic success and adds a promotion pathway for students not proficient in reading.
Official synopsis: As enacted, requires the department of education to implement a pilot program to evaluate whether administering fewer district- and state-mandated assessments results in students achieving greater academic success; adds an additional method by which a student who is not proficient in ELA, as determined by…
Became lawComp. became Pub. Ch. 1030 · 2026-05-27
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4; Title 38; Title 39; Title 45; Title 47; Title 49 and Title 67, relative to money transmission.
In plain English Requires Tennessee to tax money transmission services to locations outside the United States and allocates the revenue to specified funds.
Official synopsis: As enacted, clarifies that the service of transmitting money from a location originating in this state to a location outside of the United States or its territories is a taxable service and that such a tax is generally levied on the amount of money transmitted;…
Became lawComp. became Pub. Ch. 1035 · 2026-05-27
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 9, Chapter 4, Part 2, relative to funding for the protection of children.
In plain English Creates a children's digital protection fund within the state treasury.
Official synopsis: As enacted, establishes the children's digital protection fund within the state treasury. – Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 4, Part 2.
Became lawEffective date(s) 05/22/2026 · 2026-05-27
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4, relative to the Tennessee technology development corporation.
In plain English Reconstitutes the board of directors of the Tennessee Technology Development Corporation.
Official synopsis: As enacted, vacates and reconstitutes the board of directors of the Tennessee Technology Development Corporation. – Amends TCA Title 4.
Became lawComp. became Pub. Ch. 1013 · 2026-05-26
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 67, Chapter 6, relative to local government.
In plain English Allows counties with a metropolitan form of government to tax or exempt retail food sales at rates different from their local sales tax rate.
Official synopsis: As enacted, authorizes counties with a metropolitan form of government, by resolution of their governing bodies, to levy a tax on the retail sale of food and food ingredients for human consumption within the county at a rate less than the local option sales tax…
Became lawComp. became Pub. Ch. 1014 · 2026-05-26
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 67, relative to tourism development zones.
In plain English Requires the tourism department to designate tourism development zones as economic protection zones and limits local governments from blocking streets in those zones.
Official synopsis: As enacted, requires the department of tourist development to promulgate rules designating tourism development zones in this state as economic protection zones; places certain limitations on a local government blocking streets or other rights-of-way in a tourism development zone; clarifies that the Tennessee highway patrol…
Became lawComp. became Pub. Ch. 1024 · 2026-05-26
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 9; Title 49, Chapter 13; Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 3 and Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 3, relative to public education.
As enacted, makes various changes and additions to present law concerning public education. – Amends TCA Title 9; Title 49, Chapter 13; Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 3 and Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 3.
Became lawComp. became Pub. Ch. 1012 · 2026-05-26
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 68, Chapter 11, relative to quality improvement committees.
In plain English Protects quality improvement committee information from loss of confidentiality when healthcare providers discuss it in good faith with patients or family members.
Official synopsis: 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…
Became lawComp. became Pub. Ch. 1019 · 2026-05-26
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4; Title 8; Title 49 and Title 67, relative to education.
As enacted, enacts the "Better Spending, Better Schools Act of 2026." – Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 49 and Title 67.
Became lawComp. became Pub. Ch. 1007 · 2026-05-26
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4; Title 43; Title 49; Title 57; Title 67 and Title 71, relative to child care.
As enacted, enacts the "Promising Futures Act." – Amends TCA Title 4; Title 43; Title 49; Title 57; Title 67 and Title 71.
Became lawComp. became Pub. Ch. 997 · 2026-05-26
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 8; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71, relative to step therapy.
In plain English Prohibits health benefit plans from requiring step therapy protocols before covering approved cancer drugs for enrollees diagnosed with any cancer.
Official synopsis: As enacted, expands the prohibition, from stage 4 advanced metastatic cancer or metastatic blood cancer to any cancer, against a health benefit plan that provides coverage for cancer requiring the use of a step therapy protocol before the health benefit plan provides coverage for an…
Became lawComp. became Pub. Ch. 995 · 2026-05-26
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 49-4-708, relative to the Tennessee Promise scholarship endowment fund.
In plain English Limits annual transfers to the Tennessee Promise scholarship fund to $10 million per fiscal year from lottery education account funds.
Official synopsis: As enacted, caps at $10 million per fiscal year the total amount of funds in the lottery for education account that may be transferred to the Tennessee Promise scholarship special reserve account. – Amends TCA Section 49-4-708.
Became lawEffective date(s) 05/13/2026 · 2026-05-18
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 9; Title 49; Title 53; Title 55 and Title 68, relative to public health.
As enacted, provides that any certificate of public advantage in effect on June 30, 2028, automatically expires but any pricing restrictions in a certificate of advantage remain in effect until the fifth anniversary of the expiration date or the date that a new inpatient acute…
Became lawEffective date(s) 05/05/2026 · 2026-05-18
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 68, Chapter 11, relative to healthcare facilities.
In plain English Increases the maximum number of unrelated residents allowed in tier 1 and tier 2 homes for the aged from three to five and four to six, respectively.
Official synopsis: As enacted, increases from three to five the maximum number of nonrelated persons in a home for the aged to be considered a tier 1 home for the aged; increases from four to six the maximum number of nonrelated persons in a home for the…
Became lawEffective date(s) 05/13/2026 · 2026-05-18
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4; Title 33; Title 68; Title 71 and Chapter 985 of the Public Acts of 2024, relative to certificates of need.
In plain English Revises laws governing the operation of acute care hospitals.
Official synopsis: As enacted, revises law relative to the operation of acute care hospitals. – Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 68; Title 71 and Chapter 985 of the Public Acts of 2024.
Became lawEffective date(s) 07/01/2030, 07/01/2028, 05/05/2026 · 2026-05-18
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