AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 67, relative to taxation.
In plain English Allows property tax exemption applications filed within 180 days of exempt use beginning to be effective from that start date if filed after May 20th but before year-end.
Official synopsis: As enacted, provides that an application for an exemption from property taxation for property owned by a religious, charitable, scientific, or nonprofit educational organization that is filed within 180 days after the exempt use of the property began will be effective as of the date…
Became lawEffective date(s) 05/19/2026 · 2026-05-27
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 10 and Title 11, Chapter 8, relative to the Ocoee River.
In plain English Expands what the Ocoee River recreation fund board can spend money on and replaces its park manager member with the state parks director.
Official synopsis: As enacted, expands the purposes for which monies from the Ocoee River recreation and economic development fund may be expended by the Ocoee River recreation and economic development fund board; replaces the park manager member of the board with the director of the division of…
Became lawEffective date(s) 07/01/2026 · 2026-05-27
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 13 and Title 55, Chapter 10, relative to leaving the scene of an accident.
As enacted, enacts the "James Bardsley, Jr. Life Protection Act." – Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13 and Title 55, Chapter 10.
Became lawEffective date(s) 07/01/2026 · 2026-05-27
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 6, Chapter 56, Part 1 and Title 6, Chapter 56, Part 2, relative to municipal budgets.
In plain English Creates a process for continuing funding of municipal schools and operations when budget disagreements or delays occur.
Official synopsis: As enacted, creates a process for continuing funding for a municipal LEA when the municipal legislative body and the governing body for the LEA cannot agree on a budget; provides a process for continuing funding of municipal operations when a municipal legislative body has not…
Became lawEffective date(s) 05/22/2026 · 2026-05-27
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 41, relative to corrections.
In plain English Creates an advisory board within the corrections department to assist families of incarcerated individuals.
Official synopsis: As enacted, creates the state families of incarcerated individuals advisory board within the department of correction for the purposes of assisting the families of incarcerated individuals. – Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 41.
Became lawComp. became Pub. Ch. 1006 · 2026-05-26
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 58, Chapter 2 and Title 58, Chapter 8, relative to emergency response.
In plain English Requires local emergency management agencies to annually train all employees on mutual aid and disaster assistance agreements and interlocal cooperation.
Official synopsis: As enacted, requires a local emergency management agency to annually require all employees to receive training provided by TEMA on the "Mutual Aid and Emergency and Disaster Assistance Agreement Act of 2004," and the "Interlocal Cooperation Act"; encourages the chief executive of each police department,…
Became lawComp. became Pub. Ch. 957 · 2026-05-18
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4; Title 10 and Title 41, relative to body cameras.
As enacted, requires each correctional officer at Trousdale Turner Correctional Center to utilize a body camera that is recording at all times while the officer is on duty at the facility and is in contact with or may reasonably anticipate contact or interaction with an…
Became lawComp. became Pub. Ch. 956 · 2026-05-18
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 40, relative to victims of crime.
In plain English Requires courts to impose consecutive sentences for multiple offenses involving different minor victims unless the court finds consecutive sentences are unwarranted or unjust.
Official synopsis: As enacted, requires a sentencing court to order the sentences for two or more offenses involving more than one minor victim to run consecutively unless the court finds by a preponderance of the evidence that the facts of the case do not warrant the imposition…
Became lawComp. became Pub. Ch. 945 · 2026-05-15
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 37; Title 49; Title 50, Chapter 5 and Title 71, relative to children.
As enacted, allows a high school student who is older than 16 but younger than 19 to work in a child care center outside of school hours or during school hours through a work-based learning program if the student meets certain criteria. – Amends TCA…
Became lawEffective date(s) 07/01/2026 · 2026-05-05
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49 and Title 55, relative to driver education.
In plain English Requires the education and safety departments to develop guidelines for schools offering driver education courses.
Official synopsis: As enacted, requires the department to collaborate with the department of safety to develop guidelines for LEAs and public charter schools providing a driver education and training course that include certain criteria. – Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 55.
Became lawEffective date(s) 07/01/2026 · 2026-05-05
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 5; Title 6; Title 38 and Title 68, relative to fire investigation.
In plain English Requires fire investigators and insurance officials to obtain peace officer certification before exercising arrest powers in arson cases.
Official synopsis: As enacted, requires certification from the peace officer standards and training commission and certain other criteria to be met in order for the commissioner of commerce and insurance, the commissioner's deputies, a municipal fire investigator, or a salaried county fire investigator to exercise police powers,…
Became lawEffective date(s) 01/01/2028 · 2026-05-05
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 69, Chapter 9, relative to the moorage of vessels.
In plain English Creates a Class C misdemeanor for mooring a recreational vessel more than 14 consecutive days at a reservoir or within one mile of its water's edge.
Official synopsis: As enacted, creates the Class C misdemeanor offense of mooring a recreational vessel for more than 14 consecutive days at any one place along the water's edge of a reservoir or at any place within one mile of the water's edge; makes other related revisions.…
Became lawEffective date(s) 07/01/2026 · 2026-04-28
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 58, Chapter 1, relative to the national guard.
In plain English Renames the Army National Guard Armory on U.S. Highway 321 in Maryville the "CSM William O. Gregory National Guard Armory.
Official synopsis: As enacted, renames the Army National Guard Armory, located on U.S. Highway 321 in Maryville, the "CSM William O. Gregory National Guard Armory." – Amends TCA Title 58, Chapter 1.
Became lawEffective date(s) 04/14/2026 · 2026-04-27
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39 and Title 68, Chapter 221, relative to unlawful disposal of waste.
In plain English Increases the penalty for unlawful sewage disposal to a Class B misdemeanor when committed by waste removal businesses and requires permit revocation.
Official synopsis: As enacted, increases, from a Class C to Class B misdemeanor, the classification of offenses involving unlawful disposal of sewage if the person commits the offense while engaged in the business of removing accumulated wastes from subsurface sewage disposal systems; requires the revocation of a…
Became lawComp. became Pub. Ch. 763 · 2026-04-24
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 29; Title 36 and Title 37, relative to children.
In plain English Requires courts to include written findings of fact about whether certain parenting plan limitations apply in child custody orders.
Official synopsis: As enacted, requires a court to include written findings of fact as to whether certain limitations in parenting plans apply in a child custody order, whether temporary or permanent. – Amends TCA Title 29; Title 36 and Title 37.
Became lawComp. became Pub. Ch. 758 · 2026-04-24
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