AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 7, Chapter 53; Title 13; Title 48, Chapter 101, Part 3; Title 56 and Title 67, relative to housing.
In plain English Establishes a pilot program allowing Tennessee's housing agency to provide loans for constructing or rehabilitating affordable workforce housing across the state.
Official synopsis: As enacted, establishes the community workforce housing innovation pilot program to be administered by the Tennessee housing development agency; authorizes the agency to provide loans to an applicant for construction or rehabilitation of workforce housing in each of the three grand divisions; requires the housing…
Became lawComp. became Pub. Ch. 1037 · 2026-05-27
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 1, Chapter 3 and Title 8, Chapter 44, relative to public notices.
In plain English Requires the Tennessee advisory commission on intergovernmental relations to study whether newspapers remain the most efficient way for governments to publish public notices.
Official synopsis: As enacted, requires the Tennessee advisory commission on intergovernmental relations (TACIR) to conduct a study to determine if newspapers of general circulation remain the most efficient and effective manner for governments to provide the public with transparent and accessible information. – Amends TCA Title 1,…
Became lawEffective date(s) 05/22/2026 · 2026-05-27
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 29; Title 55 and Title 56, relative to motor vehicle financial responsibility.
In plain English Prohibits initial vehicle registration unless the vehicle meets financial responsibility and insurance requirements.
Official synopsis: As enacted, prohibits the initial issuance of registration of a motor vehicle if the vehicle has not met the requirements of the "Financial Responsibility Law of 1977," which provides insurance and financial responsibility requirements for motor vehicle operators; makes related changes. – Amends TCA Title…
Became lawEffective date(s) 05/22/2026, 07/01/2027 · 2026-05-27
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 6 and Title 7, relative to penalties for violations of ordinances.
As enacted, authorizes municipalities and metropolitan governments to adopt a tiered system of monetary penalties for repeated violations of the same municipal ordinance by the same person or entity within a 12-month period. – Amends TCA Title 6 and Title 7.
Became lawEffective date(s) 07/01/2026 · 2026-05-27
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 5 and Title 7, Chapter 84, Part 5, relative to business improvement districts.
In plain English Allows counties to establish self-financing central business improvement districts, in addition to cities and other local governments.
Official synopsis: As enacted, enacts the "The Jeff Burkhart Act," which adds counties to the forms of local government that may establish a self-financing central business improvement district under the "Central Business Improvement District Act of 1990." – Amends TCA Title 5 and Title 7, Chapter 84,…
Became lawComp. became Pub. Ch. 1018 · 2026-05-26
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, relative to virtual schools.
In plain English Requires school districts to close virtual schools that fail to meet certain operational requirements and directs the education department to publish a list of closed providers.
Official synopsis: As enacted, requires an LEA to close a virtual school not meeting certain requirements for continued operation; requires the department of education to maintain and publish on the department's website a list of providers that operated or managed a virtual school that was closed for…
Became lawEffective date(s) 07/01/2026 · 2026-05-18
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 2; Title 6; Title 8; Title 36; Title 39; Title 40; Title 49; Title 55; Title 58; Title 62; Title 63 and Title 66, relative to armed forces.
In plain English Adds the United States Space Force to Tennessee laws that reference military branches and armed forces.
Official synopsis: As enacted, recognizes the United States space force as a distinct branch of the United States armed forces by adding the space force to definitions and provisions related to the military. – Amends TCA Title 2; Title 6; Title 8; Title 36; Title 39; Title…
Became lawEffective date(s) 05/05/2026 · 2026-05-18
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4 and Title 62, Chapter 2, Part 4, relative to certificates of registration for engineers.
In plain English Allows graduates of accredited engineering technology programs with prior engineering experience to apply for engineer registration if they meet examination requirements.
Official synopsis: As enacted, authorizes graduates of certain accredited engineering technology curriculums to apply for and become registered as engineers, provided, that such persons have prior engineering experience and meet certain examination requirements. – Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 62, Chapter 2, Part 4.
Became lawComp. became Pub. Ch. 881 · 2026-05-05
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 57, Chapter 3, relative to manufacturing of alcohol.
In plain English Adds bottling of distilled spirits to the definition of manufacturing for purposes of licensing and regulating alcoholic beverages.
Official synopsis: As enacted, adds the bottling of distilled spirits to the definition of "manufacture" for purposes of licensing and regulation of the manufacturing of alcoholic beverages. – Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 3.
Became lawEffective date(s) 04/27/2026 · 2026-05-05
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, relative to dependent children of service members.
In plain English Requires school districts to enroll and provide services to dependent children of service members under specified conditions.
Official synopsis: 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.
Became lawEffective date(s) 07/01/2026 · 2026-05-05
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 55, Chapter 21, relative to pregnancy.
In plain English Allows women with physician-certified high-risk pregnancies to obtain temporary parking placards, effective January 1, 2027.
Official synopsis: As enacted, authorizes, effective January 1, 2027, temporary placards to be issued to a female who has a pregnancy certified to be high risk by her physician. – Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 21.
Became lawEffective date(s) 01/01/2027 · 2026-05-04
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 4-1-406, relative to flags.
In plain English Requires the flag flown over the state capitol building to be at half-staff from sunrise to sunset on December 7 for Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day.
Official synopsis: As enacted, requires any flag flown over the state capitol building to be flown at half-staff from sunrise to sunset in observance of Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day each December 7. – Amends TCA Section 4-1-406.
Became lawEffective date(s) 04/27/2026 · 2026-05-04
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 71, Chapter 3, relative to child care agencies.
In plain English Exempts family child care homes with a U.S. Department of Defense certificate from licensure if they serve only eligible patrons.
Official synopsis: As enacted, excludes a person or entity that operates a family child care home and obtains a United States department of defense certificate to operate from being subject to licensure as long as such family child care home provides child care services only to an…
Became lawComp. became Pub. Ch. 747 · 2026-04-24
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 55-8-198, relative to unmanned traffic enforcement cameras.
As introduced, limits the use of unmanned traffic cameras that are authorized within the designated distance of a marked school zone to those times when a warning flasher or flashers are in operation or during times when children are present if the school zone does…
Passed one chamberHeld on desk. · 2026-04-22
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, Chapter 4, relative to financial aid.
As introduced, adds Western Governors University as an educational institution at which an active member of a federally recognized unit of the Tennessee national guard may receive tuition reimbursement through the Tennessee Support, Training, and Renewing Opportunity for National Guardsmen (STRONG) Act of 2017. -…
Not out of committeePlaced on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/21/2026 · 2026-04-20
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