Their bills, from filing to law
Bills Clark Boyd was a primary sponsor of this session. Most bills from either party never leave committee; in Illinois many never get past the Assignments or Rules committee.
Introduced43
Out of committee35
Passed one chamber35
Passed both chambers33
Became law33
Never left committee7
For comparison, the median Republican member of the House has 23 bills that became law this session.
What their bills are about
Memorials, Recognition 7Business Organizations 2Public Utility Commission 2Health Care 2Memorials, Retirement 2Memorials, Professional Achievement 1
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 33; Title 63 and Title 68, relative to health facility regulation.
In plain English Requires the health commissioner to set conditions for public access to processed claims data and revises laws on critical access hospitals and certificates of need.
Official synopsis: As enacted, makes various changes to health-related laws, including, but not limited to, requiring the commissioner of health to prescribe conditions under which processed and verified claims data found on the UB-92 form are made available to the public; revising law relative to critical access…
Became lawComp. became Pub. Ch. 1136 · 2026-05-27
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 12; Title 13; Title 54; Title 64; Title 65; Title 68 and Title 69, relative to utilities.
In plain English Requires electric utilities serving areas outside their home city to add board members representing those outside areas.
Official synopsis: As enacted, requires, for an electric utility providing services outside the corporate limits of the home municipality, expansion of the utility board to provide representation on the board for such outside locality. – Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8;…
Became lawComp. became Pub. Ch. 1116 · 2026-05-27
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9 and Title 67, relative to government finances.
In plain English Creates a joint capital tourism board and makes related changes to state government finance laws.
Official synopsis: As enacted, creates the joint capital tourism board; makes other related changes. – Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9 and Title 67.
Became lawComp. became Pub. Ch. 1079 · 2026-05-27
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 62, Chapter 13, relative to real estate licensees.
In plain English Exempts affiliate brokers and brokers from additional licensing and training requirements for vacation lodging service designated agents, and requires vacation lodging services to be supervised by a principal broker.
Official synopsis: As enacted, exempts an affiliate broker or broker licensed under the "Tennessee Real Estate Broker License Act" from the additional licensure and classroom hours in training programs requirements for a vacation lodging service firm's designated agent; requires that vacation lodging services be under the supervision…
Became lawComp. became Pub. Ch. 1095 · 2026-05-27
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 47, relative to litigation financing.
In plain English Revises regulations for companies that provide financing for lawsuits and the contracts they use.
Official synopsis: As enacted, revises law relative to commercial litigation financiers and litigation financing contracts. – Amends TCA Title 47.
Became lawEffective date(s) 05/19/2026 · 2026-05-26
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 lawEffective date(s) 07/01/2026 · 2026-05-26
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4, Chapter 5, relative to administrative rules.
As enacted, enacts the "Regulatory Freedom Act of 2026." – Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 5.
Became lawEffective date(s) 01/01/2027 · 2026-05-26
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 58, Chapter 7, relative to state veterans' homes.
In plain English Allows state veterans' homes to provide services beyond skilled nursing to honorably discharged veterans.
Official synopsis: As enacted, authorizes state veterans' homes to provide services other than skilled nursing services to honorably discharged veterans. – Amends TCA Title 58, Chapter 7.
Became lawComp. became Pub. Ch. 968 · 2026-05-18
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 29; Title 38 and Title 50, relative to liability for actions of demonstrators.
As enacted, establishes a cause of action for persons to seek damages from persons who compensate others to participate in demonstrations when the paid demonstrators' conduct satisfies the elements of the criminal offense of rioting, or other similar offenses. – Amends TCA Title 29; Title…
Became lawComp. became Pub. Ch. 722 · 2026-04-24
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 35 and Title 48, relative to charitable organizations.
As enacted, establishes a process to notify a charitable organization that it has been designated as a beneficiary in an instrument that provides for payment or transfer at death without probate; makes related changes. – Amends TCA Title 35 and Title 48.
Became lawComp. became Pub. Ch. 741 · 2026-04-24
A RESOLUTION to honor Gwyn Jennings on the occasion of her retirement from teaching.
Gwyn Jennings
Became lawSigned by Governor. · 2026-04-20
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3, relative to designating cast iron cookware as the official frontier cookware of this state.
As enacted, designates and adopts cast iron cookware as the official frontier cookware of this state. – Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3.
Became lawComp. became Pub. Ch. 674 · 2026-04-13
A RESOLUTION to honor and commend Helen McPeak upon the occasion of her retirement.
Helen McPeak
Became lawSigned by Governor. · 2026-04-09
A RESOLUTION to honor and commend the Tennessee Scholastic Clay Target Program on the occasion of its twenty-fifth anniversary.
Tennessee Scholastic Clay Target Program, 25th anniversary
Became lawSigned by H. Speaker · 2026-04-08
A RESOLUTION to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of September 11, 2001.
25th anniversary of September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks
Became lawSigned by Governor. · 2026-03-31
“In plain English” lines are written by ThePolitibase with AI (Claude), from the official synopsis only; the synopsis is the authoritative text. Descriptions are the legislature’s own synopsis. Bill data from LegiScan, CC BY 4.0.