AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 49, relative to education.
In plain English Requires public schools to report local assessments annually, directs the state to publish English language arts proficiency percentages, and creates a board to review standardized tests.
Official synopsis: As enacted, makes various revisions to education law, including, but not limited to, requiring each public school to annually submit to the department of education a list of all local assessments administered to students, requiring the department to publish the percentage of students who attain…
Became lawEffective date(s) 05/22/2026, 07/01/2026 · 2026-05-27
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4 and Title 49, relative to early education.
In plain English Creates a task force to develop resources for the early educator workforce.
Official synopsis: As enacted, creates an early educator workforce development resource task force. – Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49.
Became lawEffective date(s) 05/22/2026, 07/01/2026 · 2026-05-27
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, Chapter 5, relative to teaching credentials.
In plain English Allows individuals to receive a temporary teaching permit before completing required clinical practice if other requirements are met, and lets them count prior practice and teaching time toward the requirement.
Official synopsis: As enacted, clarifies that certain individuals who have not completed the amount of clinical practice required by the educator preparation provider in which the individual is enrolled may receive a temporary clinical permit if all other requirements for the permit are satisfied; allows such an…
Became lawEffective date(s) 05/22/2026 · 2026-05-27
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 36 and Title 39, relative to lifetime orders of protection.
In plain English Allows filing for a lifetime protection order against someone convicted of certain offenses in another state, with venue in the respondent's or petitioner's county.
Official synopsis: As enacted, allows a person to file a petition for a lifetime order of protection against a person who was convicted of certain offenses in another jurisdiction; provides that venue for such a petition is in the county where the respondent resides or, if the…
Became lawEffective date(s) 05/22/2026 · 2026-05-27
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, relative to artificial intelligence.
In plain English Requires teachers in grades 6-12 to complete a free state professional development course on classroom artificial intelligence use by August 1, 2028, or within two years of licensure.
Official synopsis: As enacted, requires the department to provide at least one professional development course that provides asynchronous instruction on the use of artificial intelligence in the classroom and that is made available, at no cost, to teachers in grades 6-12; requires such teachers to complete at…
Became lawEffective date(s) 05/22/2026 · 2026-05-27
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 47, Chapter 18; Title 65 and Title 67, relative to communications over a telephone.
In plain English Requires businesses using automated dialing systems for prerecorded calls to residential numbers to keep monthly records of solicitations made.
Official synopsis: As enacted, requires a person or entity that makes telephone solicitations using an automated telephone dialing system to delivery artificial or prerecorded voice messages to residential subscribers in this state to maintain a record of the number of such telephone solicitations made each month; makes…
Became lawComp. became Pub. Ch. 1029 · 2026-05-26
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 43, Chapter 6, Part 5 and Title 49, relative to higher education.
In plain English Removes reporting deadlines, changes student aid rules, requires periodic review of transfer pathways, and allows private meetings for the higher education commission.
Official synopsis: As enacted, removes various dates by which various reports must be submitted by various entities; makes various changes to the Tennessee student assistance award; requires new and existing transfer pathways to be reviewed on a rotating basis; authorizes the Tennessee higher education commission to conduct…
Became lawEffective date(s) 05/05/2026, 07/01/2026 · 2026-05-18
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, relative to discipline of an educator license.
In plain English Prohibits educators from engaging in sexually related behavior with certain current or former students and requires reporting violations to the state board of education.
Official synopsis: As enacted, prohibits an educator from engaging in any sexually related behavior with certain students enrolled, graduated, or withdrawn from school; requires violations to be reported to the state board of education. – Amends TCA Title 49.
Became lawEffective date(s) 05/05/2026, 07/01/2026 · 2026-05-18
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 55-4-116 and Section 55-6-107, relative to military personnel.
In plain English Exempts military service members stationed out of state from paying the additional registration fee for all-electric vehicles.
Official synopsis: As enacted, exempts a military service member who is stationed out of state on military orders from paying the additional registration fee imposed on all-electric vehicles. – Amends TCA Section 55-4-116 and Section 55-6-107.
Became lawEffective date(s) 07/01/2026 · 2026-05-18
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, relative to criminal offenses.
As enacted, creates the offense for a person to knowingly travel, with intent to commit theft of another person's cash, from a commercial business; a financial institution; or an automated teller machine, on the same path or route as another person without substantial deviation from…
Became lawComp. became Pub. Ch. 951 · 2026-05-15
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55, relative to vehicular homicide.
In plain English Requires minimum Range II punishment for intoxicated vehicular homicide convictions when the person also left the accident scene.
Official synopsis: As enacted, requires a person convicted of vehicular homicide proximately resulting from the person's intoxication to be punished as no lower than a Range II offender if the person, as a result of the same course of conduct, is also convicted of leaving the scene…
Became lawEffective date(s) 07/01/2026 · 2026-05-05
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, relative to education.
In plain English Revises requirements for electronic participation in school board meetings under certain circumstances.
Official synopsis: As enacted, revises the requirements for electronic participation in school board meetings under certain circumstances. – Amends TCA Title 49.
Became lawEffective date(s) 04/27/2026 · 2026-05-05
AN ACT to repeal Chapter 55 of the Private Acts of 1951; as amended by Chapter 68 of the Private Acts of 1957; Chapter 84 of the Private Acts of 1961; Chapter 115 of the Private Acts of 1963; Chapter 191 of the Private Acts of 1967; Chapter 143 of the Private Acts of 1969; Chapter 263 of the Private Acts of 1972; Chapter 391 of the Private Acts of 1972; Chapter 73 of the Private Acts of 1975; Chapter 53 of the Private Acts of 1977; Chapter 149 of the Private Acts of 1981; Chapter 4 of the Private Acts of 1985; Chapter 155 of the Private Acts of 1998; Chapter 160 of the Private Acts of 2002; Chapter 59 of the Private Acts of 2012; Chapter 47 of the Private Acts of 2012 and Chapter 47 of the Private Acts of 2014; and any other acts amendatory thereto, relative to the Rutherford County Highway Commission.
In plain English Repeals and reconstitutes the Rutherford County Highway Commission and County Highway Road Superintendent, subject to local approval.
Official synopsis: Subject to local approval, repeals and reconstitutes provisions establishing the Rutherford County Highway Commission and County Highway Road Superintendent. – Repeals Chapter 55 of the Private Acts of 1951; as amended.
Became lawComp. became Pr. Ch. 52 · 2026-05-01
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49 and Title 68, relative to school nurses.
In plain English Moves the deadline for school districts to report insufficient school nurse staffing from July 31 to July 1.
Official synopsis: As introduced, changes from July 31 to July 1 the date by which an LEA director of schools must send a report to the department if the LEA did not contract for or employ at least one school nurse for every 750 students. – Amends…
Not out of committeeSponsor(s) Added. · 2026-04-24
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 8; Title 38; Title 62 and Title 68, relative to healthcare facilities.
In plain English Allows a healthcare organization's quality improvement committee to evaluate security measures to ensure patient and staff safety.
Official synopsis: As introduced, permits a healthcare organization's quality improvement committee to evaluate the security measures in place at a healthcare organization to ensure the safety of patients and staff. – Amends TCA Title 8; Title 38; Title 62 and Title 68.
Not out of committeePlaced on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/21/2026 · 2026-04-20
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