AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 36 and Title 68, Chapter 6, relative to youth athletic activities.
As introduced, requires each student who participates in a school youth athletic activity to file with the local education agency (LEA) or public charter school a preparticipation medical evaluation or an exemption; creates the safe stars advisory committee. – Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6,…
Not out of committeeTaken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways and Means Committee · 2026-04-15
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 13 and Title 40, Chapter 35, relative to community terrorism.
As introduced, creates a Class C felony of reckless endangerment involving community terrorism, which is committed against a population within a geographic territory by members of a criminal gang or within 1,000 feet of a school or park; requires the sentencing court to revoke or…
Not out of committeeTaken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways and Means Committee · 2026-04-15
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55, relative to global positioning monitoring.
As introduced, requires a court or magistrate to impose global positioning monitoring as a condition of release for a defendant accused of certain offenses, unless the court or magistrate enters written findings that the defendant does not pose a threat to the victim or public…
Not out of committeeTaken off notice for cal. in Judiciary Committee · 2026-04-07
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 10; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Chapter 969 of the Public Acts of 2024 and Chapter 1033 of the Public Acts of 2024, relative to criminal law.
As introduced, makes various changes to criminal law, including requiring defendants accused of certain offenses to be subject to a global positioning monitoring system as condition of bail. – Amends TCA Title 10; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Chapter 969 of the Public Acts…
Not out of committeeReset on Final cal. 4 of Criminal Justice Subcommittee · 2026-04-07
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 33; Title 40 and Title 52, relative to mental health evaluations.
As introduced, establishes a rebuttable presumption that a person poses an imminent substantial likelihood of serious harm and needs emergency detention and examination if the person was charged with one of certain criminal offenses and ordered by the criminal, circuit, or general sessions court to…
Not out of committeeTaken off notice for cal. in Judiciary Committee · 2026-04-07
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, relative to criminal offenses.
As introduced, adds to the criminal offense of aggravated assault, an assault that involves brandishing a deadly weapon; defines brandish to mean waving or exhibiting a weapon in a manner that would be found by a reasonable person to indicate a threat to use the…
Not out of committeeTaken off notice for cal in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Judiciary Committee · 2026-03-25
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6; Title 38 and Title 40, relative to orders of protection.
As introduced, requires a law enforcement officer who becomes aware that an order of protection has been entered against a person in the officer’s presence but has not been served on the person to take appropriate steps to facilitate service of the order of protection,…
Not out of committeeTaken off notice for cal in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Judiciary Committee · 2026-03-25
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 3, Chapter 6 and Title 5, relative to county ethics commissions.
As introduced, requires each county to create a county ethics commission. – Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 6 and Title 5.
Not out of committeeNo Action Taken · 2026-03-18
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 7, Chapter 53, relative to industrial development corporations.
As introduced, removes restriction prohibiting county officers from serving on industrial development corporation boards; adds county assessor of property and county trustee as members of such boards. – Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 53.
Not out of committeeNo Action Taken · 2026-03-18
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 6; Title 4, Chapter 4; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 41, relative to correctional institutions.
As introduced, prohibits governmental entities from preventing certain persons from entering correctional institutions used to house aliens for the purpose of conducting oversight. – Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 6; Title 4, Chapter 4; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 41.
Not out of committeeNo Action Taken · 2026-03-17
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 2; Title 8, Chapter 47 and Title 49, Chapter 2, relative to recall of locally elected officials.
As introduced, authorizes local governments to adopt a process by which local elected officials may be removed from office in a recall election. – Amends TCA Title 2; Title 8, Chapter 47 and Title 49, Chapter 2.
Not out of committeePlaced on s/c cal Cities & Counties Subcommittee for 3/18/2026 · 2026-03-11
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39 and Title 49, relative to threats of violence.
As introduced, amends the criminal offense of threatening to commit an act of mass violence on school property to apply only to a valid and credible threat; requires a local education agency's threat assessment procedures to include, when assessing a student based on dangerous or…
Not out of committeeNo Action Taken · 2026-03-10
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 16 and Title 17, relative to courts.
As introduced, deletes obsolete statute creating the advisory task force to review composition of judicial districts, which ceased to exist upon completion of the task force's report and recommendations in 2019. – Amends TCA Title 16 and Title 17.
Not out of committeeP2C, caption bill, held on desk – pending amdt. · 2026-02-05
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 13; Title 62, Chapter 6 and Title 66, relative to contractors.
As introduced, requires the state board for licensing contractors to notify the department of commerce and insurance of a disciplinary action against a contractor upon posting the notice of disciplinary action on its website. – Amends TCA Title 13; Title 62, Chapter 6 and Title…
Not out of committeeP2C, caption bill, held on desk – pending amdt. · 2026-02-05
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39 and Title 71, relative to offenses against elderly or vulnerable adults.
As introduced, requires the court to set a date for a deposition to preserve testimony in a case in which an alleged offense against an elderly or vulnerable adult has been committed within 45 days, rather than 60 days, of the filing of the original…
Not out of committeeP2C, caption bill, held on desk – pending amdt. · 2026-02-05
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