AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 16 and Title 17, relative to the Tennessee supreme court.
In plain English Requires the state to fund a security detail for the Tennessee Supreme Court's chief justice during all official state business.
Official synopsis: As introduced, requires the expenses of the Tennessee supreme court to include each year an amount sufficient to provide the chief justice with a security detail to transport and accompany the chief justice on all official state business. – Amends TCA Title 16 and Title…
Passed one chamberSigned by Senate Speaker · 2026-07-30
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 5 and Title 13, relative to counties.
In plain English Applies the Neighborhood Preservation Act to Tipton County and allows Montgomery and Tipton counties to participate in the Tennessee Local Land Bank Program.
Official synopsis: As enacted, applies the "Neighborhood Preservation Act" to Tipton County; authorizes Montgomery County and Tipton County to participate in the Tennessee Local Land Bank Program. – Amends TCA Title 5 and Title 13.
Became lawEffective date(s) 05/22/2026 · 2026-05-27
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39; Title 40 and Title 57, relative to adulterated products.
As enacted, makes revisions to the offense of adulteration of food, liquids, or pharmaceuticals. – Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 57.
Became lawEffective date(s) 07/01/2026 · 2026-05-27
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 37; Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 3; Title 40; Title 49 and Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 7, relative to harassment.
In plain English Creates a criminal offense for school employees who intentionally bully or cyberbully students, and makes harassment by school employees subject to dismissal or suspension.
Official synopsis: As enacted, creates a criminal offense for certain school employees who intentionally engage in bullying or cyberbullying of a student; clarifies that a teacher or school employee of a local education agency who is found to have committed an act of harassment, intimidation, bullying, or…
Became lawEffective date(s) 07/01/2026 · 2026-05-27
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 8, Chapter 50; Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 24 and Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 51, relative to the use of honorifics.
In plain English Extends immunity from liability and disciplinary action for using sex-consistent pronouns to also cover using sex-consistent honorifics.
Official synopsis: As enacted, clarifies that the same immunities from civil liability, adverse action, and disciplinary action, and duties, that apply to this state, state employees, public schools, LEAs, public school students, public school teachers, public school employees, public school contractors, public institutions of higher education, public…
Became lawEffective date(s) 05/22/2026 · 2026-05-27
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4; Title 7; Title 8; Title 16; Title 17 and Title 38, relative to immigration.
In plain English Requires courts to cooperate with federal immigration authorities until February 2029, and allows judges who obstruct such operations to be referred for misconduct proceedings.
Official synopsis: As enacted, requires, until February 1, 2029, each court to cooperate with the U.S. department of homeland security and federal immigration authorities acting in the enforcement of federal immigration law; authorizes, until February 1, 2029, a judge who obstructs lawful operations by such department and…
Became lawComp. became Pub. Ch. 953 · 2026-05-18
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 37; Title 39 and Title 40, relative to criminal offenses.
In plain English Requires changes to laws regarding human trafficking, including amendments to titles 37, 39, and 40 of Tennessee Code.
Official synopsis: As enacted, makes various changes to law relative to human trafficking. – Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39 and Title 40.
Became lawEffective date(s) 05/05/2026 · 2026-05-18
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 1; Title 3; Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 8, relative to biological sex.
In plain English Requires governmental entities to revise policies referencing sex or gender to define those terms based on reproductive anatomy and genetics at birth.
Official synopsis: As enacted, requires each governmental entity to revise any existing ordinance, resolution, rule, policy, and procedure that includes a reference to a natural person's sex or gender to state that those terms are defined as the immutable characteristics of the person's reproductive system that identify…
Became lawComp. became Pub. Ch. 938 · 2026-05-15
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 36, Chapter 6; Title 37, Chapter 1 and Title 39, Chapter 15, relative to children.
In plain English Protects parents from legal action or custody loss for raising a child consistent with the child's biological sex.
Official synopsis: As enacted, specifies that a parent's or legal guardian's action of raising, guiding, or instructing the parent's or legal guardian's child in a manner consistent with the child's biological sex is not a basis for certain findings or actions by the court, does not constitute…
Became lawEffective date(s) 04/27/2026 · 2026-05-05
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, relative to public institutions of higher education.
As enacted, enacts the "Charlie Kirk Act." – Amends TCA Title 49.
Became lawEffective date(s) 04/27/2026, 07/01/2026 · 2026-05-05
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 3; Title 4 and Title 8, relative to the Recognizing Judea and Samaria Act.
As enacted, enacts the "Recognizing Judea and Samaria Act." – Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4 and Title 8.
Became lawComp. became Pub. Ch. 877 · 2026-05-05
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39 and Title 55, relative to criminal offenses involving driving.
In plain English Defines "seriously bodily injury" for the crime of vehicular assault caused by intoxicated driving.
Official synopsis: As enacted, defines "seriously bodily injury" for the purposes of the present law offense of vehicular assault, which occurs when a person who, as the proximate result of the person's intoxication, recklessly causes serious bodily injury to another person by the operation of a motor…
Became lawComp. became Pub. Ch. 875 · 2026-05-05
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 36, Chapter 8 and Title 40, Chapter 11, relative to expedited hearing procedures.
As enacted, enacts the "Parental Rights Protection Act." – Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 8 and Title 40, Chapter 11.
Became lawEffective date(s) 04/16/2026 · 2026-05-04
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 15, relative to underage persons.
In plain English Expands penalties for underage tobacco and vaping violations to include community service, court programs, informal adjustment, or probation.
Official synopsis: As enacted, expands the disposition allowed when a person under 21 is found to have unlawfully purchased, possessed, accepted receipt of, or presented fraudulent proof of age to purchase tobacco, smoking hemp, a vapor product, or a smokeless nicotine product to include requiring community service…
Became lawEffective date(s) 07/01/2026 · 2026-05-04
AN ACT to amend Chapter 120 of the Private Acts of 1915; as amended and rewritten by Chapter 21 of the Private Acts of 2009; Chapter 44 of the Private Acts of 2018; and any other acts amendatory thereto, relative to the Town of Mason.
In plain English Revises the Town of Mason's charter to change rules for office vacancies, oaths, board meetings, procedures, duties, administration, budgeting and other governance matters.
Official synopsis: Subject to local approval, revises the charter of the Town of Mason to provide grounds for vacating certain offices, to prescribe the oath for office; to fix the time, place, and notice requirements for meetings of the board of mayor and aldermen, to establish the…
Became lawComp. became Pr. Ch. 41 · 2026-05-01
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