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 the criminal offense of child abuse, child neglect, or child endangerment, and must not be considered as a negative factor by a court in determining a custody arrangement in the best interest of the child. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 6; Title 37, Chapter 1 and Title 39, Chapter 15.

TN SB1989 2026

Protect parental choices to raise children consistent with their biological sex from criminal, abuse, and custody penalties

As enacted, enacts the "Charlie Kirk Act." - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN SB1741 2026

The Charlie Kirk Free Speech Act 

As enacted, revises education law, including, but not limited to, increasing, from 25,000 to 35,000, the maximum number of education freedom scholarships that may be awarded to eligible students. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN HB2532 2026

Tennessee School Choice Expansion Act

As enacted, enacts the "Charlie Kirk American Heritage Act." - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN SB1828 2026

Charlie Kirk American Heritage Act

As enacted, removes the right of a cause of action for any affected person who seeks declaratory and injunctive relief in any action brought regarding the legality or constitutionality of a state governmental action; authorizes such an action against a political subdivision of this state; does not limit any other cause of action or waiver of sovereign immunity to vindicate rights under the Tennessee Constitution or the United States Constitution. - Amends TCA Title 1, Chapter 3 and Title 49.

TN HB1971 2026

 State Immunity from Constitutional Lawsuits

As enacted, generally restricts a landlord from prohibiting a residential tenant from lawfully possessing, carrying, transporting, or storing a firearm, any part of a firearm, or firearm ammunition in the tenant's residential property; a vehicle located in a parking area provided for tenants or tenants' guests; or other locations controlled by the landlord necessary to enter or exit any such location in leases entered into, amended, extended, or renewed on or after July 1, 2026. - Amends TCA Title 66.

TN SB0350 2026

Restricts landlords from prohibiting a tenant from lawfully possessing a firearm

As introduced, states that private citizens and organizations are not bound by the Fourteenth Amendment or the Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell v. Hodges to recognize a marriage between individuals of the same sex; prohibits the board of professional responsibility from disciplining or sanctioning an attorney for declining to officiate a marriage between two persons of the same sex. - Amends TCA Title 17, Chapter 5 and Title 36.

TN HB1473 2026

Allows private citizens and lawyers to refuse recognizing or officiating same-sex marriages

TN HJR0711 2026

A Resolution to honor the memory of Charlie Kirk.

As enacted, creates the offense of human smuggling; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 39.

TN SB0392 2025

Criminalizes human smuggling and harboring illegal aliens in Tennessee

As enacted, creates the Class B misdemeanor offense of operating a motor vehicle in this state with an invalid driver license; designates out-of-state driver licenses issued exclusively to illegal aliens as invalid driver licenses in this state. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50.

TN HB0749 2025

Preventing illegal aliens from obtaining drivers licenses

As enacted, creates a civil cause of action against any person who intentionally recruits, harbors, or transports an unemancipated minor within this state for the purpose of receiving a prohibited medical procedure, regardless of where the medical procedure is to be procured. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 36; Title 37; Title 39 and Title 68.

TN SB2782 2024

Criminalizing Adults Who Help Minors Get Gender-Affirming Care Without Parental Consent

Environmental Preservation - As enacted, prohibits the intentional injection, release, or dispersion, by any means, of chemicals, chemical compounds, substances, or apparatus within the borders of this state into the atmosphere with the express purpose of affecting temperature, weather, or the intensity of the sunlight.

TN SB2691 2024

Bans the practice of geoengineering and weather modification

As enacted, defines food that contains a vaccine or vaccine material as a drug for purposes of the Tennessee Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18 and Title 53.

TN HB1894 2024

Labels foods containing vaccines as drugs for regulatory purposes

As enacted, makes permanent various provisions regarding COVID-19. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 14; Title 29, Chapter 20 and Section 49-7-159 and Chapter 896 of the Public Acts of 2022.

TN SB0011 2023

Permanently extends protections from COVID mandates and masking

As enacted, removes the requirement that a parent-teacher of a home school student provide proof of the student's immunizations and receipt of health services or examinations required by law generally for children in this state to the local education agency; exempts home school students from the immunization requirements applicable to students attending a school, nursery school, kindergarten, preschool, or child care facility; authorizes an LEA, in situations where a home school student participates in an LEA-sponsored interscholastic or extracurricular activity or event, to request and receive proof that the student received a health service or examination that is required for the LEA's students to participate in the activity or event. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6 and Title 68.

TN HB0252 2023

Protect the privacy of home school families and remove a requirement to report child vaccination status

As enacted, prohibits a healthcare provider from performing on a minor or administering to a minor a medical procedure if the performance or administration of the procedure is for the purpose of enabling a minor to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the minor’s sex. - Amends TCA Title 28; Title 29; Title 33; Title 34; Title 36; Title 37; Title 39; Title 40; Title 49; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

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Tennessee | District 84

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Bill	TPAction Position	Townsposition	Comments	Year
TN SB1989 2026	Y	Y	Protect parental choices to raise children consistent with their biological sex from criminal, abuse, and custody penalties	2026
TN SB1741 2026	Y	N	The Charlie Kirk Free Speech Act	2026
TN HB2532 2026	Y	N	Tennessee School Choice Expansion Act	2026
TN SB1828 2026	Y	N	Charlie Kirk American Heritage Act	2026
TN HB1971 2026	N	N	State Immunity from Constitutional Lawsuits	2026
TN SB0350 2026	Y	N	Restricts landlords from prohibiting a tenant from lawfully possessing a firearm	2026
TN HB1473 2026	Y	N	Allows private citizens and lawyers to refuse recognizing or officiating same-sex marriages	2026
TN HJR0711 2026	Y	N	A Resolution to honor the memory of Charlie Kirk.	2026
TN SB0392 2025	Y	N	Criminalizes human smuggling and harboring illegal aliens in Tennessee	2025
TN HB0749 2025	Y	N	Preventing illegal aliens from obtaining drivers licenses	2025
TN SB2782 2024	Y	N	Criminalizing Adults Who Help Minors Get Gender-Affirming Care Without Parental Consent	2024
TN SB2691 2024	Y	N	Bans the practice of geoengineering and weather modification	2024

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Big Tech & Free Speech

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Border Security

00.00%

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