As enacted, requires TACIR to study artificial intelligence and submit a report to the governor and both speakers by January 31, 2027. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 33; Title 39 and Title 47.

TN SB1493 2026

Make knowingly training AI to encourage suicide, homicide, form emotional relationships, impersonate humans or licensed clinicians a Class A felony.

As enacted, requires the sheriff of each county to enter into an agreement under an available federal 287(g) program, and expands the powers of the board of control of the Tennessee corrections institute. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 8; Title 16; Title 17; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 41.

TN HB2219 2026

Mandatory Sheriff ICE Agreements

As enacted, provides that a person commits the offense of grooming of a minor when the person engages in a course of grooming conduct directed at a minor with the specific intent to commit, or facilitate the commission by another person of, a sexual offense or violent sexual offense against the minor; or to cause or induce the minor to engage in simulated sexual activity that is patently offensive or sexual activity; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN HB2317 2026

Creates felony crimes for grooming minors or mentally compromised people, including electronic solicitation

As enacted, adds certain language comprehension requirements for certain driver licenses; requires documentation as a U.S. citizen or lawfully permitted in the U.S. for certain vehicle registrations; requires documentation as a U.S. citizen for certain driving and related licenses. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4; Title 55, Chapter 50 and Title 65, Chapter 15.

TN HB1708 2026

Requires restricted driver license, English retest, and residency proof for non-English speakers

As enacted, generally prohibits a municipality or electric utility to pay or absorb the cost of electrical infrastructure incurred to serve a data center; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13 and Title 65.

TN HB1847 2026

Requiring data center owners to pay all infrastructure and prevent passing those costs to residents or businesses.

As enacted, revises the assessment testing requirements for students who participate in the education savings account (ESA) program. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 12; Title 48; Title 49 and Title 67.

TN SB1585 2026

Increasing income cap to provide more ESA's

As enacted, enacts the "Riley Gaines Women's Safety and Protection Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 37; Title 41; Title 49 and Title 68.

TN SB0468 2026

Riley Gaines Women's Safety and Protection 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, clarifies that a child's parent, legal guardian, or legal custodian may, to the extent allowable by federal law, access and review all health and medical records of the child, including those records related to treatments available to unemancipated minors without parental consent; makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 36; Title 37; Title 49; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN SB0259 2026

Expanding parental rights for children's medical records and informed consent of treatment 

Create Class A misdemeanors for remaining in Tennessee for reentering after deportation

TN HB1704 2026

Requires parental consent before asking minors gender-related medical questions

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, adds local governments to the entities that must verify that each applicant for public benefits is a United States citizen or lawfully present in the United States; authorizes certain investigations of violations of requirements for verification of citizenship or presence for public benefits; requires certain reporting related to such verification for benefits; makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1 and Title 4, Chapter 58.

TN SB1915 2026

Require local governments to verify applicants' citizenship, report noncitizens to ICE, and allow the AG to withhold funds.

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

TN SB1741 2026

The Charlie Kirk Free Speech Act 

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

TN SB1828 2026

Charlie Kirk American Heritage Act

As enacted, authorizes local boards of education and public charter school governing bodies to allow schools in the LEA or the public charter school, as applicable, to display the Ten Commandments, the first sentence of the second paragraph of the preamble to the Declaration of Independence, and the preamble to the United States Constitution in a prominent location in a school building. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN HB0047 2026

Allow local school boards and charter schools to display Ten Commandments, Declaration, U.S. and Tennessee Constitutions, and Bill of Rights.

As enacted, prohibits certain healthcare providers from knowingly or willfully asking a minor, or a health insurance issuer, managed care organization, or entity providing reimbursement for healthcare services from requiring or requesting a healthcare provider or facility to ask, certain gender-related questions for any purpose; makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 47; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN HB1665 2026

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 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

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 a civil and criminal action for individuals who are the subject of an intimate digital depiction that is intentionally disclosed without the individual's consent under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 28 and Title 39, Chapter 17.

TN SB1346 2025

Criminalizes and penalizes nonconsensual deepfake intimate images

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, prohibits labeling a cell-cultured food product as meat or a meat food product. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 39; Title 40; Title 43; Title 44; Title 47 and Title 53.

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Bill	TPAction Position	Harshbargerposition	Comments	Year
TN SB1493 2026	Y	Y	Make knowingly training AI to encourage suicide, homicide, form emotional relationships, impersonate humans or licensed clinicians a Class A felony.	2026
TN HB2219 2026	Y	Y	Mandatory Sheriff ICE Agreements	2026
TN HB2317 2026	Y	Y	Creates felony crimes for grooming minors or mentally compromised people, including electronic solicitation	2026
TN HB1708 2026	Y	Y	Requires restricted driver license, English retest, and residency proof for non-English speakers	2026
TN HB1847 2026	Y	Y	Requiring data center owners to pay all infrastructure and prevent passing those costs to residents or businesses.	2026
TN SB1585 2026	Y	N	Increasing income cap to provide more ESA's	2026
TN SB0468 2026	Y	Y	Riley Gaines Women's Safety and Protection Act	2026
TN HB2532 2026	Y	Y	Tennessee School Choice Expansion Act	2026
TN SB0259 2026	Y	Y	Expanding parental rights for children's medical records and informed consent of treatment	2026
TN HB1704 2026	Y	Y	Requires parental consent before asking minors gender-related medical questions	2026
TN HB1971 2026	N	N	State Immunity from Constitutional Lawsuits	2026
TN SB1915 2026	Y	Y	Require local governments to verify applicants' citizenship, report noncitizens to ICE, and allow the AG to withhold funds.	2026

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American Culture

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Big Tech & Free Speech

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Border Security

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Educational Freedom

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Health & Medical Freedom

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