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PUBLIC CHAPTER NO. 613
SENATE BILL NO. 1731
By Stevens
Substituted for: House Bill No. 1791
By Zachary, Lamberth, Reeves
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 27, Chapter 1, relative to appeals.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:
SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 27-1-101, is amended by deleting the
section in its entirety and substituting the following:
The state may appeal as of right an interlocutory order of a circuit or chancery court of
this state that:
(1) Grants, continues, or modifies an injunction against the state or any state
official;
(2) Denies a motion to dissolve or modify an injunction against the state or any
state official;
(3) Denies sovereign immunity to the state or any state official;
(4) Denies qualified immunity for any state official; or
(5) Denies a motion to dismiss filed by the state in an action involving the:
(A) Constitutionality of state law; or
(8) The constitutionality or lawfulness of:
(i) An executive order;
(ii) Administrative rule; or
(iii) Any other governmental action.
SECTION 2. If any provision of this act or the application of any provision of this act to any
person or circumstance is held invalid, the invalidity does not affect other provisions or applications
of the act that can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to that end, the
provisions of this act are severable.
SECTION 3. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.
SENATE BILL NO. 1731
PASSED: March 12, 2026
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SPEAKER OF THE SENATE
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
APPROVED this :JJ.otl. day of tV\u.1rc.RA 2026
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