Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, revises law relative to alcoholic beverages. - Amends TCA Title 57. Companion bill has been assigned Public Chapter Number 999 by the Secretary of State, the official text

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                          PUBLIC CHAPTER NO. 999

                                                  HOUSE BILL NO. 1987

                                              By Representative Eldridge

                                       Substituted for: Senate Bill No. 2019

                                            By Senators Briggs, Johnson

         AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 57, relative to alcoholic beverages.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:

          SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 57-3-709, is amended by deleting the
following language:

                    The commission shall establish such fees, only pursuant to rules promulgated in
                    accordance with the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act, compiled in title 4,
                    chapter 5, and such fees shall be limited only to covering the costs of
                    implementing this part and for the implementation and updating of commission
                    information technology and software.

and substituting instead:

                    The commission shall establish such fees, only pursuant to rules promulgated in
                    accordance with the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act, compiled in title 4,
                    chapter 5, and such fees must be limited only to covering the costs of
                    implementing this part and for the implementation and updating of commission
                    information technology and software, or other costs as deemed necessary by the
                    commission.

          SECTION 2. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 57-4-101(n), is amended by deleting
the language "golf driving ranges" and substituting instead the language "golf courses".

          SECTION 3. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 57-4-201(b), is amended by adding
the following as a new subdivision:

                    (4) A restricted retail business licensed pursuant to§ 57-4-102(34) may provide
          alcoholic beverages to any lawful patron of the business, regardless of whether the
          patron is receiving barbering or cosmetology services at the time the alcoholic
          beverages are served. The provision of alcoholic beverages pursuant to a restricted
          retail business license is an accessory use, and such use does not, by itself, require a
          separate business classification, occupancy designation, or physical separation within
          the premises, if all other statutory requirements are satisfied.

          SECTION 4. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.
         HOUSE BILL NO. 1987

PASSED:  April 22, 2026

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                                              CAMERON SEXTON, SPEAKER
                                             HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

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                                                                RANDY MCNA\LY
                                                   SPEAKER OF THE SENATE

APPROVED this \q1t- day of ( V \ ~  2026

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BILL LEE, GOVERNOR