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Tennessee Senate

Jeff Yarbro

Democratic. Senate, district 21.

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Bills they sponsored

79 bills sponsored this session

expands the requirements of the 2026 and 2027 annual reports to be submitted by the artificial intelligence advisory council to the governor, speaker of the senate, and speaker of the house of representatives by requirinSB 2521 · this session · introduced Feb 3, 2026
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
allocates 2 percent of revenue from sports gaming in this state to programs that serve rural and urban at-risk youth. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 49 and Title 67SB 2520 · this session · introduced Feb 3, 2026
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee
enacts the "Volunteer Communities Act," which provides an unincorporated association or nonprofit corporation organized primarily to provide mutual support and assistance within a community or neighborhood certain benefiSB 2515 · this session · introduced Feb 3, 2026
Failed in Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
increases from 60 to 65 days the period after the close of each fiscal year within which the department of finance and administration must submit a report to the governor and members of the general assembly that includesSB 2489 · this session · introduced Feb 3, 2026
Refer to Senate Delayed Bills Committee
clarifies that the Age-Appropriate Materials Act of 2022 does not apply to any materials in the Tennessee Electronic Library. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 1, Part 3 and Title 49, Chapter 6SB 2400 · this session · introduced Feb 3, 2026
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Education Committee
requires certain commercial online platforms, websites, and applications to maintain a content moderation system that allows users to report material harmful to minors that is not properly marked or age-restricted; makesSB 2398 · this session · introduced Feb 3, 2026
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee
creates the new criminal offenses of systematic unauthorized employment and aggravated systematic unauthorized employment; establishes the tort of unfair competition. - Amends TCA Title 29 and Title 39SB 2396 · this session · introduced Feb 3, 2026
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
prohibits local boards of education and public charter school governing bodies from allowing, through their policies, a material in a library collection to be removed while it is being evaluated by the local board, goverSB 2298 · this session · introduced Feb 3, 2026
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Education Committee
removes an obsolete reference to July 1, 2000, as the initial date after which the department of health must ensure that application forms for TennCare uninsured or uninsurable coverage under the Medical Assistance Act aSB 2297 · this session · introduced Feb 3, 2026
Refer to Senate Delayed Bills Committee
clarifies that the criminal offense of knowingly accessing a communication or computer system for the purpose of fraud or theft includes accessing a cloud computing service. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 10; Title 35; TitlSB 2523 · this session · introduced Feb 2, 2026
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
updates the mandatory notice regarding security freezes to specify that identity theft complaints to the federal trade commission and attorney general and reporter may be submitted via electronic means as specified by thSB 2519 · this session · introduced Feb 2, 2026
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
changes the deadline from January 1 to February 15 by when the department must submit its annual report to the speakers of the senate and the house of representatives, the chair of the transportation and safety committeeSB 2518 · this session · introduced Feb 2, 2026
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Transportation and Safety Committee
encourages municipalities to study and assess housing affordability and inventory availability, and to adopt a pattern book for purposes of encouraging the construction of medium-density housing. - Amends TCA Title 6; TiSB 2516 · this session · introduced Feb 2, 2026
Recommended for passage with amendment/s, refer to Senate Calendar Committee Ayes 8, Nays 1 PNV 0
enacts the "Safe Access to Schools and Child Services Act," which prohibits the following entities from conditioning enrollment, attendance, or receipt of services for a child under 18 on the disclosure of the child's imSB 2491 · this session · introduced Feb 2, 2026
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State and Local Government Committee
removes an obsolete reference to department of health beginning development of a demonstration project to provide cost effective alternatives to long-term care under the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 on July SB 2490 · this session · introduced Feb 2, 2026
Refer to Senate Delayed Bills Committee
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requires the department to release certain information regarding providers that department contracts with to the public by January 1, 2027, and to publish monthly reports on its website on short-term or interim placementSB 2401 · this session · introduced Feb 2, 2026
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
enacts the "Fourth Amendment is Not for Sale Act"; creates a Class B misdemeanor offense for officers, employees, or contractors of a state agency or local governmental entity that is required by law to be issued a warraSB 2395 · this session · introduced Feb 2, 2026
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee
Real Property - As enacted, requires a homeowners' association that collects assessments for common expenses to obtain and maintain a blanket fidelity bond to insure the homeowners' association against losses resulting fSB 2326 · this session · introduced Feb 2, 2026
Signed by Governor.
prohibits a person or entity from distributing an electoral deepfake within 90 days of an election that the person or entity knows or should have known is a deceptive and fraudulent depiction of a candidate or political SB 2321 · this session · introduced Feb 2, 2026
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee
requires the secretary of state to create and maintain a publicly accessible, nonpartisan online candidate information page for each local, state, and federal election. - Amends TCA Title 2SB 2299 · this session · introduced Feb 2, 2026
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee
prohibits a bank from digitizing or otherwise converting money held by the bank on behalf of a consumer into a digital currency, digital medium of exchange, or digital monetary unit of account, including cryptocurrency, SB 2522 · this session · introduced Jan 23, 2026
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
redefines a licensed professional counselor as a limited practice professional counselor; redefines a licensed professional counselor with a designation as a mental health service provider as a licensed professional counSB 2399 · this session · introduced Jan 22, 2026
Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/21/2026
requires private-sector employers to compensate employees for accumulated paid leave upon separation from service from employment. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 50, Chapter 2SB 2300 · this session · introduced Jan 22, 2026
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
enacts the "TennCare Buy-In Act." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 10 and Title 71, Chapter 5SB 1852 · this session · introduced Jan 22, 2026
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
authorizes a county with a metropolitan government to levy a tax on the retail sale of food and food ingredients for human consumption within the county at a rate less than the local option sales tax rate. - Amends TCA TSB 1702 · this session · introduced Jan 22, 2026
Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/21/2026
exempts from the state sales and use tax the retail sale of food and food ingredients. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 3 and Title 67SB 2314 · this session · introduced Jan 21, 2026
Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/21/2026
requires the department of correction to disclose records and information to any member of the general assembly, upon written request, to enable the member to determine whether the laws of this state are being complied wSB 1933 · this session · introduced Jan 21, 2026
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State and Local Government Committee
requires that certain personally identifying information of elected state and local public officials be maintained confidentially with limited exceptions. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 10, Chapter 7SB 1932 · this session · introduced Jan 21, 2026
Re-refer to S. Cal Comm
requires the department to apply, no later than January 1, 2027, for federal grants and other federal funds available to the state through the federal summer electronic benefits transfer (EBT) for children program for thSB 1853 · this session · introduced Jan 21, 2026
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Health and Welfare Committee
authorizes school districts to establish fund pools for the investment of school district funds. - Amends TCA Title 9 and Title 49SB 1690 · this session · introduced Jan 21, 2026
Failed in Senate Education Committee
requires a licensee offering interactive sports wagering in this state to restrict access to such wagering on certain campuses of public institutions of higher education; requires certain public institutions of higher edSB 1831 · this session · introduced Jan 20, 2026
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee
enacts "The Intercollegiate Student-Athlete Protection Act," which creates a criminal offense of student athlete harassment; punishes the first offense as a Class A misdemeanor and a second or subsequent offense as a ClaSB 1830 · this session · introduced Jan 20, 2026
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee
exempts the retail sale of food and food ingredients from the sales and use tax when purchased by families with qualified dependents that meet certain household income requirements. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6SB 1829 · this session · introduced Jan 20, 2026
Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/21/2026
requires high performance computing (HPC) facility operators to devote 50 percent of the computing and data processing output of the facility for a public benefit; requires HPC facility operators to produce an annual repSB 1832 · this session · introduced Dec 16, 2025
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Trump Account Program Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 9 and Title 50. Companion bill has been assigned Public Chapter Number 910 by the SecrSB 2397 · this session · introduced Oct 6, 2025
Companion House Bill substituted
enacts the "Tennessee Mental Health Volunteer Alliance Act." - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 49; Title 63 and Title 68SB 1418 · this session · introduced Feb 6, 2025
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Health and Welfare Committee
Criminal Offenses - 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 circSB 1346 · this session · introduced Feb 6, 2025
Signed by Governor.
requires the annual written report submitted to legislative committees with subject matter jurisdiction over criminal matters regarding activities of narcotics investigations by the bureau and the assistant director of tSB 1337 · this session · introduced Feb 6, 2025
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
deletes obsolete definitions of the term "contractor" and obsolete penalty provisions from statute governing the unlawful representation as a contractor without a license. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7;SB 1330 · this session · introduced Feb 6, 2025
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
reduces from 30 to 21 days the period by which a state department or agency, prior to executing a state professional facilities management contract for services within a state legislative district that would result in thSB 1329 · this session · introduced Feb 6, 2025
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State and Local Government Committee
extends from December 31 to January 15, the date by which the department of finance and administration must annually report in writing to the chairs of the committees of both houses having subject matter jurisdiction oveSB 1328 · this session · introduced Feb 6, 2025
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Finance, Ways & Means Committee
prohibits sending by mail a fake check or an image of a fake check, for the purpose of advertising. - Amends TCA Title 45 and Title 47SB 1262 · this session · introduced Feb 6, 2025
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
imposes requirements for health insurance issuers using artificial intelligence, algorithms, or other software for utilization review or utilization management functions. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 27; Title 56 and TiSB 1261 · this session · introduced Feb 6, 2025
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
specifies that "neglect" does not include permitting a child, whose basic needs are met and who is of sufficient age and maturity to avoid harm or unreasonable risk of harm, to engage in independent activities, includingSB 1259 · this session · introduced Feb 6, 2025
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
requires a municipality that adopts an ordinance requiring nonresident property owners to vote by absentee ballot to file such ordinance with the county election commission no later than 75 days, rather than 60 days, befSB 1258 · this session · introduced Feb 6, 2025
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Finance, Ways & Means Committee
increases from 60 to 75 days the period after the close of each fiscal year within which the department of finance and administration must submit a report to the governor and members of the general assembly that includesSB 1250 · this session · introduced Feb 6, 2025
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
requires private schools that participate in the education savings account program or the individualized education account program to publish various items on the school's website; requires private schools that participaSB 1249 · this session · introduced Feb 6, 2025
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Education Committee
requires health insurance carriers to provide mental health coverage in parity with alcoholism and drug dependence coverage. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 33; Title 39; Title 49; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; TitlSB 1248 · this session · introduced Feb 6, 2025
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
changes from January 8 to January 31 the date by which the executive director of the Tennessee wildlife resources agency must submit an annual report on the administration of Reelfoot Lake natural area. - Amends TCA TitlSB 1247 · this session · introduced Feb 6, 2025
Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/21/2026
enacts the "Anti-Road Rage Act of 2024," which creates a Class E felony for the reckless discharge of a firearm while operating, or as a passenger in, a motor vehicle; creates a Class A misdemeanor for the reckless brandSB 1204 · this session · introduced Feb 6, 2025
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee
increases the required assessments of students participating in the education savings account program or the individualized education account program to include all Tennessee comprehensive assessment program tests, TenneSB 1132 · this session · introduced Feb 6, 2025
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Education Committee
allows a court to issue an emergency protection order upon a finding that a person poses an imminent risk of harm to the person or others if allowed to purchase or possess a firearm; authorizes a family member, householdSB 1131 · this session · introduced Feb 6, 2025
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
creates a Class E felony that is committed when a person exercises control over a motor vehicle knowing that the person does not have the permission of the owner of the motor vehicle; creates a Class A misdemeanor of posSB 1129 · this session · introduced Feb 6, 2025
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee
enacts the "Shielding Tennesseans from Oligarchic Power and Eliminating Lawless Obstruction of Necessities Act (STOP ELON Act)," which creates a new offense of interfering with an individual's or entity's receipt of a loSB 1128 · this session · introduced Feb 6, 2025
Action deferred in Senate Judiciary Committee to 1st Calendar of 2026
excludes materials obtained by an individual teacher that are made available in the teacher's classroom to students assigned to the teacher's class from having to be identified in a list of library collection materials pSB 313 · this session · introduced Feb 6, 2025
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Education Committee
requires the department to conserve any federal funds a child in the department's care is eligible for or may receive for the child's reasonable, foreseeable future needs or use for special needs services not currently bSB 312 · this session · introduced Feb 6, 2025
Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/21/2026
requires the presence of one rather than two credible witnesses to be present when an officer of the commission destroys contraband distillation equipment, paraphernalia, and personal property. - Amends TCA Title 57SB 1347 · this session · introduced Feb 5, 2025
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee
changes, from 45 to 50 days from receipt of a request, the time that a controller has to inform a consumer of the controller's decision to decline to take action regarding the consumer's authenticated request under the TSB 1339 · this session · introduced Feb 5, 2025
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
requires the office of research and education accountability in the office of the comptroller of the treasury to annually report information about the students participating in the education freedom scholarship program tSB 1338 · this session · introduced Feb 5, 2025
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Education Committee
clarifies that on or before January 31 of each year, the department shall report information regarding child support to the general assembly and the governor. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 33; Title 34; Title 36; SB 1331 · this session · introduced Feb 5, 2025
Re-refer to Senate Calendar Committee
requires every year, instead of every other year, the commissioner of health, in consultation with the regulatory boards that license healthcare practitioners, to provide a letter no later than November 1 to the governorSB 1208 · this session · introduced Feb 5, 2025
Failed in Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
enacts the "Freedom to Read Act"; repeals the "Age-Appropriate Materials Act of 2022." - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1 and Title 49, Chapter 6SB 1130 · this session · introduced Feb 5, 2025
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Education Committee
reduces from a Class C felony to a Class B misdemeanor the offense of criminal exposure of another to HIV; creates a Class C felony for the criminal exposure of another to HIV if a person transmitted HIV to another persoSB 813 · this session · introduced Feb 5, 2025
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
removes the requirement that the governor receive authorization by the general assembly prior to making any decision or obligating the state with regard to the expansion of optional enrollment in the medical assistance pSB 316 · this session · introduced Feb 5, 2025
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Health and Welfare Committee
Public Employees - As enacted, authorizes an eligible education employee to qualify for paid leave during the legal process for adopting a newly placed minor child, specifically during that period of time beginning with SB 314 · this session · introduced Feb 5, 2025
Signed by Governor.
enacts the "Clean Energy and Jobs Act"; creates the Clean Energy Workforce Training Grant Fund; establishes a tax credit for certain systems, methods, improvements, structures, devices, or appliances used by renewable enSB 1246 · this session · introduced Feb 4, 2025
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Energy, Ag., and Nat. Resources Committee
creates a grant program to facilitate green spaces in urban areas; authorizes the technical secretary of the air pollution control board to establish a program to encourage community-led programs that reduce air pollutioSB 1206 · this session · introduced Feb 4, 2025
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Energy, Ag., and Nat. Resources Committee
Boats, Boating - As enacted, generally increases from 12 to 14, the age that a person must be to lawfully operate a personal watercraft upon the waters of Tennessee without being under the direct supervision of an adult,SB 918 · this session · introduced Feb 4, 2025
Sponsor(s) Added.
enacts the "Tennessee Cannabis Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 29; Title 33; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41; Title 43; Title 45; Title 50; Title 53; Title 63; Title 67; Title 68 and Title 71SB 809 · this session · introduced Feb 4, 2025
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
authorizes an employee who has been employed full-time with this state for at least 12 months to receive up to 15 hours of paid leave for certain qualified volunteer work. - Amends TCA Title 8SB 808 · this session · introduced Jan 31, 2025
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee
requires each lobbyist to include and maintain in the lobbyist's registration statement filed with the Tennessee ethics commission the identification of each bill and legislative measure for which the lobbyist is receiviSB 1207 · this session · introduced Jan 30, 2025
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee
Criminal Offenses - As enacted, enacts the "Voyeurism Victims Act." - Amends TCA Title 28; Title 29; Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6; Title 39 and Title 40, Chapter 2. SB0335 has been assigned Public Chapter Number 62 by theSB 335 · this session · introduced Jan 30, 2025
Signed by Governor.
designates Nashville as the hot chicken capital of this state. - Amends TCA Title 4SB 1260 · this session · introduced Jan 29, 2025
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee
creates the Class C misdemeanor offense of storing a firearm or firearm ammunition in a motor vehicle while the person is not in the motor vehicle unless the firearm or firearm ammunition is kept from ordinary observatioSB 807 · this session · introduced Jan 29, 2025
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
requires county election commissions to set uniform hours for each polling place used for early voting such that each polling place opens and closes at the same time on a single day. - Amends TCA Title 2SB 412 · this session · introduced Jan 29, 2025
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee
requires that the trial for an unlawful detainer action be held no later than 14 days from the date the plaintiff filed the unlawful detainer motion; limits the scope of a hearing for an unlawful detainer motion based onSB 806 · this session · introduced Jan 28, 2025
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
enacts the "Workers Need Child Care Act"; establishes the child care infrastructure fund from which the department disperses grants to nonprofit entities for establishing new licensed child care agencies in this state. -SB 315 · this session · introduced Jan 27, 2025
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Health and Welfare Committee
allows a student to possess and self-administer rescue seizure medication at school or at a school-related activity or event. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 50, Part 16SB 135 · this session · introduced Dec 19, 2024
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Education Committee
directs the bureau to establish a temporary TennCare benefits program to provide medical assistance on a temporary basis to certain individuals who do not qualify for enrollment in TennCare, CoverKids, or a successor proSB 164 · this session · introduced Nov 25, 2024
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Health and Welfare Committee

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