New Tennessee laws 2027: laws taking effect in Tennessee in 2027

• 1 January 2027

  SB 1700: Consumer Protection - As enacted, requires the Tennessee advisory commission on intergovernmental relations (TACIR) to conduct a study of the potential regulation of artificial intelligence systems and generative artificial intelligence chatbots in this state. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 37 and Title 47.

  Requires operators of companion chatbots to prevent them from encouraging self-harm, offering mental health therapy without licensed supervision, or engaging in sexual interactions with minors.

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• 1 January 2027

  SB 1700: Consumer Protection - As enacted, requires the Tennessee advisory commission on intergovernmental relations (TACIR) to conduct a study of the potential regulation of artificial intelligence systems and generative artificial intelligence chatbots in this state. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 37 and Title 47.

  Requires operators of companion chatbots to prevent them from encouraging self-harm, offering mental health therapy without licensed supervision, or engaging in sexual interactions with minors.

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• 1 January 2027

  HB 1847: Computers and Electronic Processing - 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.

  Requires data center owners or operators to pay the full cost of electrical infrastructure needed to serve the data center, and prohibits electric utilities from raising rates for other customers to cover these costs, effective 1 January 2027.

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• 31 January 2027

  SB 2366: Physicians and Surgeons - As enacted, requires the board of medical examiners to issue a provisional foreign training license of two years, which may be extended for an additional one year, to an internationally trained physician who has successfully completed the examination described in current law upon finding sufficient evidence that the internationally trained physician has met certain listed criteria; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 63.

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• 1 January 2027

  HB 1956: Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, expands the prohibition, from stage 4 advanced metastatic cancer or metastatic blood cancer to any cancer, against a health benefit plan that provides coverage for cancer requiring the use of a step therapy protocol before the health benefit plan provides coverage for an approved prescription drug to an enrollee who has received a diagnosis of cancer. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

  Prohibits health benefit plans from requiring step therapy protocols before covering approved prescription drugs for enrollees diagnosed with any cancer, effective 1 January 2027.

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• 1 January 2027

  SB 1748: Motor Vehicles - As enacted, revises law relative to out-of-service orders issued to commercial drivers and related penalties. - Amends TCA Title 55 and Title 65, Chapter 15.

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