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HB0333 • 2026

Pensions and Retirement Benefits

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 8, Chapter 36, relative to firefighter retirement age.

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Sponsor
Crawford, Harshbarger
Last action
2025-04-14
Official status
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The bill summary and text do not provide details on what happens if a firefighter wants to retire before the new optional retirement age, leaving this as an unknown.

Firefighter Retirement Age Change

This bill allows firefighters in Tennessee with ranks equal to or higher than shift commander to work past age 62.

What This Bill Does

  • Changes the law so that firefighters with ranks of shift commander and above can work past the usual retirement age of 62.

Who It Names or Affects

  • Firefighters in Tennessee with ranks equal to or higher than shift commander.

Terms To Know

Mandatory Retirement Age
The age at which a person must stop working for an employer due to company rules.

Limits and Unknowns

  • It is not clear how many firefighters will be affected by this change.
  • The bill does not specify what happens if a firefighter wants to retire before the new optional retirement age.

Bill History

  1. 2025-04-14 Tennessee General Assembly

    Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee

  2. 2025-04-10 Tennessee General Assembly

    Placed on s/c cal Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee for 4/14/2025

  3. 2025-04-09 Tennessee General Assembly

    Assigned to s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee

  4. 2025-04-09 Tennessee General Assembly

    Rec. for pass; ref to Finance, Ways, and Means Committee

  5. 2025-04-02 Tennessee General Assembly

    Placed on cal. State & Local Government Committee for 4/9/2025

  6. 2025-04-02 Tennessee General Assembly

    Action def. in State & Local Government Committee to 4/9/2025

  7. 2025-03-26 Tennessee General Assembly

    Placed on cal. State & Local Government Committee for 4/2/2025

  8. 2025-03-26 Tennessee General Assembly

    Action def. in State & Local Government Committee to 4/2/2025

  9. 2025-03-19 Tennessee General Assembly

    Placed on cal. State & Local Government Committee for 3/26/2025

  10. 2025-03-19 Tennessee General Assembly

    Action def. in State & Local Government Committee to 3/26/2025

  11. 2025-03-12 Tennessee General Assembly

    Placed on cal. State & Local Government Committee for 3/19/2025

  12. 2025-03-12 Tennessee General Assembly

    Rec. for pass by s/c ref. to State & Local Government Committee

  13. 2025-03-05 Tennessee General Assembly

    Placed on s/c cal Public Service Subcommittee for 3/12/2025

  14. 2025-02-12 Tennessee General Assembly

    Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee

  15. 2025-02-10 Tennessee General Assembly

    Introduced, Passed on First Consideration

  16. 2025-02-03 Tennessee General Assembly

    Assigned to s/c Public Service Subcommittee

  17. 2025-02-03 Tennessee General Assembly

    P2C, ref. to State & Local Government Committee

  18. 2025-01-27 Tennessee General Assembly

    Intro., P1C.

  19. 2025-01-27 Tennessee General Assembly

    Filed for introduction

  20. 2025-01-23 Tennessee General Assembly

    Filed for introduction

Official Summary Text

Abstract summarizes the bill.

Current Bill Text

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SENATE BILL 301
By Harshbarger

HOUSE BILL 333
By Crawford

HB0333
002016
- 1 -

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 8,
Chapter 36, relative to firefighter retirement age.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:
SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 8-36-205(a)(3)(C), is amended by
deleting the language "or as the chief of a police department or a fire department" and
substituting "the chief of a police department or fire department, or as a firefighter with a rank
equal to or higher than shift commander".
SECTION 2. This act takes effect July 1, 2025, the public welfare requiring it.