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HB1110 • 2026

Election Laws

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 2, relative to elections.

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Sponsor
Salinas, Oliver
Last action
2025-03-25
Official status
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Elections & Campaign Finance Subcommittee of State & Local Government Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The official summary and text do not provide details on how or where early voting hours will be announced.

Election Office Hours for Early Voting

This bill changes when county election commissions must announce their early voting hours.

What This Bill Does

  • Changes the rule about when county election commissions need to tell people about early voting times.
  • Requires that these times be announced at least 30 days before an election instead of 25 days.

Who It Names or Affects

  • County election commissions in Tennessee

Terms To Know

Early voting
When people can go vote before the day of an election.
Election commission
The group in charge of running elections in a county.

Limits and Unknowns

  • Does not specify how early voting hours will be announced.
  • Only changes when the information must be available, not what it says or where people can vote early.

Amendments

These notes stay tied to the official amendment files and metadata from the legislature.

Amendment 1-0 to SB1228

Plain English: This amendment adds new sections to Tennessee law that allow county election commissions to set up voting locations inside jails and detention facilities where eligible voters are confined.

  • County election commissions must work with sheriffs to establish satellite voting locations in jails and detention centers for eligible voters who are residents of the county.
  • Voting at these locations can happen during early voting or on election day, as determined by the sheriff's office and the county election commission.
  • The amendment ensures that incarcerated individuals have access to identification needed to vote and provides voter registration assistance in jails.
  • The exact details of how many satellite locations will be set up and when voting will occur are left to local decision-making between sheriffs' offices and county election commissions.

Bill History

  1. 2025-03-25 Tennessee General Assembly

    Taken off notice for cal in s/c Elections & Campaign Finance Subcommittee of State & Local Government Committee

  2. 2025-03-25 Tennessee General Assembly

    Failed in Senate State and Local Government Committee

  3. 2025-03-19 Tennessee General Assembly

    Placed on s/c cal Elections & Campaign Finance Subcommittee for 3/25/2025

  4. 2025-03-19 Tennessee General Assembly

    Assigned to s/c Elections & Campaign Finance Subcommittee

  5. 2025-03-19 Tennessee General Assembly

    Ref. to State & Local Government Committee

  6. 2025-03-19 Tennessee General Assembly

    Placed on Senate State and Local Government Committee calendar for 3/25/2025

  7. 2025-02-12 Tennessee General Assembly

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

  8. 2025-02-10 Tennessee General Assembly

    P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.

  9. 2025-02-10 Tennessee General Assembly

    Introduced, Passed on First Consideration

  10. 2025-02-06 Tennessee General Assembly

    Intro., P1C.

  11. 2025-02-06 Tennessee General Assembly

    Filed for introduction

  12. 2025-02-05 Tennessee General Assembly

    Filed for introduction

Official Summary Text

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Current Bill Text

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SENATE BILL 1228
By Oliver

HOUSE BILL 1110
By Salinas

HB1110
003268
- 1 -

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 2,
relative to elections.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:
SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 2-6-103(c), is amended by deleting
the language "not less than twenty-five (25) days prior to the day of election" and substituting
instead "not less than thirty (30) days prior to the day of election".
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.