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SB1334 • 2026

Fireworks

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 68, Chapter 104, relative to fireworks.

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Sponsor
Yager
Last action
2025-02-12
Official status
Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The official source does not provide details about what happens after fourteen days or other rules regarding selling and using fireworks, so these points are speculative.

Fireworks Claim Period Extension

This bill changes the time limit for owners to claim seized fireworks from ten days to fourteen days after a notice is published in a newspaper.

What This Bill Does

  • Changes the law about how long owners have to claim seized fireworks.
  • Extends the period from ten days to fourteen days after a notice is published in a newspaper.

Who It Names or Affects

  • Owners of seized fireworks
  • State fire marshal

Terms To Know

Seized fireworks
Fireworks that are taken by the state because they break rules or laws.
Claim period
The time given to someone who owns something seized by the government to say it is theirs and ask for it back.

Limits and Unknowns

  • Does not specify what happens if an owner claims their fireworks after fourteen days.
  • It does not change other rules about selling or using fireworks in Tennessee.
  • The bill's effects start on July 1, 2025.

Bill History

  1. Date Tennessee General Assembly

  2. 2025-02-12 Tennessee General Assembly

    Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Commerce and Labor Committee

  3. 2025-02-10 Tennessee General Assembly

    Introduced, Passed on First Consideration

  4. 2025-02-06 Tennessee General Assembly

    Filed for introduction

Official Summary Text

Abstract summarizes the bill.

Current Bill Text

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SENATE BILL 1334
By Yager

SB1334
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 68,
Chapter 104, relative to fireworks.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:
SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 68-104-115(b)(2), is amended by
deleting the language "within ten (10) days" and substituting "within fourteen (14) days".
SECTION 2. This act takes effect July 1, 2025, the public welfare requiring it.