Tennessee legislation · 114th General Assembly
Tennessee HB1666: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 8, Chapter 50; Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 24 and Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 51, relative to the use of honorifics.
Status: Chaptered, May 27, 2026
Fiscal Summary NOT SIGNIFICANT Bill Summary ON APRIL 21, 2026, THE HOUSE SUBSTITUTED SENATE BILL 1665 FOR HOUSE BILL 1666, ADOPTED AMENDMENT #1, AND PASSED SENATE BILL 1665, AS AMENDED. AMENDMENT #1 makes various technical changes to present law to specify that, under this bill, the same immunities from civil liability, adverse action, and disciplinary action, and duties, that apply to this state, state employees, public schools, LEAs, public school students, public school teachers, public school employees, public school contractors, public institutions of higher education, public higher education students, public higher education faculty, public higher education employees, and public higher education contractors with regard to the use of a pronoun consistent with an individual's sex will apply when using an honorific that is consistent with an individual's sex. ON APRIL 22, 2026, THE SENATE CONCURRED IN HOUSE AMENDMENT #1.
What the bill says
From the amended text:
House Education 1 Amendment No. 1 to HB1666 White Signature of Sponsor AMEND S e n ate Bill No. 1665* House Bill No. 1666 by deleting all language after the enacting clause and substituting: SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 49-6-5102(a)(3), is amended by deleting the language "names and pronouns" and substituting instead "names, pronouns, and honorifics". SECTION 2. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 49-6-5102(b)(1)(B), is amended by deleting the subdivision and substituting instead: (B) Preferred pronoun or honorific of a student, teacher, employee, or contractor of a public school or LEA, if the individual's preferred pronoun is not consistent with the individual's sex or the individual's preferred honorific is not consistent with the individual's sex; SECTION 3. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 49-6-5102(b)(2)(B), is amended by deleting the subdivision and substituting instead: (B) A pronoun or honorific that is consistent with the sex of the student, teacher, employee, or contractor to whom the student, teacher, employee, or contractor is referring, even if the pronoun or honorific is not the individual's preferred pronoun or honorific; or SECTION 4. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 49-6-5102(b)(3)(B), is amended by deleting the subdivision and substituting instead: (B) The preferred pronoun or honorific of a student, teacher, employee, or contractor of a public school or LEA, if the individual's preferred pronoun is inconsistent HA1079 with the individual's …