Tennessee legislation · 114th General Assembly
Tennessee HB2017: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 39-17-1314; Section 70-1-206 and Section 70-4-107, relative to the authority of the Tennessee fish and wildlife commission to proscribe the manner and means of taking wildlife.
Status: Chaptered, April 13, 2026
Fiscal Summary NOT SIGNIFICANT Bill Summary ON MARCH 12, 2026, THE SENATE ADOPTED AMENDMENT #1 AND PASSED SENATE BILL 2028, AS AMENDED. AMENDMENT #1 makes technical corrections to the bill and adds a preamble. ON MARCH 19, 2026, THE HOUSE SUBSTITUTED SENATE BILL 2028 FOR HOUSE BILL 2017, ADOPTED AMENDMENT #3, AND PASSED SENATE BILL 2028, AS AMENDED. AMENDMENT #3 specifies that this bill's prohibition against a local government regulating the manner and means of taking wildlife while lawfully hunting does not prohibit a county or municipality from regulating the discharge of a firearm by a person lawfully hunting within 500 feet of school property.
What the bill says
From the amended text:
Amendment No. 3 to HB2017 Cochran Signature of Sponsor AMEND S e n ate Bill No. 2028* House Bill No. 2017 by deleting the amendatory language of SECTION 1 and substituting: (j) (1) Notwithstanding subdivision (b)(2) or another law to the contrary, a city, county, town, municipality, or metropolitan government shall not regulate the manner and means of taking wildlife, including the discharge of a firearm while lawfully hunting. Such manner and means of taking wildlife is regulated pursuant to rules promulgated and proclamations issued by the fish and wildlife commission under its delegated authority in title 70. (2) This part does not prohibit a county or municipality from regulating the discharge of a firearm by a person lawfully hunting within five hundred feet (500') of school property. HA0712
Sponsors
- Cochran, Mark (R, 23) · primary sponsor
- Grills, Rusty (R, 77)
- Lamberth, William (R, 44)
- (R, 11)