Tennessee legislation · 114th General Assembly

Tennessee HB2223: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 68, relative to fireworks.

Status: Chaptered, May 27, 2026

Fiscal Summary NOT SIGNIFICANT Bill Summary ON APRIL 16, 2026, THE SENATE ADOPTED AMENDMENT #1 AND PASSED SENATE BILL 2419, AS AMENDED. AMENDMENT #1 rewrites the bill to, instead, require a person who offers sparkling devices for sale and who does not hold a fireworks permit to register each location at which the person offers such devices for sale with the state fire marshal. The fee for such registration must be $25, and registrations expire on December 31st of the year in which it was issued. as used in this amendment, "sparkling devices" mean ground-based or hand-held devices that emit showers of sparks and sometimes a whistling or crackling effect when burning, do not detonate or explode, cannot propel themselves through the air, and contain (i) 75 grams or less of pyrotechnic compound per tube; (ii) 200 total grams or less of pyrotechnic compound if multiple tubes are used; and (iii) 500 grams or less of pyrotechnic compound if multiple tubes are used and are separated from each other on a base by at least 1/2 inch. This includes cylindrical fountains, cone fountains, illuminating torches, wheels, ground spinners, flitter sparklers, toy smoke devices, and wire sparklers containing 100 grams or less of pyrotechnic composition per item. Present law authorizes toy paper pistol caps which contain less than 0.25 grains of explosive compounds, cone, bottle, tube, and other type serpentine pop-off novelties, model rockets, wire sparklers containing 100 grams or less of composition per item, emergency flares, matches, trick matches, and cigarette loads to be sold at all times. This amendment also authorizes sparkling devices to be sold at all times. Further, this amendment clarifies that "novelties" means party poppers, snappers, deregulated toy smoke devices, snakes, and glow worms that do not require approval from the United S