Tennessee legislation · 114th General Assembly
Tennessee SB1620: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 57, relative to consumption of alcoholic beverages on premises.
Status: Chaptered, May 27, 2026
Fiscal Summary NOT SIGNIFICANT Bill Summary ON APRIL 14, 2026, THE SENATE ADOPTED AMENDMENT #2 AND PASSED SENATE BILL 1620, AS AMENDED. AMENDMENT #2 rewrites the bill to, instead, make the following revisions to present law: Establishes each of the following as a "premier type tourist resort" that can offer liquor by the drink: o New Cumberland Resorto Tossed Italian Grillo Madison Social Clubo Sunset Marina and Resorto Ancient Lore Villageo Hensley's Corner Market and Grillo Island Pointe Golf Courseo Estate at Sweetwater Creeko Loser's Most Wanted Bar/Riley Green's Duck Blindo Ocoee Cigar Loungeo USA Raft Adventure Resorto Grateful Shedo Lodge 2Ao 111 Motorcarso Ernest Tubb Record Shop and Hank Williams Boogie Baro W Nashvilleo Rallo's Bar & Grillo Belle Meade Villageo Paseo Nashvilleo Ciel of Germantown o Riverbend Country Club Golf Courseo Volunteer Club, LLC Establishes each of the following as a "restaurant" that can offer liquor by the drink: o Speedy B's/Krish Enterprise Inc.o Jose Casa's Mexican Restaurant Establishes the Harrell Performing Arts Theater as a "community theater" that can offer liquor by the drink. Establishes the Cheekwood Golf Club as a "club" that can offer liquor by the drink. Establishes Crestmoor at Green Hills as a "retirement center" that can offer liquor by the drink. Establishes Market Square in Knoxville as a "premises" that can offer liquor by the drink. Establishes Tan Assets, LLC, as a "commercial passenger boat company" that can offer liquor by the drink. Clarifies that, for the purposes of establishing "restaurants" that can offer liquor by the drink, such a term also means a commercially operated facility that is located w
What the bill says
From the amended text:
House State & Local Government 1 Amendment No. 1 to HB1652 Crawford Signature of Sponsor AMEND S e n ate Bill No. 1620* House Bill No. 1652 by deleting all language after the enacting clause and substituting: SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 57-4-102(14), is amended by adding the following new subdivision: ( ) "Community theater" includes a facility or theater that: (i) Was established in 1987 and is situated on approximately sixty-eight (68) acres; (ii) Operates as a community theater and includes access to amenities such as a fitness center, gymnasium, recreational fields and courts, playgrounds, trails, and picnic facilities; (iii) Has twelve thousand seven hundred eighteen square feet (12,718 sq. ft.); (iv) Has a theater seating capacity for three hundred fifty-two (352) patrons; (v) Serves as a venue for community and cultural events; and (vi) Is situated in H.W. Cox Park and located in a municipality with a population of not less than fifty-one thousand three hundred twenty (51,320) and not more than fifty-one thousand three hundred thirty (51,330), according to the 2020 or a subsequent federal census; SECTION 2. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 57-4-102(30), is amended by adding the following new subdivision: ( ) A for-profit recreational club that: HA1095 (i) Operates a public nine-hole golf course that is situated on approximately sixty-two (62) acres; (ii) Contains …