Tennessee House of Representatives bill in Session 114.
Status: enacted. Latest action: April 23, 2026.
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 2, Chapter 16 and Title 3, Chapter 1, relative to redistricting.
ON MARCH 16, 2026, THE HOUSE ADOPTED AMENDMENT #1 AND PASSED HOUSE BILL 166, AS AMENDED. AMENDMENT #1 rewrites the bill to, instead, add that geographic descriptions affecting part of the boundary line between Fayette County and Shelby County is to be construed as the boundary line established by present law when a ll census descriptions, counties, voting districts (VTDs), tracts, blocks, census delineations, census district lines, and other census designations are those established for or by the United States department of commerce, bureau of the census, for taking the 2020 federal decennial c ensus in this state as contained in the automated geographic database, known as the topologically integrated geographic encoding and referencing (TIGER) system for the composition of state congressional districts, state senatorial districts, and state house of representative districts.
| Date | Event | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-01-15 | Introduced | Bill introduced |
| 2026-04-23 | Status | enacted |
| 2026-04-23 | Latest Action | Comp. became Pub. Ch. 742 |