---
type: "Bill"
title: "Children - As enacted, allows a child care agency to lease or purchase underutilized property from local education agencies; classifies a child care family home as residential property for certain purposes, including zoning and building codes; permits a host-school's fire inspection and facilities to be sufficient for a child care agency's provisional license under the department of human services. - Amends TCA Title 13; Title 49; Title 68 and Title 71."
description: "Children - As enacted, allows a child care agency to lease or purchase underutilized property from local education agencies; classifies a child care family home as residential property for certain purposes, including zoning and building codes; permits a host-school's fire inspection and facilities to be sufficient for a child care agency's provisional license under the department of human services. - Amends TCA Title 13; Title 49; Title 68 and Title 71."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tn"
legislature: "Tennessee General Assembly"
session: "114"
identifier: "SB 1379"
citation: "Tennessee SB 1379 (114)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Children"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Watson"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 23
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-02-06"
last_action: "2025-04-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2c75fb1d-695b-426c-8e51-6850a50b63ac"
source_url: "https://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/BillInfo/Default?BillNumber=SB1379&ga=114"
source_hash: "3016626f117107ac507f8bc61da48de8dd3bbef90e733325b45d65392f6ec715"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-tn"]
---

# Tennessee SB 1379 (114) — Children - As enacted, allows a child care agency to lease or purchase underutilized property from local education agencies; classifies a child care family home as residential property for certain purposes, including zoning and building codes; permits a host-school's fire inspection and facilities to be sufficient for a child care agency's provisional license under the department of human services. - Amends TCA Title 13; Title 49; Title 68 and Title 71.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Amendment HA0262** (committee substitute) — [source](https://capitol.tn.gov/Bills/114/Amend/HA0262.pdf)
2. **Amendment SA0148** (committee substitute) — [source](https://capitol.tn.gov/Bills/114/Amend/SA0148.pdf)
3. **Current Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://capitol.tn.gov/Bills/114/Bill/SB1379.pdf)

## Votes

- SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE: Recommended for passage with amendment/s, refer to Senate Calendar Committee Ayes 9, Nays 0 PNV 0 3/18/2025 Passed (2) — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- FLOOR VOTE: REGULAR CALENDAR PASSAGE ON THIRD CONSIDERATION 4/14/2025 Passed (1) — **86–9** (pass) · lower
- FLOOR VOTE: as Amended Third Consideration 3/31/2025 Passed (1) — **28–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Watson — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2025-02-06** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-02-10** Introduced, Passed on First Consideration `introduction`
- **2025-02-12** Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-12** Placed on Senate Judiciary Committee calendar for 3/18/2025
- **2025-03-13** Sponsor(s) Added. `sponsorship`
- **2025-03-17** Placed on Senate Judiciary Committee calendar for 3/18/2025
- **2025-03-18** Recommended for passage with amendment/s, refer to Senate Calendar Committee Ayes 9, Nays 0 PNV 0
- **2025-03-28** Placed on Senate Regular Calendar for 3/31/2025
- **2025-03-31** Sponsor(s) Added. `sponsorship`
- **2025-03-31** Engrossed; ready for transmission to House `receipt`
- **2025-03-31** Passed Senate as amended, Ayes 28, Nays 1 `passage`
- **2025-03-31** Senate adopted Amendment (Amendment 1 - SA0148)
- **2025-04-03** Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk.
- **2025-04-14** Passed H., Ayes 86, Nays 9, PNV 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-14** Am. withdrawn. (Amendment 1 - HA0262) `amendment-withdrawal`
- **2025-04-14** Subst. for comp. HB. `substitution`
- **2025-04-16** Enrolled and ready for signatures `enrolled`
- **2025-04-17** Signed by Senate Speaker `passage`
- **2025-04-21** Transmitted to Governor for action. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-21** Signed by H. Speaker `passage`
- **2025-04-24** Signed by Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-29** Effective date(s) 07/01/2025
- **2025-04-29** Pub. Ch. 276

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2c75fb1d-695b-426c-8e51-6850a50b63ac`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Tennessee legislature records).