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TennesseeSB 0308114th General Assembly (2025-2026)Senate
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 57, relative to consumption of alcoholic beverages on premises.
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Signed by Governor
Alcoholic Beverages
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14 provisions identified: 9 benefits, 1 costs, 4 mixed.
Market restaurant gains alcohol-license access
The described market and restaurant gains facility-specific alcohol-licensing access. It must serve breakfast and lunch at least five days weekly and host occasional evening special events. It needs seating for at least 40, at least 1,800 square feet of floor space, and a 0.11-acre property. It must be within 500 feet of a community center and 2,500 feet of an Episcopal-church-associated private university. Its county must have 42,700–42,800 people under the 2020 or a later federal census.
Apartment complexes gain on-site alcohol options
Two narrowly defined apartment-complex types gain expanded alcohol-service options, including franchises and beer permits. One needs at least 340 units in a phase completed before 2025 and at least 420 in a later phase. The alternative needs at least 460 units across multiple structures and a first phase completed before 2027. It also needs the listed spa, pools, rooftop lounge, barista amenities, and proximity to an interstate, green space, creek, and automaker's North American headquarters. Both must be in municipalities with 83,400–83,500 people under the 2020 or a later federal census. Their licensed areas can include outdoor recreation spaces, and admission can be public or limited to residents and guests. They do not need to prepare or serve food or maintain a kitchen or dining room.
Art museum gains alcohol catering options
A charitable public art repository or exhibition space qualifies as a museum for alcohol licensing. It must occupy a former postal facility of at least 100,000 square feet in a metropolitan county with at least 500,000 people. The population test uses the 2020 or a later federal census. The museum can franchise food and drink service, designate any or all property as licensed, and seek an additional catering license without a full commercial kitchen. These powers also apply to beer permits, but the franchisee's container-rule exception does not cover shared space when it and the museum serve simultaneously.
Event venue and campground gain licenses
A described historic event venue and an RV resort gain facility-specific alcohol-licensing access. The event venue must have been established in 2018 on 23 acres about one mile from the Nolichucky River. It needs the restored farmhouse, creekside barn, seven RV power sources, catering, seating for 200 plus 50 on a patio, and overnight space for 27. Its county must have 133,000–133,100 people. The resort must have been established in 2019 on 49.25 acres, with the listed dining, recreation, lodging, and event facilities. Its requirements include a restaurant, 32 rooms, 157 RV sites, and 45 additional lodging beds to be built in or after 2026. Its municipality must have 17,880–17,890 people; both population tests use the 2020 or a later federal census.
Managed homes can join licensed areas
The described high-rise community can use hotel alcohol powers, franchise service, and cover designated areas with one license and one beer permit. Those areas can include managed private homes, hallways, and passageways after each homeowner signs a management agreement and it is filed. The building needs at least 25 floors and 250 residential spaces, including hotel rooms, residential units, or both. It also needs paid sleeping accommodations, a restaurant with a sanitary kitchen seating at least 50, and the specified landmark distances. Its metropolitan county must have at least 500,000 people under the 2020 or a later federal census. Identifying container stickers are allowed, but the special container-rule exception does not cover multiple licensees serving in the same area simultaneously.
More alcohol licenses for entertainment venues
Three narrowly described venues qualify as urban park centers for alcohol licensing. One entertainment complex needs a live-music space for at least 500 people and a metropolitan county population above 500,000. It must be under 250 feet from a commercial railyard, 750 feet from the specified oldest public cemetery, and 1,200 feet from the described Italianate home. Another venue opened in October 1962, seats about 9,700, issues about 45 event licenses yearly, and meets the listed concessions, event, and museum-rental requirements. That venue must be in an urban services district of a metropolitan county with at least 500,000 people. The third facility needs capacity for at least 1,100 people at the specified street corner, within 100 feet of a minor-league ballpark, 1,000 feet of a navigable river, and 1,500 feet of the specified state park. It also needs a metropolitan county with at least 500,000 people; population tests use the 2020 or a later federal census. The complex and third facility can franchise food and alcohol service, with franchise holders treated as licensees; the complex can designate its property by drawing under one license and one beer permit.
Plateau lodge gains local alcohol exception
The described Cumberland Plateau lodge can use hotel alcohol and beer powers, even without a local on-premises alcohol referendum. It can franchise food or drink service and designate its licensed area by filing a drawing. It must have been established in 2024 on at least 35 acres, with at least eight paid rooms and a common lodge. It must meet the specified river and state-park waterfall location requirements. Its county must have 27,300–27,400 people under the 2020 or a later federal census.
Private clubs gain alcohol-service options
Three described private clubs gain facility-specific alcohol-licensing access. A golf-and-social club needs at least 1.5 acres in the specified commercial development, the listed university, historic-building, and reservoir distances, and an indoor virtual golf simulator. It must be established before 2027 in a metropolitan county with at least 500,000 people. It can franchise service and serve across licensed areas, including separate areas. A Tennessee for-profit business club can also franchise service, serve across separate licensed areas, and let members store specified bottles in personal lockers. It must sit on the public square of a city founded in 1799, within 400 feet of the Greek Revival courthouse built in 1858 and 4,000 feet of the described former stove plant. It must focus exclusively on upscale learning and networking, accept cash or credit cards for related services, and meet the listed nondiscrimination rules. The third club must have operated over 15 years on about five acres, about eight miles east of Interstate 65 off Highway 96. It needs full-time staff, the historic church event space, and a 5,000-square-foot clubhouse with the listed dining, event, meeting, pool, cabana, weight-room, and restroom facilities. The latter two clubs require counties with 247,700–247,800 people; all population tests use the 2020 or a later federal census.
Senior communities gain broader alcohol service
Five described independent-and-assisted-living facilities can license their whole properties and franchise food or alcohol service, including under beer permits. Each needs individual apartments, a dining room for residents and guests, and its specific location features. Their apartment ranges and matching county populations are: 190–200 with 247,700–247,800; 175–185 with at least 500,000; 185–195 with 147,700–147,800; 170–180 with 341,400–341,500; and 190–200 with more than 900,000. A separate retirement-center category requires at least eight acres, 100 apartments, and a metropolitan county with at least 500,000 people. It also needs a full-service restaurant, additional dining and beverage options, tastings, a rooftop bar and lounge, an indoor-pool wellness center, and lake-view recreation space. That center can franchise or contract out food and drink operations and use central storage with separately locked beverage stocks. It must file a drawing to designate licensed or beer-permitted areas; all population tests use the 2020 or a later federal census.
Covered entertainment centers pay annual tax
Urban park centers in the listed tax categories must pay a $4,000 privilege tax each year. The money goes to the Tennessee Alcoholic Beverage Commission to administer and enforce alcohol laws. This is a tax on covered facilities, not households generally. The act takes effect upon becoming law.
Airport clubs gain licenses with fees
The commercial airline travel-club definition includes organizations run by or for an airport terminal for airline passengers' comfort. Eligible clubs can hold one or more authorized licenses or grant franchises. A license fee must be paid for each separate facility covered by a license. The supplied provision does not state the fee amount.
Developments gain alcohol service with safeguards
Two described mixed-use developments gain alcohol service across designated areas, including separate areas, along with franchises and catering without full commercial kitchens. Both allow identifying container stickers; the first also allows specified packaged-drink sales and delivery within licensed areas. The first needs at least six acres, commercial and residential uses, a hotel with at least 100 rooms, and the listed commercial buildings and dining options. It must occupy at least part of a former car-dealership site west of and beside Interstate 40, with Broadway frontage west of the Broadway Historic District. Its metropolitan county needs at least 500,000 people, and licensed areas cannot extend more than 1,000 feet from their geographic center. Security measures are required, and each facility answers for its own violations. The second needs at least 14 acres north of and less than two miles from the Tennessee River, partly on a former food-manufacturing site. It must include the listed mixed-use spaces and, upon completion, a minor-league baseball and entertainment stadium seating at least 6,000. Its home-rule municipality needs 190,700–190,800 people, and designated areas cannot extend more than 1,500 feet from their center. Its area diagram and general plan need approval; the initial license needs municipal approval by ordinance or resolution sent to the commission. It can use central locked storage, but the municipality can shorten outdoor common-area hours; population tests use the 2020 or a later federal census.
Golf communities gain service and tax duties
Two described residential golf communities gain broader licensed-property and food-and-drink franchise options. The first was established in 2004 on at least 1,440 acres beside the specified Tennessee River reservoir. It must be within 10,000 feet of one controlled-access interstate and 32,000 feet of another, in a county with 54,800–54,900 people. It needs an at least 18-hole course designed by an Australian professional golfer, a restaurant, marina, outdoor amphitheater, trails, and listed amenities. It can serve from carts, vehicles, or trailers on licensed property and exchange inventory with other licensees, but must keep records and report and pay taxes. When licensees serve simultaneously in the same area, containers must identify the serving licensee; each licensee answers only for its own violations. The second community needs at least 700 acres, an at least 18-hole course, and at least 75 members each paying $5,000 or more in annual dues. It must adjoin U.S. Highway 431, lie within one mile of a county with 247,700–247,800 people, and itself be in a county with 100,900–101,000 people. It must meet the listed nondiscrimination rules and file a premises drawing; its licensed area can include new buildings and acquired adjoining property, and it can offer wine lockers and obtain a catering license. Population tests use the 2020 or a later federal census.
Hotels gain alcohol options and responsibilities
Three described hotels gain hotel-authorized alcohol and beer activities and can franchise food or drink service. One needs at least 30 paid rooms, regular meals, indoor and outdoor dining seating for at least 50, and the specified landmark distances. Another must occupy the site of two buildings from the 1800s, adjoin the historic alley, and be within 200 feet of the described arcade and tall building. It needs at least 160 paid rooms and a restaurant with a sanitary kitchen seating at least 50. Both require metropolitan counties with more than 500,000 people under the 2020 or a later federal census. They can designate their licensed areas, including separate public spaces at the 160-room hotel, and use identifying container stickers. Their container-identification exceptions do not cover multiple licensees serving in the same space at the same time. The 160-room hotel can separately license restaurants, limited-service restaurants, and caterers; those businesses must store drinks on licensed premises and answer for their own violations, not another licensee's actions. The third hotel occupies the described building constructed as early as 1906 and formerly used as a bordello, bath house, and boarding house. It needs at least 10 guest rooms, public dining rooms, a sanitary kitchen, indoor and outdoor restaurant seating for at least 50, and a county with at least 900,000 people under the same census rule.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsors
There is no primary sponsor on record.
Cosponsors
Heidi Campbell
Democrat • Senate
Roll Call Votes
House vote • 4/16/2025
FLOOR VOTE: REGULAR CALENDAR PASSAGE ON THIRD CONSIDERATION 4/16/2025
Yes: 69 • No: 14
Senate vote • 4/14/2025
FLOOR VOTE: as Amended Third Consideration 4/14/2025
Yes: 27 • No: 3
Senate vote • 4/8/2025
SENATE FINANCE, WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE
Yes: 9 • No: 1
Senate vote • 3/11/2025
SENATE STATE & LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE
Yes: 9 • No: 0
Actions Timeline
Effective date(s) 05/05/2025
5/13/2025Pub. Ch. 362
5/13/2025Signed by Governor.
5/5/2025SenateTransmitted to Governor for action.
4/23/2025SenateSigned by H. Speaker
4/22/2025HouseSigned by Senate Speaker
4/22/2025SenateEnrolled and ready for signatures
4/22/2025SenatePassed H., Ayes 69, Nays 14, PNV 5
4/16/2025HouseAm. withdrawn. (Amendment 1 - HA0388)
4/16/2025HouseSubst. for comp. HB.
4/16/2025HouseRcvd. from S., held on H. desk.
4/15/2025HouseSponsor(s) Added.
4/14/2025SenateEngrossed; ready for transmission to House
4/14/2025SenatePassed Senate as amended, Ayes 27, Nays 3
4/14/2025SenateAmendment withdrawn. (Amendment 1 - SA0111)
4/14/2025SenateSenate adopted Amendment (Amendment 2 - SA0378)
4/14/2025SenatePlaced on Senate Regular Calendar for 4/14/2025
4/11/2025SenateRecommended for passage with amendment/s, refer to Senate Calendar Committee Ayes 9, Nays 1 PNV 1
4/8/2025SenatePlaced on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/8/2025
4/1/2025SenateAction deferred in Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee to 4/8/2025
4/1/2025SenatePlaced on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/1/2025
3/25/2025SenateRecommended for passage with amendment/s, refer to Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee Ayes 9, Nays 0 PNV 0
3/11/2025SenatePlaced on Senate State and Local Government Committee calendar for 3/11/2025
3/4/2025SenatePassed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee
2/12/2025SenateIntroduced, Passed on First Consideration
2/10/2025Senate
Bill Text
Enrolled / Public Chapter
Fiscal Note
HA0388
Introduced
SA0111
SA0378
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