US state regulation
Tennessee
Every state-level regulation PlainRegWatch tracks for Tennessee - across data privacy, AI, food chemical bans, right to repair and worker protection, with status, effective dates and official sources.
- Tracker score
- 31/100 Below median
- Regulations tracked
- 3 Above median
- Enacted into law
- 2
- Categories regulated
- 3/5
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Hot pending share. 1 pending bill is at least a quarter of Tennessee's tracked shelf.
The verdict
Tennessee carries a dense shelf (3 rows, LIGHT) in the lower tracker-score band: 2 enacted · 3/5 areas · tracker 31/100 · Data Privacy.
- 31/100
- tracker (mid tercile)
- 3
- tracked rows (dense tercile)
- 2
- enacted into law
- Data Privacy
- PRIVACY-LED lead area
Tracker score is a 0–100 portal-derived measure: weighted counts of records marked enacted across five covered categories, normalized to the top result, not enforcement strength, legal burden, or an official state rating.
State archive posture brief
Tennessee legislative archive posture
Entity-varying stamps from Tennessee's rows in the five-category PlainRegWatch archive, volume band, enactment share, tracker score, and corpus rank, not a clone nationwide scaffold.
- 3 Tracked rows in archive
- 2 Enacted into law 67% share
- 1 Pending bills tracked
- 31/100 Portal tracker score
- #22 Of 51 by volume
- #33 Of 51 by tracker score
- Hawaii Nearest volume peer 3 rows
- 3 Of 5 policy areas Data Privacy
Enacted-volume neighbourhood
Enacted statute count among nearest archive-volume peers (snapshot 2026-07-16).
State context
Tennessee's pending heat vs the tracked state corpus
Hot pending share: Tennessee is below the peer average for tracked volume and below the peer average for tracker score. Highlighted point = this state.
PlainRegWatch methodology: tracker score is a normalized enacted-count index, not legal burden. Placement method.
Policy coverage
Tennessee enacted mix · PRIVACY-LED
Privacy-led shelf: each card is live from Tennessee's rows (enacted counts only), with links into the national category hubs.
Tennessee regulatory footprint index
A single 0-100 index combining Tennessee's standing on 3 of 3 tracked measures: enacted-law volume, portal tracker strictness, and tracked-category breadth. This describes how extensive Tennessee's tracked regulatory footprint is, not a judgment of good or bad governance. A missing measure would drop out and redistribute its weight rather than deflating the index.
67/100
Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures
- Enacted volume
- C 3 tracked
69th percentile nationwide
- Tracker strictness
- D 31/100
49th percentile nationwide
- Category breadth
- A 3 categories
90th percentile nationwide
Benchmarked live against every state reporting each measure in the current portal tracker. Not a legal, compliance, or governance-quality score; PlainRegWatch's own weighting (enacted volume 40%, tracker strictness 35%, category breadth 25%).
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Read with Tennessee
Nearest archive-volume peers and tracker-score poles for Tennessee (LIGHT · LOWER · HOT), replacing the old fixed Related strip.
LIGHT LOWER HOT PRIVACY-LED
Hawaii · LIGHT
Hawaii tracks 3 rows (more by 0 than Tennessee); tracker stamp LOWER vs LOWER.
District of Columbia · LIGHT
District of Columbia tracks 3 rows (more by 0 than Tennessee); tracker stamp LOWER vs LOWER.
Florida · LIGHT
Florida tracks 3 rows (more by 0 than Tennessee); tracker stamp MID vs LOWER.
Maryland · LIGHT
Maryland tracks 3 rows (more by 0 than Tennessee); tracker stamp MID vs LOWER.
Texas (MID score pole)
Texas sits near Tennessee on archive volume yet stamps MID while this page stamps LOWER.
Data Privacy hub · PRIVACY-LED
Tennessee's lead category is Data Privacy (1 enacted) under the PRIVACY-LED archive stamp.
Regulations by category in Tennessee
Source: State regulatory filings (IAPP / MultiState aggregation) Tennessee state-rule registry · 2023 Tennessee: 3 tracked · 2 enacted · tracker 31/100 (LIGHT/LOWER). Status reflects the latest legislative tracker snapshot.
Counts and tracker score are Tennessee's rows in the curated five-category archive · as of July 2026.