Law note · Tennessee
Tennessee Information Protection Act (TIPA), general applicability
TIPA governs private-sector processing of Tennessee residents' personal information, enacted as House Bill 1181, Public Chapter 408 of the 113th General Assembly. The bill passed the House April 21, 2023 and was approved by the Governor in May 2023; a floor amendment moved the general effective date from an engrossed print's July 1, 2024 to the signed Public Chapter's July 1, 2025, which the Secretary of State's official publication confirms as authoritative.
A separate data protection impact assessment look-back date, July 1, 2024, is unaffected by the general effective-date correction.
What it asks of an app
- Confirm TIPA's applicability thresholds and sector exemptions reach your business before assuming coverage or exemption either way.
- Use July 1, 2025 as TIPA's general effective date, not July 1, 2024. An earlier engrossed print of the enacting bill carried the 2024 date, but the final signed Public Chapter moved it to 2025.
When LexLint raises it
Declared activities: automated_outreach, crawls_web, deploys_chatbot, processes_biometrics, processes_voice, trains_models
Primary source: official Tennessee session law text, Public Chapter 408 (2023), Tennessee Secretary of State