Cities & Counties Subcommittee

TN - Representative Jerome Moon (R)

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TN - Representative Rebecca Alexander (R)

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TN - Representative John Crawford (R)

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TN - Representative Michael Hale (R)

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TN - Representative John Holsclaw (R)

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TN - Representative Sam McKenzie (D)

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TN - Representative William Slater (R)

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TN - Representative Dave Wright (R)

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TN - HB763 County Clerks - As enacted, removes certain duties of county clerks regarding revenue. - Amends TCA Section 18-6-105.

TN - HB708 County Government - As introduced, creates a supplemental pay incentive program for county correctional officers who receive 40 hours or more of in-service training per calendar year. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 8, Part 1 and Title 41.

TN - HB847 County Officers - As introduced, increases the minimum compensation for certified administrators of elections from 90 percent of the compensation of the county assessor of property to 100 percent of the compensation of the county assessor of property. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 67, Chapter 1, Part 5.

TN - HB724 County Officers - As enacted, requires a candidate for the office of constable to undergo a cognitive and psychological examination by a licensed psychologist to ensure the fitness of the candidate prior to running for office. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 10 and Title 38, Chapter 8.

TN - HB1458 Public Funds and Financing - As introduced, creates a program for municipal finance officers that provides a $1,000 stipend to each municipal finance officer who becomes certified and is employed as a certified municipal finance officer for three years; creates an endowment fund to provide the stipends; schedules the stipends and the fund to cease in 2043. - Amends TCA Title 6, Chapter 56, Part 4 and Title 9, Chapter 4, Part 2.

TN - HB346 County Officers - As introduced, eliminates the mandatory compensation increase for county officers; updates county officer minimum salaries to the 2022-2023 fiscal year amounts. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 24.

TN - HB1058 Public Officials - As introduced, authorizes trial judges in Memphis, within their annual budget appropriation, to appoint persons to serve as court officers who serve at the will and under the supervision of the appointing judge. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 8.

TN - HB361 Local Government, General - As introduced, authorizes local governments to create a program to provide grants to eligible nonprofit organizations that own residential property and rent the property for at least 25 percent below market rate. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13 and Title 67, Chapter 5.

TN - HB526 Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, removes requirement for receipt of certain grants and loans for water and wastewater treatment infrastructure projects that a municipality includes depreciation in its calculation of fees or rates. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 65; Title 67 and Title 68.

TN - HB30 Local Government, General - As introduced, requires a person to obtain a valid entertainer permit from the adult-oriented establishment board, in those jurisdictions with a board, prior to performing adult cabaret entertainment for compensation; prohibits public, private, and commercial establishments from allowing persons under the age of 18 to attend a performance featuring adult cabaret entertainment. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51.

TN - HB48 Local Government, General - As enacted, caps at 20 the number of members that may be elected to the governing body of a metropolitan or municipal government. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 5; Title 6 and Title 7.

TN - HB181 Local Government, General - As introduced, clarifies that local governmental entities are not prohibited from evaluating bids, proposals, and qualifications based on experience, certifications, expertise, and past performance as stated in the solicitation documents, or requiring employees of the contractor to submit to a criminal history check to ensure the employees are permitted to enter controlled spaces of the governmental entities, in contracts for improvements to real property, or in a ...

TN - HB1197 Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As enacted, reconstitutes boards of directors for sports authorities in certain counties having a metropolitan form of government. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6 and Title 7, Chapter 67.

TN - HB278 Local Government, General - As introduced, removes the prohibition on a local government from requiring, as a condition of contracting with the local government, that employers establish a leave policy that is different than required by state law. - Amends TCA Section 7-51-1802.

TN - HB474 Local Government, General - As introduced, expresses legislative intent that the persons appointed to a charter commission for the consolidation of the functions of the county and creation of a metropolitan government be representative of both incorporated and unincorporated areas of the county. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 9 and Title 67.

TN - HB168 County Government - As introduced, prohibits a county employee from serving on the county commission of the county for which the person is employed. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 5 and Title 12.

TN - HB2209 County Officers - As introduced, requires a court to place a constable on administrative leave pending a preliminary hearing, instead of until the conclusion of the criminal prosecution, if the constable is indicted or formally charged with a misdemeanor involving gambling or moral turpitude or a felony; requires a court to place the constable on administrative leave until the conclusion of the criminal prosecution if the court finds probable cause that the constable committed the crime. - Am...

TN - HB2151 Taxes, Severance - As introduced, authorizes Clay County to increase the severance tax rate from 15 cents up to 45 cents; annually adjusts the maximum tax rate based on the percentage of change in the average consumer price index (all items-city average) as published by the United States department of labor, bureau of labor statistics; requires changes in the tax rate to be passed by a two-thirds majority vote of the county legislative body. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 7, Part 2.

TN - HB2208 Economic and Community Development - As introduced, expresses the intent of the general assembly that the membership of joint economic and community development boards be representative of the populations of the cities and counties for which the boards are formed. - Amends TCA Title 6, Chapter 58.

TN - HB2532 Fire Prevention and Investigation - As introduced, requires a county fire investigator who makes an arrest pursuant to an arson investigation to notify local law enforcement of the arrest as soon as practicable. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 12; Title 58 and Title 68.

TN - HB2628 County Government - As introduced, prohibits a county from prohibiting an individual householder from disposing of solid waste from such householder's own household upon such householder's own land as long as the disposal does not create a public nuisance or a hazard to the public health. - Amends TCA Title 5.

TN - HB2369 Local Government, General - As introduced, removes jurisdictional exceptions to prohibition on discrimination against first responders based upon residency with respect to employment; prohibits all local governments in this state from discriminating against first responders with respect to employment based on residence. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 41 and Title 68.

TN - HB625 Workers Compensation - As introduced, defines "labor representative" for purposes of workers' compensation law; specifies that the person representing an employee in mediation for a workers' compensation claim may be a labor representative; requires the department of labor and workforce development to promulgate rules to allow a labor representative to participate with a party engaged in mediation or another form of alternative dispute resolution for a workers' compensation claim. - Amends TC...

TN - HB2541 Energy - As introduced, authorizes mayors of certain local governments to enter into voluntary agreements for energy infrastructure improvements for clean or renewable energy; requires that agreements be approved either by resolution of the respective legislative bodies of such local governments or in accordance with statutory requirements. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13, Chapter 3; Title 13, Chapter 4 and Title 13, Chapter 7.

TN - HB2677 County Officers - As introduced, increases the annual continuing education requirement for county commissioners from seven to eight hours; requires that the training be obtained by CTAS meetings; extends a $600 stipend to county commissioners for completion of annual training requirements. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 5 and Title 7.

TN - HB1264 County Officers - As introduced, requires as a qualification for office that a constable be certified by a qualified healthcare provider as being free from any mental impairment that would affect the constable's ability to perform an essential function of the job with or without reasonable accommodation; requires a constable with law enforcement powers to successfully complete a training program that is equivalent to or superior to the training or continuing training required for a law enforc...

TN - HB910 Local Government, General - As enacted, prohibits local governments from dismissing, disciplining, fining, or penalizing a jailer or corrections officer employed by a local government, or denying employment to a person applying to be a jailer or corrections officer, based on where the jailer or corrections officer or applicant resides. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8, Chapter 50 and Title 8, Chapter 8.

TN - HB126 County Boundaries - As enacted, establishes a new boundary line between Shelby County and Fayette County. - Amends TCA Section 3-1-102; Section 3-1-103 and Title 5, Chapter 2.

TN - HB699 Local Government, General - As introduced, prohibits a person in Montgomery, Williamson, Rutherford, Hamilton, Knox, Davidson, or Shelby County from holding office as a county commissioner and as a city council member of a municipality located in whole or in part within such respective county or that shares a coterminous or contiguous boundary with such respective county. - Amends TCA Title 5, Chapter 5 and Title 6.

TN - HB954 Local Government, General - As enacted, authorizes local governments to use tax revenue received from the Tennessee Sports Gaming Act to be used for emergency services as well as for local infrastructure projects. - Amends TCA Section 4-49-104.

TN - HB99 County Government - As enacted, authorizes members of a county records commission who do not receive a fixed annual salary from the state or the county to receive an increased per diem rate of up to $150 for each day of actual meeting instead of the current rate of $25. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 4.

TN - HB389 Local Government, General - As introduced, authorizes a member of a local government's legislative body to participate in a scheduled meeting by electronic means if the member is dealing with a family or medical emergency, has been called into military service, or is unable to attend in person due to inclement weather. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 8, Chapter 44.

TN - HB813 Sheriffs - As introduced, requires a sheriff to enforce the resolutions of the county, if the county has expressed by resolution its intent to have the sheriff enforce its resolutions, and the county has filed a certified copy of its resolutions with the sheriff and the general sessions court of the county. - Amends TCA Title 5 and Title 8, Chapter 8.

TN - HB288 Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As enacted, increases the compensation for members of the board of directors of the Tellico Reservoir Development Agency to $300 per meeting and $225 for meetings of committees of the board; increases the threshold at which sealed bids are required for purchases and contracts. - Amends TCA Title 64, Chapter 1, Part 7.

TN - HB84 Salaries and Benefits - As introduced, creates a presumption of injury, death, or disability for arson investigators who are sworn deputies of a county sheriff's department as the result of exposure to smoke and other toxins for purposes of qualifying for certain benefits. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 8; Title 50 and Title 56.

TN - HB284 Public Funds and Financing - As introduced, standardizes the thresholds for competitive sealed bids for counties, municipalities, utility districts, local education agencies, and other local governmental entities. - Amends TCA Title 5, Chapter 14; Title 6, Chapter 56, Part 3; Title 12, Chapter 3, Part 12; Title 49, Chapter 13; Title 49, Chapter 2, Part 2 and Title 54.

TN - HB901 Public Funds and Financing - As introduced, requires the department of economic and community development to post on its website at least quarterly the number of jobs actually created by a project funded by FastTrack funds within three years of the project receiving the funds. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 9; Title 67 and Title 68.

TN - SJR11 Naming and Designating - "Certified Government Financial Manager Month," March 2023

TN - HB1647 Budget Procedures - As introduced, requires all requests for amendments to county budgets by county departments and other entities to be approved by the department or entity seeking the amendment prior to being submitted to the county legislative body for consideration; applies only to counties that have adopted the Local Option Budgeting Law of 1993. - Amends TCA Title 5, Chapter 12 and Title 9.

TN - HJR685 Constitutional Amendments - Proposes an amendment to Article VII, Section 1 of the Constitution of Tennessee to specify the duties of the sheriff, trustee, register, county clerk, and assessor of property.

TN - HB1693 State Government - As introduced, authorizes ex officio members of the Tennessee commission for the United States semiquincentennial commission to appoint designees to serve on the commission; transfers the administrative attachment for the commission from the department of tourist development to the Tennessee State Museum. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 44.

TN - HB1787 Public Funds and Financing - As introduced, specifies that the ratings services that grade potential investments for idle funds of local governments be nationally recognized statistical rating organizations as identified by the United States securities and exchange commission. - Amends TCA Title 5, Chapter 8, Part 3; Title 6, Chapter 56, Part 1 and Title 7, Chapter 82.

TN - HB1725 Firefighters - As introduced, removes the requirement that length of service awards for volunteer firefighters are awarded on a first come, first served basis; requires a portion of the appropriated funds in each fiscal year to be used to pay expenses incurred for the administration of the length of service award program; requires unexpended funds remaining after the payment of grant awards and expenses for the administration of the program to be carried forward into the next fiscal year. - A...

TN - HB1790 Comptroller, State - As introduced, modifies the course work required to receive a certified municipal finance officer (CMFO) designation; requires examinations, including test questions, administered by MTAS and CTAS to be designated as a municipal or county finance officer, respectively, to be confidential. - Amends TCA Title 6, Chapter 56, Part 4 and Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5.

TN - HB2389 County Officers - As introduced, deletes provisions that exempt persons in Fentress County from meeting certain qualifications to qualify for election or appointment to the office of constable. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 10.

TN - HB1931 Local Government, General - As introduced, prohibits a local governmental entity or official from adopting or enacting an ordinance or policy that prohibits or limits the ability of a law enforcement agency to take all necessary steps that are lawful under state and federal law to fulfill the law enforcement agency's duties to prevent and detect crime and apprehend criminal offenders; states that an ordinance or policy that is adopted in violation of the prohibition is null and void. - Amends...

TN - HB2019 County Government - As introduced, requires the county legislative body to set the annual budget for the county mayor's office, at a minimum, at an amount not less than the average of the budgeted amount for the county mayor's office for the five preceding fiscal years. - Amends TCA Title 5 and Title 9.

TN - HB1921 County Government - As introduced, specifies that the county mayor is not a member of the county commission for purposes of compliance with the Open Meetings Act. - Amends TCA Title 5, Chapter 6, Part 1 and Title 8, Chapter 44.

TN - HB1967 Water Authorities - As introduced, authorizes the governing body of an incorporated city or town to approve a project or request of its board of waterworks and/or sewerage commissioners by passage of a proper ordinance or resolution. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 35.

TN - HB1999 Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As introduced, adds the MidSouth development district to the list of development districts to which this state intends to assist financially; specifies an overall state funding level for the nine development districts; changes the calculation for how much funding each development district will receive. - Amends TCA Title 13, Chapter 14, Part 1.

TN - HB1722 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, changes the reporting month from February to January for when the department of revenue must report sales taxes collected for all electronic nicotine delivery devices to the speaker of the senate, speaker of the house of representatives, and chairs of the finance, ways and means committees of the senate and house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.

TN - SJR923 Naming and Designating - Designates the last weekend in October as "Honor Your Hometown Weekend" in Tennessee.

TN - SJR924 Naming and Designating - Designates March 2024 as "Certified Government Financial Manager Month."

TN - HB2841 County Government - As introduced, requires the newspaper notice of a county's intent to appropriate funds to a nonprofit organization that is not a charitable organization to be published at least 15 days prior to the legislative body voting on the appropriation. - Amends TCA Title 5 and Title 67.

TN - HB2937 Local Government, General - As introduced, upon approval by majority vote of the governing body of a county or municipality, prohibits the respective member of the approving governing body from serving on both the county and municipal governing body simultaneously; applies only to counties, and municipalities within such counties, with a population in excess of 200,000, according to the 2020 or a subsequent federal census; if so approved, authorizes a member of both a county and municipal gov...

TN - HB2547 Purchasing and Procurement - As introduced, authorizes a local governmental entity to purchase fuel and fuel products in the open market without public advertisement or competitive bidding, but requires the entity, whenever possible, to obtain at least three documented quotes; permits such purchases from the department of general services' contract where available. - Amends TCA Title 5, Chapter 14, Part 2 and Title 12, Chapter 3, Part 12.

TN - HB2506 Fire Prevention and Investigation - As introduced, authorizes a fire department to respond to a fire or an emergency in the jurisdiction or service area of another fire department upon providing notice prior to arrival. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 102.

TN - HB336 Purchasing and Procurement - As enacted, increases the threshold, from $10,000 to $25,000, above which sealed bids are required by a city chartered under the city manager-commission general law charter; increases the threshold, from $10,000 to $25,000, below which the board of commissioners in such city may delegate the approval of contracts to the city manager. - Amends TCA Section 6-19-104.

TN - HB90 Local Government, General - As enacted, prohibits local governments from expending funds for the purposes of assisting a person in obtaining a criminal abortion. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 8.

TN - HB419 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, increases the time period, from six months to one year, in which a local government is prohibited from holding a referendum to levy the local option sales tax after a referendum was held on the question and was rejected. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 7.

TN - HB864 Local Government, General - As enacted, prohibits as against public policy a metropolitan government ordinance, charter provision, or resolution that requires a supermajority vote of the local legislative body in order to make improvements to, renovations to, or the demolition and replacement of existing facilities owned by the metropolitan government when such facilities are to be used for substantially the same purpose as the use prior to any changes; requires that the voting requirement fo...

TN - HB483 Local Government, General - As enacted, prohibits political subdivisions from prohibiting, based on the type or source of energy to be delivered to an individual customer, the sale or installation of an appliance utilized for cooking, space heating, water heating, or another end use. - Amends TCA Section 7-51-2102.

TN - HB1134 County Officers - As enacted, makes various changes to law relative to county officials. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 8; Title 9; Title 18; Title 54 and Title 67.

TN - HB976 Firefighters - As enacted, enacts the "James 'Dustin' Samples Act." - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51, Part 2; Title 9; Title 50, Chapter 6 and Title 68, Chapter 102.

TN - HB1012 County Officers - As introduced, authorizes a county election council to notify the Tennessee Constable Association, the Tennessee Constable Council, and the East Tennessee Constables Association of the election or appointment of a constable by electronic means. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 10; Title 8, Chapter 21, Part 9 and Section 65-3-118.

TN - HB335 Municipal Government - As enacted, authorizes the board of commissioners of a city chartered under the city manager-commission general law charter to call for a special election to fill a vacancy on the board. - Amends TCA Section 6-20-110.

TN - SJR31 Naming and Designating - Designates the City of Friendsville as the Pink Marble Capital of Tennessee

TN - HB491 Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As enacted, expands the types of projects that may be funded under the Tourism Development Authority Act; clarifies the sources of revenue to fund such projects; excludes ad valorem real property taxes from such sources of revenue that are available to fund projects under the Act. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 69.

TN - HB2685 County Government - As introduced, creates a process for members of a county legislative body and members of the public to challenge a vote of a member of the county legislative body if that member, or the member's spouse, is an employee of the county and voted on a matter that would increase the pay or benefits of that member or that member's spouse. - Amends TCA Title 5, Chapter 5.

TN - HB1834 Public Funds and Financing - As introduced, requires local governments issuing debt under the Local Government Public Obligations Act of 1986 or the Public Building Authorities Act of 1971 to seek approval from the comptroller or the comptrollers designee prior to issuance of the debt under certain circumstances; makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Section 9-21-133 and Title 9, Chapter 21, Part 4.

TN - HJR858 Constitutional Amendments - Proposes an amendment to Article VI, Section 14 of the Tennessee Constitution to authorize municipal courts to impose civil penalties up to $3,000 for violations of municipal ordinances.

TN - HB1880 Bonds and Undertakings, Regulation of - As introduced, under certain conditions, exempts the issuance of general obligation refunding bonds that will repay a public building authority loan from the requirement that a plan of refunding be submitted for review to the comptroller of the treasury. - Amends TCA Section 9-21-911.

TN - HB2278 County Government - As introduced, increases, from .15 to .45 per ton, the maximum severance tax a county legislative body may impose. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 59 and Title 67, Chapter 7.

TN - HB2639 County Boundaries - As introduced, requires the documents required to accompany legislation to change county lines to be filed electronically with the chair of the state and local government committee of the senate and the chair of the local government committee of the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 3 and Title 5.