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TN - Representative John Crawford (R)

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TN - Representative Dave Wright (R)

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TN - Representative Rebecca Alexander (R)

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TN - Representative Jeff Burkhart (R)

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TN - Representative Dale Carr (R)

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TN - Representative Clay Doggett (R)

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TN - Representative Michael Hale (R)

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TN - Representative Esther Helton-Haynes (R)

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TN - Representative John Holsclaw (R)

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TN - Representative Harold Love, Jr. (D)

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TN - Representative Greg Martin (R)

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TN - Representative Sam McKenzie (D)

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TN - Representative Larry Miller (D)

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TN - Representative Jerome Moon (R)

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TN - Representative Kevin Raper (R)

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TN - Representative Jay Reedy (R)

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TN - Representative Tim Rudd (R)

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TN - Representative Johnny Shaw (D)

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TN - Representative William Slater (R)

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TN - Representative Robert Stevens (R)

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TN - Representative Dwayne Thompson (D)

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TN - Representative Todd Warner (R)

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TN - HB12 Taxes, Privilege - As introduced, increases the initial tax rate authorized for the privilege of residential development under the County Powers Relief Act from $1.00 per square foot to $3.00 per square foot; deletes preemption provision related to certain privilege taxes. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 29.

TN - HB28 Annexation - As introduced, deletes requirement that municipalities adopt a comprehensive growth plan and have an approved urban growth boundary prior to annexing unincorporated territory. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 10; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13; Title 49 and Title 65, Chapter 4.

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 - HB33 Assessors - As enacted, makes various changes to law relative to emergency response, including requiring certain information be provided to the assessor of property. - Amends TCA Title 58, Chapter 2 and Title 67, Chapter 5.

TN - HJR13 Constitutional Amendments - Proposes an amendment to Article VII, Section 5 of the Constitution of Tennessee to change the date of elections for judicial and other civil officers from the first Thursday in August to the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.

TN - HB40 Real Property - As enacted, prohibits certain foreign ownership of real property in this state by nonresident aliens and foreign entities if certain conditions are met. - Amends TCA Title 43; Title 44; Title 47; Title 48 and Title 66.

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 - HB83 Ashland City - Subject to local approval, changes the dates for elections for mayor and councilman from the first Saturday in December in odd-numbered years to the third Thursday in August in even-numbered years. - Amends Chapter 121 of the Private Acts of 2004; as amended.

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 - 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 - HB97 Real Property - As introduced, establishes a property fraud alert program to be administered by each county register of deeds if the local government appropriates funds for the program; increases the penalty for unlawfully drawing property transfer documents without interest in the property from a Class E felony to a Class D felony. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 13; Title 35; Title 39, Chapter 17; Title 45; Title 47; Title 66 and Section 67-4-409.

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

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 - HJR28 Memorials, Retirement - Paul Vasterling, Nashville Ballet Artistic Director

TN - HB111 Solid Waste Disposal - As enacted, requires the solid waste disposal fee imposed by Wayne County, or a municipality or solid waste authority in Wayne County, to be subject to the same penalty and interest as delinquent property taxes if not paid within 30 days after notice of such fee is mailed. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 211, Part 8.

TN - HB118 Local Government, General - As introduced, establishes a referendum process by which the electorate of a local government in this state may vote to establish 16-year term limits for the public officials of the local government. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 8.

TN - HB121 Political Parties - As introduced, prescribes a process by which a person must declare a statewide political party or recognized minor party affiliation before voting in a primary election. - Amends TCA Title 2.

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 - HB130 Taxes, Ad Valorem - As enacted, removes the authority of the state board of equalization to create an assessment appeals commission to hear and act upon complaints and appeals regarding the assessment, classification, and value of property for purposes of taxation. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3 and Title 67, Chapter 5.

TN - HB133 Election Laws - As introduced, increases the time allowed for an employee to take time off to vote on election day from three to four hours. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 8.

TN - HB134 Campaigns and Campaign Finance - As introduced, exempts churches and other religious organizations from the Campaign Financial Disclosure Act of 1980 with respect to expending funds in favor of or in opposition to single or multiple issue measures related to questions of public or private morality, including, but not limited to, alcohol, drugs, abortion, marriage, or gambling. - Amends TCA Section 2-10-101.

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

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 - HB169 Election Laws - As introduced, authorizes up to two members of an LLC that owns property in a city to vote in the city's elections if the city's charter provides nonresident property owners voting rights. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 2.

TN - HB170 Zoning - As enacted, states that property owners should expect that a permit application will be judged on the law in effect at the time of application; declares that the general assembly rejects the pending ordinance doctrine, as described by the Tennessee supreme court in its May 14, 2007, opinion in the case of Harding Academy v. Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, as contrary to the public policy interests of property owners in this state. - Amends TCA Title 27 and T...

TN - HB173 Election Laws - As introduced, requires county election commissions to include three non-binding questions related to the legalization of marijuana on the November 2024 ballot; requires the secretary of state to compile the results of the public policy opinion poll and forward the results to the members of the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - HB176 Registers of Deeds - As introduced, requires documents submitted to the county register for registration to be in Times New Roman font with a minimum 12-point font size. - Amends TCA Title 66, Chapter 24, Part 1.

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 - HB183 Campaigns and Campaign Finance - As enacted, makes various changes to campaign finance laws. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 10; Title 3, Chapter 6; Title 4, Chapter 55; Title 8, Chapter 50, Part 5 and Title 57.

TN - HB193 Election Laws - As introduced, deletes provisions authorizing the establishment of convenient voting centers. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - HB244 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, increases income eligibility limits for property tax relief for elderly low-income homeowners and disabled homeowners to $36,600; increases income eligibility limits for property tax relief for elderly low-income homeowners under the Property Tax Freeze Act to $36,600; increases the full market value limit on which property tax reimbursement is calculated for eligible elderly low-income homeowners and disabled homeowners to $35,000; and increases ...

TN - HJR42 Constitutional Amendments - Proposes amendment to allow people to propose laws by initiative.

TN - HB246 Election Laws - As introduced, requires reports of deaths in relation to maintaining voter registration lists to include the date of the death; requires the coordinator of elections to prepare a report for the general assembly regarding deaths of registered voters. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 2, Part 1.

TN - HB254 Taxes, Real Property - As introduced, increases, from $27,000 to $50,000, the maximum market value on which property tax relief is calculated for elderly, low-income homeowners. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5, Part 7.

TN - HB262 Political Parties - As introduced, requires state and local elections for public office to be partisan elections; requires judges who are required by this state's constitution to be reelected at retention elections to declare a bona fide membership with a political party or independent status at least 30 days prior to a retention election. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 3; Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 16; Title 17 and Title 49.

TN - HB274 Election Laws - As introduced, requires candidates for elective office who are unaffiliated with a statewide political party to disclose their unaffiliated status on sample or informational ballots used for campaigning purposes. - Amends TCA Title 2.

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 - 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 - 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 - HB303 Election Laws - As introduced, authorizes the use of an identification card issued by an accredited institution of higher education in this state for purposes of voter identification at a polling place; requires the secretary of state to conduct studies on such use and file reports regarding such use. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - HB319 Environment and Conservation, Department of - As enacted, establishes a "brownfield redevelopment area fund" to be used by the department to administer a brownfield redevelopment area grant program; creates a franchise and excise tax credit equal to the remediation costs for a brownfield property for a qualified development project in a tier 3 or tier 4 enhancement county; makes other related revisions. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 53, Part 3; Title 9, Chapter 23; Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 2...

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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - HB366 Taxes, Real Property - As enacted, makes changes to property tax relief under the Property Tax Freeze Act. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5, Part 7.

TN - HB388 Campaigns and Campaign Finance - As introduced, prohibits a candidate or political campaign committee from accepting contributions that exceed 30 percent of the total contributions received by a candidate or political campaign committee from persons who are not residents of this state at the time the contribution is made. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 10, Part 3.

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 - HB400 White Bluff - Subject to local approval, authorizes the Town of White Bluff to construct, regulate, and assess fees for the use of or impact upon, certain public infrastructure projects; authorizes the Town to exercise eminent domain for purposes of acquiring property for such projects. - Amends Chapter 25 of the Private Acts of 2003.

TN - HB405 Political Parties - As introduced, prescribes a process by which a person must declare a statewide political party or recognized minor party affiliation before voting in a primary election; designates unaffiliated registered voters as independents who have not affiliated with a political party prior to the primary election in August of 2024. - Amends TCA Title 2.

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 - HB428 Election Laws - As introduced, requires a brief summary of any question, regardless of length, submitted to the people for a vote. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - HB434 Election Laws - As introduced, reduces from 15 percent to 1 percent the number of signatures of qualified voters necessary to file a petition for recall in certain charter counties if the county governing body adopts a resolution of no confidence in a county officer. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 5.

TN - HB468 Taxes - As introduced, extends from three years to five years, the amount of time that a metropolitan government tax collection official must keep and preserve tax collection records. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 4.

TN - HB471 Business and Commerce - As introduced, authorizes a municipality or public authority in which a tourism development zone is located to file with the commissioner of finance and administration and the state building commission its annual report concerning the zone in an electronic format. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 13 and Title 66.

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 - HB475 Election Laws - As introduced, requires election officials to meet at the polling place at least 45 minutes ahead of the time for opening the polls rather than 30 minutes. - Amends TCA Title 2.

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 - HB486 Financial Disclosure - As enacted, requires political campaign committees to report contributions and expenditures for a local election to the registry of election finance rather than to the local county election commission; requires complaints on statements of local political campaign committees to be filed in the office of the registry of election finance rather than with the local district attorney. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 10.

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 - HB499 Election Laws - As introduced, requires the officers of a party to file with the secretary of state and with the coordinator of elections a copy of the rules under which the party and its subdivisions operate within 15 days, instead of 30 days, following adoption in order for the party to have nominees on a ballot or exercise other rights of a political party. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 3; Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 10; Title 17; Title 27; Title 39; Title 40;...

TN - HB500 Appropriations - As introduced, appropriates $20 million to the legislature for the purchase or construction of a building or other facility accessible to the Cordell Hull Building. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 8; Title 9 and Title 12.

TN - HB505 Election Laws - As introduced, authorizes the county election commission to notify individuals filing a petition for recall, referendum, or initiative to notify the individuals of a defect in the petition that must be cured prior to certification for final approval. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - HB506 Campaigns and Campaign Finance - As introduced, removes requirement to file pre-primary and pre-general election statements for candidates for state public office and political campaign committees for state elections. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 10.

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 - HB538 Election Laws - As introduced, requires department of safety to automatically register a qualified person to vote from information on an application for a driver license or photo identification card unless the person opts out. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 4.

TN - HB561 Municipal Government - As introduced, specifies that municipal elections can be partisan or nonpartisan. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - HB565 Taxes, Real Property - As introduced, requires a local governmental entity to hold a referendum to approve a property tax increase that exceeds specified thresholds. - Amends TCA Title 48 and Title 67.

TN - HB594 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, requires a beer wholesaler to keep each original bill of sale or a digital duplicate from the sale of beer to a beer retailer for three years rather than two years; requires the beer retailer to keep a duplicate of the bill of sale for three years rather than two years. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 57 and Title 68.

TN - HB600 Election Laws - As introduced, changes the elements and classification of certain criminal offenses related to distribution of applications for absentee ballots. - Amends TCA Section 2-6-202.

TN - HB603 Election Laws - As introduced, requires a county election commission to issue a notice requiring removal of campaign signs if the signs have not been removed from highway rights-of-way or other publicly owned property within three weeks after an election; authorizes the election commission to levy a civil penalty not to exceed $50 per day, per parcel of property on the candidate or campaign committee if the signs are not removed after receiving the notice. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 1.

TN - HB632 Election Laws - As enacted, makes changes to law relative to convenient voting centers, including authorizing Henry County to establish a convenient voting center pilot program. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 3, Part 3.

TN - HB635 Election Laws - As introduced, requires election commissions to purge registration records at least 50 days, instead of at least 90 days, before an election; requires the coordinator of elections to take certain actions regarding paper ballots; authorizes, beginning with the 2024 election cycle, county election commissions to use hand-marked paper ballots; authorizes certification of results to be based on a hand count. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - HB636 Election Laws - As introduced, allows a person who is excluded as a candidate from a primary ballot based on a determination that the person is not a bona fide member of the political party to qualify as an independent candidate if the nominating petition is filed within seven calendar days of the final determination of the exclusion. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - HB674 Real Property - As introduced, requires TACIR to study and issue a report on the deterrent effect of gates blocking ingress and egress into communities as it relates to neighborhood crime. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title 66 and Title 68.

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 - HB707 Law Enforcement - As introduced, authorizes the Tennessee bureau of investigation to electronically file its annual use of force report to the chair of the judiciary committee of the senate and the chair of the criminal justice committee of the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 24; Title 8, Chapter 34; Title 8, Chapter 35; Title 8, Chapter 36; Title 8, Chapter 37; Title 38, Chapter 8, Part 1 and Title 68, Chapter 140.

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 - 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 - HB730 Election Laws - As introduced, ensures that all full-time residents of nursing homes are entitled to vote by absentee ballot regardless of whether the county election commission conducts on site voting at the nursing home facility; reduces from 45 to 30 days the period after an election by which a county election commission in a computerized county must forward to the secretary of state the verified names of all voters who participated in the election. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - HB732 Political Parties - As introduced, prohibits a political party from requiring a person to pay a fee in order to run as that political party's candidate for public office. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - HB741 School Vouchers - As introduced, repeals the Tennessee Education Savings Account Pilot Program. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB751 Campaigns and Campaign Finance - As introduced, authorizes the use of campaign funds for the child care expenditures of a candidate that are incurred by the candidate as a direct result of the candidate's participation in campaign-related events and activities. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 10; Title 3 and Title 8, Chapter 50, Part 5.

TN - HB754 Hamblen County - Subject to local approval, adjusts the compensation of the road commissioners to be $200 or greater, instead of equal to $200 a month; adjusts the compensation of the chairman to be $350 or greater, instead of equal to $350 a month; requires the legislative body of Hamblen County to determine the amount of compensation. - Amends Chapter 313 of the Private Acts of 1949; as amended.

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

TN - HB772 Election Laws - As enacted, provides that a candidate's name may only be printed on the ballot if it is the name of a person whom the chair of a statewide political party has certified to be placed on the ballot for the office of president to the secretary of state; transfers responsibility for notifying county election commissions of candidate names that must appear on the ballot for each political party in the presidential preference primary from the secretary of state to the coordinator of...

TN - HB775 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, requires the Tennessee wine and grape board to submit its annual report on the wine industry and viticulture in this state and on current and future activities of the board to the governor, the commissioner of finance and administration, the chair of the agriculture and natural resources committee of the house of representatives, and the chair of the energy, agriculture and natural resources committee of the senate by February 1 of each year. - Amends TCA ...

TN - HB776 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, restricts the types of costs of a project within a certified border region retail tourism development district or regional retail tourism development district that can be covered by an apportionment of state sales and use taxes to a municipality or industrial development corporation; makes other revisions to the Border Region Tourism Development District Act and the Regional Retail Tourism Development District Act. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 40 and Title 7, Ch...

TN - HB781 Codes - As introduced, provides that a resolution adopted by a county or municipal legislative body on or after July 1, 2023, to exempt itself from the statewide building construction standards relative to one-family and two-family dwellings expires 150 days, instead of 180 days, following the date of the election for the local legislative body next occurring following the adoption of the resolution. - Amends TCA Section 68-120-101.

TN - HB804 Taxes - As enacted, revises present law relative to a taxpayer's duty to list fully such tangible personal property used, or held for use, in the taxpayer's business or profession on such schedule, place its correct value thereon, sign the schedule, and return it to the assessor on or before March 1 of each year; requires TACIR to monitor implementation and to periodically report its findings on collections and administration of the business personal property tax to the general assembly. - ...

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 - HB816 Election Laws - As introduced, authorizes a county election commission to designate a polling place outside of the precinct it is to serve for certain municipal elections only if the polling place serves not more than 50 registered voters of the municipality. - Amends TCA Section 2-3-101.

TN - HB817 Election Laws - As enacted, prohibits members of local governing bodies to be elected through an election procedure that requires candidates to be nominated from a district and elected at large. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 6.

TN - HB828 Election Laws - As enacted, requires the officer of elections at each polling place to post a sign on election day informing voters that it is against the law to vote in a political party's primary without being a bona fide member of or affiliated with that political party, or to declare allegiance to that party without the intent to affiliate with that party. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - HB835 Election Laws - As introduced, requires the coordinator of elections to compare the statewide voter registration database with those of other relevant state agencies and county records when compiling information to distribute to the county elections commissions for purposes of purging voters who have moved; requires the coordinator of elections to compare the statewide voter registration database with the department of safety database to ensure non-United States citizens are not registered to...

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 - HB853 Real Property - As enacted, provides that the plane coordinate values for a point on the earth's surface used to express the geographic position or location of such point consist of two distances expressed in either International, instead of United States survey, feet and decimals of a foot or meters and decimals of a meter when using the Tennessee State Plane Coordinate System; removes a requirement when the values are expressed in United States survey feet that they be used as the standard ...

TN - HB863 Election Laws - As introduced, authorizes Warren County to participate in a pilot project utilizing convenient voting centers. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 3, Part 3.

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 - HB871 Election Laws - As introduced, changes from January 15 to January 1, the time by which the state coordinator of elections must annually file a report with the state and local government committee of the senate and the state government committee of the house of representatives regarding the status of agreements entered into with other states, the progress or difficulties of reaching agreements with other states, and other information the state coordinator of elections deems necessary to keep t...

TN - HB879 Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As enacted, authorizes a housing authority-related entity participating in a mixed-finance project to form a self-insurance pooling arrangement, if the housing authority with which the entity is related has formed partnerships, limited liability companies, or other entities in which an authority, or an entity affiliated with the authority, is a general partner, managing member, or otherwise participates in the activities of the entity. - Amends TCA...

TN - HB882 Election Laws - As enacted, allows a candidate to demand and receive a list of all voters who changed their residential address at the polling place; requires a recount to include the verification of any address of residence changed at the polling place. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 17 and Title 2, Chapter 8.

TN - HB898 Taxes, Ad Valorem - As enacted, requires the assessor of property, in determining whether land is agricultural land for purposes of property taxes, to consider certain factors. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5.

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 - HB903 Municipal Government - As enacted, authorizes a municipality to add the cost of remedying a condition on real property that endangers the health, safety, and welfare of other citizens to the property tax notice of the owner of the real property, if the owner fails or refuses to remedy the condition in a specified time period. - Amends TCA Title 6, Chapter 33 and Title 6, Chapter 54.

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 - HB933 Election Laws - As enacted, requires each high school to inform each high school senior that upon reaching the age of 18 the student may be eligible to vote and provide information from the secretary of state about voter eligibility and how to register to vote. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 49.

TN - HB935 Taxes, Real Property - As introduced, expands property tax relief for disabled veterans by reimbursing veterans who have acquired a disability rating of 100 percent for a permanent and total service-connected disability for all of the local property taxes paid on property that the disabled veteran owned and used as the disabled veteran's residence. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5, Part 7.

TN - HB937 Election Laws - As enacted, authorizes Washington County to establish a convenient voting center pilot program. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 3, Part 3.

TN - HB938 Annexation - As enacted, allows owners of real property used primarily for agricultural purposes who reside in a territory previously annexed by ordinance upon the initiative of the municipality to petition the municipality to deannex such property, if certain conditions are present. - Amends TCA Title 6, Chapter 51.

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 - HB956 Election Laws - As introduced, requires the coordinator of elections to take certain actions regarding paper ballots; authorizes, beginning with the 2024 election cycle, county election commissions to use hand-marked paper ballots; authorizes certification of results to be based on a hand count. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - HB969 Taxes, Real Property - As introduced, redefines "industrial and commercial property" for assessment and classification purposes to include real property that is used, or held for use, for dwelling purposes in which 50 or more single family, residential properties are owned by one individual, entity, or association, including, but not limited to, investor groups, within one county and used, or held for use, as rental property. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5.

TN - HB974 Election Laws - As introduced, reduces, from 30 days to 15 days prior to an election, the time period during which a person cannot register to vote or alter the person's voter registration. - Amends TCA Title 2.

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 - HB1010 Codes - As introduced, lowers the population threshold, from 25,000 to 20,000, below which two or more cities may agree to jointly engage one building inspector. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 68, Chapter 120.

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 - HB1020 Election Laws - As introduced, requires the judges at a polling place to hand count and record the number of ballots counted and compare such number with the tally sheets after the polling place is closed. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - HB1039 Comptroller, State - As enacted, requires the comptroller of the treasury to compare a list of registered voters provided by the state coordinator of elections to the comptrollers geographic information system data to ensure that registered voters have been assigned to the correct congressional, state house, state senate, and county governing body districts. - Amends TCA Section 2-3-102.

TN - HB1045 Election Laws - As introduced, requires each voter to declare a political party affiliation or that the voter is unaffiliated with a political party on voter registration; authorizes political parties to allow unaffiliated voters to vote in that political party's primary. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - HB1046 Tennessee Housing Development Agency - As introduced, decreases, from nine to eight, the number of affirmative votes required by members of the agency's board of directors in order for the agency to approve the operation of its financial assistance programs, which support the financing of residential housing construction for lower and moderate income persons and families. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 53; Title 13; Title 48, Chapter 101, Part 3; Title 56 and Title 67.

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 - HB1069 Election Laws - As introduced, requires the last four digits of a voter's social security number to be included on the voter registration form and application for an absentee ballot, instead of the entire social security number. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - HB1099 Election Laws - As introduced, deletes provisions authorizing early voting; deletes provision authorizing a person other than the voter to fill out a request for an absentee ballot for the voter. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 3.

TN - HB1116 Real Property - As introduced, requires payment of a $2,500 fee for the transfer of real property located within communities governed by certain nonprofit property owners' associations; adds other related requirements. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 66.

TN - HB1118 Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As introduced, revises provisions governing "base tax revenues" under the Convention Center and Tourism Development Financing Act of 1998. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 88.

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 - HB1135 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As enacted, makes revisions to present law relative to retirement benefits of certain members of the general assembly and their beneficiaries. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 34; Title 8, Chapter 35; Title 8, Chapter 36 and Title 8, Chapter 37.

TN - HB1138 Education, Higher - As introduced, requires each higher education institution to distribute or make available, prior to the beginning of each school year instead of at the beginning of each school year, a written policy prohibiting hazing by any student or organization operating under the sanction of the institution. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 49; Title 50; Title 56; Title 62; Title 63 and Title 67.

TN - HB1178 Taxes, Hotel Motel - As introduced, clarifies that certain privilege taxes imposed by Davidson County on the privilege of occupancy in a hotel do not apply to hotels located within the City of Goodlettsville, which has previously imposed an occupancy tax. - Amends TCA Section 7-4-202 and Section 67-4-1415.

TN - HB1192 Housing - As introduced, authorizes the Tennessee housing development agency to establish secure campsites to assist those with short-term housing needs for up to two years; revises provisions relating to outpatient mental health treatment programs. - Amends TCA Title 13, Chapter 23, Part 1 and Title 33.

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 - HB1206 Local Government, General - As introduced, increases from four to six, the minimum number of regular meetings of the county legislative body each year; provides that, until otherwise set by ordinance by the board of commissioners in a city under a city manager-commission charter, regular meetings of the board must be held on the first and third Tuesdays, instead of Thursdays, of each month. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6 and Title 67.

TN - HB1209 Taxes, Real Property - As introduced, extends the time eligible taxpayers may apply for a refund or present a credit voucher for credit on their taxes from within 35 days from the date taxes in the jurisdiction become delinquent for that year to within 40 days from that date. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 9; Title 28; Title 66 and Title 67.

TN - HB1216 Taxes, Real Property - As enacted, provides that whenever Cumberland County acquires property at a tax sale, a non-governmental entity holding a vested and duly recorded contractual right to the payment of fees or assessments secured by such property retains such right; provides that Cumberland County is liable for the payment of such fees and assessments if the county makes actual use of the property purchased at the tax sale. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 20 and Title 67, Chapter 5.

TN - HB1229 Housing - As introduced, requires a county having a metropolitan form of government that creates a special escrow account earmarked for the sole purpose of generating revenue to provide low income persons with safe and affordable housing to notify the Tennessee housing development agency and the chairs of the local government committee of the house of representatives and the state and local government committee of the senate. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13, Chapter 23; Title...

TN - HB1254 Election Laws - As enacted, revises present law relative to procedures for voting at a polling place. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - HB1255 Environmental Preservation - As introduced, changes from March 31 to February 1, the date by which each region must submit its annual report to the commissioner of environment and conservation for the immediately preceding calendar year that includes data on collection, recycling, transportation, disposal, public costs, and other information deemed relevant to solid waste planning and management. - Amends TCA Title 68 and Title 69.

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 - HB1265 Equalization Board - As introduced, changes who has discretion to determine whether a hearing on a complaint before a county board of equalization will be held virtually from the board to the taxpayer or owner. - Amends TCA Title 67.

TN - HB1277 Historical Sites and Preservation - As enacted, removes authorization for the chief executive of a city or county, with the approval of the local legislative body, to fill a vacancy or remove an appointed member on a historic zoning commission. - Amends TCA Title 13, Chapter 7, Part 4.

TN - HB1279 Taxes - As enacted, makes changes to the Convention Center Authorities Act of 2009. - Amends TCA Title 7 and Title 67.

TN - HB1287 Growth and Development - As introduced, reduces from three-fourths to two-thirds the number of qualified voters who are required to approve the contraction of municipal boundaries in an election on the question. - Amends TCA Title 6, Chapter 51.

TN - HB1292 Zoning - As introduced, designates concentrated animal feeding operations, as defined by federal regulations, as an industrial land use for zoning purposes. - Amends TCA Title 13; Title 43; Title 44 and Title 69, Chapter 3, Part 1.

TN - HB1304 Election Laws - As introduced, authorizes a person incarcerated in a penal institution to vote by absentee ballot if the person has not been convicted of a felony. - Amends TCA Section 2-6-201.

TN - HB1315 Health Care - As introduced, permits the services authorized in a collaborative pharmacy practice agreement to include weight management services; requires the bureau of TennCare to make available, or cause to be made available, anti-obesity medication to a recipient if the medication is medically necessary. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 10 and Title 71, Chapter 5.

TN - HB1335 Taxes, Hotel Motel - As introduced, increases the period that records related to paying the hotel tax must be retained by the operator from three years to four years. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4.

TN - HB1340 Political Parties - As introduced, requires a statewide executive committee to fill a vacancy on the committee at the next regularly scheduled meeting of the committee unless the next regular August election precedes such meeting. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - HB1344 Deeds - As introduced, requires that a deed for the conveyance of real property be prepared and filed by a licensed attorney, title insurance agent, or the owner of the property; requires the county register to verify that an affidavit on a deed of conveyance of real property was duly signed and notarized stating under oath the name and address of the preparer; requires the register to refuse to register any deed of conveyance of real property that is not prepared by a licensed attorney, titl...

TN - HB1361 Taxes, Real Property - As introduced, increases the maximum full market value, from $175,000 to $210,000, of a disabled veteran's residence that is to be used in calculating a reimbursement for property tax paid by the disabled veteran. - Amends TCA Section 67-5-704.

TN - HB1398 Election Laws - As introduced, requires each county election commission to post on the commission's website a listing of all purged registration records within five days after a county election commission purges the voting registration records. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - HB1399 Election Laws - As introduced, requires a county election commission to publish notice of the procedure for voting by absentee ballot in a runoff election in a municipality either on the commission's website or in a newspaper of general circulation in the municipality for at least five business days prior to the runoff election. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 3; Title 5, Chapter 1, Part 2 and Title 7.

TN - HB1430 Industrial Development - As enacted, removes the requirement that members of the board of directors for an industrial development corporation be qualified electors of and taxpayers in the county or city that created the corporation. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 53.

TN - HB1450 Housing - As introduced, increases from 18 to 24 months the period of exemption from real property taxes to which a charitable organization is entitled for the first lot purchased or developed by the organization for the construction of a single family residence for a low-income household. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 13; Title 48; Title 49; Title 67 and Title 68.

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 - HB1461 Election Laws - As introduced, adds the election for city mayors to the list of races required to be automatically audited by a county election commission selected to conduct an audit. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - HB1492 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, generally requires by January 1, 2024, each law enforcement agency to develop and enforce a policy that prohibits an officer from using a drone or other substantially similar device as a weapon under any circumstances while in the exercise of the officer's official duties; requires a law enforcement agency to permit an officer qualified to operate a drone to utilize a drone or a substantially similar device for the purpose of remotely detonating a bomb or simil...

TN - HB1493 Election Laws - As introduced, requires the secretary of state and each county election commission to publish certain information with each election-related communication disseminated to one or more residents in this state regarding the availability of a state-issued photo identification card for voting purposes. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 4; Title 8 and Section 55-50-336.

TN - HB1509 Real Property - As introduced, decreases, from 10 to seven, the number of days before a county board of equalization adjourns before which a property assessor may provide taxpayers with an informal review of a property assessment or county reappraisal. - Amends TCA Title 66 and Title 67, Chapter 5.

TN - HJR139 General Assembly, Studies - Directs TACIR to review home affordability and rising costs of impact fees.

TN - HB1531 Lebanon - Subject to local approval, authorizes the city council to set the threshold over which public advertisement and sealed competitive bids are required for nonemergency, nonproprietary purchases at the level authorized by state law. - Amends Chapter 644 of the Private Acts of 1911; as amended.

TN - HB1532 Lebanon - Subject to local approval, authorizes, in the absence of the city attorney, any assistant city attorney to approve as to form all contracts, deeds, bonds, ordinances, resolutions, and other documents to be signed in the name of or made by or with the city. - Amends Chapter 644 of the Private Acts of 1911; as amended.

TN - HB1533 Madison County - Subject to local approval, extends the deadline by which a tourism construction project must be initiated, from December 31, 2023, to December 31, 2024, as a condition to receiving funding for such project from the proceeds of the county hotel-motel tax. - Amends Chapter 324 of the Private Acts of 1980; as amended.

TN - HB1534 Anderson County - Subject to local approval, repeals act creating position of county service officer. - Repeals Chapter 396 of the Private Acts of 1947 and Chapter 358 of the Private Acts of 1959

TN - HB1535 Taxes, Real Property - As introduced, provides that whenever Coffee County acquires property at a tax sale, any non-governmental entity holding a vested and duly recorded contractual right to the payment of fees or assessments secured by the property retains such right; further provides that Coffee County will be liable for the payment of such fees and assessments if the county makes actual use of the property purchased at the tax sale. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 20 and Title 67, Chapter 5.

TN - HB1536 School Districts, Special - Pursuant to the request of the Franklin special school district of Williamson County, permits the district to issue bonds or notes in an amount not to exceed $20 million and to authorize the issuance of tax anticipation notes from time to time. - Amends Chapter 563 of the Private Acts of 1949.

TN - HB1537 Kingston - Subject to local approval, expands, from not later than 90 days to not later than 30 days prior to the beginning of the next fiscal year, the timeline the city manager has to submit the proposed annual budget to the council for approval. - Amends Chapter 328 of the Acts of 1903; as amended.

TN - HB1538 Robertson County - Subject to local approval, increases from $500 to $525 the monthly compensation of the Robertson County highway commissioners and chairman of the commission. - Amends Chapter 380 of the Private Acts of 1947; as amended.

TN - HB1539 Putnam County - Subject to local approval, establishes that general sessions court has concurrent jurisdiction with chancery and circuit courts relating to cases of adoption, pursuant to general law.

TN - HB1540 Milan - Subject to local approval, changes the date for city elections to coincide with federal elections; removes the requirement for the board of aldermen to approve the mayor's appointment of a city recorder; removes the city's authority to operate a hospital. - Amends Chapter 7 of the Private Acts of 1999; as amended.

TN - HB1541 Rutherford County - Subject to local approval, increases membership of the county board of juvenile detention commissioners from four to six. - Amends Chapter 65 of the Private Acts of 2022.

TN - HB1546 Burns - Subject to local approval, moves from the first Monday in April to the second Monday in April the date for the biennial organizational meeting of the incoming board of commissioners; moves the monthly meeting of the board to the second Monday of each month; expands the board's authority with respect to public infrastructure and the board's ability to exercise eminent domain in furtherance of that purpose. - Amends Chapter 89 of the Private Acts of 2008.

TN - HB1547 Livingston - Subject to local approval, moves the day of municipal elections from the first Wednesday to the first Tuesday in June to coincide with state and national elections; removes prohibition on compensation for aldermen. - Amends Chapter 130 of the Acts of 1907; as amended.

TN - HB1548 Gallatin - Subject to local approval, requires the city council to appoint a city judge, who replaces the city recorder as the officer presiding over the city court; removes requirement that city recorder be elected and instead be appointed by city council; authorizes city officials to hold appointive office while serving as city official; updates the titles of certain department heads. - Amends Chapter 67 of the Private Acts of 1953; as amended.

TN - HB1549 Greeneville - Subject to local approval, rewrites the town charter. - Amends Chapter 563 of the Acts of 1903; as amended.

TN - HB1550 Taxes, Hotel Motel - Subject to local approval, extends the deadline by which a tourism construction project must be initiated, from December 31, 2023, to December 31, 2024, as a condition to receiving funding for such project from the proceeds of the Madison County and City of Jackson hotel-motel tax. - Amends Chapter 324 of the Private Acts of 1980; as amended.

TN - HB1551 Monroe County - Subject to local approval, increases, from nine to 10, the number of county school board members. - Repeals Chapter 117 of the Private Acts of 1963; as amended.

TN - HB1552 Chapel Hill - Subject to local approval, clarifies that vacancies on the board and in the office of mayor be filled by majority vote of the remaining board members with the appointee to serve only until the next regular election at which time the remaining unexpired term is filled; consolidates and expands certain powers exercised by the town relative to special assessments, indebtedness, bonds, condemnation, public utilities, and correctional facilities; removes minimum age requirement for t...

TN - HB1553 Lexington - Subject to local approval, clarifies that vacancies on the board of mayor and aldermen and in the office of mayor be filled by majority vote of the remaining board members, with the appointee to serve only until the next regular election, at which time the remaining unexpired term is filled; authorizes mayor to vote in board matters but only to break a tie vote; removes city residency requirement for certain officers and managers by allowing such persons to reside in the county. ...

TN - HB1555 White County - Subject to local approval, establishes that general sessions court has concurrent jurisdiction with chancery and circuit courts relating to cases of adoption, pursuant to general law.

TN - HB1556 Franklin - Subject to local approval, authorizes the vice mayor to vote on all matters when serving as mayor in the temporary absence of the mayor. - Amends Chapter 126 of the Private Acts of 1967; as amended.

TN - HB1557 Ashland City - Subject to local approval, changes the duties of the city recorder; creates the office of city administrator and assigns duties to such office. - Amends Chapter 121 of the Private Acts of 2004; as rewritten.

TN - HB1558 Niota - Subject to local approval, requires the salary of the mayor and commissioners be set by ordinance in conjunction with the annual budget rather than pursuant to fixed amounts in the charter; removes general supervisory authority of the commissioner of finance and taxation over the city library; removes requirement that the city administrator report directly to the mayor and board of commissioners; removes residency requirement for city administrator. - Amends Chapter 48 of the Private ...

TN - HB1559 Burns - Subject to local approval, moves from the first Monday in April to the second Monday in April the date for the biennial organizational meeting of the incoming board of commissioners; moves the monthly meeting of the board to the second Monday of each month. - Amends Chapter 89 of the Private Acts of 2008.

TN - HB1560 Blount County - Subject to local approval, alters the conditions under which the county is authorized to own and operate a nonprofit hospital. - Amends Chapter 187 of the Private Acts of 1945.

TN - HB1561 Sumner County - Subject to local approval, prohibits public entities in Sumner County from using eminent domain to acquire privately owned real property for parks, trails, paths, or greenways for walking, running, hiking, bicycling, or equestrian use, unless the privately owned real property is parallel to, runs directly along the length of, and extends in the same direction as a highway, road, or street.

TN - HB1562 Petersburg - Subject to local approval, makes changes to the duties of the mayor; reduces the term of the mayor and vice mayor from four years to two; provides a method to fill vacancies on the board if the vacancies cause the board to lack a quorum; authorizes the board to set the salary of the board members by ordinance; revises the powers of the city; authorizes the appointment of a treasurer and town administrator; requires the town judge to be a licensed attorney. - Amends Chapter 272 of...

TN - HJR425 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Bill Shedden, Pioneer Award, Tennessee School Plant Management Association

TN - HB1563 Maury County - Subject to local approval, requires the civil service board to meet semi annually rather then annually; designates the county mayor as the board secretary, to replace the county human resources director; removes board authority to hold performance examinations to determine qualifications for employment; deletes competitive promotion examination requirements; provides for a right of appeals upon a suspension of an employee by the sheriff. - Amends Chapter 26 of the Private Acts ...

TN - HB1564 Burns - Subject to local approval, moves from the first Monday in April to the second Monday in December the date for the biennial organizational meeting of the incoming board of commissioners; moves the monthly meeting of the board to the second Monday of each month. - Amends Chapter 89 of the Private Acts of 2008.

TN - HB1565 Smithville - Subject to local approval, removes prohibition on persons convicted of malfeasance or misfeasance in office, felonies, or crimes involving moral turpitude from being an employee of the city for ten years after the conviction; reduces, from a 2/3 majority to a simple majority, the required vote by the council for approving and removing mayoral appointments; authorizes the city board to appoint and promote city employees. - Amends Chapter 486 of the Private Acts of 1941; as amended...

TN - HB1566 Oakland - Subject to local approval, authorizes the town to impose fees on the development of land to pay for capital improvement; authorizes the board of mayor and aldermen to appoint and remove all directors and department heads, upon majority vote; and replaces the town manager with the board as the appointing authority for the town recorder. - Amends Chapter 167 of the Private Acts of 1994; as amended.

TN - HB1567 Overton County - Subject to local approval, establishes that juvenile court has concurrent jurisdiction with chancery and circuit courts relating to cases of adoption, pursuant to general law.

TN - HB1568 Murfreesboro - Subject to local approval, authorizes the creation of a solid waste authority; authorizes the authority to issue bonds. - Amends Chapter 429 of the Private Acts of 1931.

TN - HB1569 Obion County - Subject to local approval, repeals the Obion County Highway Commission. - Amends Chapter 202 of the Private Acts of 1984; as amended.

TN - HB1570 Greenbrier - Subject to local approval, alters the duties of the mayor and the town administrator; increases the salary of the mayor from $400 per month to $1,000 per month. - Amends Chapter 158 of the Private Acts of 2002; as amended.

TN - HB1571 Oakland - Subject to local approval, authorizes the board of mayor and aldermen to appoint and remove all directors and department heads, upon majority vote; and replaces the town manager with the board as the appointing authority for the town recorder. - Amends Chapter 167 of the Private Acts of 1994; as amended.

TN - HB1572 Bolivar - Subject to local approval, increases the maximum threshold, from $50,000 to $100,000, that the board of directors of the Bolivar Energy Authority is authorized to set for purchases by the chief executive officer that do not require board approval. - Amends Chapter 130 of the Private Acts of 2006.

TN - HB1573 Sullivan County - Subject to local approval, removes the prohibition on the general sessions court from hearing a case in which the defendant is charged with driving a motor vehicle under the influence of an intoxicant or drug. - Amends Chapter 349 of the Private Acts of 1947; as amended.

TN - HB1581 Pleasant Hill - Subject to local approval, authorizes purchasing limits for which competitive bids are not required be set by ordinance pursuant to state law requirements. - to amend.

TN - HB1582 Madison County - Subject to local approval, repeals the prohibition on possessing, storing, using, manufacturing, or selling pyrotechnics. - Repeals Chapter 479 of the Private Acts of 1949.

TN - HB1583 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, requires an individual who resides in this state and owns a firearm to maintain liability insurance in an amount of no less than $300,000 to insure the individual against losses or damages resulting from the accidental use of the individual's firearm; requires the individual to provide documentation of the insurance upon request by a party that suffers losses or damages resulting from the accidental use of the individual's firearm; specifies that a vio...

TN - HB1616 Election Laws - As introduced, prescribes a process by which a person must declare a statewide political party or recognized minor party affiliation before voting in a primary election; designates persons who choose not to affiliate with a political party as "Unaffiliated"; authorizes unaffiliated voters to vote in primary elections. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - HB1619 Election Laws - As introduced, revises the petition signature thresholds for qualifying as a recognized minor party for a statewide election, an election for a seat in either house of the general assembly, and for any other public office. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - HB1621 Dekalb County - Subject to local approval, authorizes the road supervisor rather than the county mayor to sign checks drawn on the county trustee for expenses associated with road work within the county. - Amends Chapter 511 of the Private Acts of 1945, as amended.

TN - HB1626 Abortion - As introduced, enacts the "Fundamental Right to Reproductive Health Care Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 20; Title 37; Title 39; Title 49; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB1634 Education - As introduced, revises language prohibiting educators from discriminating against students on certain, specified bases to generally prohibiting educators from discriminating against students who are members of a protected class under federal or state law; removes the definition of "gender identity" for purposes of the family life curriculum. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

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 - HB1649 Election Laws - As introduced, requires LEAs and public charter schools of a county to be closed for instruction on presidential primary election days if the county election commission uses such schools as a polling place. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 3, Part 1.

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 - HB1715 Taxes, Ad Valorem - As introduced, requires the state to reimburse veterans with permanent and total disabilities for 100 percent of the local property taxes paid on their residences; removes the limitations that such reimbursement be a partial payment and that it be paid on the first $175,000 of the full market value of the residence. - Amends TCA Section 67-5-704.

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 - 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 - HB1727 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, specifies that a parent or guardian who knowingly leaves their child under the care or supervision of a person who is required to register as a sexual offender commits a Class A misdemeanor. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 15, Part 4 and Title 40.

TN - HB1764 Sunset Laws - As introduced, extends the real estate appraiser commission to June 30, 2030. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 62, Chapter 39.

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 - 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 - HB1792 Election Laws - As introduced, changes the deadline by which a voter must request an absentee ballot from seven days before the election to 14 days before the election. - Amends TCA Section 2-6-202.

TN - HB1794 Election Laws - As introduced, enacts the "Uniform Faithful Presidential Electors Act." - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - HB1798 Election Laws - As introduced, authorizes the county election commission to notify individuals filing a petition for recall, referendum, or initiative of a defect in the petition that must be cured prior to certification for final approval. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - HB1799 Election Laws - As introduced, requires each person, corporation, organization, partnership, or political party that seeks to provide training or conferences related to the administration of elections to county election commissions to be approved by the secretary of state prior to providing such training or conference. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - HB1800 Election Laws - As introduced, changes the deadline for filing nominating petitions for candidates for election as delegates to the national convention of a political party from the second Thursday in December to the first Thursday in April. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - HB1813 Taxes, Ad Valorem - As introduced, expands eligibility for property tax relief to a veteran who acquired a service-connected disability that is determined by the United States department of veterans affairs to be permanent and total due to individual unemployability. - Amends TCA Section 67-5-704.

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 - HB1849 Tennessee Housing Development Agency - As introduced, requires the authority to report quarterly to each member of the general assembly information relating to grants, tax credits, and other funds distributed through the authority, the resources utilized by the authority to facilitate such distributions, and information relating to mechanisms by which the public may apply for and access such distributions. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 6, Chapter 58; Title 9 and Title 13, Chapter 20.

TN - HB1850 Zoning - As introduced, prohibits counties and municipalities from adopting and enforcing regulations to prohibit gardening and raising limited numbers of chickens or rabbits at single-family residences. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13 and Title 43.

TN - HB1868 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, prohibits a gun dealer from delivering to a purchaser a trigger crank, bump stock, bump-fire device, or any other part, combination of parts, component, device, attachment, or accessory that is designed or functions to accelerate the rate of fire of a firearm until 72 hours have passed from the initial time at which the sale of the firearm accessory was sought by the purchaser. - Amends TCA Title 39.

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 - HB1897 Election Laws - As introduced, disqualifies an administrator of elections from serving as administrator if the administrator qualifies as a candidate for public office; requires the administrator to be recused from official duties at least 30 days prior to an election in which an immediate family member of the administrator is on the ballot. - Amends TCA Title 2.

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 - 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 - HB1941 Taxes, Ad Valorem - As introduced, changes the reimbursement amount for property tax relief for disabled veteran homeowners; increases the reimbursement amount from payment on the first $175,000 of the full market value of the home to payment on the first $300,000 of the full market value. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5, Part 7.

TN - HB1955 Election Laws - As introduced, requires a third-party voter registration organization to register and provide certain information to the coordinator of elections before engaging in a voter registration event or program; prohibits persons and organizations collecting voter registrations from taking certain actions with regard to the voter registrations and provides civil penalties for violations. - Amends TCA Title 2.

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 - HB1968 Taxes, Real Property - As introduced, extends, from five business days to 10 calendar days after the conclusion of a tax sale, the deadline by which a court clerk must file a report of sale or other notice reflecting the results of the tax sale, prior to the confirmation of the sale by the court. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 10; Title 11; Title 12; Title 13; Title 49; Title 54; Title 55; Title 64; Title 67 and Title 68.

TN - HB1970 Alcoholic Beverage Commission - As introduced, deletes a redundant definition of the term "commission," as that term is already defined title-wide in 57-3-101. - Amends TCA Section 57-4-102.

TN - HB1980 Taxes, Ad Valorem - As introduced, authorizes a charitable nonprofit corporation located in Knox County or within a municipality located within Knox County that acquires replacement property which is operated as a licensed residential home for the aged, to claim and file a property tax exemption as a religious, charitable, scientific, or nonprofit educational institution. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5.

TN - HB1983 Local Government, General - As introduced, prohibits a municipality, or an instrumentality of a municipality, from taking any action that affects or has the potential to affect the tax obligations, fees, or other costs for real property owners whose property is located outside a municipality's corporate boundary, unless the action is approved by the county legislative body in which such property is located. - Amends TCA Title 5 and Title 6.

TN - HB1987 Flags - As introduced, requires homeowners' associations (HOAs) to permit the display of the flag of the United States and the Tennessee state flag on a property owner's property if the flag is displayed on a flag pole or otherwise affixed to the real property or an improvement to such property; provides that an HOA cannot require approval of a flag pole or fixture used for the purpose of displaying such flags. - Amends TCA Section 2-7-143 and Title 66, Chapter 27, Part 6.

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 - HB2013 Political Parties - As introduced, requires statewide political party candidates to be nominated for elective public office by primary election rather than under the rules of the party or by primary election, with limited exceptions for certain offices. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 13.

TN - HB2018 Taxes, Personal Property - As introduced, deletes the July 1, 2024, repeal date for the statutory provision authorizing county trustees to proceed against taxpayers delinquent in the payment of tangible personal property taxes by retaining an agent to collect the delinquent tangible personal property taxes. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5.

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 - HB2021 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, creates tax exemption for portions of property that provide tree canopy cover in counties whose local governing bodies elect to create the exemption. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6 and Title 67, Chapter 5.

TN - HB2033 Election Laws - As introduced, adds political party affiliation to the voter registration form. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - HB2054 Real Property - As introduced, increases from 1,500 to 5,000 the number of acres of land that may be placed within one property tax jurisdiction for purposes of classification and assessment as agricultural, forest, or open space land; increases from 1,500 to 5,000 the maximum acreage available to a real property owner that may be classified as forest or open space land. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5.

TN - HB2055 Taxes, Ad Valorem - As introduced, deletes a reference to a repealed statute from the present law governing the deadline by which an action by the county board of equalization during its regular session must be completed and notice of its decision and appeal procedure must be sent. - Amends TCA Title 67.

TN - HB2057 Property Assessors - As introduced, revises the schedule of required property reappraisals by county property assessors from a three- to six-year cycle to a one- to four-year cycle; makes various other updates to property reappraisal requirements and procedures. - Amends TCA Section 67-5-1005 and Title 67, Chapter 5, Part 16.

TN - HB2071 Annexation - As introduced, specifies circumstances in which a referendum will not be required to effectuate annexation of territory; removes repealer provision for exceptions to the referendum requirement. - Amends TCA Section 6-51-104.

TN - HB2080 Public Officials - As introduced, prohibits an individual holding an elected office of a local government from holding another elected office in this state at the same time; expands the prohibition on a candidate qualifying or being nominated for more than one state office or county constitutional office to include any elected office in this state. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 8.

TN - HB2096 Election Laws - As introduced, authorizes a county election commission to elect by majority vote to enter into the contract, lease, and option agreement with the coordinator of elections for the financing of the purchase of voting machines; clarifies that the county election commission selects the voting machines to be used in a county and is responsible for the destruction of the voting machines once the machines are deemed obsolete. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 5.

TN - HB2112 Welfare - As introduced, creates a pilot project to place a moratorium on the loss of public assistance benefits for child care workers based solely on wage increases that cause their income to exceed program eligibility limits; requires TACIR to study wages and related issues for child care workers, including the benefits cliff. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 71.

TN - HB2121 Political Parties - As introduced, moves the period during which a political party must meet to elect at-large delegates and alternates for the party convention from between the second Tuesday in February and the first Tuesday in March to between the first Thursday in April and the first Thursday in May. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 13.

TN - HB2128 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As introduced, authorizes issuance of an antique motor vehicle license plate to farm trucks older than 25 years old that are used for certain agricultural or horticultural purposes and not for general transportation. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 1 and Title 55, Chapter 4.

TN - HB2134 Taxes, Excise - As introduced, retroactively allows employers to take a deduction from net earnings for state excise tax filing purposes, in the amount of expenses, including wages and compensation, associated with their employee retention credit allowable on their federal payroll tax return. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 20 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 21.

TN - HB2140 Zoning - As introduced, requires methadone clinics to be located in incorporated areas or in areas subject to zoning regulations, located within a five-mile radius of a police department and emergency medical services station, and located at least 2,000 feet from a congested intersection; grandfathers in existing methadone clinics. - Amends TCA Title 13, Chapter 7; Title 33, Chapter 2 and Title 68, Chapter 11.

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 - HB2153 Scott County - Subject to local approval, sets the salary of the county attorney at $65,000 annually, subject to cost-of-living increases. - Amends Chapter 289 of the Private Acts of 1976; as amended.

TN - HB2162 Taxes, Privilege - As introduced, clarifies that the preemption on local governments enacting new or additional development taxes after June 20, 2006, under the County Powers Relief Act applies only to residential development. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 29.

TN - HB2185 Election Laws - As introduced, requires political advertisements that are created in whole or in part by artificial intelligence to include certain disclaimers; requires materially deceptive media disseminated for purposes of a political campaign to include certain disclaimers; establishes criminal penalties and the right to injunctive relief for violations. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 19, Part 1.

TN - HB2187 Election Laws - As introduced, authorizes the county election commission to designate restroom facilities in each building in which the election is held that are for the use of workers or volunteers working for a campaign with certain limitations on access. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 7.

TN - HB2203 Criminal Procedure - As introduced, decreases from 60 to 30 days when the district attorney may submit recommendations to the court and the petitioner regarding a person's petition to expunge an offense. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3 and Title 40.

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 - 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 - HB2215 Real Property - As introduced, enacts the Real Estate Fraud Reduction Act, which requires county registers of deeds and notaries public to verify the identity of a person recording or notarizing a document relating to certain real estate transactions, as applicable, using a government-issued identification card; requires such registers and notaries to document and maintain as a permanent record certain personally identifying information of a person recording or notarizing such a document; spe...

TN - HB2217 Taxes, Real Property - As introduced, revises the formula for calculating tax relief on real property owned by eligible disabled veterans so that in determining the amount of relief to such a taxpayer, the assessed value on the first $175,000 of full market value is to be multiplied by the ad valorem tax rate of the jurisdiction instead of by a rate that has been adjusted to reflect the relationship between appraised value and market value in that jurisdiction. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter ...

TN - HB2239 Campaigns and Campaign Finance - As introduced, increases from 4 percent to 5 percent the percentage of general assembly candidates and their committees who will be selected for an audit by the registry of election finance. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 10.

TN - HB2240 Taxes, Hotel Motel - As introduced, requires a municipality levying the hotel-motel tax under general law to submit a report annually detailing how the revenue earned from the tax is used by the municipality; requires the comptroller of the treasury to audit the reports of the municipality; requires a municipality found to have used the funds improperly to appropriate general funds in the same amount for promotion of tourism and tourism development; prohibits a municipality, on and after July...

TN - HB2241 Taxes, Hotel Motel - As introduced, removes the requirement that the notice of delinquent hotel-motel taxpayers be published once a week for two consecutive weeks in the month of January. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 4 and Title 67, Chapter 4.

TN - HB2242 Education, Curriculum - As introduced, specifies that only middle school students enrolled in the lowest grade level at a middle school are required to take one course in computer science; authorizes the board to promulgate rules to effectuate the act. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB2244 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 - HB2249 Real Property - As introduced, reduces from 30 business days to 30 days, the amount of time that a business entity that is subject to a declaration has to send notice of a change in contact information for the entity or a transfer of the ownership interest in the residential property to the homeowners' association. - Amends TCA Title 13 and Title 66.

TN - HB2260 Election Laws - As introduced, authorizes up to two members of an LLC that owns property in a city to vote in the city's elections if the city's charter provides nonresident property owners voting rights. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 2.

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 - HB2292 Housing - As introduced, requires each municipal and metropolitan government to adopt, on or before July 1, 2025, certain housing development strategies; provides that a municipal or metropolitan government that does not adopt such housing development strategies is ineligible for certain state grants. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 13.

TN - HB2293 Election Laws - As introduced, enacts the "Print Disability Absentee Voting Act," which prescribes a process by which a person with a print disability may apply for and receive an absentee ballot and vote by mailing in the absentee ballot. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 6.

TN - HB2294 Election Laws - As introduced, requires a qualified voter to request an absentee ballot not later than 10 days before an election rather than not later than seven days before an election; requires a voter seeking to be placed on the permanent absentee voting register to file a physician's statement and application for ballot not later than 10 days before an election rather than not later than seven days before an election. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 6.

TN - HB2312 Taxes, Ad Valorem - As introduced, authorizes municipal tax collectors and taxing entities to also accept partial payments of delinquent property taxes in the same manner as county trustees; requires such officials to include in their plan for accepting partial payments a description of the accounting system technology or manual processes to be used to record partial payments of delinquent property taxes and a statement indicating that funds received as partial payments on delinquent property...

TN - HB2319 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, creates tax exemption for portions of property that provide tree canopy cover in counties whose local governing bodies elect to create the exemption. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6 and Title 67, Chapter 5.

TN - HB2337 Tennessee Housing Development Agency - As introduced, requires the agency to establish the payment standard amount for the monthly housing assistance payment under the federal housing choice voucher program to the maximum allowed by federal law. - Amends TCA Title 13, Chapter 23.

TN - HB2342 Finance and Administration, Dept. of - As introduced, directs the department to promulgate rules to establish a grant program for first-time home buyers. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 10; Title 39, Chapter 14; Title 47 and Title 66.

TN - HB2353 Real Property - As introduced, redesignates sanctioned foreign governmental and business entities and persons connected with such entities as foreign adversaries; restates the order in which proceeds from the sale of property acquired illegally are disbursed by requiring that the attorney general and bona fide lien holders be reimbursed from such proceeds prior to any remaining funds being paid to the restricted foreign entity; adds banks, credit unions, and those licensed by the department o...

TN - HB2368 Local Government, General - As introduced, establishes the "Residential Infrastructure Development Act of 2024." - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 84; Title 9, Chapter 21; Title 66, Chapter 5 and Title 67.

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 - HB2370 Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, requires a utility to obtain written consent from the owner of residential or commercial property for which the utility provides services before the utility installs a smart meter for the property; requires a utility to obtain written confirmation from the owner of the property that the owner consents to the continued presence and use of the smart meter if a smart meter is already present. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 65...

TN - HB2382 Campaigns and Campaign Finance - As introduced, authorizes the county administrator of elections to email assessment letters to candidates and political campaign committees for local public office when the administrator discovers that a campaign finance report has not been filed by the candidate or political campaign committee. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 10.

TN - HB2384 Motor Vehicles - As introduced, changes, from August 1 of each year to before July 31 of each year, the date by which the name, address, and telephone number of the person designated to check a bus or vehicle for children at stops under the Tennessee Children with Disabilities Transportation Act must be sent to the appropriate LEA. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 49 and Title 54.

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 - HB2391 Election Laws - As introduced, changes the date by which a county election commission may begin voting at nursing homes from 29 days before the election to 27 days before the election. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - HB2394 Campaigns and Campaign Finance - As introduced, allows a candidate for a state or local campaign to transfer unused funds to a federal campaign account for a primary election if the candidate notifies each donor of the proposed transfer and a donor does not object to the transfer within 30 days of the notification; requires the funds donated by donors who object to the transfer to be returned to the donor. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 10.

TN - HB2401 Election Laws - As introduced, creates a process for the majority and minority party caucuses of the general assembly to nominate candidates for United States senator; provides that such process becomes operable for each respective senatorial seat when the respective incumbent declines to run for re-election, loses a re-election bid, or a vacancy is created in the office. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 13.

TN - HB2423 Housing - As introduced, entitles each county and municipality that adopts certain zoning reform strategies that support housing development to receive from the department of revenue up to 20 percent of the revenue collected from the recordation tax based on transactions in the respective jurisdiction. - Amends TCA Title 13, Chapter 7 and Title 67.

TN - HB2425 Municipal Government - As introduced, requires notices relating to annexation or municipal zoning to be published, posted, or mailed 21 days, rather than 15 days, prior to the public hearing on the annexation or zoning; requires the annexing municipality to provide notice of annexation to property owners whose property is within 200 feet of the territory being annexed; requires signs that inform viewers of the proposed annexation to be posted in and around the area being annexed. - Amends TCA...

TN - HB2426 County Government - As introduced, reduces from 30 to 21 days, the period by which a local government building official must, after a building permit is issued, mail to the county tax collection official the form upon which the permit applicant acknowledges the privilege taxes owed under the County Powers Relief Act. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 29.

TN - HB2437 Real Property - As introduced, prohibits certain Chinese entities from directly or indirectly owning, having a controlling interest in, acquiring by purchase, grant, devise, or descent an interest, or holding by lease, contract, or usufruct an interest in, except a de minimus indirect interest, real property in this state or real property within 10 miles of a military installation; requires divestment within two years of any such interest unlawfully held; requires certain property owners to r...

TN - HB2439 Local Government, General - As introduced, authorizes any local government in this state to create a land bank; authorizes a local government to post on its website, if available, a link to a state website or publication identifying surplus real property for sale or conveyance. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 12, Chapter 2 and Title 13.

TN - HB2442 Taxes, Privilege - As introduced, clarifies that the preemption on local governments enacting new or additional development taxes after June 20, 2006, under the County Powers Relief Act applies only to residential development. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 29.

TN - HB2443 County Clerks - As introduced, requires a person seeking to qualify for election to the office of county clerk to be a qualified voter of the county and a resident of the county for one year prior to the date of the qualifying deadline for running as a candidate for county clerk. - Amends TCA Title 18, Chapter 6.

TN - HB2467 Taxes, Real Property - As introduced, authorizes a county to create a program by which an owner of real property in the county may apply for a classification of the property as zoning-exempt property, which values the property based on the zoning classification that existed at the time the owner came into possession of the property and its current use. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5.

TN - HB2493 Education - As introduced, changes from 30 to 45 the number of days a principal or director of schools must provide notice to the commissioner of education of an intent to withdraw from an approved alternative program for innovative educational programs. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2499 Campaigns and Campaign Finance - As introduced, prohibits a state or local contractor or grantee from, during the period between the execution of the contract or award of the grant through the completion of the contract or grant period, directly or indirectly making a contribution, or promising expressly or impliedly to make a contribution, to a political campaign committee or a candidate or person for a political purpose or use, or knowingly soliciting a contribution from any person on behal...

TN - HB2501 Election Laws - As introduced, requires political communications to contain a disclaimer if the communication was generated in whole or in part by synthetic media using artificial intelligence algorithms. - Amends TCA Title 2.

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 - SB2321 Zoning - As introduced, requires methadone clinics to be located in incorporated areas or in areas subject to zoning regulations, located within a five-mile radius of a police department and emergency medical services station, and located at least 2,000 feet from a congested intersection; grandfathers in existing methadone clinics. - Amends TCA Title 13, Chapter 7; Title 33, Chapter 2 and Title 68, Chapter 11.

TN - HB2525 Tennessee Housing Development Agency - As introduced, requires a county register to remit 20 percent of collected transfer and mortgage taxes to the agency for purposes of making low-interest and zero-interest construction loans to low-income persons who live in areas with a critical need for affordable housing. - Amends TCA Title 13, Chapter 23 and Title 67, Chapter 4.

TN - HB2531 Election Laws - As introduced, authorizes the county election commission of Montgomery County to research and test methods, systems, and technologies that would allow members and employees of the United States armed forces and their dependents who are registered to vote in the county but are stationed outside the territorial limits of the United States to vote by means other than, or in addition to, mail. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 6.

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 - 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 - 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 - HB2553 Real Property - As introduced, restricts certain foreign investments in land located within this state through the creation of two separate prohibitions, one that restricts a prohibited foreign-party-controlled business from acquiring real property and another that restricts a prohibited foreign-party from acquiring agricultural land located within this state. - Amends TCA Title 43; Title 44; Title 47; Title 48 and Title 66.

TN - HB2567 Planning, Public - As introduced, makes certain revisions to the Neighborhood Preservation Act. - Amends TCA Title 13, Chapter 6.

TN - HB2575 Humboldt - Subject to local approval, enacts the Humboldt Utilities Authority Act to create and empower the Humboldt Utilities Authority. - Amends Chapter 61 of the Private Acts of 2001.

TN - HB2581 Taxes, Ad Valorem - As introduced, requires, in counties with a population of 60,000 or less, payment in lieu of tax agreements to be approved by a majority vote of the city or county legislative body of each affected taxing jurisdiction before an industrial development corporation, housing authority, or health, educational, and housing facility corporation negotiates the agreement. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 53; Title 13, Chapter 20 and Title 48.

TN - HB2583 Real Property - As introduced, prohibits certain foreign-party-controlled businesses from acquiring an interest in public or private land in this state; prohibits certain foreign parties from acquiring agricultural land in this state; requires land acquired in violation of this act to divest such land within two years; creates a Class E felony for violations of the act. - Amends TCA Title 66, Chapter 2.

TN - HB2608 Taxes, Privilege - As introduced, requires the TACIR to conduct a study of the County Powers Relief Act and report its findings to the state and local government committee of the senate and the local government committee of the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 29.

TN - HB2612 Real Property - As introduced, authorizes a member of a homeowners' association for a neighborhood in Williamson County with at least 300 single family residential homes and two or more gates restricting ingress and egress to the neighborhood to request a report from the board of directors for the homeowners' association regarding criminal activity in the gated subdivision; requires the board to compile the report and make it available to each household in the subdivision. - Amends TCA Title ...

TN - HB2623 Housing - As introduced, authorizes the chief legislative body of a municipality to create a voluntary attainable housing incentive program by ordinance for the purpose of authorizing certain incentives to be provided to property owners who seek to build attainable housing. - Amends TCA Title 13 and Title 66.

TN - HB2624 Taxes, Ad Valorem - As introduced, grants first priority to property tax liens relative to receiver's liens and other liens established under the Neighborhood Preservation Act and the Tennessee Local Land Bank Program; clarifies that various provisions governing judicial sales do not apply to property tax proceedings; makes various revisions to laws governing property tax liens, delinquent property taxes, and property tax proceedings. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 8; Title 13; Title 26 and Titl...

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 - HB2634 Election Laws - As introduced, removes the requirement that a registered voter be a bona fide member of, affiliated with, or declare allegiance to a political party in order to vote in a political party's primary election; removes the requirement that the officer of elections at each polling place post a sign stating that it is a crime to vote in a political party's primary election without being a bona fide member of, or affiliated with, that political party, or to declare allegiance to that...

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.

TN - HB2654 Election Laws - As introduced, requires county election commissions to include on the ballot for the November 2024 election a non-binding question related to the legalization of the sale, possession, and use of medical marijuana; requires the secretary of state to compile the results of the public policy opinion poll and forward the results to the members of the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - HB2657 Election Laws - As introduced, requires county election commissions to include three non-binding questions related to the legalization of marijuana on the November 2024 ballot; requires the secretary of state to compile the results of the non-binding, advisory referendum, publish the results on the secretary of state's website, and forward the results to the members of the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 2.

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 - 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 - HB2719 Tennessee Housing Development Agency - As introduced, reduces the number of members of the board of directors of the agency required to approve the operation of the financial assistance programs under the Tennessee Housing Development Agency Act from nine to eight. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 53; Title 13; Title 48, Chapter 101, Part 3; Title 56 and Title 67.

TN - HB2725 Housing - As introduced, deletes the prohibition on local governments enacting a law that would place requirements regarding inclusionary, affordable, or below market value housing when entitlements, variances, or any other form of permit or authorization is sought from the local government; deletes the prohibition on a local governmental unit from conditioning development entitlements through amendment to the zoning map on the allocation of existing or newly constructed private residential o...

TN - HB2770 Municipal Government - As introduced, requires municipalities statewide to adopt an ordinance to align their municipal elections with the August or November general election beginning in 2026. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 6 and Title 7.

TN - HB2787 Codes - As introduced, authorizes a local government to amend adopted building codes to include three-family dwellings and four-family dwellings within the scope of the residential code. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 120.

TN - HB2797 Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As introduced, specifies that the required notice of a public meeting by an industrial development corporation related to the approval of a payment in lieu of taxes for a lessee of the corporation must be published on the website of the corporation. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13 and Title 48.

TN - HB2800 Election Laws - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Ballot Access Act." - Amends TCA Title 2.

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 - HB2850 Real Property - As introduced, enacts the "Housing Optimization and Market Empowerment Solutions (HOMES) Act of 2024." - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13; Title 62; Title 66; Title 67 and Title 68.

TN - HB2868 Taxes, Hotel Motel - As introduced, authorizes a municipality to change the allocation of revenue, but not its designated use, of a privilege tax upon the privilege of occupancy in a hotel if the tax preexisted July 1, 2021. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 14.

TN - HB2879 Real Property - As introduced, restricts certain real property transactions by certain foreign aliens and entities. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 20 and Title 66, Chapter 2.

TN - HB2891 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, aligns local school board elections with the August primary and November general elections. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 49, Chapter 2.

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 - 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 - HB2948 Election Laws - As introduced, creates a process for the majority and minority party caucuses of the general assembly to nominate candidates for United States senator. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 13.

TN - HB2955 Housing - As introduced, requires the Tennessee advisory commission on intergovernmental relations (TACIR) to study the availability of affordable housing in this state and report its findings and recommendations to the general assembly no later than January 1, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8 and Title 13.

TN - HB2956 Public Buildings - As introduced, requires that any new construction of a public building must include an adult changing table. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 12; Title 49 and Title 68.

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 - HB2966 Van Buren County - Subject to local approval, repeals the private purchasing act for Van Buren County that requires the County to solicit sealed bids for purchases and contracts in excess of $2,500, thereby bringing the County under the general law purchasing authority for counties (The County Purchasing Law of 1957), which authorizes a county to approve purchases and contracts of up to $10,000 without bid solicitation.

TN - HB2967 Rutherford County - Subject to local approval, raises the threshold requiring purchases and contracts to be procured through a public, competitive bidding process from $25,000 to $50,000. - Amends Chapter 421 of the Private Acts of 1943; as amended and rewritten.

TN - HB2968 Davidson County - Subject to local approval, creates the East Bank Development Authority for the metropolitan government of Nashville and Davidson County.

TN - HB2969 Clay County - Subject to local approval, increases the hotel-motel tax rate from 2.5 percent to 4 percent. - Amends Chapter 25 of the Private Acts of 2009.

TN - HB2970 Gordonsville - Subject to local approval, deletes a provision prohibiting the compensation of the Board of Mayor and Aldermen from being increased during their terms of office. - Amends Chapter 99 of the Private Acts of 2000.

TN - HB2974 Trenton - Subject to local approval, amends the City of Trenton's election cycle for the Board of Mayor and Aldermen to align the election with the state and federal general election in November of even-numbered years. - Amends Chapter 14 of the Private Acts of 2011.

TN - HB2975 Bruceton - Subject to local approval, raises the monetary limit on purchases that do not require competitive bidding from $2,500 to $25,000. - Amends Chapter 325 of the Private Acts of 1980; as amended.

TN - HB2976 Tipton County - Subject to local approval, creates the "West Tennessee Regional Utility Authority." - to.

TN - HB2977 Petersburg - Subject to local approval, adds duties and authorities of the chief of police and police officers of the town; restates that only a certified public accountant must be chosen by the board of mayor and aldermen to conduct an audit of the financial affairs of the town, removing the option of having the audit conducted by a public accountant. - Amends Chapter 272 of the Acts of 1901; as amended and rewritten.

TN - HB2978 Fayette County - Subject to local approval, creates the Fayette County Water Authority.

TN - HB2979 Pikeville - Subject to local approval, increases the monthly salary for the members of the board of aldermen from $150 to $500 a month. - Amends Chapter 574 of the Private Acts of 1939; as amended.

TN - HB2980 Cottage Grove - Subject to local approval, deletes the position of town marshal; requires candidates for the board of mayor and alderman to be permanent residents of the city; changes reasons to declare a vacancy on the board of mayor and alderman. - Amends Chapter 333 of the Private Acts of 1953; as rewritten.

TN - HB2981 Humboldt - Subject to local approval, enacts the Humboldt Utilities Authority Act to create and empower the Humboldt Utilities Authority. - Amends Chapter 61 of the Private Acts of 2001.

TN - HB2982 Graysville - Subject to local approval, removes as a duty of the city clerk to serve as the clerk of the municipal court; removes an unnecessary reference to a treasurer. - Amends Chapter 41 of the Private Acts of 1917; as rewritten.

TN - HB2983 Maury County - Subject to local approval, repeals obsolete language regarding the establishment of a civil service system for sheriff's department employees, which has been replaced by a new civil service system for such employees. - Amends Chapter 475 of the Private Acts of 1967; as amended.

TN - HB2984 Davidson County - Subject to local approval, creates the East Bank Development Authority for the metropolitan government of Nashville and Davidson County.

TN - HB2985 Carroll County - Subject to local approval, enacts the "Carroll County Financial Management System of 2024." - to create a financial management system in Carroll County.

TN - HB2986 Carroll County - Subject to local approval, establishes the office of highway supervisor; aligns the powers and duties of the highway supervisor with the Tennessee County Uniform Highway Law. - Amends Chapter 148 of the Private Acts of 1986; as amended.

TN - HB2987 Algood - Subject to local approval, authorizes the city to lease real, mixed, and personal property inside or outside of the city. - Amends Chapter 78 of the Private Acts of 2014.

TN - HB2988 Gallatin - Subject to local approval, authorizes the City of Gallatin to impose impact fees. - Amends Chapter 67 of the Private Acts of 1953; as amended.

TN - HB2989 Gibson County - As introduced, moves election date for the county special school district board of trustees to coincide with the general election. - Amends Chapter 62 of the Private Acts of 1981; as amended.

TN - HB2990 Athens - Subject to local approval, sets a term limit of three terms for members of the city council; specifies the emergency management powers of the mayor; changes references from "councilman" to "councilperson". - Amends Chapter 455 of the Private Acts of 1953; as amended.

TN - HB2991 Rockwood - Subject to local approval, repeals requirement that the city create and maintain a roster of current employees and previous applicants qualified for the classified service; repeals ambiguous language relating to probationary period for employee discipline and grievances; implements term limits for members of the civil service board.

TN - HB2992 Henry County - Subject to local approval, authorizes the Henry County Hospital District to sell or lease assets outside of the ordinary course of business, including, without limitation, substantially all the assets of the Henry County Nursing Home. - Amends Chapter 176 of the Private Acts of 1953, as amended.

TN - HB2993 Enville - Subject to local approval, increases the monthly salary of the Mayor from two dollars a month to $1,200 a month; changes the regular meeting date for the mayor and board from Friday to a monthly, regularly scheduled date, as determined by the board; removes certain voting prohibitions for persons who live outside the limits of the municipality but who own real estate within the corporate limits of the municipality. - Amends Chapter 6 of the Private Acts of 1953.

TN - HB2994 Viola - Subject to local approval, reduces the number of aldermen from five to two; deletes an obsolete provision regarding work houses. - Amends Chapter 320 of the Acts of 1901; as amended.

TN - HB2995 Tullahoma - Subject to local approval, clarifies that the election for the Board of Education aligns with the November general election; extends board members' terms from August, until a successor is elected and qualified; establishes a four-year term for board members; extends the terms of the three school board members elected on the first Thursday in August 2020 from the first Thursday in August 2024 to the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November 2024, or until their successors ar...

TN - HB2996 Eagleville - Subject to local approval, increases the durational residency requirement to be eligible to be elected to city council from one year to three years. - Amends Chapter 41 of the Private Acts of 2016.

TN - HB2997 Gates - Subject to local approval, removes authority of the board of mayor and aldermen to elect a town marshal or marshals; removes authority of a member of the board to serve as city recorder; repeals residency requirement for a person to be elected as city recorder. - Amends Chapter 286 of the Private Acts of 1943; as amended.

TN - HB2999 Morristown - Subject to local approval, rewrites the city charter. - Amends Chapter 103 of the Acts of 1903; as amended.

TN - HB2998 Tullahoma - Subject to local approval, rewrites the city charter. - Amends Chapter 553 of the Acts of 1903; as amended.

TN - HB3000 Cheatham County - Subject to local approval, levies a privilege tax upon motor vehicles driving on the public roads and highways of Cheatham County; repeals prior private acts levying such privilege tax. - Repeals Chapter 258 of the Private Acts of 1963; as amended.

TN - HB3001 Oneida - Subject to local approval, grants the town with the same powers and authorities granted to municipalities chartered under the general law mayor-aldermanic charter. - Amends Chapter 211 of the Private Acts of 1917; as amended.

TN - HB3002 Bolivar - Subject to local approval, changes the appointing authority for vacancies on the Board of Directors of the Bolivar Energy Authority from the mayor to the members of the Board of Directors. - Amends Chapter 130 of the Private Acts of 2006.

TN - HB3004 Shelby County - Subject to local approval, changes the allocation of the revenue from the privilege tax on occupancy in a hotel. - Amends Chapter 131 of the Private Acts of 1969; as amended.