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Chapter Number | Subject | Abstract | Bill Number | Action |
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0001 | Celina | As introduced, subject to local approval, allows registered voters owning real property inside the city limits, but who are not residents, to vote in city elections. | HB0690 | Adopted |
0002 | Bristol | As introduced, subject to local approval, provides that the members of the municipal board of education shall be elected in the same manner used to elect the city council. | HB1830 | Adopted |
0003 | Dyer | As introduced, subject to local approval, expands maximum term of debt financing for water and sewer improvements. | HB2388 | Adopted |
0004 | Gallatin | As introduced, subject to local approval, changes certain duties for mayor, city recorder, and mayor pro tem; changes attendance requirements at city council meetings for department heads. | HB2385 | Adopted |
0005 | Medina | As introduced, subject to local approval, establishes that all municipal employees will have "at-will" employment status; removes provision that requires the mayor to serve as a substitute municipal judge; removes provision that allows a municipal court to incarcerate someone for failing to pay certain court fines and costs. | HB2384 | Adopted |
0006 | Gainesboro | As introduced, subject to local approval, revises charter of town of Gainesboro to specify duties of Town Recorder. | HB2381 | Adopted |
0007 | Rutherford County | As introduced, subject to local approval, imposes application of wheel tax on Rutherford County residents for operation of motor vehicles on any highway in the county by removing present exception for operation on state highways. | HB2378 | Adopted |
0008 | Shelbyville | As introduced, subject to local approval, clarifies that a majority of those present and voting shall be necessary for action by the council; clarifies that this voting procedure is to be used for election of Electric Power, Water and Sewage Board members. | HB2073 | Adopted |
0009 | Murfreesboro | As introduced, subject to local approval, clarifies certain ambiguities existing within those Murfreesboro city charter provisions that set forth disciplinary policies and procedures for municipal employees. | HB0249 | Adopted |
0010 | Unicoi County | As introduced, subject to local approval, permits volunteer fire departments to possess, store, use, or sell fireworks. | HB1831 | Adopted |
0011 | Chester County | As introduced, subject to local approval, creates the position of accounting and budget director, to be appointed by the budget and finance committee of the county legislative body. | HB2386 | Adopted |
0012 | Sharon | As introduced, subject to local approval, gives the town council the power to prohibit minors from being abroad between 10:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m. unless going directly to or from a lawful activity or with a parent or guardian. | HB2393 | Null and Void |
0013 | Huntland | As introduced, subject to local approval, rewrites the charter. | HB2394 | Adopted |
0014 | Parrottsville | As introduced, subject to local approval, raises monetary limit on purchases that do not require prior approval of the board of mayor and aldermen, from $100 to $500. | HB2397 | Adopted |
0015 | Blount County | As introduced, subject to local approval, increases the hotel motel tax from 4 percent to 5 percent; redistributes the proceeds. | HB2042 | Adopted |
0016 | Hamilton County | As introduced, subject to local approval, prohibits any purchases that comply with energy efficiencies standards and life cycles costing employed by the state of Tennessee in its procurement policies. | HB2035 | Adopted |
0017 | Cleveland | As introduced, subject to local approval, requires any action by the legislative body to be by ordinance if required by the general law or the charter to be by ordinance, and if the action levies a tax, makes a special assessment, is permanent in nature, or has a regulatory or penal effect. | HB2387 | Adopted |
0018 | Bristol | As introduced, subject to local approval, removes recall, initiative, and referendum provisions from charter. | HB1725 | Adopted |
0019 | Gallatin | As introduced, subject to local approval, revises charter of city of Gallatin. | HB2380 | Adopted |
0020 | Polk County | As introduced, subject to local approval, creates the position of county attorney. | HB2403 | Adopted |
0021 | Mason | As introduced, subject to local approval, rewrites the charter. | SB2371 | Adopted |
0022 | Oliver Springs | As introduced, subject to local approval, creates position of city manager and various departments within the town. | HB1834 | Adopted |
0023 | Harriman | As introduced, subject to local approval, makes certain changes to the charter of the City of Harriman. | HB1904 | Adopted |
0024 | Milan | As introduced, subject to local approval, revises charter of City of Milan. | HB2398 | Adopted |
0025 | Clay County | As introduced, subject to local approval, authorizes a hotel/motel tax in Clay County. | HB2405 | Adopted |
0026 | School Districts, Special | As introduced, authorizes school bonds and notes be issued and sold in an amount not to exceed $20,000,000 for the Tenth Special School District of Wilson County. | HB2407 | No Action Required |
0027 | School Districts, Special | As introduced, authorizes and empowers the Paris Special School District of Henry County to issue capital outlay notes in a principal amount not to exceed $1,750,000. | HB2112 | No Action Required |
0028 | Niota | As introduced, subject to local approval, rewrites charter. | HB2396 | Not Adopted |
0029 | Red Boiling Springs | As introduced, subject to local approval, rewrites charter. | HB2399 | Adopted |
0030 | Toone | As introduced, subject to local approval, reduces required number of ordinance readings from three to two, defines corporate boundaries, permits aldermen to simultaneously serve as recorder or treasurer. | HB2400 | Adopted |
0031 | Alexandria | As introduced, subject to local approval, rewrites charter. | HB2402 | Adopted |
0032 | Adamsville | As introduced, subject to local approval, rewrites charter. | HB2406 | Adopted |
0033 | Lebanon | As introduced, subject to local approval, modifies duties of the commissioner of finance and revenue. | HB2410 | Adopted |
0034 | Bluff City | As introduced, subject to local approval, removes authority for board to appoint mayor as town judge, changes date by which vice-mayor to be appointed, specifies that town officers and employees serve at will, changes meeting day for board, requires special election if three or more vacancies exist on board, and removes recall provisions and provisions regarding appeal, which are controlled by general law. | HB2408 | Not Adopted |
0035 | Tracy City | As introduced, subject to local approval, sets the city election to coincide with the general state election beginning in November 2014; increases terms of office for mayor and aldermen from two to four years. | HB2409 | Adopted |
0036 | Bledsoe County | As introduced, subject to local approval, establishes Healthcare Facilities Board as successor entity to Board of Hospital Directors. | HB2414 | Adopted |
0037 | Anderson County | As introduced, subject to local approval, repeals charter provision requiring deeds for the conveyance of land to be presented to county and city tax assessor offices prior to being registered with register's office. | HB2415 | Adopted |
0038 | Palmer | As introduced, subject to local approval, amends the charter of Palmer to grant four-year terms of office to the town's mayor and two of the four aldermen receiving the most votes in the 2010 election; thereafter, all four aldermen shall have four-year terms of office. | HB2487 | Adopted |
0039 | Cleveland | As introduced, subject to local approval, amends the charter of Cleveland to clarify that a vacancy shall occur if the mayor or a council member fails to attend three consecutive regular meetings of the city council, and further changes the required 13-day lapse between the first and second reading of an ordinance to a 12-day lapse. | HB2741 | Adopted |
0040 | Friendsville | As introduced, subject to local approval, amends the corporate charter of the City of Friendsville. | HB2650 | Adopted |
0041 | Lexington | As introduced, subject to local approval, staggers the terms of aldermen; provides for election by the board of mayor and aldermen of a vice mayor, and revises language relative to the electric utility board. | HB3984 | Adopted |
0042 | Cornersville | As introduced, subject to local approval, amends the charter to specify the timetable and manner of elections of the mayor and five aldermen, to alter the requirement of qualified voters having to live in the town for 30 days preceding an election, to change the required reading of a bill or ordinance from three readings to two, and to delete language that allows the fire chief to be the chief of police and vice versa. | HB2757 | Adopted |
0043 | Gibson County | As introduced, subject to local approval, establishes that the county clerk serves as clerk of juvenile court effective 12:01 a.m. September 1, 2010; abolishes office of clerk of juvenile court and provides if a vacancy in such office occurs prior to August 31, 2010, the county clerk is appointed to serve until term expires. | HB3941 | Adopted |
0044 | Altamont | As introduced, subject to local approval, amends the charter to reset the month of the election of the mayor and aldermen from May to November; extends the term of the mayor and aldermen in the next election to meet the November 2012 election date. | HB3953 | Adopted |
0045 | Morristown | As introduced, subject to local approval, increases the hotel/motel tax from 5 percent to 7 percent. | HB3965 | Adopted |
0046 | School Districts, Special | As introduced, increases the tax rate for the Trenton Special School District from $2.16 to $2.30. | HB3967 | No Action Required |
0047 | Norris | As introduced, subject to local approval, establishes a new charter for the city of Norris. | HB3970 | Adopted |
0048 | Savannah | As introduced, subject to local approval, sets the city election to coincide with the general state election beginning in November 2012; extends time by which the city may contract with the city manager, from one to three years. | HB2395 | Adopted |
0049 | Springfield | As introduced, subject to local approval, conforms board of mayor and aldermen action that must be exercised by ordinance to the general law requirements. | HB3969 | Adopted |
0050 | Middleton | As introduced, subject to local approval, amends the charter to establish the corporate boundaries as those presently fixed by charter; reset the election of mayor and alderpersons from February in odd-numbered years to November every four years; extends the expiration of current terms from February 2011 to December 2012 to meet the November 2012 election. | HB3977 | Adopted |
0051 | Union County | As introduced, subject to local approval, enacts a hotel/motel tax. | HB2521 | Adopted |
0052 | School Districts, Special | As introduced, restores optimal staggering of the terms of the board of education of the Milan Special School District so that four members are elected in one year and three members are elected in another. | HB3966 | No Action Required |
0053 | Rives | As introduced, subject to local approval, decreases the number of aldermen from six to three; reduces the number of aldermen serving as committee members from three to two; decreases the number of aldermen necessary for a quorum from four to two. | SB3929 | Adopted |
0054 | Murfreesboro | As introduced, subject to local approval, authorizes the city council to appoint one person to hold the office of city treasurer and the office of city recorder. | HB3958 | Adopted |
0055 | Graysville | As introduced, subject to local approval, amends the charter by revising the membership on the board of commissioners from a mayor and six commissioners to a mayor and four commissioners and to make changes consistent with the reduction in the size of the governing body. | HB3971 | Adopted |
0056 | Rutherford County | As introduced, subject to local approval, terminates office of county attorney and authorizes county to contract with attorneys for the provision of legal services. | HB3972 | Adopted |
0057 | Trenton | As introduced, subject to local approval, creates procedure for a run-off election following the regular mayoral election in the event no candidate receives a majority of votes cast. | HB3973 | Adopted |
0058 | Franklin | As introduced, subject to local approval, requires that all transfers of appropriations be decided by ordinance rather than pursuant to mayoral authority; repeals provision in charter establishing duties of the treasurer. | HB3974 | Adopted |
0059 | Franklin | As introduced, subject to local approval, clarifies that the city shall have authority to grant franchises for public services to both residential and commercial users, regardless of zone; includes providers of telecommunications services or information services among those entities to which the requirements for the granting of such franchises applies. | HB3975 | Adopted |
0060 | Franklin | As introduced, subject to local approval, repeals charter provision requiring treasurer and all department heads to be appointed or confirmed by the board of mayor and aldermen; repeals charter provision vesting city judge with juvenile court jurisdiction concurrent with that of juvenile court judges of the state. | HB3976 | Adopted |
0061 | Westmoreland | As introduced, subjectt to local approval, changes the name "Town of Westmoreland" to "City of Westmoreland." | HB3978 | Adopted |
0062 | Lewisburg | As introduced, subject to local approval, authorizes reading of ordinance caption on third reading. | HB3982 | Adopted |
0063 | Lebanon | As introduced, subject to local approval, revises the charter. | HB3985 | Null and Void |
0064 | Springfield | As introduced, subject to local approval, amends the charter of the City of Springfield to require employees and officers handling money to either provide liability insurance covering employee dishonesty or to secure a surety bond. | HB3988 | Adopted |
0065 | Bledsoe County | As introduced, subject to local approval, establishes Healthcare Facilities Board as successor entity to Board of Hospital Directors. | HB3992 | No Action Taken |
0066 | Dyer | As introduced, subject to local approval, modernizes the city charter. | HB3987 | Adopted |
0067 | Robertson County | As introduced, subject to local approval, revises the hotel/motel tax. | HB3990 | Adopted |
0068 | School Districts, Special | As introduced, permits the Gibson County Special School District to issue bonds or notes, to enter into loan agreements with the state, to participate in federal or state matching grants or loans and to issue tax or grant anticipation notes; increases special school district tax rate to cover debt service and the district's operations. | HB3991 | No Action Required |
0069 | Sumner County | As introduced, subject to local approval, establishes procedure for distribution of proceeds of the hotel/motel tax. | HB3957 | Adopted |
0070 | Roane County | As introduced, subject to local approval, sets salary of county attorney to 60 percent of the general sessions judges' salary; provides for payment of reasonable travel expenses related to office of county attorney upon showing receipts. | HB3979 | Adopted |
0071 | Greenbrier | As introduced, subject to local approval, allows nonresident property owners, in compliance with general law, to vote in town elections; redefines "department head" and "officer"; revises provisions governing bond of the recorder. | HB3993 | Adopted |
0072 | Sullivan County | As introduced, subject to local approval, authorizes possession, storage, use, manufacture, transport, and sale of fireworks in Sullivan County. | HB3996 | Adopted |
0073 | Lafollette | As introduced, subject to local approval, revises the language conferring powers on the board of public utilities. | SB3447 | Adopted |
0074 | Ripley | As introduced, subject to local approval by referendum, establishes the Ripley Energy Authority. | HB3997 | Not Adopted |
0075 | Hancock County | As introduced, subject to local approval, authorizes Hancock County to operate a home health agency in Grainger, Claiborne, and Hawkins counties. | HB3981 | Adopted |
0076 | McEwen | As introduced, subject to local approval, revises municipal court language to comply with election requirements for municipal court having concurrent jurisdiction with the general sessions court. | HB3989 | Adopted |
0077 | Henry County | As introduced, subject to local approval, transfers probate court clerk responsibility from county clerk to clerk and master; transfers juvenile court clerk responsibility from county clerk to circuit court clerk. | HB3995 | Adopted |