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| Chapter Number | Subject | Abstract | Bill Number | Action |
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| 0001 | Celina | Subject to local approval, increases the number of aldermen from three to five. | SB0046 | Adopted |
| 0002 | Rogersville | Subject to local approval, authorizes holding of an advisory, nonbinding referenda. | HB1420 | Adopted |
| 0003 | Bedford County | Subject to local approval, abolishes the Bedford County road board. | HB1405 | Adopted |
| 0004 | Henry County | Subject to local approval, repeals an obsolete private act regarding the acquisition and operation of a nursing home. | HB1412 | Adopted |
| 0005 | Henry County | Subject to local approval, authorizes the county commission to appoint a minimum of three and a maximum of seven members to the board of trustees for the Henry County Hospital District; reduces the frequency of regular meetings of the board of trustees from monthly to quarterly. | HB1414 | Adopted |
| 0006 | Knox County | Subject to local approval, repeals the Tennessee Technology Development Authority Act. | SB1434 | Adopted |
| 0007 | Fayette County | Subject to local approval, requires the county clerk rather than the county court clerk to collect the county wheel tax and keep the administrative fee associated with the issuance of the motor vehicle license upon payment of the tax; rather than using the tax revenue to pay down debt from school construction projects, requires 100 percent of the tax collected, excluding fees, to be placed in the county general fund for general fund use or transfer to the county capital projects fund to pay for capital costs for school construction and county facilities, or transfer to the county debt service fund to pay down debt issues for school construction and county facilities as determined during the county's annual budget process. | HB1406 | Adopted |
| 0008 | Chester County | Subject to local approval, implements new motor vehicle privilege tax. | HB1415 | Adopted |
| 0009 | Wilson County | Subject to local approval, transfers control and governance of the Tenth Special School District of Wilson County from a board of directors and commissioners composed of three members to a Board of Education composed of five members; divides the Tenth Special School district into five districts of proportionate population; establishes staggered terms for the members of the Board of Education of four years. | HB1418 | No Action Taken |
| 0010 | Morgan County | Subject to local approval, establishes that the County Attorney must be a licensed practicing attorney appointed or hired subject to the vote of the Morgan County Commission to serve a four-year term and does not need to be a resident of Morgan County to serve as County Attorney. | SB1463 | Adopted |
| 0011 | Hardeman County | Subject to local approval, requires the school board in Hardeman County to submit its budget specifying the funds that the school board estimates will be necessary to fund the upcoming school year on or before the first Monday in May rather than the first Monday in April. | HB1411 | Adopted |
| 0012 | Germantown | Subject to local approval, makes the office of mayor a full-time position, with the salary of the office to be set by ordinance. | HB1416 | Not Adopted |
| 0013 | Tullahoma | Subject to local approval, extends the term of the current city judge by one year in order to have the election of the city judge coincide with the elections for members of the board of mayor and aldermen. | HB1417 | Adopted |
| 0014 | Montgomery County | Subject to local approval, creates a fifth General Sessions and Juvenile Court of Montgomery County. | HB1419 | Adopted |
| 0015 | Tipton County | Subject to local approval, establishes litter abatement and control requirements. | HB1421 | Adopted |
| 0016 | Lauderdale County | Subject to local approval, provides for the orderly transfer of the Probate and Juvenile Court in Lauderdale County from the County Courthouse to the Justice Complex. | HB1423 | Adopted |
| 0017 | Gallatin | Subject to local approval, removes charter provision restricting appointed officers from being employed outside of city business hours. | HB1424 | Adopted |
| 0018 | Red Boiling Springs | Subject to local approval, increases the annual salary of the mayor from $5,200 to $18,200; increases the annual salary of council members from $500 to $1,800. | HB1425 | Adopted |
| 0019 | Putnam County | Subject to local approval, sets the salary of general session court judges at an amount equal to the amount received annually by the circuit court judges and chancellors as of September 1, 2030. | HB1427 | Adopted |
| 0020 | Milan | Subject to local approval, requires the Board of Mayor and Aldermen to fill a vacancy declared for an office of Alderman within 60 days of such vacancy; authorizes the mayor to make temporary appointments to the office of city attorney or city judge in cases of sickness, absence, or other temporary disability; makes other changes to the city charter. | HB1428 | Adopted |
| 0021 | New Johnsonville | Subject to local approval, prohibits a person whose immediate relative is an elected official in the city government from being elected as a city official. | HB1429 | Not Adopted |
| 0022 | Portland | Subject to local approval, deletes obsolete and superseded provisions of the city charter. | HB1431 | No Action Taken |
| 0023 | Bartlett | Subject to local approval, establishes that the offices of mayor and Alderman are limited to a maximum of three four-year terms; makes other changes to the charter regarding elections, the mayor, and administration. | HB1432 | Adopted |
| 0024 | Wayne County | Subject to local approval, repeals the county wheel tax imposed by private act. | HB1433 | Adopted |
| 0025 | Hardeman County | Subject to local approval, increases, from 85 percent to 92 percent, the assumed property tax collection rate in setting the general tax rate for the county general fund and creating a county budget that covers expenditures for the next appropriation year. | HB1434 | Adopted |
| 0026 | Oakland | Subject to local approval, establishes that the terms of office for mayor and alderman begin upon the official's swearing in on the first business day of the month following the month of the election for that office; designates five aldermanic positions, and allows for a sixth position, contingent on certain population metrics; provides for additional conditions for elected office. | HB1435 | Adopted |
| 0027 | Bartlett | Subject to local approval, repeals the animal control program. | HB1436 | Adopted |
| 0028 | Crossville | Subject to local approval, realigns salaries of mayor and city council to be set at a percentage of salary earned by the county mayor; establishes new meeting schedule for mayor and city council; creates process for holding administrative hearings by the city; increases maximum occupancy tax that may be imposed, from 2 percent to 3 percent. | HB1437 | Adopted |
| 0029 | Erin | Subject to local approval, makes changes to definitions in the city charter; adds corporate powers to be exercised by the Board of Mayor and Aldermen; makes several other changes to the city charter. | HB1438 | Adopted |
| 0030 | Ridgeside | Subject to local approval, repeals and replaces in its entirety the city's private act charter. | HB1439 | Adopted |
| 0031 | Portland | Subject to local approval, deletes provisions requiring a referendum to sell, lease, or otherwise dispose of the city's water or light plant. | HB1453 | Action Pending |
| 0032 | Millington | Subject to local approval, requires a candidate for the office of mayor to be a resident of the City of Millington for one year preceding the election rather than 60 days to qualify to run for such office. | SB2693 | Adopted |
| 0033 | Cheatham County | Subject to local approval, increases from six to seven the number of school districts and school board members in Cheatham County. | SB2695 | Action Pending |
| 0034 | Cheatham County | Subject to local approval, requires the existing impact fee of $7,500 in Cheatham County, known as the Cheatham County Development Tax, to be allocated as follows: $3,500 to the county Education Debt Service Fund; $3,500 to the county Education Debt Service Fund reserved for school building construction and renovation; and $500 to the Highway and Public Works Fund. | SB2696 | Action Pending |
| 0035 | Springfield | Subject to local approval, authorizes relatives of city employees to be hired in departments other than that of the employee. | SB2697 | Adopted |
| 0036 | Greenbrier | Subject to local approval, increases salary of aldermen from $120 per month to $300 per month, with no such increase to apply to an incumbent prior to the end of the term for which the elected official was selected; establishes purchasing limits in accordance with state law rather than by specific amounts in charter. | SB2700 | Adopted |
| 0037 | Williamson County | Subject to local approval, authorizes the board of the Williamson County hospital district to sell real property owned or operated by the hospital district and lease substantially all of the facilities owned or operated by the hospital district if approved by the Williamson County board of commissioners. | SB2708 | Action Pending |
| 0038 | Humphreys County | Subject to local approval, creates the Humphreys County Water Authority. | HB1500 | Action Pending |
| 0039 | Tipton County | Subject to local approval, authorizes the legislative body of Tipton County to designate a division of the county's general sessions court as the environmental court to hear cases involving the alleged violation of any ordinance relating to health, housing, fire, land subdivision, building, or zoning. | HB1645 | Adopted |
| 0040 | Roane County | Subject to local approval, repeals act that designated the chief executive officer of the county as the county executive. | HB1717 | Action Pending |
| 0041 | Mason | Subject to local approval, revises the charter of the Town of Mason to provide grounds for vacating certain offices, to prescribe the oath for office; to fix the time, place, and notice requirements for meetings of the board of mayor and aldermen, to establish the rules of procedure for meetings, to prescribe additional duties of the mayor and the board, to provide for the administration of government and personnel, to prescribe the duties of the town administrator and town attorney, to prescribe the budget process, and to make various other changes. | HB1804 | Adopted |
| 0042 | Trenton | Subject to local approval, expands the responsibilities of the city recorder to include the administration of functions for necessary and proper municipal operations, and to make such reports of the finances of the city as required and called on by the Mayor and Board; expands the residency requirement for the chief of police by authorizing the chief to reside anywhere in the county rather than just the city. | HB2022 | Adopted |
| 0043 | Adamsville | Subject to local approval, revises provisions relating to the filling of a vacancy in the office of mayor or on the city commission. | HB2624 | Action Pending |
| 0044 | Weakley County | Subject to local approval, clarifies that the county highway superintendent of the county highway department continue in such elected office pursuant to qualifications established under state law. | HB2627 | Adopted |
| 0045 | Shelbyville | Subject to local approval, removes the city manager as a member of the Shelbyville Power, Water and Sewerage System Board to be replaced by an additional city council member. | HB2632 | Adopted |
| 0046 | Athens | Subject to local approval, sets compensation of mayor and council members by ordinance rather than specific dollar amounts; does not alter compensation amounts of current mayor or council members. | HB2637 | Adopted |
| 0047 | Henry County | Subject to local approval, levies a severance tax on clay, titanium, and any other substance commonly recognized as a mineral not already taxed by this state; requires revenue from such tax to be used exclusively for the construction, maintenance, and repair of the county road system. | HB2639 | Adopted |
| 0048 | Martin | Subject to local approval, rewrites the city charter. | HB2645 | Action Pending |
| 0049 | Kingsport | Subject to local approval, makes various changes to the charter, including when a vice-mayor is chosen by the board; when warrants to collect delinquent taxes may be issued; removes a requirement that a tentative appropriation ordinance must be published in a newspaper; changes from the 1st of July to the 1st of September when elected board of education members assume office and when such members must choose a president. | HB2648 | Adopted |
| 0050 | Grand Junction | Subject to local approval, authorizes the board of mayor and aldermen to appoint a town administrator; specifies the duties of the town administrator; transfers certain duties of the mayor to the town administrator; changes the appointment of the city recorder from the mayor to the board of mayor and aldermen. | HB2651 | Action Pending |
| 0051 | Oakland | Subject to local approval, transfers authority to appoint and remove all directors and department heads, excluding the town recorder, from the board of mayor and aldermen to the town manager. | HB2652 | Adopted |
| 0052 | Rutherford County | Subject to local approval, repeals and reconstitutes provisions establishing the Rutherford County Highway Commission and County Highway Road Superintendent. | HB2653 | Adopted |
| 0053 | Ashland City | Subject to local approval, requires the position of mayor to be voted on by electors from the town at large; requires the position of councilman to be voted on by electors in their ward; requires elections to be nonpartisan; makes various other changes. | HB2657 | Adopted |
| 0054 | White Bluff | Subject to local approval, authorizes persons who reside outside the boundaries of White Bluff but within the boundaries of Dickson County, and who own real property located within the boundaries of White Bluff, to vote in all White Bluff municipal elections; non-resident real property owners must own at least one-half interest in such real property, and such real property must be at least 5,000 square feet. | HB2658 | Adopted |
| 0055 | Unicoi County | Subject to local approval, aligns the county's mineral severance tax with the tax amounts prescribed under state law. | HB2655 | Adopted |
| 0056 | Charlotte | Subject to local approval, revises various provisions of the charter of the City of Charlotte relating to its corporate powers; the city council; the city clerk; codification of ordinances; duties of mayor; city court, judge, and court clerk; and budgeting, centralized purchasing, and taxes. | HB2638 | Action Pending |
| 0057 | Hamblen County | Subject to local approval, abolishes the Hamblen County Road Commission, effective August 31, 2028. | HB2640 | Action Pending |
| 0058 | Hamblen County | Subject to local approval, updates appointment provisions, qualifications, and compensation for the office of county attorney. | HB2642 | Action Pending |
| 0059 | Winchester | Subject to local approval, expands the board of public utilities' jurisdiction to wastewater treatment systems; requires the mayor to serve as a standing member of the board during the mayor's term; creates four-year terms for members; and makes various other changes. | HB2643 | Action Pending |
| 0060 | Jonesborough | Subject to local approval, authorizes the board of mayor and alderman for the Town of Jonesborough to elect a mayor from among the aldermen to fill a vacancy; authorizes the Town recorder to carry liability insurance rather than be bonded in an amount prescribed by Town ordinance; updates the election dates for the mayor and board of aldermen. | HB2647 | Action Pending |
| 0061 | Bristol | Subject to local approval, revises election provisions for city council and the board of education to comply with changes to general election law; reduces the time after final passage for an ordinance to take effect from 17 days to seven days; changes the due dates for property taxes; creates a department of education. | HB2649 | Action Pending |
| 0062 | Obion County | Subject to local approval, clarifies that the county highway superintendent of the county highway department be appointed by the county commission pursuant to state law. | HB2650 | Action Pending |
| 0063 | Sardis | Subject to local approval, removes archaic references to debtor's prisons, city marshal, the original members of the board of mayor and aldermen, and city recorder authority; sets salaries of board members by ordinance rather than by charter; authorizes the board to set meeting dates by ordinance rather than by charter, increases terms of the mayor and aldermen from two to four years; and removes certain residency requirements for legal qualified voters who live within the municipality. | HB2654 | Action Pending |
| 0064 | Lafayette | Subject to local approval, moves the date of elections from coinciding with the primary in May to coinciding with the general election in November; increases the compensation of the council members from $100 to $150 for each council meeting and from $50 to $75 for each committee meeting; increases the annual salary of the mayor from $45,000 to $75,000; authorizes the mayor, subject to confirmation of the city council, a superintendent of streets and a superintendent of sanitation. | HB2656 | Action Pending |
| 0065 | Niota | Subject to local approval, rewrites the charter of the City of Niota. | HB2661 | Action Pending |
| 0066 | Lexington | Subject to local approval, clarifies the duties of the mayor as the chief executive officer of the city; authorizes the mayor to suspend an employee; clarifies that office of mayor is a full-time position. | HB2662 | Action Pending |
| 0067 | Tullahoma | Subject to local approval, allocates 3.8 percent of each annual operating budget, but not less than $1.5 million, to the maintenance of streets and roads within the city limits of the City of Tullahoma. | HB2663 | Action Pending |
| 0068 | Stanton | Subject to local approval, revises the general powers of the town; revises provisions related to the town judge. | HB2664 | Action Pending |
| 0069 | Haywood County | Subject to local approval, for county attorney, requires state law license; hiring preference to be given to a resident; oath of office; to advise and represent county commission, the county mayor, and other county officials; authorizes county commission to employ legal counsel other than county attorney; replaces "quarterly county court" with "county commission"; and replaces "county judge" with "county mayor." | HB2665 | Action Pending |
| 0070 | Shelby County | Subject to local approval, changes the conditions under which the occupancy tax will no longer be levied; changes the allocation of the revenue from the occupancy tax if the tenant of the indoor sports facility no longer occupies such facility. | HB2666 | Action Pending |
| 0071 | Grundy County | Subject to local approval, creates the Southern Cumberland Plateau Regional Water and Wastewater Authority. | HB2667 | Action Pending |
| 0072 | Monterey | Subject to local approval, deletes obsolete provisions authorizing the mayor to serve as the ex officio recorder for the town of Monterey; establishes the position of Town Administrator and prescribes the Administrator's powers, duties, and functions. | HB2668 | Action Pending |
| 0073 | Benton County | Subject to local approval, updates the system for the management of county finances, including, but not limited to, budgeting, investment oversight, debt management, and cash management oversight. | HB2669 | Action Pending |
| 0074 | Gleason | Subject to local approval, for the term beginning December 2028, increases the mayor's compensation from $200 to $400 per month and compensation for each alderman from $100 to $200 per month. | HB2670 | Action Pending |
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