Tennessee Senate Bill 159

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)
Status: Passed on March 23 2023 - 100% progression
Action: 2023-03-23 - Effective date(s) 03/14/2023; 01/01/2024
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [PDF]

As enacted, requires assistant director and general counsel of the bureau of ethics and campaign finance, if any, to be employed upon the recommendation of the executive director and approval by the board of directors of the bureau; requires persons and entities required to register with the registry of election finance or the Tennessee ethics commission to provide an email address, or alternatively, a mailing address if no email address is available, for the purpose of serving notice upon the registrant. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 55.

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4, Chapter 55, relative to the bureau of ethics and campaign finance.

Sen. Richard Briggs [R]	Sen. Ferrell Haile [R]	Sen. Brent Taylor [R]	Sen. Bill Powers [R]
Sen. Todd Gardenhire [R]	Sen. John Stevens [R]

2023-02-27 - House - FLOOR VOTE: REGULAR CALENDAR PASSAGE ON THIRD CONSIDERATION (Y: 94 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2023-02-13 - Senate - FLOOR VOTE: as Amended Third Consideration (Y: 32 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2023-02-07 - Senate - SENATE STATE & LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE: Recommended for passage with amendment/s, refer to Senate Calendar Committee Ayes 9, Nays 0 PNV 0 (Y: 9 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2023-03-23		Effective date(s) 03/14/2023; 01/01/2024
2023-03-23		Pub. Ch. 38
2023-03-14	Senate	Signed by Governor.
2023-03-06	Senate	Transmitted to Governor for action.
2023-03-02	House	Signed by H. Speaker
2023-03-01	Senate	Signed by Senate Speaker
2023-02-28	Senate	Enrolled and ready for signatures
2023-02-27	House	Passed H., Ayes 94, Nays 0, PNV 0
2023-02-27	House	Am. withdrawn. (Amendment 1 - HA0033)
2023-02-27	House	Subst. for comp. HB.
2023-02-16	House	Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk.
2023-02-14	Senate	Sponsor(s) Added.
2023-02-13	Senate	Passed Senate as amended, Ayes 32, Nays 0
2023-02-13	Senate	Senate adopted Amendment (Amendment 1 - SA0005)
2023-02-13	Senate	Sponsor(s) Added.
2023-02-13	Senate	Engrossed; ready for transmission to House
2023-02-09	Senate	Sponsor(s) Added.
2023-02-09	Senate	Placed on Senate Regular Calendar for 2/13/2023
2023-02-07	Senate	Recommended for passage with amendment/s, refer to Senate Calendar Committee Ayes 9, Nays 0 PNV 0
2023-02-02	Senate	Sponsor(s) Added.
2023-01-31	Senate	Placed on Senate State and Local Government Committee calendar for 2/7/2023
2023-01-31	Senate	Action deferred in Senate State and Local Government Committee to 2/7/2023
2023-01-25	Senate	Placed on Senate State and Local Government Committee calendar for 1/31/2023
2023-01-21	Senate	Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee
2023-01-20	Senate	Introduced, Passed on First Consideration
2023-01-19	Senate	Sponsor(s) Added.
2023-01-12	Senate	Filed for introduction

HB0184 (Crossfiled) 2023-03-23 - Comp. became Pub. Ch. 38

Type	Source
Summary	https://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/Billinfo/default.aspx?BillNumber=SB0159&ga=113
Text	https://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/113/Bill/SB0159.pdf
Text	https://publications.tnsosfiles.com/acts/113/pub/pc0038.pdf
Amendment	https://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/113/Amend/SA0005.pdf
Supplement	https://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/113/Fiscal/SB0159.pdf
Supplement	https://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/113/Fiscal/FM0061.pdf
Roll Call	https://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/Billinfo/default.aspx?BillNumber=SB0159&ga=113