Tennessee Senate Bill 275

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 23 2025 - 25% progression
Action: 2025-02-10 - Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee
Pending: Senate State and Local Government Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [PDF]

As introduced, requires the offices of sheriff, register, county clerk, assessor of property, and trustee in a county that has adopted a charter form of government to independently develop the budget for such office and submit the budget directly to the county legislative body; authorizes such offices to approve transfers between line items within the total amount of each category of personnel and operational maintenance; prohibits the county legislative body from implementing any kind of personnel restriction or operational maintenance restrictions on these offices. - Amends TCA Title 5.

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 5, relative to constitutional officer budgets.

Sen. Brent Taylor [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2025-02-10	Senate	Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee
2025-01-27	Senate	Introduced, Passed on First Consideration
2025-01-23	Senate	Filed for introduction

HB0306 (Crossfiled) 2025-02-26 - Placed on cal. State & Local Government Committee for 3/5/2025

Type	Source
Summary	https://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/Billinfo/default.aspx?BillNumber=SB0275&ga=114
Text	https://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/114/Bill/SB0275.pdf
Supplement	https://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/114/Fiscal/HB0306.pdf