Tennessee 2025 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee Senate Bill SB0178 Draft / Bill

Filed 01/15/2025

                     
HOUSE BILL 22 
 By Davis 
 
SENATE BILL 178 
By Lowe 
 
 
SB0178 
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 8, 
Chapter 44, relative to public meetings. 
 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE: 
 SECTION 1.  Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 8-44-112, is amended by deleting 
subsection (a) and substituting the following: 
 (a)  A governing body shall, for each public meeting, reserve a period for public 
comment to provide the public with the opportunity to comment: 
(1)  On matters that are germane to the items on the agenda for the 
meeting; and 
(2)  On any matter that is germane to the jurisdiction of the governing 
body, regardless of whether such matter is an item on the agenda for the 
meeting. 
 SECTION 2.  This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.