SB 232
FISCAL NOTE
Fiscal Review Committee
Tennessee General Assembly
January 24, 2025
Fiscal Analyst: Christine Drescher | Email: christine.drescher@capitol.tn.gov | Phone: 615-741-2564
SB 232
SUMMARY OF BILL: Authorizes a county election commission to designate restroom
facilities in a building in which the election is to be held for the use of workers or volunteers
working for a campaign. Requires any campaign worker or volunteer to cover or remove clothing or
accoutrements bearing campaign material before entering the facilities. Establishes that any worker
or volunteer who fails to do so is subject to a Class C misdemeanor.
FISCAL IMPACT:
NOT SIGNIFICANT
Assumptions:
• County election commissions will be able to adopt policies relating to the use of restroom
facilities by campaign workers within existing resources.
• Pursuant to Tenn. Code Ann. § 2-7-111(a) and (b), any campaign materials, including
buttons, caps, hats, pins, or shirts, are prohibited from entering the boundary established by
county election commission around designated entrances to buildings where an election is
to be held.
• Authorizing campaign workers or volunteers who remove prohibited items to use restroom
facilities in a building in which an election is held will not have a significant impact on
polling place procedures.
• There will not be a sufficient change in the number of prosecutions for the state or local
government to experience any significant change in revenue or expenditures.
• Any fiscal impact to state or local government is estimated to be not significant.
CERTIFICATION:
The information contained herein is true and correct to the best of my knowledge.
Bojan Savic, Executive Director