Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee Senate Bill SB0245 Compare Versions

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2	2	HOUSE BILL 49
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5	5	SENATE BILL 245
6	6	By Haile
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13	13	AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 8,
14	14	Chapter 7, Part 1 and Title 8, Chapter 7, Part 3,
15	15	relative to district attorneys general.
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17	17	BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:
18	18	SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 8-7-309(a), is amended by adding
19	19	the following as a new subdivision:
20	20	(7) Provide legal counsel and advice to district attorneys general and their staff
21	21	related to the performance of their duties. The legal counsel and advice to district
22	22	attorneys general and their staff may be provided by attorneys employed with the district
23	23	attorneys general conference.
24	24	SECTION 2. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 8-7-309, is amended by adding the
25	25	following as a new subsection:
26	26	(d) Legal counsel and advice provided pursuant to subdivision (a)(7) is
27	27	confidential and privileged, including any documents or other communications made or
28	28	used in connection with the legal counsel or advice. All communications and documents
29	29	made confidential by this subsection (d) are not public records as defined by § 10-7-503
30	30	and are not open to public inspection, examination, or copying except pursuant to a valid
31	31	and final court order as provided by § 10-7-505.
32	32	SECTION 3. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 8-7-302, is amended by designating
33	33	the existing language as subsection (a) and adding the following:
34	34	(b) All meetings of the conference are subject to the open meetings provisions of
35	35	title 8, chapter 44, except that the conference executive committee and the finance and
36	36	audit committee may hold confidential, nonpublic executive sessions to discuss:
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41	41	(1) Items deemed not subject to public inspection under §§ 10-7-503 and
42	42	10-7-504, and all other matters designated as confidential or privileged under this
43	43	code;
44	44	(2) Litigation;
45	45	(3) Audits or investigations;
46	46	(4) Information protected by federal law; and
47	47	(5) Matters involving requests, information, investigations, proceedings,
48	48	or prosecutions conducted by a district attorney general pro tem appointed under
49	49	§ 8-7-106.
50	50	(c) During a confidential, nonpublic executive session by the executive
51	51	committee or finance and audit committee of the conference, the committee shall not
52	52	consider any business other than matters described in subdivisions (b)(1)–(5).
53	53	(d) A meeting at which both subject matter open to the public and confidential
54	54	subject matter will be discussed must be conducted as follows:
55	55	(1) All business relating to subject matter that is public in nature must be
56	56	conducted first; and
57	57	(2) At the conclusion of the meeting relating to subject matter that is
58	58	public in nature, the chair shall announce that the public portion of the meeting is
59	59	adjourned and that the remainder of the meeting will concern matters that are
60	60	confidential under subdivisions (b)(1)–(5). When everyone at the meeting who is
61	61	not authorized to attend the confidential portion of the meeting has departed, the
62	62	confidential portion of the meeting may commence.
63	63	SECTION 4. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 8-7-106(b), is amended by deleting
64	64	"specific criminal proceedings, including grand jury proceedings," wherever it appears and
65	65	substituting "specific criminal or civil proceedings, including, but not limited to, grand jury
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70	70	proceedings; actions for removal of officers under title 8, chapter 47; quo warranto actions under
71	71	title 29, chapter 35; actions for abatement of nuisance under title 29, chapter 3; forfeiture actions
72	72	under title 40, chapter 33, or title 39, chapter 11, part 7; actions pursuant to the Post-Conviction
73	73	Procedure Act codified in title 40, chapter 30, part 1; actions related to the regulation, care, and
74	74	maintenance of cemeteries under § 46-1-304; and any other proceeding".
75	75	SECTION 5. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.