Tennessee 2025 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee Senate Bill SB0509 Draft / Bill

Filed 01/30/2025

                     
HOUSE BILL 546 
 By Cochran 
 
SENATE BILL 509 
By Walley 
 
 
SB0509 
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 
12-3-1205, relative to cooperative purchasing. 
 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE: 
 SECTION 1.  Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 12-3-1205(b)(4)(B), is amended by 
deleting the subdivision and substituting instead: 
 (B)  Purchases of construction, engineering, or architectural services, or 
construction materials.  As used in this subdivision (b)(4)(B), "construction" and 
"construction materials" does not include: 
(i)  Materials used in the operation of a municipal utility system, including, 
but not limited to, transformers, conductors, insulators, poles, cross-arms, 
anchors, pipes, valves, meters, or other components or parts of a utility system, 
whether purchased in accordance with a purchasing agreement with the 
Tennessee Valley authority or another purchasing arrangement; or 
(ii)  Materials, labor, and services used for maintenance, operations, 
component replacement, or repairs of existing facilities and grounds owned or 
operated by a local education agency or by a local government agency; or 
 SECTION 2.  This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.