Tennessee 2025 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee Senate Bill SB0696 Chaptered / Bill

Filed 04/04/2025

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PUBLIC CHAPTER NO. 71 
SENATE BILL NO. 696 
By Johnson, Stevens 
Substituted for: House Bill No. 161 
By McCalmon 
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 56, Chapter 3, Part 4, relative to investments 
by insurance companies. 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE: 
SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 56-3-403(c), is amended by deleting the 
language "one percent (1 %)" and substituting "twenty percent (20%)". 
SECTION 2. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 56-3-402(15), is amended by deleting the 
language "five percent (5%)" and substituting "ten percent (10%)". 
SECTION 3. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 56-3-402, is amended by adding the 
following new subdivision: 
(17)(A) In a money market fund, as defined by 17 CFR 270.2a-7 under the 
Investment Company Act of 1940 (15 U.S.C. §§ B0a-1 et seq.), that may be either of 
the following: 
(i) A government money market fund that is a money market fund that: 
(a) Invests only in obligations issued, guaranteed, or insured by 
the federal government of the United States or collateralized 
repurchase agreements composed of these obligations; and 
(b) Qualifies for investment without a reserve under the 
Purposes and Procedures Manual of the National Association of 
Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) Investment Analysis Office or, if it is 
no longer being published, the successor publication to the Purposes 
and Procedures Manual of the NAIC Investment Analysis Office; or 
(ii) A Class 1 money market fund that is a money market fund that 
qualifies for investment using the bond Class 1 reserve factor under the 
Purposes and Procedures Manual of the NAIC Investment Analysis Office or, 
if it is no longer being published, the successor publication to the Purposes 
and Procedures Manual of the NAIC Investment Analysis Office. 
(B) For the purposes of complying with this subdivision (17), money market 
funds qualifying for listing within these categories must conform to the Purposes and 
Procedures Manual of the NAIC Investment Analysis Office or, if it is no longer being 
published, the successor publication to the Purposes and Procedures Manual of the 
NAIC Investment Analysis Office. 
SECTION 4. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.  PASSED: 
SENATE BILL NO. 696 
March 10, 2025 
RANDY )llcNALL Y 
SPEAKER OF THE SENATE 
CAMER9N SEXTON, SPEAKER 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APPROVED this {).Sir/,. day of r/luLcL 2025 
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