Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee Senate Bill SB0751 Compare Versions

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2	2	HOUSE BILL 35
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5	5	SENATE BILL 751
6	6	By Yager
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13	13	AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 13,
14	14	Chapter 14, Part 1, relative to development
15	15	districts.
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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 13-14-111, is amended by deleting
19	19	subsections (a) and (b).
20	20	SECTION 2. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 13-14-111, is amended by deleting
21	21	subsection (c) and substituting instead:
22	22	(c)
23	23	(1) It is the intent of this state to assist financially with the development of
24	24	regional plans for economic development and other regional plans, activities, and
25	25	programs authorized by this chapter and other statutes and for coordination of
26	26	activities thereunder. The regional plans, activities, and programs are for the
27	27	benefit of the local governments of this state and, as appropriate, the state
28	28	government and the citizens of Tennessee. The boards of the nine (9)
29	29	development districts established as the First Tennessee development district,
30	30	the East Tennessee development district, the Southeast Tennessee
31	31	development district, the Upper Cumberland development district, the South
32	32	Central Tennessee development district, the Southwest Tennessee development
33	33	district, the Greater Nashville regional council, the Northwest Tennessee
34	34	development district, and the MidSouth development district have been created
35	35	as provided in this chapter and title 64, chapter 7.
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40	40	(2) This state shall include in its budget under the department of
41	41	economic and community development, or its state functional equivalent, a
42	42	separate line item for the funding of the activities of the development districts in
43	43	an amount equal to fifty cents ($0.50) per capita based on the state's latest yearly
44	44	population estimate or decennial census figure, whichever is more recent, as
45	45	reported by the United States department of commerce, bureau of the census or
46	46	its federal functional equivalent. Appropriations of state funds made to the
47	47	development districts by the general assembly must not be reduced, except in
48	48	conjunction with an across-the-board percentage reduction applicable to multiple
49	49	state government departments and agencies.
50	50	(3) The amount of state funding to each development district must be
51	51	based upon the per capita assessment established by the individual development
52	52	district boards with any remaining funds distributed based on a formula
53	53	determined by the department of economic and community development in
54	54	coordination with the development districts to include considerations for each
55	55	district's size in terms of population and the number of counties served and for
56	56	regional variations in cost of living. The per capita assessment and
57	57	corresponding state funding levels for the nine (9) development districts are as
58	58	follows:
59	59	Per Capita Assessment Annual State Appropriation
60	60	1-20 cents $295,000
61	61	21-30 cents $340,000
62	62	31- to an amount over 31 cents as may be approved by the individual
63	63	development district board $370,000
64	64	SECTION 3. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.