Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee Senate Bill SB0825 Latest Draft

Bill / Draft Version Filed 02/05/2025

                             
HOUSE BILL 1072 
 By Warner 
 
SENATE BILL 825 
By Hensley 
 
 
SB0825 
002870 
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 11, 
Chapter 14, Part 4 and Title 69, relative to 
wetlands. 
 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE: 
SECTION 1.  Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 69, Chapter 3, Part 1, is amended by 
adding the following as a new section: 
 The department shall not apply criteria that will result in the classification of real 
property as a wetland where the property is classified as prior converted cropland that is 
exempt from classification as a wetland under federal law. 
SECTION 2.  This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.