HOUSE BILL 701 By Burkhart SENATE BILL 983 By Southerland SB0983 002097 - 1 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 65, Chapter 1 and Title 65, Chapter 5, relative to utilities. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE: SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 65-5-109, is amended by deleting subsection (q). SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.