HOUSE BILL 1404 By Hicks G SENATE BILL 1393 By Watson SB1393 001587 - 1 - AN ACT to make appropriations for the purpose of defraying the expenses of the state government for the fiscal years beginning July 1, 2024, and July 1, 2025, in the administration, operation, and maintenance of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the various departments, institutions, offices, and agencies of the state; for certain state aid and obligations; for capital outlay, for the service of the public debt, for emergency and contingency; to repeal certain appropriations and any acts inconsistent herewith; to provide provisional continuing appropriations; and to establish certain provisions, limitations, and restrictions under which appropriations may be obligated and expended. This act makes appropriations for the purposes described above for the fiscal years beginning July 1, 2024, and July 1, 2025. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE: SECTION 1. From the funds available to the Department of Transportation, there is earmarked a sum sufficient for the sole purpose of funding any general bill or resolution, duly enacted by the 2025 session of the One Hundred Fourteenth General Assembly, which designates an interstate, United States highway, or state highway as a memorial highway or designates a bridge on such routes as a memorial bridge for certain individuals killed in the line of duty, as described in Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 54-1-133. SECTION 2. It is the legislative intent to recognize a revenue loss from bills duly enacted by the 2025 session of the One Hundred Fourteenth General Assembly that result in no expenditure increase but forgo revenue that has not been collected previously. SECTION 3. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.