Tennessee 2025 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee Senate Bill SB1451 Draft / Bill

Filed 03/10/2025

                     
HOUSE BILL 1425 
 By Keisling 
 
SENATE BILL 1451 
By Yager 
 
 
SB1451 
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AN ACT to amend Chapter 120 of the Private Acts of 1953; as 
amended and rewritten by Chapter 29 of the Private Acts 
of 2009; as amended by Chapter 18 of the Private Acts 
of 2015; and any other acts amendatory thereto, relative 
to the City of Red Boiling Springs. 
 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE: 
 SECTION 1.  Chapter 120 of the Private Acts of 1953, as amended and rewritten by 
Chapter 29 of the Private Acts of 2009, as amended by Chapter 18 of the Private Acts of 2015, 
and any other acts amendatory thereto, is amended in Article IV by deleting Section D in its 
entirety and substituting instead: 
 Section D.  Salaries.  The annual salary for the mayor shall be not less than 
eighteen thousand and two hundred dollars ($18,200), paid in no more than monthly 
payments of one thousand five hundred and sixteen dollars and sixty-six cents 
($1,516.66).  The council may, by ordinance, set the annual salary and fringe benefits of 
the council, but any ordinance establishing, increasing, or decreasing such salary shall 
be in accordance with Article XI, Section 9 of the Tennessee State Constitution.  The 
salary of the council members shall be no less than one thousand and eight hundred 
dollars ($1,800) annual salary paid in no more than monthly installments of one hundred 
and fifty dollars ($150). 
 The mayor and council shall be entitled to reimbursement for the expenses they 
incur in the performance of the duties of their offices, under the provisions of the adopted 
travel and reimbursement ordinance or resolution approved by the council. 
 SECTION 2.  Nothing in this act shall be construed to alter the salary of any incumbent 
prior to the end of the term for which such elected official was selected, as prescribed in Article 
XI, Section 9 of the Constitution of the State of Tennessee.   
 
 
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 SECTION 3.  This act shall have no effect unless it is approved by a two-thirds (2/3) vote 
of the legislative body of the City of Red Boiling Springs.  Its approval or nonapproval shall be 
proclaimed by the presiding officer of the City of Red Boiling Springs and certified to the 
secretary of state. 
 SECTION 4.  For the purpose of approving or rejecting the provisions of this act, it shall 
be effective upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.  For all other purposes, it shall 
become effective as provided in Section 3.