Tennessee House Bill 885

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on February 4 2025 - 25% progression
Action: 2025-02-10 - Assigned to s/c Public Service Subcommittee
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [PDF]

As introduced, expands the requirement that state and local governing bodies make an agenda available to the public prior to regular public meetings of the body to include the governing bodies of certain nonprofit organizations, including nonprofit community organizations that receive federal funding, nonprofit organizations that receive community grant funds from this state or certain funding from local governments, nonprofit organizations created for the benefit of local governments, and nonprofit organizations that provide the metropolitan government of Nashville/Davidson County with certain utility services; requires, rather than permits, such governing bodies that maintain a website to post the agenda to the website. - Amends TCA Section 8-44-110.

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 8-44-110, relative to agendas for meetings of governing bodies.

Rep. Chris Todd [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2025-02-10	House	Assigned to s/c Public Service Subcommittee
2025-02-06	House	P2C, ref. to State & Local Government Committee
2025-02-05	House	Intro., P1C.
2025-02-04	House	Filed for introduction

SB0212 (Crossfiled) 2025-03-04 - Placed on Senate State and Local Government Committee calendar for 3/11/2025

Type	Source
Summary	https://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/Billinfo/default.aspx?BillNumber=HB0885&ga=114
Text	https://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/114/Bill/HB0885.pdf
Supplement	https://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/114/Fiscal/SB0212.pdf