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Tennessee Legislature Bill Tracker for Nonprofits

The Tennessee legislature is now in session. We have identified 87 bills that may be of interest. The bill filing deadline in both the House and Senate is February 6. Last week saw the conclusion of the special session on the Governor’s education freedom scholarships program, Hurricane Helene relief and immigration enforcement. The House will reconvene for regular session on Monday, February 3 and the Senate will reconvene on Monday, February 10 when the Governor will also deliver his State of the State address. The Governor’s budget proposal for FY 25-26 will be released the following morning.

BILL ALERTS:

SB 306/HB 459 by Briggs/Martin G – Allows the secretary of state to administratively dissolve a cooperative, corporation, LLC, or limited partnership if it files a document containing materially false information knowingly signed by an organizer, director, officer, member, agent, or representative. Allows administrative dissolution or revocation of a foreign corporation’s certificate of authority or a foreign limited partnership’s registration if the entity is owned or controlled by a foreign government or foreign nongovernment person designated as a foreign adversary by specified entities.

SB 453/HB 391 by Hatcher/Atchley – Revises notification requirements for timely filing of fundraising campaign literature by allowing a professional solicitor to file with the secretary of state required solicitation campaign literature or promotional materials, within 90 days after a solicitation campaign has been completed or within 90 days after the end of the fiscal year for a campaign that lasts more than one year. Removes the requirement that a professional solicitor must notify the secretary of state or provide copies of any modification or changes in campaign solicitation literature or promotional materials.

SB454/HB379 by Hatcher/Stinnett – Clarifies, by removing certain language, that a professional solicitor includes servants or employees specially employed by or for a charitable organization who are engaged in the solicitation of contributions.

SB 563 by Pody – Corrects a reference in the charitable solicitations law that requires educational institutions be approved as such by the Tennessee public charter school commission rather than the state board of education to be exempt from registration requirements.

HB 426 by Love – Exempts a nonprofit religious institution from property taxes, under certain circumstances; applicable in Davidson County.

HB 594 by Doggett – Increases, from two to four, the number of temporary sales periods that a bona fide religious institution may participate in and be exempt from registering to collect sales tax on sales directly to consumers made during such temporary sales period.

HB 603 by Bricken – Changes from February 1 to January 15, the date by which the secretary of state must annually report to the governor and general assembly on the operation of the filing office. Broadly captioned.

HB 46 by McCalmon – Requires that a reimbursement payment to a child advocacy center be completed within 30 days of receipt of a request for reimbursement. Requires payment of a 10 percent late payment fee for failing to make a timely reimbursement to a child advocacy center. Requires the department of children’s services to submit to the general assembly an annual report on the timeliness of reimbursement payments to child advocacy centers.

SB 212 by Gardenhire 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.

SB 227 by Taylor Allows a charitable organization that provides housing to a person who the charitable organization knows is unlawfully present in the United States to be held liable for a loss, damages, injury, or death resulting from a criminal offense committed by the person who is unlawfully present in the United States while the person is receiving housing services from the charitable organization if the charitable organization’s conduct in providing housing constitutes negligence, gross negligence, or willful and wanton misconduct.

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