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PUBLIC CHAPTER NO.221
HOUSE BILL NO.86

By Representatives Zachary, Hardaway

Substituted for: Senate Bill No. 167
By Senator Gardenhire
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 3; Title 4; Title 8, Chapter 4, Part 6
and Title 10, Chapter 7, relative to public records.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:

SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Title'10, Chapter
adding the following as a new section:

7,Parl5, is amended

by

(a) Any legislation of the house of representatives that creates an exception to
the open records requirement of $ 10-7-503 deeming records of public entities to be
open for inspection by the public must be referred to the government operations
committee according to the rules of the house of representatives.

(b) After review under subsection (a), the government operations committee of

the house of representatives shall give the legislation a positive, neutral, or negative
recommendation.

(c) The government operations committee of the house of representatives,
unless it is designated as the appropriate standing committee, shall not delay or prevent
consideration of the legislation by the house of representatives by withholding the
com mittee's recom mendation.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect July 1 ,2019, the public welfare requiring it.

 HOUSE BILL

PASSED:

NO.

86

April 15. 2019

GLEN CASADA, SPEAKER
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

RANDY MCN
SPEAKER OF THE SE

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