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Parks, Natural Areas Preservation - As enacted, requires a county or municipal government that receives a grant from the local parks land acquisition fund for a project located within a county designated as distressed or, the official text

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PUBLIC CHAPTER NO. 336

                                                  HOUSE BILL NO. 125

          By Representatives Lamberth, Cochran, Haston, Shaw, Barrett, Hawk, Todd

                                       Substituted for: Senate Bill No. 1276

                                      By Senators Johnson, Yager, Stevens

         AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 67-4-409, relative to the local
parks land acquisition fund.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:

          SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 67-4-409(i)(4)(A), is amended by
deleting the first sentence and substituting:

                    Except as otherwise provided in this subdivision (i)(4)(A), a county or municipal
          government that receives a grant under this section must match the grant with an equal
          amount of money for each project. For a project located within a county designated as
          distressed or at-risk by the Appalachian Regional Commission at the time of the grant
          application, a county or municipal government that receives a grant under this section
          must match the grant with an amount of money equal to twenty-five percent (25%) of the
          project.

          SECTION 2. This act takes effect October 1, 2025, the public welfare requiring it.
                    HOUSE BILL NO. 125

PASSED:  April 14, 2025

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