Parks, Natural Areas Preservation - As enacted, revises the descriptions of existing state natural areas and designates new natural areas. - Amends TCA Title 11, Chapter 14, Part 1. HB0126 has been assigned Public Chapte, the official text

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                          PUBLIC CHAPTER NO. 190

                                                  HOUSE BILL NO. 126

                          By Representatives Lamberth, Cochran, Vital, Stinnett

                                       Substituted for: Senate Bill No. 1277

                                       By Senators Johnson, Reeves, Lowe

         AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 11, Chapter 14, Part 1, relative to
state natural areas.

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

          SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 11-14-108(b)(1 )(0), is amended by
deleting "sixteen and five-tenths (16.5) acres" and substituting "forty-one (41) acres".

          SECTION 2. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 11-14-108(b)(2), is amended by
adding the following as new subdivisions:

                    ( ) Clifty Creek Gorge. A forested area of approximately eighty-nine (89) acres in
          Morgan County containing a scenic gorge of Clifty Creek that flows into the Emory River
          and protects the federally threatened Virginia spirea (Spiraea virginiana);

                    ( ) Rocky Hill. An approximately one (1) acre site in Rutherford County that
          protects the type locality of the state endangered running glade clover (Trifolium
          calcaricum) and limestone cedar glade habitat;

                    ( ) Union Grove. An area of approximately fifty-nine (59) acres in Hamblen
          County that protects high-quality oak and mixed forest, headwater streams, and the
          state endangered Tennessee trillium (Trillium tennesseense), a species discovered new
          to science in 2013;

                    ( ) Versailles Knob. A forest of approximately forty (40) acres in Rutherford
          County that protects a population of the federally endangered Braun's Rockcress
          (Boechera perstellata) with large limestone outcrops that provide habitat for the
          rock cress;

          SECTION 3. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 11-14-108(b)(2)(B), is amended by
deleting "Barnett's Woods" and substituting "Barnett's Woods and Prairie" and by deleting "forty
(40) acre site" and substituting" site of one hundred fifty-six (156) acres".

          SECTION 4. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 11-14-108(b)(2)(G), is amended by
deleting "two thousand six hundred ninety (2,690) acres" and substituting "two thousand seven
hundred fifty-four (2,754) acres".

           SECTION 5. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 11-14-108(b)(2)(1), is amended by
deleting "one hundred forty (140) acre site" and substituting "site of six hundred twenty-seven
 (627) acres".

           SECTION 6. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 11-14-108(b)(2)(P), is amended by
 deleting "eight hundred forty-six (846) acres" and substituting "nine hundred twenty-eight (928)
 acres".

           SECTION 7. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 11-14-108(b)(2)(S), is amended by
 deleting "two hundred forty-nine (249) acre site" and substituting "site of two hundred seventy-
 three (273) acres".

           SECTION 8. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 11-14-108(b)(2)(NN), is amended by
 deleting "three thousand (3,000) acres" and substituting "three thousand six hundred (3,600)
 acres".
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          SECTION 9. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 11-14-108(b)(2)(PP), is amended by

deleting "one thousand three hundred sixty-seven (1,367) acre area" and substituting "area of
one thousand three hundred eighty-eight (1,388) acres".

          SECTION 10. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 11-14-108(b)(2)(LLL), is amended
by deleting "four hundred twenty-eight (428) acres" and substituting "four hundred seventy-six
(476) acres".

          SECTION 11. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.

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         HOUSE BILL NO. 126

PASSED:  March 31, 2025

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                           HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

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