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PUBLIC CHAPTER NO. 316
SENATE BILL NO. 357
By Harshbarger
Substituted for: House Bill No. 335
By Hulsey
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 2; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 12; Title 13; Title
66 and Title 67, relative to local government.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:
SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 7-82-308(a), is amended by adding the
following new subdivision:
Notwithstanding this section or another law to the contrary, in any county having a
population of not less than one hundred fifty-eight thousand one hundred (158,100) nor more
than one hundred fifty-eight thousand two hundred (158,200), according to the 2020 federal
census or any subsequent federal census, the members of a utility district board of
commissioners shall serve without compensation for their services, except that, by resolution
duly adopted by the board of commissioners, each commissioner may receive per diem
payments for not more than twelve (12) meetings of the board of commissioners in any
calendar year, at rates not greater than five hundred dollars ($500) per meeting.
SECTION 2. This act takes effect July 1, 2025, the public welfare requiring it.
SENATE BILL NO. 357
PASSED: Apri I 15, 2025
RAND' McNALLY
SPEAKER OF T~ SENATE
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CAMERO~XTON,SPEAKER
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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