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                         PUBLIC CHAPTER NO. 283

                                                  HOUSE BILL NO. 660

                                    By Representatives Renea Jones, Hawk

                                        Substituted for: Senate Bill No. 970

                                         By Senators Southerland, Bowling

         AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 68,
relative to providing services for water or wastewater.

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

          SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 7-36-107(b), is amended by adding
the following language at the end of the subsection:

          Except to the extent modified by the authority's certificate of incorporation, the board of
          directors of the authority may, as part of the transfer of a water and wastewater system
          or at any time thereafter, adopt and assume all or any portion of such regulatory powers,
          authority, duties, obligations, and oversight over the water and wastewater operations as
          were applicable to the municipal water and wastewater system pursuant to ordinances,
          resolutions, or other rules or policies that were in effect immediately prior to the transfer
          of such system to the authority. The board of directors of the authority may later amend
          such rules, regulations, and requirements from time to time; provided, that such
          amendments are just and reasonable.

          SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.
         HOUSE BILL NO. 660

PASSED:  April 7, 2025

                        a~ON,SPEAKER
                         HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                                            RANDY MCN4,.LY
                                  PEAKER OF THE SENlTE

&r:I APPROVED this ~lf12- day of  2025

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BILL LEE, GOVERNOR