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PUBLIC CHAPTER NO. 181
SENATE BILL N0.1155
By Crowe, Bowling
Substituted for: House Bill No. 1361
By Alexander
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 57, relative to alcoholic beverages.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:
SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 57-4-102, is amended by adding the
following as a new subdivision:
( ) "Downtown district" means the central area or main business and commercial area
of a home rule municipality in a county having a population of not less than one hundred thirty-
three thousand (133,000) and not more than one hundred thirty-three thousand one hundred
(133,100), according to the 2020 or a subsequent federal census, as designated by the
legislative body of the municipality;
SECTION 2. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 57-4-203(d), is amended by adding the
following. as a new subdivision:
(8) Notwithstanding another law, a municipality having a downtown district, as defined
in§ 57-4-102( ), may set the hours that licensees within the downtown district are authorized
to sell or give away alcoholic beverages.
SECTION 3. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.
SENATE BILL NO. 1155
PASSED: March 31, 2025
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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