Tennessee Emergency Management Agency (TEMA) - As enacted, exempts disaster grants administered by TEMA from statutory requirements related to procurement, except that the state retains the right to inspect places of bus, the official text

....

!:  U11J:J;,;URE Ja:=~~1::

                   .....

ff S1a:te Jfflfl&Ssee

                             PUBLIC CHAPTER NO. 591

                                                    SENATE BILL NO. 1778

                                                          By Crowe, Kyle

                                            Substituted for: House Bill No. 1467

   By Alexander, Tim Hicks, Hawk, Gary Hicks, Hulsey, Hill, Crawford, Renea Jones, Rudd, Howell

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 58-2-109, relative to disaster grants.

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

          SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 58-2-109(c), is amended by designating
the existing language as subdivision (c)(1) and adding the following as subdivisions (c)(2) and (c)(3):

                    (2) Disaster grants administered by the agency are exempt from the requirements of
          title 12, chapter 3, related to procurement, except that:

                              (A) Section 12-3-602 applies to such disaster grants; and

                              (B) The agency must establish procedures to monitor recipient and
                    subrecipient compliance with disaster response and disaster grant terms and
                    conditions.

                    (3) As used in this subsection (c):

                              (A) "Disaster grant" means a grant or subgrant awarded to the state or
                    awarded by the state to a person or legal entity, for the furnishing of assistance by the
                    state, whether financial or otherwise, to any person or entity to support a disaster
                    response and recovery assistance program authorized by law;

                              (B) "Recipient" means a person or entity that directly receives a disaster grant
                    from a federal or state agency to carry out an activity of a disaster response and
                    recovery assistance program; and

                              (C) "Subrecipient" means a person or entity that receives a disaster grant from
                    a recipient to carry out a disaster response and recovery assistance program.

          SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.
         SENATE BILL NO. 1778

PASSED:  March 2, 2026

         ~              .\.-...\ "'l\tl.• .R.A.N~DoY M~-~;-

                                  SPEAKER OF THE S

                               :>

                                               • ...ill

                             CAMERSU ll!XTON, SPEAKER
                            HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

APPROVED this If>tJ.. day of YY\0,rrc.Jh  2026

         ~

         BILL LEE, GOVERNOR