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PUBLIC CHAPTER NO. 989
SENATE BILL NO. 2692
By Johnson, Reeves, Watson
Substituted for: House Bill No. 2630
By Lamberth, Cochran, Gary Hicks, Williams, Hulsey, Crawford, Bricken
AN ACT to authorize the state of Tennessee, acting by resolutions of its funding board, to issue and
sell its bonds and bond anticipation notes to provide for acquisition of equipment and sites,
and erection, construction, and equipment of sites and buildings, expressly including the
acquisition of existing structures for expansion, improvements, betterments, and
extraordinary repairs to existing structures, for construction of highways, and repair,
replacement, or rehabilitation of bridges, and for grants to any county, metropolitan
government, incorporated town, city, special district of the state, or any governmental agency
or instrumentality of any of them; to make grants to industrial development corporations to
provide for acquisition of equipment and acquisition, site preparation, erection, construction,
and equipment of sites and buildings; and infrastructure improvements and development; to
issue its debt in excess of the authorized amount to fund discount and costs of issuance; and
to provide for the expenditure of said funds. This act makes appropriations for an indefinite
period of time for, the purpose of allocating the proceeds of the bonds and notes authorized
by this act.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:
SECTION 1. The state of Tennessee, acting by resolutions of its funding board, is hereby
authorized and empowered to issue and sell direct general obligation bonds of the state of
Tennessee in amounts not to exceed four hundred thirty-eight million dollars ($438,000,000) to
effectuate the purposes specified in Section 4 of this act. Further, the funding board is authorized to
sell bonds in amounts not to exceed 2.5% of the amounts specified above and authorized in Section
4, for the purpose of funding discount and costs of issuance. Such bonds may be issued and sold in
one (1) block or in several installments and separately or together with other general obligation
bonds of the state of Tennessee as the board may determine, either at public or private sale as
provided by law.
SECTION 2. The bonds and the interest bearing coupons attached thereto, if any, must be in
such form, mature at such time or times within twenty (20) years from the date of their issuance
subject to Section 7 of this act, be executed in such manner, be payable at such place or places
both as to principal and interest, and be in such denominations and bear such rate or rates of
interest, payable in such manner, as the funding board shall by resolution direct; provided, however,
that the maximum rate determined by the funding board in no instance shall exceed the legal rate as
provided in Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 47-14-103. The bonds and interest payable
thereon are exempt from taxation by the state of Tennessee or by any county, municipality, or taxing
district of the state except inheritance, transfer, and estate taxes.
SECTION .3. When the bonds are so issued and sold, they are direct general obligations of
the state of Tennessee for the payment of which well and truly to be made according to the tenor,
effect, and terms thereof the full faith and credit of the state, together with its taxing power, shall
irrevocably be pledged; and the bonds as authorized in this act must be issued agreeable to the
terms of Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 9, Chapter 9; and they must be financed, retired, and
paid both as to principal and interest as provided in that chapter and are subject to the terms and
conditions therein and herein contained. When the bonds are sold and proceeds paid over to the
state treasurer, the funds must be paid out by the treasurer and the proper fiscal officers of the state,
as provided by general law and this act, but only, except for accrued interest paid as part of the
purchase price on order of the proper administrative authorities of the agency or department in this
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act named for the benefit of which such bonds have been authorized and only to the extent such
bonds have in fact been issued for the benefit of such agency or department.
SECTION 4. The proceeds of any and all issues of bonds authorized in this act must be
allocated to the following departments:
(1) Department of Finance and Administration in the amount of three hundred eleven
million dollars ($311,000,000) and expended for the purposes of acquisition of equipment
and sites, and erection, construction and equipment of sites and buildings, expressly
including the acquisition of existing structures for expansion, improvements, betterments,
and extraordinary repairs to existing structures, and for the purpose of making grants to any
county, metropolitan government, incorporated town, city, special district of the state, or any
governmental agency or instrumentality of any of them, if such project grant is approved by
the State Building Commission. Such grants so identified and approved are determined to be
for a public purpose.
(2) Department of Transportation in the amount of one hundred twenty-seven million
dollars ($127,000,000) and expended for the construction of highways and for the purpose of
acquisition of equipment and sites, and erection, construction, and equipment of sites and
buildings, expressly including the acquisition of existing structures for expansion,
improvements, betterments, and extraordinary repairs to existing structures, and repair,
replacement, or rehabilitation of bridges.
(3) In its discretion, the funding board is authorized to issue bonds in amounts not to
exceed 2.5% of the amounts specified above in subdivision (1 ), the proceeds of which are to
be allocated to such departments as determined by the funding board and expended for the
purpose of funding discount and the costs of issuance.
SECTION 5. The proper authorities enumerated in this act and charged with the duty of
expending the funds shall have authority to proceed with the projects authorized in this act and for
that purpose may hire an architect or architects, advertise for bids, and award contracts, all within
the provisions of the general law, expressly including Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4, Chapter
15, and rules of the state building commission, and in agreement with the terms of this act. No
contract, including a contract for architectural services, involving a project authorized by this act
which is subject to the approval of the state building commission shall be entered into unless and
until that contract shall have been approved by the state building commission. The foregoing
provisions shall not apply to any grants authorized in this act, but the department of finance and
administration, charged with the duty of expending funds, shall have the authority to enter into such
grant contracts and perform in accordance with their terms only after the projects have been
approved by the state building commission.
SECTION 6. The allocation made to each agency or department as provided in Section 4
may be applied as determined by the funding board to bear its appropriate portion of discount and
costs of issuance.
SECTION 7. Pending the issuance of the definite bonds authorized by this act, the state of
Tennessee, acting by resolutions of its funding board, is authorized and empowered to issue and
sell, either at public or private sale, together with accrued interest thereon, its interest-bearing bond
anticipation note or notes. Such note or notes must be authorized by resolution of the funding board.
The note or notes must bear such date or dates, bear interest at such rate or rates, be in such
denominations, be in such form, be executed in such manner, be payable in such medium of
payment, at such place or places, and mature on such date or dates, subject to such terms and
conditions as such resolution or resolutions may provide. In its discretion, the funding board may
provide that a bond anticipation note or any renewal of such note may mature more than five (5)
years from the date of issue of the original note; provided, that an amortization schedule of
repayment of principal is established for the project funded by the note and provisions are made
such that any note or renewal note or bond refunding such note attributed to the financing of such
project must be redeemed or retired no later than either twenty-five (25) years from the date of issue
of such original note or twenty (20) years from the date the project is completed and placed in full
service, whichever is earlier. Provisions of general law with r~spect to authentication, execution, and
registration of general obligation bonds of the state of Tennessee shall also apply to the notes to the
extent applicable. The note or notes and the interest payable thereon are exempt from taxation by
the state of Tennessee or by any county, municipality, or taxing district of the state except
inheritance, transfer, and estate taxes., Any resolution or resolutions of the funding board authorizing
the issuance of such bond anticipation note or notes shall. provide that the same are issued in
anticipation of the bonds authorized under this act and shall further provide that the full faith and
credit and taxin,g power of the state of Tennessee are pledged to the payment thereof.
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In its discretion, the funding board is authorized to issue bond anticipation notes, the
proceeds of which are to be allocated to the funding board and expended for the purpose of funding
discount and the costs of issuance, as part of the 2.5% additional amounts authorized by Section 4
of this act.
SECTION 8. No bonds shall be issued under the authority of this act until such time as the
general assembly has appropriated sufficient funds to pay the first year's obligation of principal and
interest on the amount of bonds to be issued, and the state funding board has determined that such
funds are available.
SECTION 9. Notwithstanding any other provision of this act to the contrary, the bonds and
bond anticipation notes authorized by this act may be designated "college savings bonds" and be
issued pursuant to the provisions of the Baccalaureate Education Savings for Tennessee Act,
Chapter 190, Public Acts of 1989.
SECTION 10. If any provision of this act or its application to any person or circumstance is
held invalid, then the invalidity does not affect other provisi~:ms or applications of the act that can be
given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to that end, the provisions of this act are
severable.
SECTION 11. No expenditure of public funds pursuant to this act shall be made in violation
of the provisions of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as codified in 42 United States Code
2000d.
SECTION 12. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.
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SENATE BILL NO. 2692
PASSED: April 16, 2026
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