Utilities, Utility Districts - As enacted, creates a process by which a utility district commissioner who becomes ineligible to serve for failing to meet training and continuing education requirements may be reinstated; , the official text

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                             PUBLIC CHAPTER NO. 166

                                                     SENATE BILL NO. 380

                                                              By Walley

                                             Substituted for: House Bill No. 421

                                                              By Marsh

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 7, Chapter 34 and Title 7, Chapter 82, relative
          to continuing education for members of utility district boards.

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

          SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 7-82-307(b)(5)(A), is amended by
designating the existing language as subdivision (i) and adding the following as a new subdivision (ii):

                    (ii) If a person becomes ineligible to.· serve as a utility district commissioner under
          subdivision (b)(5)(A)(i) for failing to timely meet the training and continuing education
          requirements set forth in § 7-82-308, the person may file a petition for reinstatement of the
          person's eligibility to serve as a utility district commissioner with the Tennessee board of utility
          regulation. The person shall not file a petition for reinstatement until after the completion of the
          term of office for which the person has failed to meet the required training and continuing
          education requirements that caused the person's ineligibility to serve. The board shall conduct
          an informal hearing on the petition and may issue an order establishing the terms and
          conditions for the reinstatement of eligibility. The order must require the petitioner to obtain
          twelve (12) hours of training and continuing education within one (1) year of the date of the
          order, must include an effective date for eligibility reinstatement, and may include any other
          terms and conditions for reinstatement deemed appropriate by the board.

          SECTION 2. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 7-82-702(b)(1), is amended by adding the
following as a new subdivision:

                    ( ) Petitions for reinstatement of a person's eligibility to serve as a utility district
          commissioner pursuant to§ 7-82-307(b)(5)(A)(ii).

          SECTION 3. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 7~34-1150)(3), is amended by deleting the
language "twelve (12)" and substituting instead "six (6)".

          SECTION 4. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 7-82-308(f)(2), is amended by deleting the
language "twelve (12)" and substituting instead "six (6)".

          SECTION 5. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.
         SENATE BILL NO. 380

PASSED:  March 28, 2025

                                      RANDY Mc~LLY
                         SPEAKER OF THE SENATE

                         CAMERON SEXTON, SPEAKER
                         HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

         ~ day of
f, &,ri I APPROVED this          2025

         ~ • BILL LEE, GOVERNOR