Public Records - As enacted, requires the office of open records counsel to facilitate the convening of meetings of the advisory committee on open government, including selecting a date for the required annual meeting in, the official text

::  __ _,,...,._,,_,_,__  •F., )i:rt-"1,)::
                            ;~ :
:

        Side ef J e1Yt&Ssee

                            PUBLIC CHAPTER NO. 370

                                                     SENATE BILL NO. 623

                                                              By Briggs

                                             Substituted for: House Bill No. 857

                                                          By Leatherwood

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 8, Chapter 4, Part 6, relative to the office of open
          records counsel.

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

          SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 8-4-603(a), is amended by adding the
following as a new subdivision:

                    (4) The office of open records counsel shall facilitate the convening of meetings of the
          advisory committee on open government. As used in this subdivision (a)(4), "facilitate" means:

                              (A) Selecting a date for the required annual meeting if:

                                         (i) The advisory committee has failed to elect co-chairs under
                              subdivision (a)(2); and

                                         (ii) A majority of the members of the advisory committee make a written
                              request, which includes communication of such request by email, to the office
                               of open records counsel to select a date for the required annual meeting;

                              (8) Reserving a room for the advisory committee to meet in the offices of the
                    comptroller of the treasury;

                               (C) Posting on the comptroller's website:

                                         (i) Notice of meetings of the advisory committee;

                                         (ii) Minutes of meetings as provided to the office of open records counsel
                               by the advisory committee; and

                                         (iii) Meeting agendas as provided to the office of open records counsel
                               by the advisory committee; provided, however, that if a meeting is called
                               pursuant to this subdivision (a)(4), members of the advisory committee shall
                               submit any items they seek to be addressed in the meeting to the open records
                               counsel at least seventy-two (72) hours in advance of the meeting, and the open
                               records counsel shall create an agenda from the items submitted by the
                               members of the advisory committee; and

                               (D) Providing an electronic method by which the committee may allow
                    participation by electronic means pursuant to § 8-44-108, as applicable.

          SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.
         SENATE BILL NO. 623

PASSED:  • April 16, 2025

                                                    McNALLY
                           SPEAKER OFITHE SENA TE

                           CAMERO~EXTON,SPEAKER
                           HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

t'Yh4 APPROVED this 04:Jl,. day of             2025

         f!>,i,,, lu~
                           BILL LEE, GOVERNOR