Campaigns and Campaign Finance - As enacted, clarifies that expenditures of campaign funds to enhance security for an officeholder's personal residence are not deemed for personal use and that such expenditures are limit, the official text

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                            PUBLIC CHAPTER NO. 1129

                                                    SENATE BILL NO. 2320

                                                               By Haile

                                           Substituted for: House Bill No. 2045

                                   By Marsh, Faison, Clemmons, Reeves, Camper

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 2, Chapter 10, relative to security.

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

          SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 2-10-114(b), is amended by adding the
following new subdivision (4) and redesignating the existing subdivision (4) accordingly:

                    (4) Expenditures of campaign funds to enhance security for an officeholder's personal
          residence are not deemed for personal use. Expenditures authorized by this subdivision
          (b)(4) are limited to home security consultation, home security equipment, home security
          monitoring services, safe rooms, and the use of security guards at an officeholder's personal
          residence for non-campaign purposes. Expenditures must not exceed twelve thousand
          dollars ($12,000) per calendar year and must be disclosed as "residential security." For the
          purposes of this subdivision (b)(4), "home security equipment" means security software,
          entryway sensors, motion sensors, base stations, control panels, security cameras, video
          doorbells, floodlights, key fobs, panic buttons, glass break sensors, smoke and fire detectors,
          locks, security fencing, and security doors. The officeholder shall maintain all documentation
          pertaining to security expenditures in accordance with§ 2-10-212(c). In the event of an audit
          or investigation, all information received by the registry concerning this subdivision (b)(4) is
          confidential and not open to public inspection. Nothing in this subdivision (b)(4) shall be
          construed to prohibit the use of campaign funds for non-residential security purposes related
          to a candidate's election or used in furtherance of the office of the officeholder.

          SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.
         SENATE BILL NO. 2320

PASSED:  April 22, 2026

                                      RANDY McNlf\LLY
                         SPEAKER OF THE SENATE

                         CAMERON !EXTON, SPEAKER
                         HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

APPROVED this ,;;J.:;J_rf}, day o f ~ ·  2026

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                  BILL LEE, GOVERNOR