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HB0418 • 2026

Public Records

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 10-7-504, relative to comptroller survey records.

Enacted

This bill passed the Legislature and reached final enactment based on the latest official action.

Sponsor
Scarbrough, Rose
Last action
2025-05-13
Official status
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 365
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

Checked against official source text during the last sync.

Making Survey Data Public

This bill changes Tennessee's laws to allow the comptroller of the treasury to publish certain survey data and responses that do not identify individuals.

What This Bill Does

  • Changes a law about public records to let the comptroller of the treasury publish some survey information.
  • Allows the comptroller to release aggregate survey data, which means putting all the answers together without showing individual results.
  • Permits the comptroller to share survey responses if they cannot be used to find out who filled them out.

Who It Names or Affects

  • The comptroller of the treasury
  • People and organizations that receive surveys from the comptroller

Terms To Know

Comptroller of the Treasury
A person in charge of managing a state's money and financial records.
Aggregate survey data
Information from surveys that is combined to show overall results without individual details.

Limits and Unknowns

  • The bill does not specify how the comptroller will decide what information can be shared.
  • It only applies to surveys made by the comptroller, not other government offices.

Bill History

  1. 2025-05-13 Tennessee General Assembly

    Comp. became Pub. Ch. 365

  2. 2025-05-13 Tennessee General Assembly

    Effective date(s) 05/05/2025

  3. 2025-05-13 Tennessee General Assembly

    Pub. Ch. 365

  4. 2025-05-05 Tennessee General Assembly

    Signed by Governor.

  5. 2025-04-23 Tennessee General Assembly

    Transmitted to Governor for action.

  6. 2025-04-22 Tennessee General Assembly

    Signed by H. Speaker

  7. 2025-04-22 Tennessee General Assembly

    Signed by Senate Speaker

  8. 2025-04-22 Tennessee General Assembly

    Enrolled and ready for signatures

  9. 2025-04-16 Tennessee General Assembly

    Comp. SB subst.

  10. 2025-04-16 Tennessee General Assembly

    Passed H., Ayes 96, Nays 0, PNV 0

  11. 2025-04-16 Tennessee General Assembly

    Subst. for comp. HB.

  12. 2025-04-15 Tennessee General Assembly

    H. Placed on Consent Calendar for 4/16/2025

  13. 2025-04-14 Tennessee General Assembly

    Placed on cal. Calendar & Rules Committee for 4/15/2025

  14. 2025-04-08 Tennessee General Assembly

    Rec. for pass; ref to Calendar & Rules Committee

  15. 2025-04-02 Tennessee General Assembly

    Placed on cal. State & Local Government Committee for 4/9/2025

  16. 2025-04-02 Tennessee General Assembly

    Action def. in State & Local Government Committee to 4/9/2025

  17. 2025-03-26 Tennessee General Assembly

    Placed on cal. State & Local Government Committee for 4/2/2025

  18. 2025-03-26 Tennessee General Assembly

    Action def. in State & Local Government Committee to 4/2/2025

  19. 2025-03-19 Tennessee General Assembly

    Placed on cal. State & Local Government Committee for 3/26/2025

  20. 2025-03-19 Tennessee General Assembly

    Action def. in State & Local Government Committee to 3/26/2025

  21. 2025-03-13 Tennessee General Assembly

    Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk.

  22. 2025-03-12 Tennessee General Assembly

    Placed on cal. State & Local Government Committee for 3/19/2025

  23. 2025-03-12 Tennessee General Assembly

    Action def. in State & Local Government Committee to 3/19/2025

  24. 2025-03-10 Tennessee General Assembly

    Engrossed; ready for transmission to House

  25. 2025-03-10 Tennessee General Assembly

    Passed Senate, Ayes 30, Nays 0

  26. 2025-03-07 Tennessee General Assembly

    Placed on Senate Consent Calendar 2 for 3/10/2025

  27. 2025-03-05 Tennessee General Assembly

    Placed on cal. State & Local Government Committee for 3/12/2025

  28. 2025-03-05 Tennessee General Assembly

    Action def. in State & Local Government Committee to 3/12/2025

  29. 2025-03-04 Tennessee General Assembly

    Recommended for passage, refer to Senate Calendar Committee

  30. 2025-02-26 Tennessee General Assembly

    Placed on cal. State & Local Government Committee for 3/5/2025

  31. 2025-02-26 Tennessee General Assembly

    Rec. for pass by s/c ref. to State & Local Government Committee

  32. 2025-02-25 Tennessee General Assembly

    Placed on Senate State and Local Government Committee calendar for 3/4/2025

  33. 2025-02-20 Tennessee General Assembly

    Placed on s/c cal Public Service Subcommittee for 2/26/2025

  34. 2025-02-19 Tennessee General Assembly

    Meeting Canceled

  35. 2025-02-12 Tennessee General Assembly

    Placed on s/c cal Public Service Subcommittee for 2/19/2025

  36. 2025-02-12 Tennessee General Assembly

    Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee

  37. 2025-02-10 Tennessee General Assembly

    Introduced, Passed on First Consideration

  38. 2025-02-05 Tennessee General Assembly

    Assigned to s/c Public Service Subcommittee

  39. 2025-02-05 Tennessee General Assembly

    P2C, ref. to State & Local Government Committee

  40. 2025-02-03 Tennessee General Assembly

    Intro., P1C.

  41. 2025-01-28 Tennessee General Assembly

    Filed for introduction

  42. 2025-01-28 Tennessee General Assembly

    Filed for introduction

Official Summary Text

Present law requires certain public
records
to
be treated as confidential and
to
not be open for public inspection
, including s
urvey records, responses, data, identifying information
,
intra-agency and interagency communications, and other records received to serve as input for any survey created, obta
ined, or compiled by the comptroller of the treasury
. However, such confidentiality does not
apply to a survey conducted by the office of open records counsel
.

This bill revises the above provision by authorizing the comptroller of the treasury to
publi
sh
a
ggregate survey data and
s
urvey responses that cannot be used to identify individuals completing the survey.
Such published records would not be deemed confidential.

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text 
SENATE BILL 390
By Rose

HOUSE BILL 418
By Scarbrough

HB0418
000712
- 1 -

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Section
10-7-504, relative to comptroller survey records.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:
SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 10-7-504(a)(22), is amended by
deleting subdivision (D) and substituting:
(D)
(i) Survey records, responses, data, identifying information as defined in
subdivision (a)(15), intra-agency and interagency communications, and other
records received to serve as input for any survey created, obtained, or compiled
by the comptroller of the treasury; provided, however, the comptroller may
publish:
(a) Aggregate survey data; and
(b) Survey responses that cannot be used to identify individuals
completing the survey.
(ii) This subdivision (a)(22)(D) does not apply to a survey conducted by
the office of open records counsel, created by § 8-4-601.
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.