Planning, Public

Plain English Breakdown

The exact consequences of missing meetings are not detailed in the provided bill text.

Tennessee Planning Committee Attendance Rule

This bill requires the presiding officer of local government planning committees to notify the appointing authority if a member misses three consecutive meetings.

What This Bill Does

• Requires the presiding officer of local government planning committees to inform the group that selects committee members when a member skips three consecutive meetings.

Who It Names or Affects

• Local government planning committee members who miss meetings
• The people or groups that choose planning committee members

Terms To Know

Planning Committee

A group of people chosen to help make decisions about how a city or town should grow and change.

Presiding Officer

The person in charge of running the planning committee meetings.

Limits and Unknowns

• Does not specify what happens after the presiding officer notifies the appointing authority.
• It is still waiting for more steps before it becomes a law.

Official Summary Text

Abstract summarizes the bill.

Current Bill Text

SENATE BILL 2154
By Watson

HOUSE BILL 2590
By Vital
HB2590
012249
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4,
relative to planning.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:
SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 4-3-727(b)(2), is amended by
deleting the subdivision and substituting:
(2) The failure of any member to attend three (3) consecutive meetings of the
committee. The presiding officer shall promptly notify, or cause to be notified, the
appointing authority of a member who fails to satisfy the attendance requirement as
prescribed in this subdivision (b)(2).
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.