State Government

Plain English Breakdown

The bill summary and digest do not provide specific details on implementation or enforcement mechanisms.

Changes to Tennessee Governmental Entities and Laws

This bill revises lists of governmental entities in Tennessee by adding or removing them from termination dates and eliminates provisions related to retirement incentives for certain public service commission employees.

What This Bill Does

• Removes the board for licensing health care facilities from a list of entities that were supposed to be terminated on June 30, 2024.
• Adds the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact and the Tennessee child fatality prevention team to lists of entities scheduled to terminate on June 30, 2026.
• Removes the department of intellectual and developmental disabilities from a list of entities that were supposed to be terminated on June 30, 2027.
• Eliminates provisions related to a retirement incentive bonus plan for public service commission employees who retired before July 1, 1996.
• Removes the requirement for an annual report on methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) from being submitted to the general assembly.

Who It Names or Affects

• Governmental entities listed in Tennessee's laws.
• Public service commission employees who retired before July 1, 1996.
• The public and healthcare professionals due to changes involving medical licensure and child fatality prevention.

Terms To Know

Tennessee Governmental Entity Review Law

A law that reviews and manages governmental entities in Tennessee, including their creation, operation, and termination dates.

Interstate Medical Licensure Compact

An agreement between states to streamline the process of obtaining medical licenses for doctors who want to practice across state lines.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not specify how the changes will be implemented or enforced.
• It is unclear what impact these changes will have on current operations and funding of affected entities.

Official Summary Text

ON APRIL 14, 2025, THE SENATE ADOPTED AMENDMENT #1
AND PASSED SENATE BILL 181, AS AMENDED.

AMENDMENT #1 makes the following revisions:



Removes the b
oard for licensing health care facilities
from the list of governmental entities terminated on
June 30, 2024
for purposes of the "
Tennessee Governmental Entity Review Law.
"



Adds the
Interstate Medical Licensure Compact
to the list of governmental entities terminated on
June 30, 202
6 for purposes of the "
Tennessee Governmental Entity Review Law.
"



Adds the
Tennessee child fatality prevention team
to the list of governmental entities terminated on
June 30, 202
6 for purposes of the "
Tennessee Governmental Entity Review Law.
"



Removes the d
epartment of intellectual and developmental disabilities

from the list of governmental entities terminated on June 30, 202
7
for purposes of the "Tennessee Governmental Entity Review Law."



Removes
the following present law provisions relative to the retirement incentive bonus for public service commission employees:



A provision requiring a
retirement incentive bonus plan
to
operate to benefit employees of the public service commission.

Employees of the commission eligible to participate in the plan
must
be current employees of the commission who are eligible to draw service or early service retirement benefits from the Tennessee consolidated retirement system on or before July 1, 1996.
However, these provisions do
not apply to
a
person included in the membership of the Tennessee consolidated retirement system
.



A provision requiring, in order to
be eligible to receive the bonus, the employee
to
terminate active state employment on or before July 1, 1996, and file an application for retirement on or before July 1, 1996.

In addition, the employee may not later be reemployed by the state except under
present law relative to permitted reemployment
.



A provision requiring the
bonus
to
be equal to $5,000, plus the longevity pay the employee would have received during the 1996-1997 fiscal year if the employee had continued to work for the public service commission. Payment to the employee
must
be made after July 1, 1996.

The bonus
must
not be included in determining the employee's average final compensation for retirement purposes, nor
must
it be subject to retirement contributions.



Removes an expired present law provision requiring a report on
methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus
(MRSA) be submitted to the general assembly
each year for three years beginning in 2008.

Current Bill Text

HOUSE BILL 288
By Lafferty

SENATE BILL 181
By Jackson

SB0181
000369
- 1 -

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4;
Title 8, Chapter 34, Part 2; Title 52; Title 58,
Chapter 7; Title 63, Chapter 6, Part 4; Title 68,
Chapter 142, Part 1; Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 2
and Title 69, Chapter 10, relative to governmental
entities.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:
SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 58-7-102(b), is amended by deleting
"All appointments shall be subject to review by the joint select committee on veterans services
of the general assembly.".
SECTION 2. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 58-7-109, is amended by deleting
"and the joint select committee on veterans services".
SECTION 3. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.