Official Summary Text
ON MARCH 9, 2026, THE SENATE ADOPTED AMENDMENT #1 AND PASSED SENATE BILL 2320.
AMENDMENT #1 makes the following changes:
Provides that general enhanced security for a candidate or officeholder is not deemed an expenditure for personal use, rather than only enhanced security for a candidate or officeholder's personal residence. Further, such authorized expenditures must be disclosed as "security" rather than as "residential security."
Eliminates the $12,000 spending cap for security expenditures.
ON MARCH 16, 2026, THE HOUSE SUBSTITUTED SENATE BILL 2320 FOR HOUSE BILL 2045, ADOPTED AMENDMENT #1, AND PASSED SENATE BILL 2320, AS AMENDED.
AMENDMENT #1 makes the following changes:
Clarifies that expenditures of campaign funds for enhanced security are not deemed for personal use only for officeholders, rather than for both officeholders and candidates.
Clarifies that expenditures must not exceed $12,000, and must be used only for home security consultation, home security equipment, home security monitoring services, and the use of security guards at an officeholder's personal residence.
Clarifies that "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, and security doors.
ON MARCH 26, 2026, THE SENATE NON-CONCURRED IN HOUSE AMENDMENT #1.
ON APRIL 2, 2026, THE HOUSE REFUSED TO RECEDE IN ITS ACTIONS IN ADOPTING HOUSE AMENDMENT #1.
ON APRIL 13, 2026, THE SENATE REFUSED TO RECEDE FROM ITS NONCURRENCE IN HOUSE AMENDMENT #1 AND APPOINTED A CONFERENCE COMMITTEE.
ON APRIL 15, 2026, THE HOUSE APPOINTED A CONFERENCE COMMITTEE.
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HOUSE BILL 2045
By Marsh
SENATE BILL 2320
By Haile
SB2320
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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 as a new subdivision (4) and redesignating the existing subdivision (4) accordingly:
(4) Expenditures of campaign funds to enhance security for a candidate or
officeholder's personal residence are not deemed for personal use. Expenditures
authorized by this subdivision (b)(4) are limited to twelve thousand dollars ($12,000) per
calendar year and must be disclosed as "residential security." The candidate or
officeholder shall maintain all documentation pertaining to residential 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.
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.