TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Feb 3, 2020

Rep. Bob Freeman, D-Nashville, is formally asking state Attorney General Herbert Slatery to issue a legal opinion on whether state lawmakers can "impair or eliminate the contractual terms" among homeowners "without violating the protections afforded by the Tennessee and U.S. Constitutions." His question references a bill proposed by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Mike Bell, which seeks to wade into a battle between homeowner associations and absentee corporate landlords over short-term rentals. After Bell’s bill stalled last year, he began working on changes but opposition remains, the Times Free Press reports.