TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Apr 24, 2023

Measures specifically impacting local control in three of Tennessee’s largest cities, passed the legislature prior to adjournment. These include a bill turning community oversight boards in Memphis and Nashville into advisory committees, a bill giving state Republican leaders authority to make appointments to boards overseeing Nashville’s airports and sports facilities, a bill limiting how Nashville can spend certain tourism tax revenue from its Music City Center convention center, a bill that reverses a voter referendum designed to save the Nashville fairgrounds racetrack, and a bill expanding school vouchers in Hamilton County. The Nashville Scene has more on these bills. The Tennessean looks at other measures passed during the session.