Tennessee House of Representatives 112th House Local Government Committee, 18 Jan 2022

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House Local Government Committee- January 18, 2022- House Hearing Room 1

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Welcome members and guests to local government committee: it's good to see everybody we'll have a few out for snow and then we'll have one out for other reasons, but thank you all for being able to make it and guess thank y'all for being here. My name is chairman. Crawford joining us each week will be some people who are instrumental in helping us with our committee I'd like to recognize them at this time.

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Many of you already know michelle hell baker. My legislative assistant in front of me. We have elizabeth ashwood, which will be our research analyst this year. To my left, is our legal team, matt mundy and also we'll have doug garrett at times will join us from legal.

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We also have our sergeant of arms down here to the right, and I don't recognize him. Would you like to tell us your name.

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My name is johnny mcdonald.

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Well, thank you for being here johnny. We sure appreciate it. Thank you.

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At this time I will start over here with chairman helton and everybody introduce yourself and tell us where you're from.

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Hi I'm esther helton. I represent house district 30, which is part of hamilton county.

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Thank you, mr chairman uh ron, gantt representative district 94, fayette, hardiman and mcnairy.

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Representative tim rudd, I represent an even smaller part of rutherford county this year after reducing but glad to be here, dave wright, district 19.. That's the rural part of east knox, county.

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Representative calvi, representing.

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District 30 district, 32 uh ron and loudon and I live in downtown pennyrill drove in this morning from there.

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Please, uh representative brian williams, also kent calpe's assistant, um uh I hail from the 42nd district uh there in putnam county and so appreciate the chairman opportunity to be here.

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Good afternoon I'm deborah moody and I live in the beautiful county on the mississippi river north of memphis and tipton, and I reside in covington.

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Jason hodges, I represent district 67, which is clarksville.

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Representative john host claw district 4, which is east tennessee, probably the prettiest part of the state. Thank you.

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Representative.

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Chisholm from memphis shelby, county representative, johnny, shaw, district 80, west tennessee that takes up hardiman madison county.

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Representative.

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Dale carr representing district 12, sevier county.

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Representative jerome moon, district 8, the beautiful part of blount county. I live in marvel marvel jay, reedy house district 74, which is houston humphreys and part of montgomery, soon to change, losing montgomery going to stuart benton and a portion of henry county.

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Tom leatherwood district 99. I live in arlington and I represent northeast shelby county. Thank you.

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Representative, harold love district 58 here in nashville, tennessee glad to be back on the committee this year.

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And I'm john crawford, I represent district one which is uh sullivan county, bristol and part of kingsport. So uh as you can see, I'm a little partial, but I think I've got the best committee in the general assembly and these guys work hard to make sure we're doing good work. And I truly do appreciate each and every one of you, madam clerk. At this time, we'll call the roll.

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Representatives, coffee carr, chisholm, gant, helton, hodges hole squad, leatherwood love, manus, miller, moody, moon, reedy, rudd, shaw williams, vice chairman wright, chairman crawford, mr chairman. We have a quorum.

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Thank you, madam clerk, and let the record reflect that representative. Manus is excused today at the death of his father. So please keep him in your thoughts and prayers. Are there any announcements or personal orders from the committee?

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Seeing none I'd like to begin by sharing some information with you, we will plan on meeting each tuesday at 12 o'clock here in house hearing room 1 unless otherwise stated. I'd also like to discuss a few rules that I think will be helpful to all of us. The first is bill. Notices must be turned in by 3 30 pm each wednesday in order to be heard for the upcoming week be sure to submit your bill notice through the electronic portal.

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Amendments must be filed by 10 am on monday amendments for wendy's wednesday's committee must be filed by 10 a.m. Tuesday, please remember. Amendments must be submitted electronically to the house. Local government committee address amendments must be signed and must be submitted with electronic correspondence to our email bills. Passed by the subcommittee will automatically be placed on the next available full committee calendar.

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Unless the committee receives a written request from the sponsor to set another hearing date when there are numerous people on the list to speak on an issue, the chairman reserves the right to put a time limit for testimonies and comments.

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Guest speakers need to be a pre-approved by the chairman no later than 24 hours in advance. Caption bills must be approved by the speaker's office before being heard in the committee. Also, if the bill opens up a large portion of the tennessee code, sponsors must agree to send the bill back to the committee. If the bill passes and is amended on the floor of the house,.

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Please be respectful of others. Please turn off your cell phones or put them on silent, while in committee also, please limit your texting and internet browsing while hearing testimony before the committee, no live stream streaming or recording will be allowed by members or by guests without least 24 hours. Prior approval from the chairman documents handouts powerpoint presentations.

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Other materials also will be required. At least a 24-hour notice to the chairman. Calendars will be emailed to your office each week, rather than delivered by hand bill packets and fiscal amendment. Packets also will be emailed to your office to be consistent with many other committees, and since we now have access to information by electronic means, hard copies will no longer be distributed to your office. This will also help us in preventing the spread of the coping. If you would like a hard copy, please ask your assistant to print you want out.

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In accordance with house rule 83 any bill or resolution may only be calendared three times. If on the third calendar, the bill does not report out of the committee. The bill will be placed on a special calendar by the chairman to be published with the final calendar. If and if that uh j. At that juncture, the bill is not reported out of the committee, then it shall return to the clerk's dest roll call votes.

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Sponsors may request a roll call vote prior to when the voting begins or prior to the question being called. If members would like a roll call vote, it will take at least three members of the committee to request that the chairman can request a roll call vote at any time.

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If changing a charter legislation must be accompanied by a resolution. This resolution must be submitted to the chairman's office prior to the committee meeting. This should wrap up our business for today we will start hearing bills next week. Before I close, does anyone have any announcements or personal orders?

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Chairman williams, you're recognized.

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Thank you chairman. I just wanted to take an opportunity to introduce my intern for the year he's uh you you can stand. This is constantine yep and fanstev yeah. I will uh butcher his last name uh many times, but uh fine young man uh he's kind of a non-traditional student at tennessee tech university. Getting his second degree in political science. Married four kids has his own business with 180 employees located in cookeville tennessee.

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He is much more talented than the legislator that is representing the 42nd district, but we're happy to have him here today, and so I hope you make him welcome.

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All right guys, let's get to work meeting, is adjourned.

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