Tennessee legislation · 114th General Assembly
Tennessee HB2592: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 12; Title 13; Title 54; Title 64; Title 65; Title 68 and Title 69, relative to utilities.
Status: Chaptered, May 27, 2026
Fiscal Summary NOT SIGNIFICANT Bill Summary ON APRIL 20, 2026, THE SENATE ADOPTED AMENDMENT #1 AND PASSED SENATE BILL 2102, AS AMENDED. AMENDMENT #1 rewrites the bill to, instead, require an electric utility that provides services to at least 3,500 retail electric customers in an outside locality to expand the electric utility's board to include one additional voting member for the outside county, if the outside county chooses to appoint a person. However, only one additional board member must be added per outside county, and the board is prohibited from including a member from a county in another state. As used in this amendment, an "outside locality" means a political subdivision that receives electric utility services from an electric utility and is located outside of the municipal boundaries of the municipality that owns the electric utility, and an "outside county" means the county in which an outside locality is located. If an outside county chooses to appoint a board member, then this amendment requires the chief executive officer of the outside county must appoint a person to fill the new position. Such appointment is subject to approval by a majority vote of the governing legislative body of the outside county. The appointed person must be a resident of the outside county and a retail customer of the electric utility to whose board the person is being appointed. However, the appointed person is prohibited from being an employee or board member of another utility. This amendment authorizes the municipality owning an electric utility whose board is expanded pursuant to this amendment to establish initial, staggered appointments of two years to ensure consistent and experienced representation. Following terms are to be four years. Board members may be appointed for successive terms, and each member must serve un
What the bill says
From the amended text:
Amendment No. 4 to HB2592 Boyd Signature of Sponsor AMEND S e n ate Bill No. 2102* House Bill No. 2592 by deleting § 7-70-102(a) in Section 1 and substituting: (a) (1) Notwithstanding another law to the contrary, and except as provided by subdivision (a)(2) and § 7-70-107: (A) If an electric utility provides services outside the corporate limits of the home municipality but within the home county to not less than three thousand five hundred (3,500) customers and not more than one hundred thirty thousand (130,000) customers, then the home municipality must expand the utility board to include one (1) additional voting board member on the utility board for the home county, appointed by an incorporated city or town in accordance with § 7-70103(a)(1), if the home county chooses to appoint a person pursuant to § 7-70103(a)(1); and (B) If an electric utility provides services outside the corporate limits of the home municipality but within the home county to more than one hundred thirty thousand (130,000) customers, then the home municipality must expand the utility board to include one (1) more additional voting board member on the utility board for the home county, appointed by an incorporated city or town in accordance with § 7-70-103(a)(2), if the home county chooses to appoint such persons pursuant to § 7-70-103(a)(2). (2) …