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Senate committee approves bill letting attorney general seek three-judge review and order withholding of state funds from local governments
Summary
The State and Local Government Committee met in a special session to reconsider Senate Bill 845, a measure that would authorize the attorney general to seek a three-judge panel determination that a local government action violates state law or the Tennessee Constitution and, if the panel finds a violation, order the commissioner of finance and the state treasurer to withhold state funds allotted to the local government, including state-shared taxes.
The State and Local Government Committee met in a special session to reconsider Senate Bill 845, a measure that would authorize the attorney general to seek a three-judge panel determination that a local government action violates state law or the Tennessee Constitution and, if the panel finds a violation, order the commissioner of finance and the state treasurer to withhold state funds allotted to the local government, including state-shared taxes.
Senator Lowe, the bill sponsor and presenter of Amendment 7091, described the measure and the change in the amendment. "This bill institutes where the state attorney general may review the actions by local governments to determine whether or not the actions violate state law or the state constitution," Lowe said, and…
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