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Commission approves 2025–26 work program amendment adding six studies
Summary
The Tennessee advisory commission approved a 2025–26 work program amendment that adds six legislatively requested studies, including juvenile housing, continuum-of-care recommendations, and ambulance service funding. The amendment passed by voice vote with no recorded roll call.
The Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations approved a 2025–26 work program amendment that adds six statutorily requested studies, the commission announced at its May 20 meeting.
Melissa Brown, deputy executive director, walked members through the consolidated docket memo and the draft research plans. She told the commission the memo “is divided into two main sections” and includes a timeline and statutory citations for each proposed study. The studies added to the work program include: (1) availability of housing and treatment facilities for adjudicated juvenile offenders; (2) examination of the continuum of care and recommendations for Tennessee; (3) feasibility and effects of insurance coverage requirements for habilitative and rehabilitative speech therapy for stuttering; (4) study of sustainable funding sources for Tennessee’s transportation infrastructure; (5) an examination of the cosmetology and barbering professions; and (6) a study of the economic impact on counties that must provide ambulance services, including reimbursement and funding structures.
A member moved to approve the amendment and it was seconded. There was no substantive debate; Chairman Ken Yeager called for a voice vote and the measure carried. The commission recorded the approval by acclamation/voice vote and directed staff to proceed with the draft research plans and timelines attached to the memorandum.
Why it matters: the added studies respond to public acts from the 2025 legislative session and will produce statutory timelines and deliverables that the commission will use in its biannual report. Several of the studies carry statutory due dates, including those related to juvenile offender housing and continuum-of-care (due 01/31/2026), and the ambulance services study (no statutory due date specified in the presentation).
Next steps: staff will begin work under the approved amendment, follow the timelines in the draft research plans, and report progress in future commission meetings. Members who requested additional modeling or information on specific topics (such as fiscal implications) asked staff to provide updates at subsequent meetings.
