Open Meetings - As enacted, adds the governing body of a local education agency and certain other local governing bodies of a public body with the authority to make binding decisions or the ability to appropriate funds to the list of governing bodies that are required to make meeting agendas available to the public in advance of such meetings. - Amends TCA Section 8-44-110.
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 699
Summary
The bill adds the governing body of a local education agency and any local public body that can make binding decisions or allocate funds to the list of entities that must make meeting agendas available before meetings. This expands Tennessee’s open‑meeting requirements, ensuring more local officials provide advance notice of agenda items. The change aims to increase transparency for decisions affecting schools and local government.
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