Tennessee SB 1171: Corporations, Not for Profit - As introduced, clarifies the name of an office within the office of the Attorney General; permits a not-for-profit hospital to electronically submit a request for an informal conference with the commissioner of health if the commissioner issues a certain civil penalty to the hospital; prohibits the commissioner from exercising certain enforcement measures. - Amends TCA Title 48; Title 67 and Title 68.

Bill Text

SB1171
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HOUSE BILL 508
By Gant

SENATE BILL 1171
By Swann

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 48;
Title 67 and Title 68, relative to certain domestic
not-for-profit entities.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:
SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 48-68-205(a)(2)(B), is amended by
deleting the language "Antitrust Division" and by substituting instead "Consumer Advocate and
Protection Division".
SECTION 2. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 68-1-108(b), is amended by inserting
the following new sentence immediately after the seventh sentence:
A not-for-profit hospital may submit a request electronically.
SECTION 3. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 67-1-1801(a)(1)(B), is amended by
adding the following sentence at the end of the subdivision:
If the commissioner denies an exemption for a taxpayer claiming not-for-profit
status, then the commissioner shall not take any enforcement action under part 14 of
this chapter until the final adjudication of the taxpayer's appeal, if any.
SECTION 4. If any provision of this act or its application to any person or circumstance
is held invalid, then the invalidity does not affect other provisions or applications of the act that
can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to that end the provisions of
this act are severable.
SECTION 5. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring
it.