2025-2026 Regular SessionTennessee Legislature

HB1139: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 68, relative to public water systems.

Legislative Summary

As enacted, clarifies that if a point-of-entry treatment device is installed in a facility solely to soften hard water and, because of the installation of such a device, the house, building, or complex of buildings meets the definition of a public water system under the Tennessee Safe Drinking Water Act of 1983, then the facility constitutes a consecutive system, and is required to monitor the influent and finished water for hardness, alkalinity, and pH on a quarterly basis, and sodium on an annual basis, and report the results to TDEC within 15 days of the end of the reporting period. - Amends TCA Title 68.

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Bill History

2/5/2025
Filed for introduction
House of Representatives
2/10/2025
Intro., P1C.
House of Representatives
2/12/2025
P2C, ref. to Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee
House of Representatives
2/12/2025
Assigned to s/c Agriculture & Natural Resources Subcommittee
House of Representatives
3/12/2025
Placed on s/c cal Agriculture & Natural Resources Subcommittee for 3/19/2025
House of Representatives
3/19/2025
Action Def. in s/c Agriculture and Natural Resources Subcommittee to 3/26/2025
House of Representatives
3/19/2025
Placed on s/c cal Agriculture & Natural Resources Subcommittee for 3/26/2025
House of Representatives
3/26/2025
Rec. for pass by s/c ref. to Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee
House of Representatives
3/26/2025
Placed on cal. Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee for 4/1/2025
House of Representatives
4/1/2025
Rec. for pass. if am., ref. to Calendar & Rules Committee
House of Representatives
4/2/2025
Placed on cal. Calendar & Rules Committee for 4/3/2025
House of Representatives
4/3/2025
H. Placed on Regular Calendar for 4/7/2025
House of Representatives
4/7/2025
Comp. SB subst.
House of Representatives
4/7/2025
Sponsor(s) Added.
House of Representatives
4/29/2025
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 233

Amendments

HA0220

Amendment 1-0 to HB1139

4/1/2025Not Adopted

Roll Call Votes

HOUSE AGRICULTURE & NATURAL RESOURCES COMMITTEE: Rec. for pass. if am., ref. to Calendar & Rules Committee
4/1/2025
15
Yea
0
Nay
0
Not Voting
0
Absent
Result: PASSED
HOUSE AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES SUBCOMMITTEE: Rec. for pass by s/c ref. to Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee
3/26/2025
9
Yea
0
Nay
0
Not Voting
0
Absent
Result: PASSED

Status Information

Current Status
Passed(4/29/2025)
Chamber
House of Representatives

Documents

Chaptered
Bill Text4/25/202575.1 KB
Draft
Bill Text2/5/20258.3 KB
Fiscal Note/Analysis
Fiscal Note/Analysis3/31/2025116.5 KB
Fiscal Note
Fiscal Note3/14/2025142.8 KB