Tennessee House Bill HB2151

Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

• Introduced: 2/2/26

Caption

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4, Chapter 31; Title 7, Chapter 51; Title 42, Chapter 4 and Title 42, Chapter 3, relative to airport authorities.

Summary

HB2151 makes a narrow change to Tennessee law governing airport authorities. The bill amends Tennessee Code Annotated, section 42-4-104(b)(2), to require that notice of a hearing also be published on the governing body’s website for at least two weeks before the hearing date. In practical terms, it adds an online notice requirement to the existing public notice process for airport authority hearings. The bill does not appear to change the substance of airport authority powers, financing, or governance beyond the notice procedure. Its effect is procedural: it expands how the public must be informed about hearings, likely to improve accessibility, transparency, and compliance with modern notice practices. The act takes effect immediately upon becoming law.

Impact

HB2151 would amend Tennessee’s airport authority notice requirements by adding a website publication obligation to the existing hearing notice rules in Title 42, Chapter 4. This affects governing bodies associated with airport authorities by requiring them to post hearing notices online for at least two weeks before the hearing, in addition to any other notice methods already required by law. The bill primarily impacts local or regional airport authority governance and public notice procedures, rather than airport operations or funding.

Sentiment

No committee transcripts or recorded votes were provided, so there is no direct evidence of debate, support, or opposition in the available materials. Based on the text alone, the bill appears routine and administrative, with a likely neutral-to-positive reception because it increases public notice and transparency without imposing major substantive policy changes.

Contention

No specific points of contention are documented in the provided record. If any concerns were raised, they would most likely relate to the added administrative burden on governing bodies to maintain timely website postings, or to whether the new online notice requirement is redundant with existing publication methods. However, no such objections or sponsors’ explanations are included in the available transcripts or vote history.