HOUSE BILL NO. 1014

By Representative Curtiss

Substituted for: Senate Bill No. 819

By Senator Rochelle

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 68-203-104, relative to fee schedules.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:

SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 68-203-104, is amended by adding the following as a new subsection to be appropriately designated:

( ) For each regulatory program under each statute listed in § 68-203-101(b), the Commissioner of Finance and Administration shall determine, with respect to fiscal year 1994-95, the ratio between the general fund state appropriations expended by that program and the environmental protection fund fees expended by that program. In fiscal year 1997-98 and each subsequent fiscal year, no promulgating authority shall establish a fee schedule to increase revenues for any environmental regulatory program that results in a ratio between general fund state appropriations and environmental protection fund fees in which the environmental protection fund fees constitute a higher percentage of the total funds expended by that regulatory program than they did in fiscal year 1994-95.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon becoming law, the public welfare requiring it.