SB 181

ON APRIL 14, 2025, THE SENATE ADOPTED AMENDMENT #1 AND PASSED SENATE BILL 181, AS AMENDED. AMENDMENT #1 makes the following revisions:  Removes the b oard for licensing health care facilities from the list of governmental entities terminated on June 30, 2024 for purposes of the " Tennessee Governmental Entity Review Law. ""  Adds the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact to the list of governmental entities terminated on June 30, 202 6 for purposes of the "" Tennessee Governmental Entity Review Law. ""  Adds the Tennessee child fatality prevention team to the list of governmental entities terminated on June 30, 202 6 for purposes of the "" Tennessee Governmental Entity Review Law. ""  Removes the d epartment of intellectual and developmental disabilities from the list of governmental entities terminated on June 30, 202 7 for purposes of the ""Tennessee Governmental Entity Review Law.""  Removes the following present law provisions relative to the retirement incentive bonus for public service commission employees:  A provision requiring a retirement incentive bonus plan to operate to benefit employees of the public service commission. Employees of the commission eligible to participate in the plan must be current employees of the commission who are eligible to draw service or early service retirement benefits from the Tennessee consolidated retirement system on or before July 1, 1996. However, these provisions do not apply to a person included in the membership of the Tennessee consolidated retirement system .  A provision requiring, in order to be eligible to receive the bonus, the employee to terminate active state employment on or before July 1, 1996, and file an application for retirement on or before July 1, 1996. In addition, the employee may not later be reemployed by the state except under present law relative to permitted reemployment .  A provision requiring the bonus to be equal to $5, 000, plus the longevity pay the employee would have received during the 1996-1997 fiscal year if the employee had continued to work for the public service commission. Payment to the employee must be made after July 1, 1996. The bonus must not be included in determining the employee's average final compensation for retirement purposes, nor must it be subject to retirement contributions.  Removes an expired present law provision requiring a report on methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) be submitted to the general assembly each year for three years beginning in 2008."