---
type: "Bill"
title: "Charitable Institutions - As enacted, permits a nonprofit organization desiring financial assistance from a county or municipality to file, in lieu of completing and filing an annual audit, an annual report of receipts and expenditures in a form prescribed by the comptroller of the treasury; requires such report to be prepared and certified by the nonprofit's CFO; subjects such report to audit by the department of audit. - Amends TCA Section 5-9-109 and Section 6-54-111."
description: "Charitable Institutions - As enacted, permits a nonprofit organization desiring financial assistance from a county or municipality to file, in lieu of completing and filing an annual audit, an annual report of receipts and expenditures in a form prescribed by the comptroller of the treasury; requires such report to be prepared and certified by the nonprofit's CFO; subjects such report to audit by the department of audit. - Amends TCA Section 5-9-109 and Section 6-54-111."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tn"
legislature: "Tennessee General Assembly"
session: "110"
identifier: "HB 81"
citation: "Tennessee HB 81 (110)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Charitable Institutions"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Crawford", "Lundberg"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 38
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2017-01-20"
last_action: "2017-04-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/768090df-6567-4171-b024-515979db6c5f"
source_url: "http://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/BillInfo/default.aspx?BillNumber=HB0081&GA=110"
source_hash: "9f1725eeda59c8d70464ac2651592dc2d9ba1645db9e526a1467d35e9d290bb7"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-tn"]
---

# Tennessee HB 81 (110) — Charitable Institutions - As enacted, permits a nonprofit organization desiring financial assistance from a county or municipality to file, in lieu of completing and filing an annual audit, an annual report of receipts and expenditures in a form prescribed by the comptroller of the treasury; requires such report to be prepared and certified by the nonprofit's CFO; subjects such report to audit by the department of audit. - Amends TCA Section 5-9-109 and Section 6-54-111.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Current Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/110/Bill/HB0081.pdf)

## Votes

- STATE GOVERNMENT SUBCOMMITTEE: Rec for pass if am by s/c ref. to State Government Committee 3/8/2017 — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- FLOOR VOTE: AS AMENDED PASSAGE ON THIRD CONSIDERATION 3/27/2017 Passed (1) — **92–3** (pass) · lower
- STATE GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE: Rec. for pass. if am., ref. to Calendar & Rules Committee 3/14/2017 Passed — **0–0** (pass) · lower
- FLOOR VOTE: THIRD CONSIDERATION 3/27/2017 Passed — **30–0** (pass) · upper
- CALENDAR & RULES COMMITTEE: H. Placed on Regular Calendar for 3/27/2017 3/23/2017 (2) — **0–0** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Crawford — primary (person)
- Lundberg — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-01-20** Filed for intro. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2017-01-20** Filed for introduction `introduction, reading-1`
- **2017-01-30** Intro., P1C. `introduction`
- **2017-01-30** Introduced, Passed on First Consideration `introduction`
- **2017-02-01** Assigned to s/c State Government Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-01** P2C, ref. to State Government Committee `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-01** Sponsor(s) Added.
- **2017-02-01** Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
- **2017-03-01** Placed on s/c cal State Government Subcommittee for 3/8/2017
- **2017-03-08** Placed on cal. State Government Committee for 3/14/2017
- **2017-03-08** Rec for pass if am by s/c ref. to State Government Committee `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-08** Placed on Senate Commerce and Labor Committee calendar for 3/14/2017
- **2017-03-10** Sponsor(s) Added.
- **2017-03-14** Action def. in State Government Committee to 3/21/2017
- **2017-03-14** Action deferred in Senate Commerce and Labor Committee to 3/21/2017
- **2017-03-15** Rec. for pass. if am., ref. to Calendar & Rules Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-15** Placed on Senate Commerce and Labor Committee calendar for 3/21/2017
- **2017-03-21** Recommended for passage with amendment/s, refer to Senate Calendar Committee Ayes 8, Nays 0 PNV 0
- **2017-03-22** Placed on cal. Calendar & Rules Committee for 3/23/2017
- **2017-03-23** H. Placed on Regular Calendar for 3/27/2017
- **2017-03-24** Placed on Senate Regular Calendar calendar for 3/27/2017
- **2017-03-27** Passed Senate, Ayes 30, Nays 0 `passage`
- **2017-03-27** Amendment withdrawn. (Amendment 1 - SA0154)
- **2017-03-27** Senate substituted House Bill for companion Senate Bill.
- **2017-03-27** Received from House, Passed on First Consideration `introduction`
- **2017-03-27** Engrossed; ready for transmission to Sen.
- **2017-03-27** Sponsor(s) Added.
- **2017-03-27** Passed H., as am., Ayes 92, Nays 3, PNV 0 `passage`
- **2017-03-27** H. adopted am. (Amendment 1 - HA0107) `amendment-passage`
- **2017-03-27** Companion House Bill substituted
- **2017-03-28** Enrolled; ready for sig. of H. Speaker.
- **2017-03-30** Signed by H. Speaker
- **2017-04-03** Signed by Senate Speaker
- **2017-04-04** Transmitted to Governor for his action. `executive-receipt`
- **2017-04-12** Signed by Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2017-04-19** Pub. Ch. 123
- **2017-04-19** Effective date(s) 04/12/2017
- **2017-04-19** Comp. became Pub. Ch. 123

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/768090df-6567-4171-b024-515979db6c5f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Tennessee legislature records).