---
type: "Bill"
title: "Courts, Municipal - As enacted, prohibits a municipality from remediating a property maintenance violation if the cost may negatively impact the municipality's financial position, or if the cost is budgetarily prohibitive; specifies that, in addition to assessing remediation costs against a property owner in the form of a lien, a municipality may recover remediation costs through all other legal means. - Amends TCA Title 6; Title 7; Title 13; Title 16, Chapter 18 and Title 29, Chapter 3."
description: "Courts, Municipal - As enacted, prohibits a municipality from remediating a property maintenance violation if the cost may negatively impact the municipality's financial position, or if the cost is budgetarily prohibitive; specifies that, in addition to assessing remediation costs against a property owner in the form of a lien, a municipality may recover remediation costs through all other legal means. - Amends TCA Title 6; Title 7; Title 13; Title 16, Chapter 18 and Title 29, Chapter 3."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tn"
legislature: "Tennessee General Assembly"
session: "114"
identifier: "SB 1473"
citation: "Tennessee SB 1473 (114)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Courts", "Municipal"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Taylor"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 24
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-11-04"
last_action: "2026-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/31ed38ce-ac6a-43d0-94af-eedf88081f81"
source_url: "https://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/BillInfo/Default?BillNumber=SB1473&ga=114"
source_hash: "43c7fc97d1cdd1243cfee1271e0689b2f670c5176f4e91143e3f6320a645b7c0"
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 SB 1473 (114) — Courts, Municipal - As enacted, prohibits a municipality from remediating a property maintenance violation if the cost may negatively impact the municipality's financial position, or if the cost is budgetarily prohibitive; specifies that, in addition to assessing remediation costs against a property owner in the form of a lien, a municipality may recover remediation costs through all other legal means. - Amends TCA Title 6; Title 7; Title 13; Title 16, Chapter 18 and Title 29, Chapter 3.

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendment HA0759** (committee substitute) — [source](https://capitol.tn.gov/Bills/114/Amend/HA0759.pdf)
2. **Current Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://capitol.tn.gov/Bills/114/Bill/SB1473.pdf)

## Votes

- SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE: Recommended for passage, refer to Senate Calendar Committee 2/24/2026 Passed — **8–1** (pass) · upper
- FLOOR VOTE: REGULAR CALENDAR AS AMENDED PASSAGE ON THIRD CONSIDERATION 4/6/2026 Passed (1) — **56–26** (pass) · lower
- FLOOR VOTE: Motion to Concur House Amendment # 1 4/9/2026 Passed — **25–3** (pass) · upper
- FLOOR VOTE: Third Consideration 3/2/2026 Passed — **27–4** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Taylor — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-11-04** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2026-01-13** Introduced, Passed on First Consideration `introduction`
- **2026-01-14** Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-11** Placed on Senate Judiciary Committee calendar for 2/17/2026
- **2026-02-17** Action deferred in Senate Judiciary Committee to 2/24/2026
- **2026-02-18** Placed on Senate Judiciary Committee calendar for 2/24/2026
- **2026-02-24** Recommended for passage, refer to Senate Calendar Committee
- **2026-02-27** Placed on Senate Regular Calendar for 3/2/2026
- **2026-03-02** Engrossed; ready for transmission to House `receipt`
- **2026-03-02** Passed Senate, Ayes 27, Nays 4, PNV 1 `passage`
- **2026-03-03** Sponsor(s) Added. `sponsorship`
- **2026-03-05** Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk.
- **2026-04-06** Passed H., as am., Ayes 56, Nays 26, PNV 7 `passage`
- **2026-04-06** H. adopted am. (Amendment 1 - HA0759) `amendment-passage`
- **2026-04-06** Subst. for comp. HB. `substitution`
- **2026-04-07** Placed on Senate Message Calendar for 4/9/2026
- **2026-04-09** Enrolled and ready for signatures `enrolled`
- **2026-04-09** Concurred, Ayes 25, Nays 3 (Amendment 1 - HA0759) `passage`
- **2026-04-14** Signed by Senate Speaker `passage`
- **2026-04-16** Signed by H. Speaker `passage`
- **2026-04-17** Transmitted to Governor for action. `executive-receipt`
- **2026-04-27** Signed by Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2026-05-04** Effective date(s) 04/27/2026
- **2026-05-04** Pub. Ch. 821

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/31ed38ce-ac6a-43d0-94af-eedf88081f81`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Tennessee legislature records).