republic-os/legislation/us/states/tn/110/sb-1470.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Municipal Government - As enacted, creates an exception to the prohibition on the incorporation of an area within three miles of an existing municipality to allow an area in Hickman County to incorporate; specifies that provisions governing adoption of a charter under the mayor-aldermanic charter provisions of general law do not affect an existing municipality's authority to annex unincorporated areas within the existing municipality's urban growth boundary. - Amends TCA Section 6-1-201."
description: "Municipal Government - As enacted, creates an exception to the prohibition on the incorporation of an area within three miles of an existing municipality to allow an area in Hickman County to incorporate; specifies that provisions governing adoption of a charter under the mayor-aldermanic charter provisions of general law do not affect an existing municipality's authority to annex unincorporated areas within the existing municipality's urban growth boundary. - Amends TCA Section 6-1-201."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tn"
legislature: "Tennessee General Assembly"
session: "110"
identifier: "SB 1470"
citation: "Tennessee SB 1470 (110)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Municipal Government"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Curcio", "Roberts"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 40
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2017-10-09"
last_action: "2018-04-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2b09b97f-8dd0-418b-9311-6e1c36d7ab93"
source_url: "http://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/BillInfo/default.aspx?BillNumber=SB1470&GA=110"
source_hash: "655f0b32294f0f9545d08e505de1f0014e526c504816fdff86b03f7340855ef8"
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 1470 (110) — Municipal Government - As enacted, creates an exception to the prohibition on the incorporation of an area within three miles of an existing municipality to allow an area in Hickman County to incorporate; specifies that provisions governing adoption of a charter under the mayor-aldermanic charter provisions of general law do not affect an existing municipality's authority to annex unincorporated areas within the existing municipality's urban growth boundary. - Amends TCA Section 6-1-201.

## 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/SB1470.pdf)

## Votes

- SENATE STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE: Recommended for passage, refer to Senate Calendar Committee 3/28/2018 Passed — **8–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Curcio — primary (person)
- Roberts — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-10-09** Filed for introduction `introduction, reading-1`
- **2017-12-20** Filed for intro. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2018-01-09** Introduced, Passed on First Consideration `introduction`
- **2018-01-09** Intro., P1C. `introduction`
- **2018-01-10** Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee
- **2018-01-10** Assigned to s/c Local Government Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-10** P2C, ref. to Local Government Committee `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-31** Placed on s/c cal Local Government Subcommittee for 2/7/2018
- **2018-02-07** Placed on cal. Local Government Committee for 2/13/2018
- **2018-02-07** Rec for pass if am by s/c ref. to Local Government Committee `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-13** Rec. for pass. if am., ref. to Finance, Ways & Means Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-14** Placed on s/c cal Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee for 2/21/2018
- **2018-02-14** Assigned to s/c Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-21** Placed on cal. Finance, Ways & Means Committee for 2/27/2018
- **2018-02-21** Rec. for pass by s/c ref. to Finance, Ways & Means Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-27** Action def. in Finance, Ways & Means Committee to 3/6/2018
- **2018-02-28** Placed on cal. Finance, Ways & Means Committee for 3/6/2018
- **2018-03-06** Rec. for pass; ref to Calendar & Rules Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-14** Placed on cal. Calendar & Rules Committee for 3/15/2018
- **2018-03-15** H. Placed on Regular Calendar for 3/19/2018
- **2018-03-19** Passed H., as am., Ayes 94, Nays 0, PNV 0 `passage`
- **2018-03-19** H. adopted am. (Amendment 1 - HA0687) `amendment-passage`
- **2018-03-20** Engrossed; ready for transmission to Sen.
- **2018-03-21** Placed on Senate State and Local Government Committee calendar for 3/27/2018
- **2018-03-22** Received from House, Passed on First Consideration `introduction`
- **2018-03-27** Action deferred in Senate State and Local Government Committee to 3/28/2018
- **2018-03-28** Recommended for passage, refer to Senate Calendar Committee
- **2018-03-28** Placed on Senate State and Local Government Committee calendar for 3/28/2018
- **2018-04-02** Placed on Senate Consent Calendar calendar for 4/4/2018
- **2018-04-04** Companion House Bill substituted
- **2018-04-04** Passed Senate, Ayes 31, Nays 0 `passage`
- **2018-04-04** Senate substituted House Bill for companion Senate Bill.
- **2018-04-05** Signed by H. Speaker
- **2018-04-05** Enrolled; ready for sig. of H. Speaker.
- **2018-04-10** Transmitted to Governor for his action. `executive-receipt`
- **2018-04-10** Signed by Senate Speaker
- **2018-04-19** Signed by Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2018-04-23** Comp. became Pub. Ch. 760
- **2018-04-23** Pub. Ch. 760
- **2018-04-23** Effective date(s) 04/19/2018

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2b09b97f-8dd0-418b-9311-6e1c36d7ab93`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Tennessee legislature records).