Tourist Development, Dept. of - As enacted, creates a marketing division within the department to replace the tourism division; authorizes the department to enter into agreements with the department of transportation to assist with maintenance of welcome center facilities; creates a welcome centers division within the department to oversee such centers throughout the state; directs the commissioner of finance and administration to transfer from highway user taxes allocated to the highway fund an amount sufficient to support the annual appropriation for implementation and administration of all welcome centers in the state. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 22.

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Chamber: Senate
Introduced: Feb 6, 2025
Last action: May 27, 2025 — Comp. became Pub. Ch. 523
Session: 114
Momentum: 32 · Low

PASSAGE PROBABILITY

25% Uncertain

Why this number

Stage base In Committee — base rate 51%, measured from TN's completed sessions
Momentum -4 32/100 from the pace of recorded action
Time since last action -22 506 days quiet

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