TBA’s Legislative Updates podcast is new with TBA attorneys and lobbyists, Berkley Schwarz, Pier Strategies LLC, and Brad Lampley and Ashley Harbin, Adams and Reese. This week they discuss Governor Lee's budget amendment, funding for the indigent representation plan, a recap of TBA's Day on the Hill, and a look ahead of bills coming up this session.

Link to the Gov.'s Budget Amendment

TBA’s Legislative Updates podcast is new with TBA attorney and lobbyist Brad Lampley, Adams and Reese. He's joined this week by TBA Executive Director, Sheree Wright and TBA President, Ed Lanquist. This week they discuss TBA's Day on the Hill.

TBA’s Legislative Updates podcast is new with TBA attorneys and lobbyists, Berkley Schwarz, Pier Strategies LLC, and Brad Lampley and Ashley Harbin, Adams and Reese. This week they discuss SB1052/HB1355, amends TCA §36-1-102(45)(B) to provide that a biological father who only pays token support to the child’s mother shall not qualify as a putative father, SB540/HB492, custody determinations - failure to pay child support, SB541/HB906, TBA probate study group’s legislation, SB394/HB569, selection of settlement agent in real property transaction, SB943/HB1255, continuing education for judges involved in child custody proceedings, and TBA's Day on the Hill.

Big Shrimp and Day on the hill: https://www.tba.org/?pg=day_on_the_hill

Registration page: https://memcentral.wufoo.com/forms/r1jlu7wb1ao81bq/

TBA’s Legislative Updates podcast is new with TBA attorneys and lobbyists, Berkley Schwarz, Pier Strategies LLC, and Brad Lampley and Ashley Harbin, Adams and Reese. This week they discuss SB1052/HB1355, amends TCA §36-1-102(45)(B) to provide that a biological father who only pays token support to the child’s mother shall not qualify as a putative father, SB540/HB492, custody determinations - failure to pay child support, SB541/HB906, TBA probate study group’s legislation, SB394/HB569, selection of settlement agent in real property transaction, SB943/HB1255, continuing education for judges involved in child custody proceedings, and the plan for indigent representation by the Tennessee Administrative Office of the Courts on behalf of the Tennessee Supreme Court. Watch Director Michelle Long present the AOC’s budget request, including funding for a new Office of Indigent Conflicts and Civil Counsel, which would assume responsibility for managing the state’s indigent representation system here, her testimony begins at 1:31:04 - https://tnga.granicus.com/player/clip/31461?view_id=841&redirect=true&utm_campaign=tba-today&utm_source=membercentralpublications&utm_medium=email&utm_content=wednesday-march-5-2025

TBA’s Legislative Updates podcast is new with TBA attorneys and lobbyists, Berkley Schwarz, Pier Strategies LLC, and Ashley Harbin, Adams and Reese. This week they discuss SB1052/HB1355, amends TCA §36-1-102(45)(B) to provide that a biological father who only pays token support to the child’s mother shall not qualify as a putative father, SB540/HB492, custody determinations - failure to pay child support, SB541/HB906, TBA probate study group’s legislation, SB394/HB569, selection of settlement agent in real property transaction, SB943/HB1255, continuing education for judges involved in child custody proceedings, and the plan for indigent representation by the Tennessee Administrative Office of the Courts on behalf of the Tennessee Supreme Court. 

TBA’s Legislative Updates podcast is new with TBA attorneys and lobbyists, Berkley Schwarz, Pier Strategies LLC, and Brad Lampley, Adams and Reese. This week they discuss SB541/HB906, claims of creditors filed against an estate, SB540/HB492, custody determinations - failure to pay child support, and the plan for indigent representation by the Tennessee Administrative Office of the Courts on behalf of the Tennessee Supreme Court. 

Link to the Plan for Indigent Representation by the Tennessee Administrative Office of the Courts on behalf of the Tennessee Supreme Court

Key points for lawyers

TBA Day on the hill registration link

TBA’s Legislative Updates podcast is new with TBA attorneys and lobbyists, Berkley Schwarz, Pier Strategies LLC, and Brad Lampley, Adams and Reese. This week they discuss Governor Lee's State of the State address, SB1052/HB1355, token financial support by biological father, SB541/HB906, claims of creditors filed against an estate, SB540/HB492, custody determinations - failure to pay child support.

TBA’s Legislative Updates podcast is new with TBA attorneys and lobbyists, Berkley Schwarz, Pier Strategies LLC, and Brad Lampley, Adams and Reese. This week they discuss the end of the 2024 legislative session, the TBA Conservatorship bill, HB2710/SB2254, adoption birth certificate bill, HB2645/SB2632, the adoption clean-up bill, HB2644/SB2633, franchise/excise tax, HB1893/SB2103, and medical records, HB647/SB1313.

TBA’s Legislative Updates podcast is new with TBA attorneys and lobbyists, Brad Lampley and Ashley Harbin, Adams and Reese. This week they discuss an update on indigent representation, adoption birth certificate bill, HB2645/SB2632, the adoption clean-up bill, HB2644/SB2633, and when this legislative session will end.

TBA’s Legislative Updates podcast is new with TBA attorneys and lobbyists, Berkley Schwarz, Pier Strategies LLC, and Brad Lampley and Ashley Harbin, Adams and Reese. This week they discuss the finalizing of this year's fiscal budget, HB2973/SB2942, the TBA Conservatorship bill, HB2710/SB2254, adoption birth certificate bill, HB2645/SB2632, and the adoption clean-up bill, HB2644/SB2633.