Tennessee HB0293 amends zoning laws to prohibit new construction of correctional facilities, hospitals, and nursing homes in one-hundred-year flood.
Tennessee HB0293 amends zoning laws to prohibit the construction of correctional facilities, hospitals, and nursing homes in designated one-hundred-year flood plains. It also bans the re-licensing of vacated facilities in such flood plains for these purposes. Additionally, it mandates that all access and functional components of new additions to existing facilities in flood plains must be built above the flood plain. The act takes effect July 1, 2025, and applies to all construction permit applications submitted on or after that date.
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