Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 20.

General under present law, the Tennessee Governmental Tort Liability Act provides that immunity from suit of a governmental entity is removed for any injury caused by a defective, unsafe, or dangerous condition of any street, alley, sidewalk or highway, owned and controlled by such governmental entity. <br /> <br /> This bill ads that all actions to recover damages for any deficiency in the design, planning, supervision, observation of construction, or construction of any improvement to any street, alley, sidewalk or highway, or trolley or light rail system, for injury to property, real or personal, arising out of any such deficiency, or for injury to the person or for wrongful death arising out of any such deficiency, must be brought against any governmental entity performing or furnishing the design, planning, supervision, observation of construction, or construction of the improvement within four years after substantial completion of an improvement.<br /> <br /> ON APRIL 19, 2021, THE SENATE ADOPTED AMENDMENT #1 AND PASSED SENATE BILL 1417, AS AMENDED.<br /> <br /> AMENDMENT #1 rewrites this bill to provide that all actions, arbitrations, or other binding dispute resolution proceedings to recover damages for any deficiency in the design, planning, supervision, observation of construction, or construction of a trolley or light rail system, for injury to property, real or personal, arising out of any such deficiency, or for injury to the person or for wrongful death arising out of any such deficiency, must be brought against any governmental entity that owns, operates, or controls the trolley or light right system within four years after substantial completion of an improvement. <br />