Amends TCA Title 4; Title 11; Title 64, Chapter 1, Part 8 and Title 70.

ON MARCH 28, 2022, THE SENATE ADOPTED AMENDMENT #1 AND PASSED SENATE BILL 2402, AS AMENDED. AMENDMENT #1 rewrites this bill to transfer responsibility for the administration of Carroll County 1,000 Acre Lake from the Carroll County watershed authority to the TWRA. This bill authorizes the executive director of TWRA, with the approval of the commissioner of finance and administration and the state building commission, to enter into agreements with private, nonprofit corporations to assist in the acquisition of interests in lands at the Carroll County 1,000 Acre Lake from the Carroll County watershed authority to the TWRA. ON APRIL 11, 2022, THE HOUSE SUBSTITUTED SENATE BILL 2402 FOR HOUSE BILL 2149, ADOPTED AMENDMENTS #1 AND #2, AND PASSED SENATE BILL 2402, AS AMENDED. AMENDMENT #1 rewrites this bill to transfer responsibility for administering the Carroll County 1,000 Acre Lake from the Carroll County watershed authority to the TWRA and requires the TWRA to: (1) Appear before the finance, ways and means committees of the house of representatives and the senate to present an overview of the budget for administering the Carroll County 1,000 Acre Lake, including both income and expenditures related to the administration of the lake; (2) File a copy of the budget for administering the Carroll County 1,000 Acre Lake with the finance, ways and means committees of the house of representatives and the senate, and the legislative librarian; and (3) Present and file the budget for administering Carroll County 1,000 Acre Lake no later than February 1 of each year. AMENDMENT #2 renames the Carroll County 1,000 Acre Lake to Lake Halford.