Tennessee § 12-6-107 - Libraries as depositories for state documents and state depository publications — Copies — Legislative reference and law library.

§ 12-6-107. Libraries as depositories for state documents and state depository publications — Copies — Legislative reference and law library.

The state library and archives at Nashville, the John C. Hodges Library of the University of Tennessee, at Knoxville, the Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library at Memphis, the Ned R. McWherter Library at the University of Memphis, the Sherrod Library at East Tennessee State University, and such other libraries as the governor may at any time name by executive order are designated depositories for state documents and for all state depository publications issued by any official of the state. Upon request of a designated depository of state depository publications, such depository is entitled to receive, without charge, one (1) copy of the bills, resolutions, amendments, daily journals, informational services showing committee actions and the status of pieces of legislation, daily calendars, published committee reports, and any official or unofficial published index. To ensure access of all state depository publications to members of the general assembly without the expense of furnishing copies for each member, all state documents and state depository publications otherwise distributed to depository libraries must be distributed to the legislative reference and law library for the use of the general assembly. Acts 1917, ch. 42, § 1; Shan. Supp., § 1387a7; Code 1932, § 2283; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 12-607; Acts 1981, ch. 191, § 7; 1984, ch. 798, § 3; 1984, ch. 903, § 1; 2019, ch. 8, § 2. Amendments. The 2019 amendment, in (a), inserted “and archives”, substituted “John C. Hodges Library of the University of Tennessee, at Knoxville, the Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library at Memphis, the Ned R. McWherter Library at the University of Memphis, the Sherrod Library at East Tennessee State University,” for “library of the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, the Cossitt Library at Memphis”, and inserted “state depository”, in (b), substituted “depository publications” for “document” and substituted “is entitled” for “shall be entitled”; in (c), inserted “depository” following “access of all state”, inserted “state depository” following “all state documents and”, and substituted “libraries must be distributed to the legislative reference and law library” for “libraries shall also be distributed to the legislative library”. Effective Dates. Acts 2019, ch. 8, § 9. March 13, 2019.