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Tennessee's Qualifications-Based
Selection Brochure
Tennessee's Qualifications-Based
Selection Law
2012 Legislative Update
The Tennessee General Assembly adjourned on May 1.
It is an election year and legislators were anxious to
return to their newly-redrawn legislative districts to
begin the campaign season. Candidates had to file their
petitions to qualify to run for State House and Senate
seats by noon on April 5. All members of the State House
are up for election every two years. This year the
even-numbered Senate seats are also up for election.
Some current members of both bodies chose not to run for
reelection for a variety of reasons, including: they
were put in districts with another legislator, it was
time to retire, etc.
Click here to review
the list of candidates.
The General Assembly's primary purpose in meeting is to
adopt a budget for state government for the coming
fiscal year. Obviously, they consider many more issues
than just the Constitutionally-mandated budget. The
legislature is limited to meeting for 90 days during a
2-year cycle. During the session, "days" only count if
the entire House or Senate meets and committee meetings
are not included in that count. This session the House
used 84 of its days and the Senate used 81.
The state primary election will be on August 2 and the
general election will be on November 6. Mark your
calendars.
Overall, engineers fared fairly well. No preferential
purchasing legislation passed, Qualifications-Based
Selection was not diminished, stream mitigation was not
limited to a specific county, there will be no countdown
timers on yellow lights at traffic signals with
automated enforcement, and manufacturers of products for
public drinking water systems do not have to verify the
safety of their products to water system operators. The
threshold for public work that must be designed by an
engineer, architect, or landscape architect was
increased for state park projects, but safeguards were
added to insure protection of the public safety. If you
would like more details on these issues,
click here.
How to Make a Contribution to the ACEC Political Action
Committee
(National)
It
is not simple to make a contribution to ACEC/PAC. Only
personal contributions are permitted by federal law.
First, you must
log in using your ACEC
member information (your email address). If you do not
know your password, click on "Forgot your Password?" The
Federal Election Commission requires ACEC/PAC to have
certain information, including the ability to contribute
on a password-protected site. Logging in allows ACEC to
confirm your ACEC membership and prior approval status.
You will only be allowed onto the contribution site if
your firm has a current approval form on file. If your
firm's Prior Approval is not current, the log in process
will prompt you to complete one. Granting approval does
not obligate the firm or its employees to support the
PAC - it simply gives ACEC permission to communicate to
certain employees.
How to Make a Contribution to the Tennessee Professional Engineers'
Political
Action Committee (State)
The
Tennessee Professional Engineers’ Political Action
Committee supports candidates to the Tennessee General
Assembly who are responsive to issues related to the
engineering profession. Contributions may be made by
personal or corporate check, made payable to the
Tennessee Professional Engineers' PAC and mailed to:
Tennessee Professional Engineers' PAC
TN Engineering Center
800 Fort Negley Boulevard
Nashville, TN 37203 |
