Tennessee’s GAC Crasher is Audrey Barnette with ORNL FCU
Audrey Barnette, Financial Service Officer with ORNL FCU was selected as the Tennessee representative by Filene Research Institute’s Cooperative Trust “Crash” Program to attend the CUNA GAC in Washington, DC. What made you decide to apply to be a GAC crasher? I applied to be a GAC crasher because I like challenges and the unconventional […]
Eastman CU & TCUL Welcomes Chairman Timothy Hill for Meeting
Eastman Credit Union and the Tennessee Credit Union League were honored to have Chairman Timothy Hill, Chairman of the House Commerce Committee, for a meeting in Kingsport, TN this week. He received a tour of both ECU’s Headquarters as well as the brand new ECU Service Center and met with senior officials from the credit […]
Tennessee Credit Unions Hike the Hill, Advocate for Their Members at GAC 2019
Earlier this month, 90 people formed a delegation of Tennessee’s credit unions to travel to Washington D.C. to advocate for their members at the 2019 CUNA Governmental Affairs Conference. The group heard from keynote speakers such as Malcolm Gladwell and Dana Perino as former Secretary of State John Kerry and the sitting Vice President of […]
Northeast Tennessee Credit Unions Hold Meet and Greets With Chairman Timothy Hill
Twice this month Northeast Tennessee credit unions have had Representative Timothy Hill in their credit union for a meet and greet. Representative Hill was recently named Chairman of the House Commerce Committee, which will predominantly oversee legislation that impacts credit unions in the General Assembly. We are grateful to both Northeast Community Credit Union and […]
Credit Union Priorities Advance in U.S. House
Late last night, the credit union movement scored critical wins and advanced several priorities in the U.S. House Appropriations Committee’s markup of the Financial Services and General Government (FSGG) Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2018. Credit Union Priorities The bill that the committee passed last night includes a number of provisions that were included in […]
Changes to the Uniform Disposition of Unclaimed Property Act
Changes to the Uniform Disposition of Unclaimed Property Act On May 9, 2017 the Tennessee General Assembly passed HB 0420. This bill revises the present law Uniform Disposition of Unclaimed Property Act and renames the Act to be the “Uniform Unclaimed Property Act.” The bill was signed by the Governor on May 25, 2017 and […]
CHOICE Act Passes House
We are pleased to share the good news that the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Financial CHOICE Act on June 8, 2017. The House voted 233-186 to pass the Financial CHOICE Act, a regulatory relief bill with several credit union-friendly provisions. While there are several additional measures of relief for which the Tennessee Credit […]