Tennessee 2025 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB0489 Draft / Bill

Filed 01/29/2025

                     
SENATE BILL 254 
 By Gardenhire 
 
HOUSE BILL 489 
By Farmer 
 
 
HB0489 
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 38; 
Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55, relative to criminal 
law. 
 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE: 
 SECTION 1.  Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 40-36-105(2), is amended by 
deleting the subdivision and substituting: 
 (2)  Conduct statewide public education concerning the purposes and goals of 
this chapter and submit a report by February 1 of each year, to the committee of the 
house of representatives with jurisdiction over subject matters pertaining to criminal 
justice, judiciary committee of the senate, and fiscal review committee regarding the 
effectiveness of diversion of offenders from state correctional institutions; 
 SECTION 2.  This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.