Tennessee 2025 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB0790 Draft / Bill

Filed 02/04/2025

                     
SENATE BILL 780 
 By Lowe 
 
HOUSE BILL 790 
By Vital 
 
 
HB0790 
002019 
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 
55-50-354, relative to honorably discharged 
members of the national guard. 
 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE: 
 SECTION 1.  Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 55-50-354(a), is amended by adding 
the language ", including an honorably discharged member of the national guard" immediately 
after the language "to an honorably discharged veteran". 
 SECTION 2.  Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 55-50-354(b), is amended by adding 
the following as a new, appropriately designated subdivision: 
 ( )  The applicant's honorable discharge certificate, department of defense form 
256 (DD 256), or report of separation and record of service, NGB form 22, that indicates 
an honorable discharge characterization; 
 SECTION 3.  This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.