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| 5 | 4 | | HOUSE BILL 1053 |
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| 6 | 5 | | By McKenzie |
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| 8 | 7 | | |
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| 9 | 8 | | HB1053 |
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| 10 | 9 | | 001346 |
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| 11 | 10 | | - 1 - |
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| 13 | 12 | | AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 40, |
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| 14 | 13 | | Chapter 29, relative to voting rights. |
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| 16 | 15 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE: |
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| 17 | 16 | | SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 40-29-202, is amended by deleting |
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| 18 | 17 | | subsection (c) and substituting: |
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| 19 | 18 | | (c) |
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| 20 | 19 | | (1) Notwithstanding subsection (a), a person is not eligible to apply for a |
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| 21 | 20 | | voter registration card and have the right of suffrage restored unless the person |
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| 22 | 21 | | is current in all child support obligations. |
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| 23 | 22 | | (2) Notwithstanding subdivision (c)(1), a person is eligible to apply for a |
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| 24 | 23 | | voter registration card and have the right of suffrage provisionally restored if the |
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| 25 | 24 | | person enters into a payment plan to become current in all unpaid child support |
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| 26 | 25 | | obligations. |
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| 27 | 26 | | (3) If a person willfully fails to adhere to the terms of a payment plan |
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| 28 | 27 | | entered into pursuant to subdivision (c)(2), then the court that provisionally |
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| 29 | 28 | | restored the person's right of suffrage shall revoke the person's provisional right |
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| 30 | 29 | | of suffrage. Prior to revoking a person's provisional right of suffrage, the court |
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| 31 | 30 | | shall provide the person with court-appointed counsel and offer the person the |
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| 32 | 31 | | opportunity to be heard and to submit proof of the person's financial inability to |
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| 33 | 32 | | pay, which may include a signed affidavit of indigency. |
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| 34 | 33 | | SECTION 2. The secretary of state, in consultation with the department of human |
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| 35 | 34 | | services and the administrative office of the courts, is authorized to promulgate rules to |
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