Tennessee 2025 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB1229 Draft / Bill

Filed 02/06/2025

                     
SENATE BILL 481 
 By Bowling 
 
HOUSE BILL 1229 
By Lafferty 
 
 
HB1229 
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 40, 
Chapter 33, relative to forfeiture. 
 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE: 
 SECTION 1.  Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 40-33-206, is amended by deleting 
subsection (b). 
 SECTION 2.  Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 40-33-205(a), is amended by 
deleting the language "cost bond or".  
 SECTION 3.  This act takes effect July 1, 2025, the public welfare requiring it, and 
applies to seizures occurring on or after that date.