Tennessee 2025 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee Senate Bill SB0235 Draft / Bill

Filed 01/21/2025

                     
HOUSE BILL 58 
 By Hakeem 
 
SENATE BILL 235 
By Akbari 
 
 
SB0235 
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 38, 
Chapter 8, relative to law enforcement officers. 
 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE: 
 SECTION 1.  Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 38-8-106, is amended by deleting 
subdivision (8) and substituting: 
 (8)  Have a good moral character as determined by a thorough investigation 
conducted by the employing agency.  If the person has prior law enforcement 
experience, then the employing agency shall contact any prior law enforcement agency 
that employed the person as part of the thorough investigation; and 
 SECTION 2.  This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.