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| 2 | 2 | | HOUSE BILL 849 |
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| 3 | 3 | | By Reneau |
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| 5 | 5 | | SENATE BILL 837 |
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| 6 | 6 | | By Pody |
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| 9 | 9 | | SB0837 |
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| 10 | 10 | | 001744 |
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| 11 | 11 | | - 1 - |
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| 13 | 13 | | AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 1, |
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| 14 | 14 | | relative to certain conditions of personhood. |
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| 16 | 16 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE: |
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| 17 | 17 | | SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 1-3-105(a), is amended by deleting |
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| 18 | 18 | | subdivision (19) and substituting instead: |
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| 19 | 19 | | (19) "Person": |
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| 20 | 20 | | (A) Includes a corporation, firm, company, or association; and |
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| 21 | 21 | | (B) Does not include artificial intelligence, a computer algorithm, a |
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| 22 | 22 | | software program, computer hardware, or any type of machine; |
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| 23 | 23 | | SECTION 2. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 1-3-105(a), is amended by adding |
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| 24 | 24 | | the following new, appropriately designated subdivisions: |
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| 25 | 25 | | ( ) "Human being" means an individual living member of the species, homo |
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| 26 | 26 | | sapiens, including the unborn human being during the entire embryonic and fetal stages |
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| 27 | 27 | | from fertilization to full gestation; |
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| 28 | 28 | | ( ) "Life": |
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| 29 | 29 | | (A) Means the condition that distinguishes animals from inorganic matter, |
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| 30 | 30 | | including the capacity for growth, reproduction, functional activity, and continual |
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| 31 | 31 | | change preceding death; and |
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| 32 | 32 | | (B) Does not include artificial intelligence, a computer algorithm, a |
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| 33 | 33 | | software program, computer hardware, or any type of machine; |
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| 34 | 34 | | ( ) "Natural person": |
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| 35 | 35 | | (A) Means an individual living member of the species, homo sapiens; and |
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| 38 | 38 | | - 2 - 001744 |
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| 40 | 40 | | (B) Does not include artificial intelligence, a computer algorithm, a |
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| 41 | 41 | | software program, computer hardware, or any type of machine; |
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| 42 | 42 | | SECTION 3. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it. |
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