Tennessee 2025 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee Senate Bill SB1395 Draft / Bill

Filed 02/10/2025

                     
HOUSE BILL 1401 
 By Hicks G 
 
SENATE BILL 1395 
By Watson 
 
 
SB1395 
001589 
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 3; 
Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 
10; Title 11; Title 12; Title 13; Title 16; Title 17; 
Title 18; Title 29; Title 33; Title 36; Title 37; Title 
38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41; Title 42; Title 43; 
Title 44; Title 45; Title 47; Title 48; Title 49; Title 
50; Title 53; Title 54; Title 55; Title 56; Title 57; 
Title 58; Title 59; Title 60; Title 61; Title 62; Title 
63; Title 64; Title 65; Title 66; Title 67; Title 68; 
Title 69; Title 70 and Title 71, relative to statutory 
revisions required for implementation of the annual 
appropriations act. 
 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE: 
 SECTION 1.  Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 71-5-1305, is amended by deleting 
the section in its entirety and substituting instead the following: 
Grant payments under this part must be made to the individual monthly or 
quarterly and forwarded to the person at the place of the individual's residence.  Grant 
payments are nonassignable and payable only to the individual or the individual's legally 
authorized representative, which shall not be the nursing home. 
 SECTION 2.  This act takes effect July 1, 2025, the public welfare requiring it.