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                              PUBLIC CHAPTER NO. 58

                                                     SENATE BILL NO. 19

                                                          By Gardenhire

                                             Substituted for: House Bill No. 96

                                                          By Davis, Fritts

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 8, Chapter 6, relative to investigations by the
          attorney general and reporter.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:

          SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 8-6-112(a), is amended by deleting the
subsection and substituting:

                    (a) The attorney general and reporter has the authority to conduct an investigation and
          has the authority to initiate the criminal prosecution of any judge, chancellor, or judicial elected
          official, or district attorney general, or both, whenever:

                              (1) The attorney general and reporter receives information sufficient to
                    constitute probable cause to investigate whether any official may have violated any
                    state criminal law; and

                              (2)(A) A decision to prosecute the official by the district attorney general of the
                              district in which the offense occurred or in which a portion of the offense
                              occurred may result in a personal, financial, or political conflict of interest; or

                                        (B) The attorney general and reporter receives a report of a violation of
                              § 8-31-103.

          SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.
         SENATE BILL NO. 19

PASSED:  March 10, 2025

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                         SPEAKER OF THE SENATE

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                         HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

MoY<k APPROVED this a!5U.. day of  2025

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              BILL LEE, GOVERNOR
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