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PUBLIC CHAPTER NO. 81

                                                  HOUSE BILL NO. 107

                          By Representatives Lamberth, Cochran, Hawk, Barrett

                                       Substituted for: Senate Bill No. 1287

                                                   By Senator Johnson

         AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 71, relative to personal
responsibility plans.

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

          SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 71-3-104, is amended by deleting
subdivisions (h)(2)(B)-(E) and substituting instead the following:

                              (8) The personal responsibility plan must also require the parent or other
                    caretaker relative, regardless of age or disabling status, to enter a plan with
                    certain obligations, including, but not limited to, requiring the parent or caretaker
                    relative to cooperate in the establishment and enforcement of child support, and
                    naming the father of a child for purposes of paternity establishment, unless good
                    cause not to cooperate exists, as defined by the department.

                              (C) Unless exempt, refusal or failure to engage in full-time employment,
                    part-time employment, or other training or work preparation activities prescribed
                    by subsection (g) without good cause, or the failure to cooperate in the
                    establishment or enforcement of child support without good cause, must result in
                    denial of eligibility for, or termination of, temporary assistance for the entire family
                    unit.

                               (D) The personal responsibility plan may provide transportation
                    assistance, if needed, to participate in required activities; provided, that the
                    department shall first utilize available community transportation resources before
                    providing such assistance from department funds. The department shall provide
                    childcare services for those individuals who are receiving benefits, participating in
                    work activities prescribed by subsection (g), and not exempt from work activities
                     pursuant to this part.

          SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.
         HOUSE BILL NO. 107

PASSED:  March 10, 2025

                            CAMERON SEXTON, SPEAKER
                            HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

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APPROVED this ;Ji;'T./,..day of '(V\(}I(/o  2025

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BILL LEE, GOVERNOR