Railroads - As enacted, changes, from the governor to the commissioner of safety, the authority to whom a railroad company may apply to and who commissions an agent or employee as a railroad police officer. - Amends TCA , the official text

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PUBLIC CHAPTER NO. 85

                                                   HOUSE BILL NO. 121

                     By Representatives Lamberth, Cochran, Darby, Renea Jones

                                       Substituted for: Senate Bill No. 1298

                                                   By Senator Johnson

         AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 65-6-133, relative to the
commissioning of railroad police officers.

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

          SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 65-6-133(a), is amended by deleting
the language "governor" and substituting instead the language "commissioner of safety".

          SECTION 2. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 65-6-133(b), is amended by deleting
the language "governor" wherever it appears and substituting instead the language
"commissioner".

          SECTION 3. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.
         HOUSE BILL NO. 121

PASSED:  March 10, 2025

                               CAMERON SEXTON, SPEAKER
                               HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

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                                  SPEAKER OF THE SENATE

Mar~ J.,1; APPROVED this
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BILL LEE, GOVERNOR