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PUBLIC CHAPTER NO. 95
HOUSE BILL NO. 382
By Representatives Butler, Cepicky, Slater, Camper
Substituted for: Senate Bill No. 683
By Senator White
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17 and Title 49,
Chapter 1, relative to law enforcement-supported education programs.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:
SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 4, is amended by
adding the following as a new section:
An LEA may implement the law enforcement against drugs and violence
(LE.AD.) program in schools operated by the LEA. An LEA's implementation of the
LE.AD. program may be in lieu of the DARE program.
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.
HOUSE BILL NO. 382
PASSED: March 1O, 2025
CAMERO~XTON,SPEAKER
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
RANDY "'CNALLY
SPEAKER OF THE'sENATE
Mean,$,, APPROVED this at>f;(,. day of 2025
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