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                          PUBLIC CHAPTER NO. 489

                                                  HOUSE BILL NO. 524

                                              By Representative Maberry

                                        Substituted for: Senate Bill No. 505

                                                    By Senator Powers

         AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 16 and Title 40, relative to veterans
treatment courts.

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

          SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 16, Chapter 6, Part 1, is amended by
adding the following new section:

                    Notwithstanding another law to the contrary, a defendant may file a motion to
          transfer the defendant's criminal case to the veterans treatment court program of a
          contiguous county having a population of not less than two hundred twenty thousand
          (220,000) nor more than two hundred twenty thousand one hundred (220,100),
          according to the 2020 federal census or any subsequent federal census. The court with
          jurisdiction over the defendant's case may transfer the case if:

                              (1) The veterans treatment court program in the contiguous county would
                    have jurisdiction over the case if the offense had been committed in such county;

                              (2) The defendant files with the court a written waiver of the right to be
                    tried by an impartial jury of the county in which the crime was committed; and

                              (3) The district attorney general for the contiguous county agrees to
                    accept transfer of the case.

          SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.
                    HOUSE BILL NO. 524

PASSED:  April 22, 2025

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                                  CAMERONSEXTON, SPEAKER
                                 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

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                                  '     RANDY MCNA'LY

                                  SPEAKER OF THE SENATE

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BILL LEE, GOVERNOR