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                            PUBLIC CHAPTER NO. 231

                                                     SENATE BILL NO. 940

                                  By Briggs, Gardenhire, Bowling, Crowe, Walley

                                             Substituted for: House Bill No. 995

      By Rudder, Hardaway, Burkhart, Helton-Haynes, Davis, Bricken, Hawk, Camper, Parkinson

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 63, relative to substance use.

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

          SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 63-1-156(a)(3), is amended by deleting
the subdivision and substituting:

                    (3) "Drug or alcohol violation" means a violation of:

                              (A) Section 39-17-418;

                              (8) Section 39-17-425;

                              (C) Section 1-3-113;

                              (D) Section 39-15-404;

                            (E) Section 39-17-31 O;
                              (F) Section 57-3-412(a)(3);

                              (G) Section 57-3-412(a)(4);
                              (H) Section 57-3-412(a)(5);

                              (I) Section 57-3-412(c);

                              (J) Section 57-4-203(b)(2);

                              (K) Section 57-5-301(d);

                              (L) Section 57-5-301(e); or
                              (M) Section 57-5-303(a);

          SECTION 2. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 63-1-156, is amended by deleting "Drug
overdose" in subdivision (a)(2) and substituting "Overdose"; by deleting "a drug overdose" wherever
it appears in subdivisions (a)(5)(C) and (c)(1) and in subsection (b) and substituting "an overdose";
by deleting "such drug overdose" in subsection (b) and substituting "such overdose"; and by deleting
"drug overdoses" in subsection (b) and substituting "overdoses".

          SECTION 3. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 63-1-156, is amended by deleting "drug
violation" wherever it appears in subsection (b) and substituting "drug or alcohol violation".

          SECTION 4. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 63-1-156, is amended by adding the
following as a new subsection:

                    (d) Subsection (b) does not apply to violations listed in subdivisions (a)(3)(C)-(M)
          committed by a person licensed pursuant to title 57 while working in the scope of the
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          person's employment or to an employee of a person licensed pursuant to title 57 while the
          employee is acting on behalf of such person.
          SECTION 5. This act takes effect July 1, 2025, at 12:01 a.m., the public welfare requiring it.

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         SENATE BILL NO. 940

PASSED:  April 7, 2025

                                     RANDY McNA~~y
                        SPEAKER OF THE SENAJE

                        ~ER~':., SPEAKER
                         HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

APPROVED this J./ ,St day of (J,ptf f  2025

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         BILL LEE, GOVERNOR