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                             PUBLIC CHAPTER NO. 460
                                                    SENATE BILL NO. 1115

    By Pody, Yarbro, Campbell, Rose, Bailey, Bowling, Gardenhire, Hatcher, Jackson, Oliver

                                           Substituted for: House Bill No. 1144

 By Boyd, Parkinson, Love, Freeman, Miller, Tim Hicks, Sherrell, Hardaway, McKenzie, Clemmons,
                            Harris, Eldridge, Hale, Slater, Shaw, Howell, Fritts, Mitchell

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 8; Title 12; Title 40 and Title 41, relative to
          private prisons.

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

          SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 41, Chapter 24, is amended by adding the
following as a new section:

                    In a facility operated pursuant to a contract to provide correctional services, as
          defined in§ 41-24-102(2)(F), or in a facility operated pursuant to a contract with a county to
          hold state inmates and that county has entered into a contract with a contractor to provide
          correctional services, as defined in § 41-24-102(2)(F), if the death rate of inmates at the
          facility, as reported in the department's annual statistical abstract, is twice the death rate of
          an equivalent state-operated facility, the department shall reduce the population at such
          facility by ten percent (10%) within ninety (90) days of issuing such report. The reduction in
          population must continue until the department determines that the conditions leading to the
          reduction have been corrected.

          SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.
         SENATE BILL NO. 1115

PASSED:  April 22, 2025

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