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                             PUBLIC CHAPTER NO. 819

                                                    SENATE BILL NO. 1302
                                                        By Johnson, Seal

                                            Substituted for: House Bill No. 1317
                                               By Lamberth, Cochran, Littleton

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 55 and Title 65, relative to transportation.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:

          SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 55-10-402(f)(1 ), is amended by deleting
the subdivision and substituting:

                    (1) The sentencing court shall determine when an offender sentenced to a period of
          incarceration for a violation of§ 55-10-401 is required to commence service of the sentence.
          SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.
         SENATE BILL NO. 1302

PASSED:  April 7, 2026

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                        '                 RAND\- McNALLY

                                       SPEAKER OF THE SENATE

                           CAMl'RQWSEXTON,SPEAKER
                           HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

APPROVED this !J?f:.P. day of /4:>G-{     2026

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                      BILL LEE, GOVERNOR
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