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PUBLIC CHAPTER NO. 568
SENATE BILL NO. 1539
By Jackson
Substituted for: House Bill No. 1596
By Lafferty, Todd
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 13, Chapter 26, relative
to the Southwest Tennessee human resource agency.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:
SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 4-29-247(a), is amended by deleting
subdivision (45).
SECTION 2. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 4-29-251 (a), is amended by inserting the
following as a new subdivision:
( ) Southwest Tennessee human resource agency, created by § 13-26-102;
SECTION 3. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.
SENATE BILL NO. 1539
PASSED: February 19, 2026
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SPEAKER OF THE SENATE
CAMISl)N SEXTON, SPEAKER
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
APPROVED this f.,""'- day of MaYcio 2026
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