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PUBLIC CHAPTER NO. 548
HOUSE BILL NO. 1604
By Representatives Lafferty, Todd, Clemmons
Substituted for: Senate Bill No. 1547
By Senator Jackson
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 49, Chapter
8, relative to the state university and community college system, board of regents.
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 (53).
SECTION 2. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 4-29-251 (a), is amended by inserting
the following as a new subdivision:
( ) State university and community college system, board of regents, created by
§§ 49-8-101 and 49-8-201;
SECTION 3. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.
HOUSE BILL NO. 1604
PASSED: February 9, 2026
CAME!MlN SEXTON, SPEAKER
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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RANDY MC
SPEAKER OF THE SE
~ APPROVED this day of febb ._, OJOd' 2026
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