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                             PUBLIC CHAPTER NO. 608

                                                    SENATE BILL NO. 1586

                                                             By Johnson

                                           Substituted for: House Bill No. 1811

                                                    By Lamberth, Cochran

AN ACT to revise and codify the general and public statutes of the State of Tennessee, to the extent
          incorporated herein, as a part of Tennessee Code Annotated; to provide in case of any
          conflict between Acts of the regular or any extraordinary 2026 Session of the General
          Assembly and this Act, the former shall be controlling, regardless of the respective dates of
          passage or approval; and to repeal all acts or parts of acts codified in this Act.

          WHEREAS, each year, the General Assembly passes a codification bill, which reenacts the
general acts of a permanent nature that were enacted by the General Assembly in the preceding
year; and

          WHEREAS, the annual codification bill makes no substantive changes to the content of the
State's body of law; the bill simply integrates recent public acts into the Tennessee Code to make
such code, in its updated form, the official compilation of the laws of this State; and

          WHEREAS, because it contains the statutory text of almost every general bill passed by the
preceding year's General Assembly, the annual codification bill is always quite lengthy; the 2026
codification bill is composed of two volumes, which total more than 2,592 pages; and

          WHEREAS, because of the length of the bill, its contents are being made available
electronically; the contents may be accessed by legislative staff and members on the "common (G)"
drive, in the folder entitled "Codification Bill." The volumes may also be accessed by legislative staff,
members, and the public on the legislature's website at the following link:
http://www.capitol.tn.gov/legislation/publications/index.html; now, therefore,

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

          SECTION 1. The General and Public Laws of the State of Tennessee, to the extent
incorporated herein, on revisal shall be a part of Tennessee Code Annotated as follows, to wit:

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          SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.
         SENATE BILL NO. 1586

PASSED:  March 9, 2026

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                             SPEAKER o~7,iv McNALLy

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                               CAMEROW"SEXTON,SPEAKER
                               HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

APPROVED this ;6tl. day of Ma.r-cL  2026

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          BILL LEE, GOVERNOR