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                            PUBLIC CHAPTER NO. 590

                                                    SENATE BILL NO. 1711

                                                            By Johnson

                                           Substituted for: House Bill No. 2019

                                                            By Cochran

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 48, Chapter 64, relative to judicial dissolution
          of nonprofit corporations.

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

          SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 48-64-302, is amended by deleting
subsection (a) and substituting:

                    (a)(1) Venue for a proceeding by the attorney general and reporter to dissolve a
                    corporation lies:

                                        (A) In any county where the corporation's principal office is located or,
                              if the corporation does not have a principal office located in this state, the
                              corporation's registered office;

                                        (B) Where the corporation has engaged in any activity, including
                              soliciting donations or doing business;

                                        (C) Where the attorney general and reporter has an office; or

                                        (D) Davidson County, Sumner County, or Williamson County.

                              (2) Venue for a proceeding brought by another party named in § 48-64-301
                    other than the attorney general and reporter lies in the county where the corporation's
                    principal office is or was last located, or, if the corporation does not have or has not
                    had a principal office located in this state, the corporation's registered office.

          SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.
         SENATE BILL NO. 1711

PASSED:  March 2, 2026

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                        CAMER1'N SEXTON, SPEAKER
                        HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

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                   BILL LEE, GOVERNOR
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