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                              PUBLIC CHAPTER NO. 662

                                                   SENATE BILL NO. 2364

                                           By Rose, Bailey, Bowling, Stevens

                                           Substituted for: House Bill No. 2077

                                                            By Faison

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4, Chapter 21, relative to the attorney general
          and reporter.

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

          SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 4-21-1201(a), is amended by adding the
following as a new subdivision:

                    (5) All rules transferred from the commission to the attorney general pursuant to§ 4-
          5-226(b)(2) are repealed.

          SECTION 2. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 4-21-205(9), is amended by deleting the
subsection and substituting:

                    (g)(1) Unless otherwise ordered by the court for good cause shown, complaints filed
                    with the attorney general and all documentary material or other information obtained
                    by the attorney general pursuant to an investigation under this chapter must not be
                    produced for inspection, copied by, or its contents disclosed to, a person other than
                    an authorized representative of the attorney general for the purpose of investigation
                    or prosecution without the consent of the person who produced the material or
                    information, except that documentary material obtained by the attorney general
                    pursuant to this section may be provided to the complainant, the respondent, their
                    attorneys, or any state or federal law enforcement agency seeking to enforce anti-
                    discrimination statutes.

                              (2) The attorney general may use copies of the documentary material or
                    information produced in accordance with this section as it determines necessary in
                    the enforcement of this part, including the presentation of such material or information
                    before a court.

                              (3) All other documentary material, answers to written interrogatories, and
                    transcripts of oral testimony that are voluntarily provided to the attorney general as
                    part of an investigation under this section must be treated as if such information was
                    obtained pursuant to a request issued under this section if such materials were
                    obtained pursuant to an investigative demand or similar process issued by another
                    state or federal attorney general, obtained from a state or federal attorney general
                    pursuant to a statutory obligation to produce such information, or provided by a
                    person with information relevant to the subject matter of the investigation.

          SECTION 3. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 4-21-302(b)(3)(F), is amended by deleting
the language "commission" and substituting "attorney general".

          SECTION 4. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 4-21-303(d), is amended by deleting:

                    The conciliation agreement must not be made public without the agreement of the
                    complainant and the respondent, and the determination by the attorney general that
                    disclosure is not required to further this chapter.
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          SECTION 5. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.

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         SENATE BILL NO. 2364

PASSED:  March 19, 2026

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                                      SPEAKER OF THE SE~J.J.

                         CAMERON~XTON,SPEAKER

                         HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

I f\-prj APPROVED this SI- day of  I         2026

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                         BILL LEE, GOVERNOR