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                         PUBLIC CHAPTER NO. 1043

                                                  HOUSE BILL NO. 2542

                   By Representatives Lamberth, Cochran, Reneau, Bricken, White

                                       Substituted for: Senate Bill No. 1874

                                            By Senators Johnson, Stevens

         AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 50-7-303, relative to suitable
work requirements.

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

          SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 50-7-303(a)(3)(A), is amended by
deleting subdivisions (i)-(iv) and deleting "Work is suitable if the work meets all the other criteria
of this subdivision (a)(3) and if the gross weekly wages for the work equal or exceed the
following percentages of the claimant's average weekly wage for insured work paid to the
claimant during that quarter of the claimant's base period in which the claimant's wages were
highest:".

          SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.
             HOUSE BILL NO. 2542

PASSED:      April 21, 2026

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                                     CAMERON S-EXTON, SPEAKER
                                    HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

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                                          RANDY Mc~lLLv
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                                          SPEAKER OF THE ~TE

d- APPROVED this f sJ- day of ()L}a,..,1  2026

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