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PUBLIC CHAPTER NO. 313
SENATE BILL NO. 252
By Haile
Substituted for: House Bill No. 314
By Littleton, Farmer, Bricken
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 29-13-106, relative to criminal injuries
compensation.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:
SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 29-13-106, is amended by deleting
subsection (h) and substituting:
(h)(1) The maximum award pursuant to subsection (e) is equal to one hundred five
percent (105%) of the national average of the maximum compensation award provided
by the fifty (50) states within the United States, the District of Columbia, and the United
States Virgin Islands, rounded up to the nearest one hundred dollars ($100).
(2) Beginning January 1, 2026, and on an annual basis thereafter, the state
treasurer shall compare the maximum award limit for this program with the average of
the maximum award limits of the fifty (50) states within the United States, the District of
Columbia, and the United States Virgin Islands. If any of the states or territories do not
have a maximum award limit that is ascertainable or set in a manner similar to that of
this state, then the state treasurer shall eliminate that state or territory from comparison.
(3) If the maximum award, as determined pursuant to this subsection (h),
decreases from the immediately preceding maximum award determination, then the
state treasurer shall obtain the written approval of the chair of the committee on finance,
ways and means of the senate and the chair of the committee having jurisdiction over
finance, ways, and means in the house of representatives prior to publishing the
reduced maximum award. If written approval is not obtained prior to the May 1
publication date, then the maximum award must not be decreased.
(4) Notwithstanding another law to the contrary, the state treasurer shall make
an adjustment to the maximum award amount by publishing the adjusted maximum
award on the department of treasury website by no later than May 1 of the comparison
year. An adjustment made pursuant to this section is effective on July 1 of the
comparison year, and applies to claims filed for crimes occurring on or after that date.
The determination and publication of the adjusted maximum award by the state
treasurer is not a rule as defined in§ 4-5-102, and such actions of the state treasurer
are exempt from the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act, compiled in title 4, chapter
5. •
(5) By June 30, 2025, the state. treasurer shall publish on the department of
treasury website the maximum compensation award determined pursuant to this
section for claims filed for crimes occurring on or after July 1, 2025.
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.
SENATE BILL NO. 252
PASSED: April 17, 2025
RANDY Mc
SPEAKER OF THE S
CAMERONSEXTON,SPEAKER
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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