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                             PUBLIC CHAPTER NO. 436

                                                     SENATE BILL NO. 652

                                                              By Crowe

                                             Substituted for: House Bill No. 393

         By Butler, Garringer, McCalmon, Bulso, Eldridge, Capley, Powell, Terry, Helton-Haynes

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4, relative to retired canines.

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

          SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4, Chapter 6, Part 1, is amended by adding
the following as a new section:

                    (a) When a canine that was utilized in the service of the department of correction is
          retired due to age, service-related injury, or any other reason, and the canine is retired to the
          care and custody of a department of correction employee, whether active or retired, the
          department, from funds budgeted to the department through the general appropriations act,
          shall pay, on a monthly basis, the employee caring for the retired canine the sum of eighty-
          five dollars ($85.00) to be used exclusively for the medical care of the retired canine.

                    (b) The employee with custody of the retired canine shall maintain records of all
          medical treatment provided to the retired canine in the employee's care and custody and, by
          June 1 of each year, submit a copy of these medical records to the department of correction
          for the fiscal year ending at the end of that month.

                    (c) Within thirty (30) days of the death of a retired canine in the care of a department
          of correction employee, the employee shall notify the department of correction of the canine's
          death. The department shall terminate the monthly medical treatment payments to the
          employee provided by this section upon receiving notification pursuant to this subsection (c).

                    (d) The monthly amount set out in subsection (a) is in addition to any amount that is
          otherwise due and paid to the employee by virtue of salary, retirement, disability, or other
          reason.

          SECTION 2. This act takes effect July 1, 2025, the public welfare requiring it.
         SENATE BILL NO. 652

PASSED:  April 21, 2025

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                             SPEAKER OF THE SENATE

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                         HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

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                        BILL LEE, GOVERNOR