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                           PUBLIC CHAPTER NO. 390

                                                    SENATE BILL NO. 1052

                                                           By Haile, Rose

                                           Substituted for: House Bill No. 1355

                                                By Littleton, Farmer, Bricken

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 36 and Title 63, relative to children.

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

          SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 36-1-102(45)(8), is amended by
designating the current language as subdivision (45)(B)(i) and adding the following as a new
subdivision (45)(B)(ii):

                    (ii) Payment of financial support to or for the benefit of the child or the child's mother
          during the pregnancy or when the mother had physical custody of the child does not include
          payment of token financial support. As used in this subdivision (45)(B)(ii), "token financial
          support" means one (1) or more payments that constitute no more than perfunctory support or
          payments of such an infrequent nature or of such short duration as to merely establish minimal
          or insubstantial support for the child or the child's mother during the pregnancy;

          SECTION 2. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 36-1-120(b), is amended by deleting
"affidavit" wherever it appears and substituting "affidavit, or declaration as permitted under Rule 72 of
the Tennessee Rules of Civil Procedure,".

          SECTION 3. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 63-1-165, is amended by deleting
subdivision (c)(1) and substituting:

                    (1) A healthcare provider shall not provide a vaccination to a minor unless the
          healthcare provider first receives informed consent from a parent, as defined in § 63-1-176;
          legal guardian; or prospective adoptive parent, as defined in § 36-1-102, of the minor. The
          healthcare provider shall document receipt of, and include in the minor's medical record proof
          of, such prior informed consent.

          SECTION 4. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.
         SENATE BILL NO. 1052

PASSED:  Apri I 16, 2025

                                            RANDY IVtNALLY
                               SPEAKER OF THE~ENATE

                          CAMERONSEXTON,SPEAKER
                          HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Ma. APPROVED this s-O- day of  AL)  2025

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         BILL LEE, GOVERNOR