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PUBLIC CHAPTER NO. 745
HOUSE BILL NO. 1582
By Representative Lafferty
Substituted for: Senate Bill No. 1524
By Senator Jackson
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 37, Chapter
4, Part 1, relative to the Interstate Compact for Juveniles.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:
SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 4-29-247(a), is amended by deleting
subdivision (30).
SECTION 2. Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2, is amended by
adding the following as a new section:
4-29-255.
(a) The following governmental entities terminate on June 30, 2034:
() Interstate Compact for Juveniles, created by§ 37-4-101;
(b) Each department, commission, board, agency, or council of state government
created during calendar year 2032 terminates on June 30, 2034.
(c) Any governmental entity that has been terminated under this section may be
continued, reestablished, or restructured in accordance with this chapter.
SECTION 3. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.
HOUSE BILL NO. 1582
PASSED: March 30, 2026
CAMERON--sl:XTON,SPEAKER
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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SPEAKER OF THE SENATE
/J.en• APPROVED this I(pt.l day of1 2026
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