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PUBLIC CHAPTER NO. 945
HOUSE BILL NO. 1525
By Representatives Stinnett, Moon, Doggett, Littleton, Lamberth, Powell, Salinas, Dixie,
Atchley, Cochran
Substituted for: Senate Bill No. 1633
By Senator Hatcher
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 40, relative to victims of crime.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:
SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 40-35-115, is amended by adding the
following new subsection:
(e) If the defendant is convicted of two (2) or more offenses, irrespective of
whether the multiple offenses were part of a single criminal episode, involving more than
one (1) victim that is a minor, then the court shall order the sentences to run
consecutively unless the court finds by a preponderance of the evidence that the facts of
the case do not warrant the imposition of consecutive sentences and the imposition of
consecutive sentences would not be in the best interest of justice.
SECTION 2. This act takes effect July 1, 2026, the public welfare requiring it, and
applies to offenses committed on or after that date.
HOUSE BILL NO. 1525
PASSED: April 22, 2026
CAMERON SEXTON, SPEAKER
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
RANDY MCNAIi-Y
EAKER OF THE SENAlE
a APPROVED this :J.._t/l. day of fY1i,, 2026
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