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                            PUBLIC CHAPTER NO. 1115

                                                    SENATE BILL NO. 2085

                                                       By Jackson, Taylor

                                           Substituted for: House Bill No. 2023

                                      By Brock Martin, McCalmon, Harris, Haston

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 40-24-109, relative to the victims assistance
          assessment.

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

          SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 40-24-109, is amended by deleting
subsection (c) and substituting instead the following:

                    (c) The clerks of all courts of general sessions, circuit and criminal courts, municipal
          courts exercising general sessions court jurisdiction, and any other court exercising similar
          criminal jurisdiction shall collect a victims assistance assessment in the sum of one hundred
          twenty-five dollars ($125) from a person who:

                              (1) Enters a plea of guilty;

                              (2) Is found guilty by a judge or jury;

                              (3) Enters a plea of nolo contendere;

                              (4) Enters a plea, pursuant to a diversionary sentencing statute, to a criminal
                    offense described in subsection (d);

                              (5) Is found guilty, or enters a plea of guilty or nolo contendere, to the offense
                    of attempting or conspiring to commit an offense described in subsection (d); or

                              (6) Is found to be criminally responsible as principal for the commission of an
                    offense described in subsection (d).

          SECTION 2. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 40-24-109(g)(1 ), is amended by deleting
the subdivision and substituting:

                    (1) The victims assistance assessment is subject to § 8-21-401 and is in addition to
          all other taxes, costs, and fines. The first fifteen dollars ($15.00) of each assessment must be
          paid to the clerk of the court imposing the assessment for processing and handling. The
          remaining one hundred ten dollars ($110) must be transmitted to the county in which the
          offense occurred for the exclusive use of the victims assistance program previously
          designated by the county legislative body.

          SECTION 3. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.
         SENATE BILL NO. 2085

PASSED:  April 23, 2026

                                               RANDY Mc\lALLY
                                  SPEAKER OF THE S~NATE

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                            CAMERON SEXTON, SPEAKER
                           HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

APPROVED this ;{J.,.,J. day of (Y)7     2026

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                    BILL LEE, GOVERNOR