Child Custody and Support - As enacted, specifies that a parent's obligation for the support of a child does not continue after the child reaches 19 unless the child is handicapped or disabled. - Amends TCA Title 34, Cha, the official text

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State f/Jennessee

                             PUBLIC CHAPTER NO. 870

                                                   SENATE BILL NO. 2463

                                                       By Bailey, Powers

                                           Substituted for: House Bill No. 2443

                                                       By Rudder, Salinas

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 34, Chapter 1; Title 36, Chapter 5 and Title 37,
          Chapter 1, relative to child support.

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

          SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 34-1-102, is amended by deleting
subsection (b} and substituting:

                    (b} Parents shall continue to be responsible for the support of each child for whom
          they are responsible after the child reaches eighteen (18} years of age if the child is enrolled
          in an accredited high school. The duty of support continues until the child graduates from
          high school or the class of which the child is a member when the child attains eighteen (18}
          years of age graduates, whichever occurs first, but in no event shall support continue after
          the child reaches nineteen (19} years of age unless the child is handicapped or disabled, as
          provided in § 36-5-101 (k}.

          SECTION 2. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 36-5-101, is amended by deleting
subdivision (g)(6)(8}(i} and substituting:

                    (i} The department's records demonstrate that the child for whom an order of support
          in a Title IV-D child support case has been entered has reached eighteen (18} years of age
          and has graduated from high school, or that the class of which the child is a member when
          the child reached eighteen (18} years of age has graduated from high school, the obligor has
          otherwise provided the department with written documentation of such facts, or the obligor
          has provided the department with written documentation that a child for whom the obligor is
          required to pay support has died or has married; provided, however, that in no event shall
          support continue after the child reaches nineteen (19} years of age except as provided in
          subsection (k};

          SECTION 3. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.
         SENATE BILL NO. 2463

PASSED:  April 13, 2026

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                                   SPEAKER OF; E SENATE

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                         CAMERON SEXTON, SPEAKER
                         HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

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