102nd Tennessee General Assembly
2002
Filed for intro on 1/28/02
SENATE BILL 2145 by Crutchfield
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Section
49-6-3007, relative to truancy.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:
SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 49-6-3007(i) is amended by deleting
subdivision (8) in its entirety.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare
requring it.
Here's the text of Senate Amendment 0737:
AMEND Senate Bill No. 2145 (House Bill No. 2650) by adding the following new
section immediately preceding the last section and by renumbering the subsequent
section accordingly:
SECTION 2. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 49-6-3007(i), is amended by adding
the following as an appropriately designated subdivision:
() Any local law enforcement agency taking children into temporary custody as
truant pursuant to the provisions of this subsection shall be liable for any
damages resulting from the wrongful detention of any child.
Here's the text of Senate Amendment 0738:
AMEND Senate Bill No. 2145 (House Bill No. 2650) By adding the following new
section immediately preceding the last section and by renumbering the subsequent
section accordingly:
SECTION2. Tennessee Code Annotated. Section (i) is amended by adding the
following as an appropriately designated subdivision:
() Any local law enforcement agency taking into temporary custody as truant a
child exempted from the provisions of this subsection by subdivision (6) shall
be liable for any damages resulting from the wrongful detention of such child.
Here's the text of House Amendment 0832 by Bunch [Rep. Dwayne Bunch R-
Bradley County]
AMEND Senate Bill 2145 and House Bill 2650
by adding the following new section immediately preceding the last section and
by renumbering the subsequent section accordingly:
SECTION _____, Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 49-6-3007, is amended by adding
the following new subsection:
() The provisions of this section shall not apply in any county having a
population of not less than eighty-seven thousand nine hundred (87,900) nor more
than eighty-eight thousand (88,000) according to the 2000 federal census or any
subsequent federal census.
[Editor's note: This census count means this would apply to only Bradley
County based on 2000 census figures.]