AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 20-5-106, relative to rights of action.

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

SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 20-5-106(a), is amended by deleting the following words and punctuation:

; or to the person's natural parents or parent or next of kin if at the time of death decedent was in the custody of the natural parents or parent and had not been legally surrendered by them;

And by substituting instead the following words and punctuation:

; or to the person's natural parents or parent or next of kin if at the time of death decedent was in the custody of the natural parents or parent and had not been legally surrendered or abandoned by them pursuant to any court order removing such person from the custody of such parents or parent;

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.