AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 36-1-132, relative to contact veto violations in adoption law.

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

SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 36-1-132, is amended by adding the following as a new subdivision to be appropriately designated:

( ) Any person who, in violation of this part, contacts or causes to be contacted a person with respect to whom the contacting person or person causing the contact knows a contact veto has been filed pursuant to this part commits a Class B misdemeanor.

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