HOUSE BILL NO. 300

By Representative Ronnie Cole

Substituted for: Senate Bill No. 189

By Mr. Speaker Wilder

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 7, Chapter 86, relative to emergency communications districts.

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

SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 7-86-201(b), is amended by adding the following language at the end of subdivision (3):

provided however, this requirement shall not apply to a public safety dispatcher in any county having a population of not less than thirteen thousand three hundred seventy-five (13,375) nor more than thirteen thousand six hundred (13,600), according to the 1990 Federal Census or any subsequent Federal Census, who on the effective date of this act is a public safety dispatcher in such county and has at least ten (10) years experience as a public safety dispatcher.

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