By Fowlkes

AN ACT To amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 7, Chapter 86, relative to public safety dispatchers.

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 public safety dispatchers who, on the effective date of this act, have at least ten (10) years experience as a public safety dispatcher and are public safety dispatchers in a city having a population of not less than eight hundred sixty (860) nor more than eight hundred seventy (870) which is located in any county having a population of not less than twenty-five thousand seven hundred (25,700) nor more than twenty-six thousand (26,000) and in any county having a population of not less than twenty-eight thousand one hundred (28,100) nor more than twenty-eight thousand four hundred (28,400), all according to the 1990 federal census or any subsequent federal census.

( ) Notwithstanding any other provision of this act or of subdivision (b)(3) of this section to the contrary, a person shall be deemed to meet the requirements of subdivision (b)(3) if such person has ten (10) years experience as a public safety dispatcher or thirty (30) years experience in emergency services or communications management.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.