Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 38.
ON APRIL 4, 2022, THE HOUSE ADOPTED AMENDMENT #1 AND PASSED HOUSE BILL 2589, AS AMENDED. AMENDMENT #1 rewrites this bill. Present law requires the Jerry F. Agee Tennessee Law Enforcement Academy, the Tennessee peace officer standards and training commission, and the department of children's services to work together in developing ways to inform and instruct appropriate local law enforcement personnel in the detection of child sexual abuse and in the proper action that should be taken in a suspected case of child sexual abuse and requires that certain guidelines be prepared that establish a standard procedure that may be followed by police agencies in the investigation of cases involving sexual abuse of children. This amendment adds "child abuse" to these provisions in addition to "child sexual abuse."
ON APRIL 4, 2022, THE HOUSE ADOPTED AMENDMENT #1 AND PASSED HOUSE BILL 2589, AS AMENDED. AMENDMENT #1 rewrites this bill. Present law requires the Jerry F. Agee Tennessee Law Enforcement Academy, the Tennessee peace officer standards and training commission, and the department of children's services to work together in developing ways to inform and instruct appropriate local law enforcement personnel in the detection of child sexual abuse and in the proper action that should be taken in a suspected case of child sexual abuse and requires that certain guidelines be prepared that establish a standard procedure that may be followed by police agencies in the investigation of cases involving sexual abuse of children. This amendment adds "child abuse" to these provisions in addition to "child sexual abuse."
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