Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, a Native American or an African-American is eligible to receive scholarships, grants or any other benefit afforded to minorities from the University of Tennessee system, the board of regents system, or any Tennessee school system. As used in this section, “Native American” means an individual recognized as Native American by a federally recognized tribe or a state.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 4-34-202
Eligibility for minority-based benefits
Acts 1994, ch. 972, § 1.
Current official text: Tennessee Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Tennessee statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.