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Tenn. Code Ann. § 71-4-701

Purpose — Applicability

Acts 1991, ch. 499, § 1; 1996, ch. 827, § 1; 2020, ch. 782, § 1.

(1) The purpose of this part is to further the policy of the state to encourage and assist individuals with severe disabilities to achieve maximum personal independence through useful, productive, and gainful employment by assuring expanded competitive integrated employment opportunities, thereby enhancing their dignity and capacity for self-support and realizing independence and self-sufficiency.

(2) This part applies to all governmental entities that are supported in whole or in part by the general assembly.

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.