HOUSE BILL NO. 114

By Representative Odom

Substituted for: Senate Bill No. 457

By Senator Haynes

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 23, relative to attorneys-at-law.

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

SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 23-1-101(a), is amended by deleting the subsection in its entirety and by substituting instead the following:

(a) A State Board of Law Examiners is created, to consist of nine (9) members of the State Bar, three (3) from each grand division of the State Bar, who shall be appointed from time to time by the Supreme Court, and shall hold office as members of such board at the discretion of the Supreme Court.

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