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HB2374Intro

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As introduced, specifies that all collateral criminal charges involving possession, storage, use or transportation of a firearm be dismissed if there is a determination that a person's use of force was justifiable self-defense, that the charges be ex...
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2014-04-17
Held on desk.
HB2342Intro

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As introduced, specifies circumstances under which a nursing home may divide and relocate a portion of its licensed beds (each being a qualified partial relocation). - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 11.
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2014-04-17
Held on desk.
HB2029Intro

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As introduced, creates the offense of retail vandalism to be graded as theft; creates the Class C felony of knowing aggravated retail vandalism and Class D felony of reckless aggravated retail vandalism; creates the Class E felony of organized retail...
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2014-04-16
Comp. SB subst.
HB1791Intro

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As introduced, permits a local board of education to refuse to accept federal funding for an education program without a penalty being assessed by a state agency or state official. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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2014-04-16
Sponsor change.
HB1367Intro

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As introduced, beginning January 1, 2015, annually reduces the rate of the Hall Income Tax and increases the portion of taxes distributed to cities and counties in which the taxpayers are located; beginning January 1, 2018, requires 100 percent of th...
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2014-04-16
Taken Off Notice For Cal. in s/c Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways & Means Committee
HB2533Intro

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As introduced, subject to local approval, rewrites the town charter. - Amends Chapter 630 of the Private Acts of 1935; as amended.
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2014-04-16
Held on desk.
HB2499Intro

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As introduced, revises provisions governing base salary for district attorneys general, judges and chancellors. - Amends TCA Sections 8-7-105 and 8-23-103.
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2014-04-15
Taken Off Notice For Cal. in: Finance, Ways & Means Committee
HB0190Intro

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As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Choice & Opportunity Scholarship Act". - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1.
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2014-04-15
Taken off notice for cal. in Finance, Ways & Means Committee
HB2544Intro

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As introduced, subject to local approval, rewrites the city charter. - Amends Chapter 49 of the Acts of 1891; as amended.
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2014-04-15
Taken Off Notice For Cal. in: Local Government Committee
HB2522Intro

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As introduced, subject to local approval, empowers the board of mayor and aldermen with subpoena authority in certain circumstances; allows ordinances and the budget to be passed on second instead of third reading; restricts board member's eligibilit...
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2014-04-15
Rec. For Pass. ref. to: Calendar & Rules Committee
HB2517Intro

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As introduced, subject to local approval, rewrites the charter. - Amends Chapter 603 of the Private Acts of 1949; as amended.
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2014-04-15
Taken Off Notice For Cal. in: Local Government Committee
HB2220Intro

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As introduced, requires that collections of certain fines and penalties, related to certain traffic violations, first be used by the city of Memphis to provide financial assistance to certain students to participate in job training programs offered b...
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2014-04-15
Taken Off Notice For Cal. in s/c Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways & Means Committee
HB1926Intro

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As introduced, creates a loan program for the payment of real property taxes on residences of certain low or moderate income persons who are elderly or disabled. - Amends TCA Title 13, Chapter 23 and Title 67.
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2014-04-15
Taken Off Notice For Cal. in s/c Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways & Means Committee
HB1538Intro

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As introduced, requires owners and operators of automated teller machines to disable their machines from accepting electronic benefit transfer cards in locations of certain kinds of businesses. - Amends TCA Title 71.
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2014-04-15
Taken Off Notice For Cal. in s/c Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways & Means Committee
HB1634Intro

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As introduced, extends the emergency communications board, June 30, 2015. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2 and Title 7, Chapter 86, Part 3.
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2014-04-15
Comp. SB subst.
HB2549Intro

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As introduced, authorizes the City of Decherd, by ordinance adopted by a two-thirds vote, to levy an occupancy tax on the privilege of staying in any hotel or motel in Decherd; the ordinance must set the rate and further set forth the manner of colle...
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2014-04-15
Re-referred To: Local Government Subcommittee
HB1910Intro

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As introduced, beginning on January 1, 2015, requires the amount of the present police pay supplement of $600 to be increased annually to reflect inflation. - Amends TCA Section 9-4-204 and Section 38-8-111.
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2014-04-14
Taken Off Notice For Cal. in s/c Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways & Means Committee
HB2221Intro

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As introduced, directs the commissioner of correction to study the effectiveness of the department's orientation concerning post-release issues for inmates and report to the criminal justice committee of the house and the judiciary committee of the s...
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2014-04-14
Taken Off Notice For Cal. in s/c Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways & Means Committee
HB0289Intro

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As introduced, institutes Tennessee small business sales tax holiday program. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.
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2014-04-14
Taken Off Notice For Cal. in s/c Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways & Means Committee
HB1564Intro

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As introduced, authorizes local governments to lower the mandatory retirement age for POST-certified police officers from 60 to 55; authorizes local governments to allow POST-certified police officers subject to the mandatory retirement age to altern...
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2014-04-14
Taken Off Notice For Cal. in s/c Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways & Means Committee
HB1391Intro

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As introduced, exempts from sales and use tax the sale or use of tangible personal property purchased through or in connection with a classroom sponsored book club program. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.
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2014-04-14
Taken Off Notice For Cal. in s/c Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways & Means Committee
HB1804Intro

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As introduced, revises point of taxation for gasoline; broadens exemption for certain exports. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 3.
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2014-04-14
Taken Off Notice For Cal. in s/c Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways & Means Committee
HB2454Intro

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As introduced, requires the emergency communications board to meet on a bimonthly basis instead of a quarterly basis, and authorizes the board to also meet upon the call of a majority of the voting members of the board. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter ...
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2014-04-14
Taken Off Notice For Cal. in s/c Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways & Means Committee
HB1848Intro

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As introduced, creates the Tennessee rural teachers scholarship. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.
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2014-04-14
Taken Off Notice For Cal. in s/c Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways & Means Committee
HB2004Intro

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As introduced, adds emergency medical services personnel and 911 operators to persons who may receive compensation when killed in the line of duty; increases amount of such compensation from $25,000 to $1,000,000 for all who qualify. - Amends TCA Tit...
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2014-04-14
Taken Off Notice For Cal. in s/c Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways & Means Committee
HB2176Intro

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As introduced, eliminates release eligibility for a person committing attempted first degree murder where the victim suffers serious bodily injury, on or after July 1, 2014, until the person has served 90 percent of the sentence imposed by the court ...
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2014-04-14
Taken Off Notice For Cal. in s/c Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways & Means Committee
HB1388Intro

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As introduced, requires law enforcement agencies that receive sexual assault evidence to submit such evidence to the Tennessee bureau of investigation within 10 days of receipt and analyze such evidence within six months, in order to decrease the rap...
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2014-04-14
Taken Off Notice For Cal. in s/c Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways & Means Committee
HB2099Intro

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As introduced, creates a new aggravating circumstance for rape and sexual battery if the person records or photographs the act and distributes the image taken in any way. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 5.
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2014-04-14
Taken Off Notice For Cal. in s/c Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways & Means Committee
HB1216Intro

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As introduced, allows any child of a public school teacher who is enrolled in a state institution of higher learning and receiving a tuition discount to continue to receive that discount if their parent retires after 30 years of full-time creditable ...
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2014-04-14
Taken Off Notice For Cal. in s/c Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways & Means Committee
HB1905Intro

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As introduced, provides that an officer’s designated beneficiary shall receive a cash salary supplement for annual training despite the officer's failure to complete the required in-service training, if the failure is due to the death of the office...
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2014-04-14
Taken Off Notice For Cal. in s/c Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways & Means Committee
HB1519Intro

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As introduced, permits prosecution of a woman for illegal use of narcotic drugs taken during pregnancy that results in harm to the fetus or child; adds enrollment in an addiction recovery program as an affirmative defense. - Amends TCA Title 39 and T...
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2014-04-14
Held on desk.
HB2288Intro

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As introduced, allows eligible veteran and veteran's spouse to be interred at no cost if buried in a Tennessee veterans’ cemetery. - Amends TCA Title 46, Chapter 6.
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2014-04-14
Taken Off Notice For Cal. in s/c Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways & Means Committee
HB1996Intro

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As introduced, increases the age of a child from "under 15" to "under 18" for a Class A felony offense of trafficking for commercial sex acts; adds Class A felony if a criminal gang offense. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 3.
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2014-04-14
Taken Off Notice For Cal. in s/c Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways & Means Committee
HB2169Intro

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As introduced, treats a member of a criminal enterprise who participates in a crime by recording the crime for the purpose of gratification of the members or as proof of completion of a game as a principal and punishes such member the same as those c...
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2014-04-14
Taken Off Notice For Cal. in s/c Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways & Means Committee
HB2490Intro

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As introduced, enacts the "Firefighter Training Act of 2014". - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 7; Title 8 and Title 68.
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2014-04-14
Taken Off Notice For Cal. in s/c Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways & Means Committee
HB1540Intro

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As introduced, beginning with calendar year 2015, requires the amounts of the Hall tax exemptions to be raised annually in accordance with inflation. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 2, Part 1.
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2014-04-14
Taken Off Notice For Cal. in s/c Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways & Means Committee
HB1475Intro

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As introduced, authorizes a sales and use tax exemption on purchases made by any veteran with a 100 percent permanent total disability. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 3.
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2014-04-14
Taken Off Notice For Cal. in s/c Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways & Means Committee
HB1511Intro

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As introduced, increases penalty for offense of evading arrest in motor vehicle from Class D to Class C felony if the evading results in death or injury to an innocent bystander or 3rd party. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 16, Part 6.
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2014-04-14
Taken Off Notice For Cal. in s/c Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways & Means Committee
HB0036Intro

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As introduced, declares that any person convicted for the unlawful sale, gift or loan of a firearm to a minor or intoxicated person be punished as criminally responsible for any resulting crime; requires the person serve all the time sentenced withou...
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2014-04-14
Taken Off Notice For Cal. in s/c Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways & Means Committee
HB1467Intro

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As introduced, requires persons with intellectual disabilities on the waiting list for services to be enrolled in the self-determination waiver when their caregivers attain the age of 75. - Amends TCA Title 33, Chapter 5.
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2014-04-14
Taken Off Notice For Cal. in s/c Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways & Means Committee
HB1407Intro

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As introduced, permits a person with a handgun carry permit to carry a firearm in any state, county or municipal park or other recreation area; deletes provisions allowing local governments to prohibit carrying in parks by resolution or ordinance. - ...
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2014-04-14
Taken Off Notice For Cal. in s/c Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways & Means Committee
HB1571Intro

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As introduced, expands testing to determine if a person is driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs to include testing performed on any bodily substance. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 10.
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2014-04-14
Taken Off Notice For Cal. in s/c Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways & Means Committee
HB2058Intro

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As introduced, eliminates the requirement that a person pay three years of greenbelt rollback taxes on property deemed ineligible for greenbelt classification due to the buyer or purchaser previously exceeding the maximum allowable acreage. - Amends ...
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2014-04-14
Taken Off Notice For Cal. in s/c Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways & Means Committee
HB1551Intro

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As introduced, changes the date for determining which class a county is in for purposes of compensating general sessions judges from September 1 to October 1. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 15.
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2014-04-14
Taken Off Notice For Cal. in s/c Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways & Means Committee
HB0632Intro

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As introduced, adds two additional trial court judges to the nineteenth judicial district. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 16; Title 3, Chapter 1 and Title 16, Chapter 2.
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2014-04-14
Taken Off Notice For Cal. in s/c Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways & Means Committee
HB2417Intro

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As introduced, adds certain offenses to the list of crimes eligible for the interception of communications for evidence. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 6, Part 3.
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2014-04-14
Sponsor change.
HB2307Intro

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As introduced, permits victims of certain sexual offenses to be eligible for criminal injuries compensation if, under certain circumstances, the victim fails to report the crime or fully cooperate. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 13.
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2014-04-14
Taken Off Notice For Cal. in s/c Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways & Means Committee
HB0631Intro

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As introduced, requires the Tennessee bureau of investigation to report to the senate judiciary committee and the criminal justice committee of the house of representatives certain money collected by January 1st of each year, instead of February 1st....
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2014-04-14
Taken Off Notice For Cal. in s/c Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways & Means Committee
HB0887Intro

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As introduced, allows retired state employees to take one class without charge per semester at public institutions of higher education; allows spouses of state employees to receive a 25 percent discount on tuition at public institutions of higher edu...
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2014-04-14
Taken Off Notice For Cal. in s/c Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways & Means Committee
HB2170Intro

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As introduced, exempts from sales tax, any motor vehicle sold to a veteran or service member who has a service-connected disability and who is eligible for a United States Department of Veterans Affairs automobile grant under the "Disabled Veterans' ...
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2014-04-14
Taken Off Notice For Cal. in s/c Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways & Means Committee
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