HB1449 — Sentencing - As enacted, adds to sentencing considerations available community-based alternatives to confinement and the benefits that imposing such alternatives may provide to the community should be considered when the offense is nonviolent and the defendant is the primary caregiver of a dependent child. - Amends TCA Title 40 and Title 41.

HB1449 — Sentencing - As enacted, adds to sentencing considerations available community-based alternatives to confinement and the benefits that imposing such alternatives may provide to the community should be considered when the offense is nonviolent and the defendant is the primary caregiver of a dependent child. - Amends TCA Title 40 and Title 41. · Informed CitizenryHB1449 amends Tennessee Code Annotated Section 40-35-103 to include a new subdivision. This provision requires that community-based alternatives to confinement, and the potential benefits of such a…Open in Informed Citizenry