Plain English Breakdown
The official source does not provide specific details on enforcement mechanisms or additional requirements for siblings to qualify as co-applicants beyond living with the victim.
Victims' Rights Act: Address Confidentiality Program Changes
This bill changes Tennessee's address confidentiality program to include siblings as eligible co-applicants and excludes persistent domestic violence offenders from participating in the program.
What This Bill Does
- Adds siblings of victims to be eligible as co-applicants for the address confidentiality program.
- Excludes people required by law to register as persistent domestic violence offenders from joining the address confidentiality program.
Who It Names or Affects
- Victims of domestic abuse, stalking, human trafficking, rape, sexual battery, or other sexual offenses.
- Co-applicants such as spouses, parents, siblings, and fiduciaries living with victims.
- People required by law to register as persistent domestic violence offenders.
Terms To Know
- co-applicant
- A person who can apply for the address confidentiality program along with a victim if they live in the same home and meet certain requirements.
- persistent domestic violence offender
- Someone required by law to register on a special list because of repeated violent acts against family or household members.
Limits and Unknowns
- The bill does not specify how the changes will be enforced.
- It is unclear if there are additional requirements for siblings to qualify as co-applicants beyond living with the victim.