Tennessee Code Title 52. Department of Disability and Aging § 52-2-502

The department shall, at least annually, convene a meeting on transportation services for persons with an intellectual or developmental disability and for older persons.  The purpose is to promote development of interagency agreements under § 52-1-106 that assure availability of generic and specialized transportation services to persons supported and their families, coordinate service options, coordinate and maximize utilization of funding mechanisms, and assure training of transportation personnel in best practices for transporting persons supported.  Participants must include affected state agencies, local government, public and private transportation service providers, intellectual and developmental disability service providers, persons supported, and family members of persons supported.  There must be a sufficient number of persons supported and their family members to assure effective representation in the meeting.