Bills to Keep an Eye on in This Year's Legislative Session
The Tennessee General Assembly's bill-filing deadlines are Jan. 31 for the state House and Feb. 2 for the Senate. Due to the popularity of caption ...
The Tennessee General Assembly's bill-filing deadlines are Jan. 31 for the state House and Feb. 2 for the Senate. Due to the popularity of caption bills, which are essentially nonspecific placeholder bills submitted before the deadline and later rewritten entirely, we likely won't see some of this year's most important legislation until later in the season. Even so, close to 400 bills have already been submitted in each chamber. Here are a few that we're keeping an eye on. SB1/HB1Republican legislators have leaned heavily into anti-transgender rhetoric all over the nation, often in attempts to draw attention away from economic policy struggles.