Tennessee State Representative Chris Todd (R-Madison County) reflected back on this year’s session of the Tennessee General Assembly, calling it “productive” in terms of lawmakers passing a “balanced budget” and “protecting the liberties and freedoms” of Tennesseans.
“We’ve done a lot of good things for the state of Tennessee. I believe our citizens’ liberties and freedoms are protected more than they were when we began and that’s the main thing we’re supposed to do. We pass a balanced budget and then we are supposed to protect the liberties and freedoms of our citizens. I intend to continue doing that as long as the voters of Madison County send me back,” Todd (pictured above) said on Thursday’s edition of The Michael Patrick Leahy Show.
Todd said his biggest personal accomplishment this session was the passage of his bill that requires each local education agency and public charter school to provide students with age-appropriate and grade-appropriate instruction on firearm safety.
The bill, HB 2882, was signed by Governor Bill Lee on Tuesday and will take effect at the beginning of the 2025-2026 school year.
“One of the things that seems to have gained a lot of attention in the public that I passed this year is a bill that we actually passed on the House floor in 2020 before we recessed for the COVID crisis and when we came back the Senate didn’t take it up. So it was dead and I brought it back. It was not my effort then but I thought it was a good idea and it requires education for firearm safety in our schools, which we already teach about fire safety and tornado safety and things like that…It’s gotten some national attention as a matter of fact. It’s maybe the first of its kind, I think, but it’s just basic training,” Todd explained.
