| 🚨 Critical — Redefines money and paves the way for CBDC. OPPOSE Uniform Commercial Code – As introduced, incorporates into the Uniform Commercial Code the amendments adopted by the Uniform Law Commission in 2022. |
| 🚨 Critical — Prohibits local law enforcement from assisting the FBI on non-criminal investigations and activities. SUPPORT Caption Bill – Amendment to limit activities and coordination of Tennessee law enforcement agencies with the FBI in cases that are non-criminal in nature such as surveillance on Tennessee residents. |
| Prohibits citizens from being deemed non-essential during state of emergency. SUPPORT State Government – As introduced, prohibits a person, political subdivision, or public official, in connection with a state emergency, from categorizing or proclaiming by order, rule, or regulation that a lawful occupation is non-essential, or otherwise proclaiming by order, rule, or regulation that a lawful occupation is prohibited from operating based on what the lawful occupation is; specifies that a person harmed by a violation of the prohibition may bring a civil action for actual damages or declaratory relief. |
| Secures religious exemptions to vaccinations for foster and adoptive families. ON HOUSE FLOOR SUPPORT Children’s Services, Dept. of – As introduced, prohibits the department of children’s services from requiring an immunization as a condition of adopting or overseeing a child in foster care if an individual or member of an individual’s household objects to immunization on the basis of religious or moral convictions. |
| Protects the privacy of retail firearms transactions. ON HOUSE FLOOR SUPPORT Credit and Debit Cards – As introduced, enacts the “Second Amendment Financial Privacy Act,” which prohibits a financial institution from requiring the usage of a merchant code that distinguishes a firearms retailer from a general merchandise retailer or a sporting goods retailer and from disclosing a financial record collected in violation of the prohibition. |
| Creates a recall process for certain elected officials. SUPPORT Public Officials – As introduced, creates a recall process for elected non-constitutional public officials. |
| Bans the practice of geoengineering and weather modification. SUPPORT Environmental Preservation – As introduced, decreases, from 180 days to 150 days, the time that the air pollution control board can have more than one vacancy after an appointing authority of the board receives sufficient information to fill the appropriate vacancy before the board is required to report to the government operations committees. |
| Defers funding approval for voting machines to county election commissions. OPPOSE Election Laws – As introduced, authorizes a county election commission to elect by majority vote to enter into the contract, lease, and option agreement with the coordinator of elections for the financing of the purchase of voting machines; clarifies that the county election commission selects the voting machines to be used in a county and is responsible for the destruction of the voting machines once the machines are deemed obsolete. |
| Restricts healthcare facilities from coercing a person to be vaccinated. SUPPORT Caption Bill – The amendment rewrites the bill to prevent healthcare facilities from coercing parents of newborns to vaccinate their children before leaving the hospital. It also requires parents to be notified that religious exemptions are available for vaccination requirements in the state of Tennessee. |
