May 4, 2021 04:15:01 pm
The Tennessee House of Representatives Monday adopted and passed SB 1335, which would make Tennessee a Second Amendment sanctuary state, in a 75 to thirteen vote. Under the legislation, “any treaty, executive order, rule, or regulation of the United States government that violates the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution [would be] null, void, and unenforceable.” Laws that infringe on Article I, § 26 of the Tennessee Constitution, which guarantees Tennesseans’ right to bear arms, would also be unenforceable. The United States or Tennessee Supreme Court would determine such violations.
The bill passed the Tennessee Senate on April 26 in a twenty-three to four vote. An amendment added in the Senate also subjects any public official who tries to enforce a law voided under SB 1335 to ouster.
More Bad News For Smokies’ Fans
A bill aimed at helping to pay for a proposed downtown stadium and entertainment complex in Knoxville will now head to the governors desk….after passed the Tennessee Senate on Wednesday… That bill is designed to keep new taxes from the area around the proposed stadium and put it toward the debt of building….that stadium would house the Tennessee Smokies baseball team currently housed in Sevier County at Smokies Stadium in Kodak off exit 407 on I-40. he new stadium in Knoxville estimated to cost $65 million from public money and another $100 million from private investment. and is expected to be completed within the next two years. The bill passing the senate yesterday was aimed primarily at the Knoxville bid to move the Smokies…as…it allows for “a sports authority to keep new revenue that happens within a quarter mile of the center of the stadium. It has to be a stadium for minor or major league baseball and it has to be up and running b
Nashville Tennessean
A major criminal justice reform initiative pushed for years by advocates has finally passed a significant milestone in Tennessee.
It’s a measure that would offer a life-altering second chance for inmates serving life in prison to prove they have been rehabilitated. Currently, a 1995 state law prohibits life-sentence inmates from having a parole eligibility hearing until after they have served 51 years.
Despite first-degree murder in the state having three possible sentences death, life in prison without parole and life in prison with the possibility of parole the 51-year waiting period for a release hearing is effectively a full life sentence, bipartisan advocates argue.
A bill intended to keep private money from funding elections passed the Tennessee Senate on Wednesday.
Senate Bill 1534, approved by a 26-4 vote, prevents an individual or organization from giving money or equipment to the state election commission or those in charge of local elections.
Bill sponsor Sen. Kerry Roberts, R-Springfield, said he wasnât aware of this being an issue until last November s election.
âLook no further than Georgia, again in the headlines yesterday,â Roberts said. âWeâve got 400-some drop box ballots with no chain of custody. That was funded, itâs my understanding, by private money.â
The bill does allow for funding or donations to be approved by the speaker of the House and Senate, which Roberts said was a stipulation put in to allow for the right exceptions to be made.
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