House Bill Would Trade Tennesseean’s Medical Freedom for Federal Dollars
The Tennessee Conservative [By Paula Gomes] –
Gary Humble of Tennessee Stands gave an update yesterday on the General Assembly’s special session. Many bills have been wrapped into Speaker Cameron Sexton’s bill HB9077 and Lt. Gov. Randy McNally’s companion senate bill SB9014. While the language of the bill is mostly promising so far as it pertains to individual freedom, there is a section (14-6-102) in the House version of the bill that essentially makes null and void the whole proposed law should an entity be threatened with the loss of federal funding. In that instance, the entity would be exempt. The Senate version of the bill has this section removed.
As we go into day three of the special session, here is what is coming up.
In the House:
HB9077 – by Sexton C. (SB9014 by McNally.) Unemployment Compensation – Amends TCA Title 9; Title 14; Title 29; Title 38; Title 49; Title 50; Title 63 and Title 68. As introduced, allows a former employee to receive unemployment benefits if the employee’s separation from employment was due to his or her refusal to receive a COVID-19 vaccination.
HB9076 – by Sexton C. (SB9013 by McNally.) Public Health – Amends TCA Title 4; Title 14; Title 58; Title 68, Chapter 2 and Chapter 550 of the Public Acts of 2021. As introduced, grants governor exclusive jurisdiction to issue orders and directives regarding county health departments during a pandemic; vests county mayors with authority to issue orders relative to the health and safety of county residents; vests commissioner of health with exclusive authority to quarantine persons and businesses for purposes of COVID-19.
HB9072 – by Sexton C. (SB9009 by McNally.) Election Laws – Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 2. As introduced, requires partisan elections for all school board members.
HB9073 – by Sexton C. (SB9010 by McNally.) Public Funds and Financing – Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 4. As introduced, adds cash as a form of eligible collateral for purposes of the collateral required to be pledged to secure public deposits; decreases the collateral pledge level for public deposits held by collateral pool banks.
HB9075 – by Sexton C. (SB9012 by McNally.) Governor – Amends TCA Title 58, Chapter 2, Part 1. As introduced, decreases the time a state of emergency may continue under an executive order or proclamation issued by the governor from 60 days to 45 days.
HB9071 – by Sexton C. (SB9008 by McNally.) District Attorneys – Amends TCA Title 8; Title 16 and Title 17. As introduced, allows the attorney general and reporter to petition the court for appointment of a district attorney general pro tem if a district attorney general peremptorily and categorically refuses to prosecute all instances of a criminal offense without regard to facts or circumstances; requires the court to appoint a district attorney general pro tem if the court finds the district attorney general has refused to attend and prosecute according to law.
HB9074 – by Sexton C. (SB9011 by McNally.) Attorney General and Reporter – Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 6 and Title 58, Chapter 2. As introduced, requires the attorney general and reporter to seek a writ of mandamus or injunction from a court of competent jurisdiction to compel a public official who knowingly refuses to enforce and execute the orders and rules issued in an emergency to do so; requires the attorney general and reporter to seek a civil penalty of no more than $10,000 for failure to enforce or execute emergency orders and rules and an additional $1,000 per day that the official refuses to comply with the writ of mandamus or injunction.
In The Senate:
SB9011 – McNally, Powers (HB 9074 by Sexton C, Garrett, Griffey) Attorney General and Reporter- As introduced, requires the attorney general and reporter to seek a writ of mandamus or injunction from a court of competent jurisdiction to compel a public official who knowingly refuses to enforce and execute the orders and rules issued in an emergency to do so; requires the attorney general and reporter to seek a civil penalty of no more than $10,000 for failure to enforce or execute emergency orders and rules and an additional $1,000 per day that the official refuses to comply with the writ of mandamus or injunction. – Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 6 and Title 58, Chapter 2. 2.
SB9012 – McNally, Jackson (HB 9075 by Sexton C, Curcio, Griffey, Hulsey, Todd, Williams) Governor- As introduced, decreases the time a state of emergency may continue under an executive order or proclamation issued by the governor from 60 days to 45 days. – Amends TCA Title 58, Chapter 2, Part 1. 3.
SB9014 – McNally, Johnson (HB 9077 by Sexton C, Zachary, Campbell S, Williams, Cochran, Moody, Grills, Hall, Sherrell) Unemployment Compensation- As introduced, allows a former employee to receive unemployment benefits if the employee’s separation from employment was due to his or her refusal to receive a COVID-19 vaccination. – Amends TCA Title 9; Title 14; Title 29; Title 38; Title 49; Title 50; Title 63 and Title 68
Click HERE to view all the bills currently up for consideration in this week’s Special Session.
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Find your State Senator HERE.
Senate Health Committee Members to Contact:
Rusty Crowe – sen.rusty.crowe@capitol.tn.gov – (615) 741-2468
Ferrell Haile – sen.ferrell.haile@capitol.tn.gov – (615) 741-1999
Joey Hensley – sen.joey.hensley@capitol.tn.gov – (615) 741-3100
Ed Jackson – sen.ed.jackson@capitol.tn.gov – (615) 741-1810
Becky Massey – sen.becky.massey@capitol.tn.gov – (615) 741-1648
Shane Reeves – sen.shane.reeves@capitol.tn.gov – (615) 741-1066
Art Swann – sen.art.swann@capitol.tn.gov – (615) 741-0981
Bo Watson – sen.bo.watson@capitol.tn.gov – (615) 741-3227
House Health Committee Members to Contact:
Rebecca Alexander – rep.rebecca.alexander@capitol.tn.gov – (615) 741-2251
Clark Boyd – rep.clark.boyd@capitol.tn.gov – (615) 741-7086
David Byrd – rep.david.byrd@capitol.tn.gov – (615) 741-2190
Ron Gant – rep.ron.gant@capitol.tn.gov – (615) 741-6890
Mark Hall – rep.mark.hall@capitol.tn.gov – (615) 741-1350
Esther Helton – rep.esther.helton@capitol.tn.gov – (615) 741-1934
Tim Hicks – rep.tim.hicks@capitol.tn.gov – (615) 741-1717
Doc Kumar – rep.sabi.kumar@capitol.tn.gov – (615) 741-2860
Tom Leatherwood – rep.tom.leatherwood@capitol.tn.gov – (615) 741-7084
Pat Marsh – rep.pat.marsh@capitol.tn.gov – (615) 741-6824
Bob Ramsey – rep.bob.ramsey@capitol.tn.gov – (615) 741-3560
Robin Smith – rep.robin.smith@capitol.tn.gov – (615) 741-2548
Bryan Terry – rep.bryan.terry@capitol.tn.gov – (615) 741-2180
Kevin Vaughan – rep.kevin.vaughan@capitol.tn.gov – (615) 741-1866
Sam Whitson – rep.sam.whitson@capitol.tn.gov – (615) 741-1864
Ryan Williams – rep.ryan.williams@capitol.tn.gov – (615) 741-1875
About the Author: Paula Gomes is a Tennessee resident and contributor to The Tennessee Conservative. You can reach Paula at paula@tennesseeconservativenews.com.
Yes, there are many moving parts & temptations in even a brief special session. We can derive stable guidance by considering the following:
Our current plethora of Calamaties brings to mind Churchill’s prescient “Gestapo” speach: ………. “No Socialist Government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp, or violently-worded expressions of public discontent. They would have to fall back on some form of Gestapo, no doubt very humanely directed in the first instance. And this would nip opinion in the bud; it would stop criticism as it reared its head, and it would gather all the power to the supreme party and the party leaders, rising like stately pinnacles above their vast bureaucracies of Civil servants, no longer servants and no longer civil.”
It is time WE took the offense and strike at that which has enabled this National Oligarchy. Neuter USC 17th Amendment. Enact TGA SB692/HB1527. WE The People of Tennessee can accomplish this in four(4) monthes.