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The Tennessee Conservative [By Olivia Lupia] –
Representative Gino Bulso (R-Dist.61- Brentwood) has filed a House Joint Resolution (HJR) which would seek to amend the Tennessee Constitution to ensure citizens cannot be compelled to undergo a medical treatment.
HJR0028 specifies that a medical treatment may be refused, “even in the case of a declared state of emergency,” which would ensure that draconian practices like those of the COVID era attempting to mandate vaccinations and other medical treatments would be forbidden.
The resolution’s text defines “medical treatment” to include, “any medical procedure, drug administration, vaccination, or other intervention intended to diagnose, treat, prevent, or mitigate any physical or mental condition.”
It further provides that the General Assembly would have the authority to enact legislation to enforce these standards.
As with all other proposed constitutional amendments, this resolution must first be passed by a simple majority in each chamber during this legislative session followed by a 2/3 majority from both the House and Senate next year before it can be placed on the ballot. Even then, it may only be referred to the ballot during a gubernatorial election year and to become law must be passed by a majority of voters who vote in the governor’s race.
Bulso has proposed two other amendments this session, one aimed at protecting the unborn and the other at strengthening 2nd Amendment rights. This means that Tennesseans could potentially see at least three constitutional amendments on the 2026 ballot should they all pass the proper procedures in the next two years.
The resolution has been assigned to the House Health Subcommittee for consideration as the General Assembly resumes its normal functions after the conclusion of Bill Lee’s Special Session last week.
Olivia Lupia is a political refugee from Colorado who now calls Tennessee home. A proud follower of Christ, she views all political happenings through a Biblical lens and aims to utilize her knowledge and experience to educate and equip others. Olivia is an outspoken conservative who has run for local office, managed campaigns, and been highly involved with state & local GOPs, state legislatures, and other grassroots organizations and movements. Olivia can be reached at olivia@tennesseeconservativenews.com.
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If lucifer’s Senate Judiciary Committee don’t kill it…
Hey Gino….it’s very nice of you to push a REAL conservative bill with this common sense idea. Especially, given your SELL OUT of those same conservative principles by voting FOR Bill’s bill on so called Educational Choice, LOL! Not a choice but a RAILROAD job! What a shame that you had to sell your, heretofore impeccable Constitutional genius! Shameful! I’d love to ask you, how many private schools in Williamson County have tuition, much less uniforms and student fees UNDER $7,200! Again, what a laughable bill! It will serve VERY FEW of the 20,000 students in Tennessee.
“If the people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.” —Thomas Jefferson
“Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship to restrict the art of healing to one class of Men and deny equal privileges to others; the Constitution of the Republic should make a Special privilege for medical freedoms as well as religious freedom.” –Dr. Benjamin Rush, Signer of the Declaration of Independence
“Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people from their experiences, stupid people already have all the answers.”
-Socrates
This is great news! Very grateful that Bulso is working on these measures.
I wanted to point out two things:
1. Constitutional amendments must be passed by two different elected legislatures, which means that any amendment would have to pass by majority this year, then wait until at least 2026 to be passed by 2/3 majority under a different legislature, and then be put on the ballot in 2030 during that gubernatorial election. Nothing that passes this year can go on the state ballot in 2026.
2. It appears that Rep. Reedy is carrying the bill on 2A rights, not Rep. Bulso.
Thanks for the good work!