(NASHVILLE) Proposed legislation will be voted on Monday in the house chambers that could dramatically impact Tennesseans. Let your representative know how you feel. CLICK HERE for contact information about your state represebntative.

Do NOT Destroy Records

It goes before the house on Monday. Let your state representative know how you feel.

SB 2313 by Gardenhire is legislation http://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/BillInfo/Default.aspx?BillNumber=SB2313 to prevent Tennessee governments from destroying records after they have been subject to a public records request.

The Senate passed the bill last week and it is on calendar in the House HB 2578 by Carter/Co Prime Sponsors Sparks and Lamberth on Monday.

As amended, it is a good bill and the credit goes to Deborah Fisher with The Tennessee Coalition for Open Government (TCOG) for working this bill through.

COVID-19 Liability Protection Bill

The COVID-19 Liability protection bill (SB 2381 by Bell and Co Prime Sponsors Gresham, Reeves, Crowe, Yager, Bailey, Kelsey, Stevens, Johnson, Rose, Pody and Lundberg/ HB 2623 by Curcio and Co Prime Sponsors Casada, Weaver, Griffey, Littleton, Zacahary, Terry and Gant) http://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/BillInfo/Default.aspx?BillNumber=SB2381

It passed the Senate overwhelmingly and will go to the House on Monday night and is likely to end up in a conference committee over some technical issues.

Is The General Assembly About To Close

The session should end next week. The Senate passed the budget and is essentially done with its work except for a few conference committees. The Senate has stayed with its commitment not to consider bills which it considered non-essential and the House has now parked about 80 bills behind the budget where they probably will die. The House will take up the budget early in the week. When it passes the budget, the bodies will work through a few remaining bills and conference committees before they leave for the year.

There is some feeling that the economy is slowly improving as most of the counties are now fully open but few meetings are being held in person. There is much discussion about a second wave when there are spikes in infections either locally or nationally. I know they would love to hear about your local situation too if they haven't already.