TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Jan 16, 2025

The Tennessee House of Representatives today adopted new rules governing operations of the chamber. The Tennessean reports that key changes include authority for the speaker to ban disruptive spectators from the gallery for up to two years, removal of members from the chamber for repeated violations of the rules, a new remote voting option for members who have been removed and a limit of 12 on the number of bills each rank and file member may introduce. In the next General Assembly, that number would drop to 10 bills each. For this session, leaders and committee chairs will be able to introduce 15 bills each. According to the paper, all House Democratic members and one Republican member voted against the package.