TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Nov 15, 2021

Gov. Bill Lee late Friday signed several bills passed during the recent state legislative session. The first allows the state to temporarily replace local district attorneys when they "peremptorily and categorically" refuse to prosecute certain cases. The second bill allows candidates for local school boards to run in partisan races. The Tennessean notes that the effort follows a national push to bring partisan politics to local school boards. Finally, Lee declined to sign a bill that takes local control away from county health departments. It will still become law next week. Lee returned the county health bill to the General Assembly without his signature but called on the legislature to make "necessary updates" in the upcoming January session. The Tennessean reports on each of these measures.