TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Dec 6, 2021

Some state lawmakers are questioning the need for the October COVID-19 special session now that several judges have blocked federal vaccine mandates and a state agency has suspended the granting of exemptions for business that want to implement vaccine requirements. Tennessee Lookout reports on the dynamic between lawmakers who say the General Assembly may have been hasty in convening the session and those who say the special session was needed to protect personal health decisions, individual freedoms and liberties. In a separate piece, the news source's capitol reporter writes in "Stockard on the Stump" that the legislature could end up rescinding some of the measures passed in the special session.