2019 Tennessee legislative session

Tennessee State Senate[edit]

• Senate speaker: Lt. Gov. Randy McNally (R)
• Speaker pro tem: Ferrell Haile (R)
• Majority leader: Jack Johnson (R)
• Minority leader: Jeff Yarbro (D)

Tennessee House of Representatives[edit]

• Speaker of the House: Glen Casada (R)
• Speaker pro tem: Bill Dunn (R)
• Majority leader: William Lamberth (R)
• Majority whip: Rick Tilis (R)
• Minority leader: Karen Camper (D)
• Minority whip: Jason Powell (D)

Regular session[edit]

The following widget shows up to 25 pieces of legislation in the 2019 legislative session that most recently passed both chambers of the legislature, were signed by the governor, or were approved by the legislature in a veto override. If no bills are displayed below, no legislation met these criteria yet in 2019. This information is provided by BillTrack50.

Standing legislative committees[edit]

See also: Standing committee and List of committees in Tennessee state government

A standing committee of a state legislature is a committee that exists on a more-or-less permanent basis, from legislative session to session, that considers and refines legislative bills that fall under the committee's subject matter.

At the beginning of the 2019 legislative session, there were 38 standing committees in Tennessee' state government, including 15 joint committees, 9 state Senate committees, and 14 state House committees.

Joint committees[edit]

Senate committees[edit]

House committees[edit]

Legislatively referred constitutional amendments[edit]

In every state but Delaware, voter approval is required to enact a constitutional amendment. In each state, the legislature has a process for referring constitutional amendments before voters. In 18 states, initiated constitutional amendments can be put on the ballot through a signature petition drive. There are also many other types of statewide measures.

The methods in which the Tennessee Constitution can be amended:

See also: Section 3 of Article XI of the Tennessee Constitution and Laws governing ballot measures in Tennessee

Tennessee Constitution
Preamble
Articles
I • II • III • IV • V • VI • VII • VIII • IX • X • XI • Schedule

The Tennessee Constitution can be amended in two ways:

• As established in Section 3, Article XI, the Tennessee State Legislature can propose amendments to the constitution through legislatively referred constitutional amendments.

• Amendments can be proposed in either chamber of the Tennessee General Assembly.
• If a majority of the members of both houses approve of a proposed amendment, that amendment must then be referred to the next session of the legislature that meets after the next election of members of the legislature.
• Proposed amendments have be published six months previous to the election that intervenes between the first session and the second session of the legislature that considers the amendment.
• When the second session of the legislature considers the amendment, "two-thirds of all the members elected to each house" must approve of it to put it before voters.
• If that happens, the proposed amendment is placed on the statewide ballot at "the next general election in which a governor is to be chosen."
• The proposed amendment is enacted if it gains more "yes" votes than "no" votes and if the "yes" votes equal "a majority of all the citizens of the state voting for governor."

• As established in Section 3 of Article XI, amendments can be proposed by a constitutional convention.

• The legislature can submit to the people at any general election "the question of calling a convention to alter, reform, or abolish" the constitution or any parts of it.
• If a majority of all the voters voting upon the convention question approve the proposal, a convention is then called.
• The state cannot hold a convention "oftener than once in six years."

2021 measures:

See also: 2021 ballot measures

Certified:

The following measures were certified for the ballot.

No measures to list

2020 measures:

Below is a list of measures that were referred to the 2020 ballot by the legislature.

See also: 2020 ballot measures

Certified:

The following measures were certified for the ballot.

No measures to list

Historical partisan control[edit]

Noteworthy events[edit]

Leadership transition[edit]

Speaker of the House Glen Casada (R) resigned as speaker effective August 2, 2019, following revelations of misconduct by his chief of staff. He did not resign his seat in the House.^[1][2] Gov. Bill Lee (R) called a special session to elect a new speaker for August 23, 2019.^[3] In a caucus meeting on July 24, 2019, House Republicans selected Cameron Sexton (R) as Casada's successor.^[4] State Rep. Bill Dunn (R) served as interim speaker between Casada's resignation and the August 23 vote to select a new speaker.^[5] Sexton was voted in as speaker on August 23, 2019.^[6]

See also[edit]

Elections	Tennessee State Government	State Legislatures	State Politics
Tennessee State Senate elections, 2018 Tennessee House of Representatives elections, 2018	Tennessee General Assembly Tennessee House of Representatives Tennessee State Senate Governor of Tennessee Tennessee Supreme Court	State legislative elections, 2019 State legislative special elections, 2019 State legislative elections, 2018 State legislative elections, 2016	State government trifectas State government triplexes Veto overrides in state legislatures State executives State courts Ballot measures

External links[edit]

• Search Google News for this topic
• Tennessee General Assembly homepage

Footnotes[edit]

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