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| Legislative Calendar - Week of April 4, 2022
There are several bills set to be heard Tuesday and Wednesday during the week of April 4. All of these bills are listed in the attached PDF.
Here is what we are asking you to do:
1) Call your House and Senate members. Ask them to SUPPORT bills that we support. Some of these bills are highlighted in this message and others are listed in the attached PDF. To do that they should a) tell the bill sponsors that they want the legislation passed and b) sign on as co-sponsors. Follow up with phone calls every day or so to make sure they do it.
If it is a bill we are recommending to OPPOSE - call your members and insist that they contact both the sponsors and the committee members to demand that the bill be stopped. If you don't know who your legislators are, you can look it up on the state website. Email addresses for committee members are included in the attached PDF.
2) Contact by phone and email the members of the committee which are to hear these bills. You don't have to leave a long message or debate with them. Simply state that you are a concerned Tennessee citizen and TFA member. Tell them you SUPPORT (and want the bill passed into law) or you OPPOSE (and want the bill killed). Keep track of who you talk to and what their responses were.
3) Go to the TFA Facebook page and share not only your efforts but also the responses you received. Let's support those legislators who do the right things and lets REPLACE and EXPOSE the ones who do not.
SUPPORT:
SB2291 by Sen. Bell is set for Wednesday at 2:30pm in Senate Judiciary. It would lower age lit to attain an enhanced or concealed handgun permit to 18.
SB2866
by Sen Bailey is set for Wednesday at 2:30pm in the Senate Judiciary
Committee. It is the Senate version of HB2524. It removes the offense
of carrying a firearm with
the intent to go armed. If enacted, this is a major step toward true
constitutional carry. This bill is receiving substantial opposition from
the spokesperson for the Department of Safety. This
is the legislation to enacted REAL constitutional carry in Tennessee. The House version of the bill was amended on March 29 in the House to address requests by a few legislators and although TFA supports the bill TFA is encouraging people to carefully examine the provisions contained in the House amendment regarding misdemeanor non-violent stalking and DUIs as discussed in this news post.
HB2524
by Rep. J. Sexton is set for Wednesday at 3:30pm in the House Criminal
Justice Committee. It removes the offense of carrying a firearm with
the intent to go armed. If enacted, this is a major step toward true
constitutional carry. This bill is receiving substantial opposition from the spokesperson for the Department of Safety. This
is the legislation to enacted REAL constitutional carry in Tennessee. |
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