| Please take a moment to contact legislators on behalf of the Caucus. Contact information for all committee members can be found at http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/. Their contact information is also hyper-linked in the Legislative Report posted on the Women’s Political Web site. www.nashvilleWPC.com If you have an opportunity to attend a committee meeting, those times and locations are listed on the GA web site, as well as video streaming.
Holly Spann
Vice President, Legislation
TWPC & NWPC
SUPPORT – SJR0687 (Kurita, Ramsey) - Constitutional Amendment that provides for voter election of the lieutenant governor and the secretary of state; assigns certain qualifications and duties. (Passed in the Senate.)
This is an opportunity for Tennesseans to be able to vote on more statewide offices and will open the door to more women and minorities being able to run in statewide elections: SJR0687 is on House subcommittee calendar State Government of State and Local Government, Wednesday, April 9. Please contact Committee Members and asked them to vote for this bill. Rep. Gary Moore, Chair, Rep. Curry Todd, Vice-Chair, Rep. Jim Coley, Rep. Vince Dean, Rep. Curtis Johnson, Rep. Ulysses Jones, Rep. Joe Pitts, Rep. Mary Pruitt, Rep. Randy Rinks, Rep. Park Strader, Rep. Ben West and Rep. Eddie Yokley.
SUPPORT - Voter Confidence HB1256 (Moore, Sontany, Turner M, Jones S, Gilmore, West, Pruitt, Coley, Hardaway)SB1363(Haynes, Burchett, Harper, Herron, Marrero, Norris, Woodson, Johnson.) The Tennessee Voter Confidence Act requires any voting system purchased after the effective date of this act to provide the ballot of record be a paper ballot marked by the voter with appropriate accommodation for persons with disabilities; requires such ballot to be available to voter to verify the vote; requires that secrecy of the voter's choice be maintained. This bill has been placed in subcommittee Budget of Finance, Ways & Means. On the Senate side, it has been referred to Senate Finance Ways and Means but yet to be put on a calendar. The bill has a fiscal note of $9,535,000.
SUPPORT - SB4012/HB3936, (Black, Jones) Requires the Commission on Children and Youth to design and oversee a resource mapping of all federal and state funding sources and streams that support the health, safety, permanence, growth, development and education of children in Tennessee. Placed on Senate General Welfare, Health and Human Resources committee calendar Wednesday, April 9. Committee members: Rusty Crowe (Chair), Rosalind Kurita (Vice-Chair), Raymond Finney (Secretary), Diane Black, Ophelia Ford, Douglas Henry, Roy Herron, Jack Johnson and Randy McNally. It has been placed behind the budget in the House.
SUPPORT - SB3882/HB2888, (Sen. Jim Kyle and Rep. Kent Coleman) This bill would eliminate a potential problem related to “spendthrift” trusts, which have recently become available in Tennessee after passage of a bill sought by the Tennessee Bankers Association last year. The trusts allow the protection of personal assets from any creditor after a four-year waiting period. According to the experts at the Tennessee Bar Association, the statute should include an exception for child support orders as is the case in several other states, and the Bar is seeking introduction of legislation that would add one. Passed out of subcommittee and will be heard in the House Judiciary Committee, Tuesday, April 8. Committee members: Kent Coleman (Chair), Janis Sontany (Vice-Chair) Henry Fincher (Secretary), Eddie Bass, Rob Briley, Frank Buck, Tom DuBois, Jon Lundberg, Judd Matheny and Eric Watson. In the House, the bill was place on calendar of Calendar & Rules Committee for Tuesday, April 8. Committee members: Larry Miller (Chair), John Hood (Vice-Chair), Nathan Vaughn (Secretary), Rep. Joe Armstrong, Rep. Stratton Bone, Rep. Rob Briley, Rep. Tommie F. Brown, Rep. Frank Buck, Rep. Glen Casada, Rep. Charles Curtiss, Rep. Lois Deberry, Rep. John J. DeBerry, Jr., Rep. Craig Fitzhugh, Rep. Ulysses Jones, Jr., Rep. Mike Kernell, Rep. Mark Maddox, Rep. Steve McDaniel, Rep. Michael McDonald, Rep. Jason Mumpower, Rep. Jimmy Naifeh, Rep. Gary Odom, Rep. Doug Overbey, Rep. Phillip Pinion, Rep. Randy Rinks, and Rep. Les Winningham.
SUPPORT - HJR116 (Gilmore) Requests the Department of Correction to review the National Bill of Rights for Children of the Incarcerated and to update a1995 report on Children and Families of Incarcerated Felons. Now in House Calendar and Rules committee.
SUPPORT - HB1989/SB2073 (Sontany, Marrero) Will require hospital emergency rooms to offer emergency contraception (EC) to rape victims. (Hospitals may opt out by claiming religious affiliation, although rape victims must at least be told about EC.) The bill is assigned to the House Public Health Subcommittee and the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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