NASHVILLE – House committees recommend reducing the limit on bill filing to 12 and setting harsher penalties for those who disrupt the House minutes when the 114th Tennessee Legislature is convened .
The panel voted on Tuesday to send the rules package to Full House for the decision. This is a move that ranks Democrats who believe their voices will be even more silent as the number of bills they can bring down.
The 12 Buildings max affects mostly rank and file members. This is not a committee chair that receives five additional invoices and a subcommittee chair that allows you to file two additional invoices.
In a move to restrict protests, public members who disrupt lawsuits in the gallery or capitol lobby may be removed from the chamber throughout the session if “bad” behavior continues for up to two days.
Similarly, members of the House of Representatives who broke the rules of decoration could be silenced and then removed from the chamber for more violations and voted remotely.
Democrat Yusuf Heikum told the panel that removing people from the Capitol would suppress the voices of those who oppose the actions.
But Goodlettsville Republican Rep. Johnny Garrett, who introduced the rules package, told the panel that “screams” do nothing to promote the cause of protesters.
The Rules Committee, consisting of eight Republicans and three Democrats, rejected efforts by Democrats to amend guidelines to provide additional bills to caucus leaders and chairmen.
Nashville Democrat Justin Jones has a new release that includes transferring committee appointments from speakers to caucus leaders, calling for speaker violations and allowing members to hire their own staff. He declined an effort to pass the rules’ slate. Violations such as requesting tickets for the public to go off topic, to sit in the house gallery, and allowing visual guides such as committees and house floor charts.
The committee also voted for Jones’ efforts to make it illegal for lawmakers to marry paid lobbyists. Republican Sen. Bo Watson, the chairman of the Finance Committee, is married to a lobbyist, but he said he would vote for his conscience.
Additionally, the panel rejected Jones’ request that people ban firearms from bringing them into Cordell Hull buildings.
House majority leader William Lambers, who chaired the committee, added that the public feels comfortable bringing guns into legislative buildings and that law enforcement can handle people who pose dangers. .
Jones responds by saying the house allows guns but doesn’t have a signature larger than 8 x 11 inches.
“I can’t believe I’ll be protected here, just like I did on January 6th,” Jones said.
The rules vote came after the whole house and the Senate. Both rooms will take off next week as many members travel to Washington, D.C. for President Donald Trump’s inauguration.
A special session focusing on Bill Lee’s private voucher bill, likely combined with Hurricane Relief funds in northwestern Tennessee, could be called by the end of the weekend in late January.
After challenging sessions that year, the House re-elected Cameron Sexton to the post, and the Senate chose Randy McNally to serve again as Lieutenant Governor. The votes came along the party’s boundaries, and Democrats crossed to vote for Republican leaders.
McNally, 80, recently removed small basal cells from his lower eyelids. Spokesman Adam Kleinheider said that McNally’s doctor reported the removal as “creating a clean margin.” Apart from visible swelling from the procedure, he is doing very well and is not expected to require further treatment. ”
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