{"bill":{"bill_key":"TN-SB2044-2026","title":"AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 28; Title 29; Title 49; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68, relative to a person's sex.","side":"anti","state":"TN","year":2026,"status_cat":"failed","ls_status":"introduced","summary":"AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 28; Title 29; Title 49; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68, relative to a person's sex.","notes":"A trans exclusionary study of women's health needs that describes cisgender women as \"biological women\" and it's unclear if they intend to misgender trans men and include them in their study or ignore trans folks entirely; crossfiled with HB 1990","types_str":"End Legal Recognition","sponsor_mix":"R","url":"https://legiscan.com/TN/bill/SB2044/2025","url_kind":"legiscan","source":"legiscan","special":0,"bluebook":{"cite":"S.B. 2044, 114th Gen. Assemb., Reg. Sess. (Tenn. 2026), https://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/Billinfo/Default?BillNumber=SB2044&ga=114.","short":"Tenn. S.B. 2044."}},"same_key":[],"sponsors":[{"name":"Brent Taylor","party":"R","state":"TN","district":"SD-031","is_primary":true,"href":"/people/ls-23362"},{"name":"Rusty Crowe","party":"R","state":"TN","district":"SD-003","is_primary":false,"href":"/people/ls-7282"}],"citations":[],"text":{"available":true,"credit":"Bill data and text from LegiScan (legiscan.com), licensed CC BY 4.0 and used in modified form. LegiScan does not endorse the Trans Data Initiative.","versions":[{"role":"intro","label":"As introduced","chars":713,"pdf_href":"/bills/TN-SB2044-2026/pdf/0/intro"}]}}