TN-SB937-2025
Tennessee · SB 937 · 2025
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4; Title 8; Title 9, Chapter 8; Title 29, Chapter 20 and Title 49, relative to freedom of speech.
- Bill key
- TN-SB937-2025
- State
- Tennessee
- Session
- 2025
- Introduced
- Last recorded status
- passed
- Citation (Bluebook)
- S.B. 937, 114th Gen. Assemb., Reg. Sess. (Tenn. 2025) (enacted), https://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/Billinfo/Default?BillNumber=SB0937&ga=114.
- Short citation
- Tenn. S.B. 937.
- Enacted as
- Pub. Ch. 453
- Tags
Summary
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4; Title 8; Title 9, Chapter 8; Title 29, Chapter 20 and Title 49, relative to freedom of speech.
Curator notes
students, teachers, contractors can freely misgender trans students, teachers, and contractors
Sponsors
| Name | Party | Office | District | Role |
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| Paul Rose | Republican | Senator | SD-032 | Primary sponsor |
| Janince Bowling | Republican | Senator | SD-016 | Co-sponsor |
| Joseph Hensley | Republican | Senator | SD-028 | Co-sponsor |
| Edward Jackson | Republican | Senator | SD-025 | Co-sponsor |
| Mark Pody | Republican | Senator | SD-017 | Co-sponsor |
| Bo Watson | Republican | Senator | SD-011 | Co-sponsor |
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