Tennessee General Assembly on Pace for Over 2000 Bills

An important deadline passed yesterday for the state legislature. After Thursday, each Senator may only file 9 more bills, apart from certain exceptions allowed in the rules. With 33 Senators, this means approximately 300 more bills may be filed between now and February 26, which is final bill filing deadline for both Houses. While at the start of the week only a few hundred bills had been filed in each chamber, the total reached 1,948 in the Senate and 1,420 in the House as of 3:00 on Friday. This puts the General Assembly on pace for a little over 2000 bills which has been fairly typical in recent years. As these bills are reviewed I will keep you up to date on legislation of particular interest to county government.