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Republican lawmakers seek protections from immunization mandates As deployment of the various COVID-19 vaccines accelerates, some Tennessee lawmakers are working to prevent residents from being required to get the shot — to varying degrees of success and despite state officials’ declaration that no such mandate was forthcoming. The bill with the most momentum — House Bill 13/Senate Bill 187, sponsored by Republican Sen. Janice Bowling and Republican Rep. Bud Hulsey — seeks to “prohibit state and local authorities from forcing, requiring or coercing a person to receive an i...

Tennessee Pro-Family Building Act goes before joint committee next week Mollie Walker’s crash course in how a bill in the state legislature gets made was complete on March 5. “That’s the day the bill was written and issued it’s Senate and General Assembly numbers,” Walker said. “It’s not the end goal, but knowing the amount of work that happened behind the scenes in talking with senators and state representatives and everything else that has happened to get this piece of legislation written made that moment exciting for me and so many others who’ve been involved.” Walker, wh...

Bill allowing vaccine exemption based on religious beliefs, 'right of conscience' dies in House subcommittee Yue Stella Yu, Nashville Tennessean Following public health concerns from multiple lawmakers, a bill that would allow Tennesseans to reject vaccination based on religious beliefs or "by right of conscience" died in a House subcommittee Tuesday. HB10/SB7, sponsored by Rep. Jay Reedy, R-Erin, and Sen. Mark Pody, R-Lebanon, would carve out religious exemptions from immunization shots, including the COVID-19 vaccine, even during a pandemic. The bill failed on a 7-3 vote. ...

In their own comments or by inviting skeptics to testify at legislative hearings, some GOP state lawmakers are using their platform to promote false information about the virus.

Fighting COVID-19 misinformation from lawmakers By Julie Carr Smyth and Becky Bohrer - Associated Press FILE - In this Saturday, Jan. 30, 2021 file photo, organizer Jayme McElvany speaks with athletes from the Upper Peninsula behind her during a “Let Them Play” rally at the Capitol in Lansing, Mich. In Michigan, the House Oversight Committee didn’t include state health officials or other virus experts in a discussion about an extended pause on youth contact sports ordered by Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. It did feature McElvany, a virus skeptic who has posted about the QAnon conspir...