2024 TN Legislative Scorecard

SB2269 requires the Department of Human Services to identify any federal regulations or state law or rules that inhibit its ability to deliver benefits for the food assistance program.

The House passed SB2260 on April 24, 2024, by a vote of 57 to 27. We have assigned pluses to the noes because providing “food assistance,” especially to “able-bodied adults without dependents,” is not the role of government. There exists no “right to food” apart from a person working and earning it themselves or having received it privately and voluntarily from someone else. Taxation in the name of “social welfare” is neither just nor charitable. “Public assistance benefits” rely on the unconstitutional and discriminatory use of federal and state taxpayer money on behalf of some citizens (particularly those who have little or no tax liability) at the expense of others, resulting in more debt, dependency, and poverty. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is not authorized under Article I, Section 8, of the U.S. Constitution.  

HB2452 would remove the provision of state law that declares “it is the responsibility” of each parent to ensure that their child receive the vaccines “recommended” by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or the American Academy of Pediatrics.

The House passed HB2452 on April 15, 2024, by a vote of 73 to 25. We have assigned pluses to the ayes because parents—not the government—ought to decide whether their child should be vaccinated. Child immunization requirements must be opposed, as a parent’s non-injurious healthcare decisions are private family matters not under federal, state, or local jurisdiction in the United States. Forcing every child to be vaccinated under the guise of ‘preventive medical treatment’ violates the fundamental rights of parents protected by the Bill of Rights and the 14th Amendment.

SB2219 amends the state’s definition of “money” to exclude Central Bank Digital Currency.

The House passed SB2219 on April 1, 2024, by a vote of 77 to 14. We have assigned pluses to the ayes because a Central Bank Digital Currency would be an unconstitutional and intolerable expansion of tyranny under the Federal Reserve—presenting a significant danger to Americans’ civil liberties by decimating personal privacy and allowing for a full-fledged surveillance state. According to Article 1, Section 10, of the U.S. Constitution, “No State shall…make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts.” The States can and must act now to avow their adherence to constitutionally sound money.

HJR849 urges “Congress and the President to withdraw the United States from the United Nations.”

The House passed HJR849 on April 1, 2024, by a vote of 66 to 25. We have assigned pluses to the ayes because the United States should fully withdraw from the entire United Nations system, including its funds and programs, specialized agencies, and other related bodies and organizations. The UN poses one of the greatest threats to U.S. national sovereignty and the God-given rights of the American people. Since 1945, the UN Charter, which is completely antithetical to the U.S. Constitution, has established an international framework for expanding global governance, with the ultimate goal of building a one-world state. Americans must reject the “zeitgeist” of globalism and call on Congress and the President to pursue a sound, just, and traditional foreign policy of non-interventionism, based on U.S. interests and the original intent of the Founding Fathers. It’s time to Get US Out! of the UN.

SB1738 prevents the Department of Children’s Services from denying a parent’s ability to foster or adopt based upon the parent’s religious or moral beliefs regarding “sexual orientation or gender identity.”

The House passed SB1738 on April 1, 2024, by a vote of 73 to 20. We have assigned pluses to the ayes because this bill defends the religious liberty of foster and adoptive parents. No current or prospective parent should ever be compelled to “affirm, accept, or support” LGBTQ+ ideology under threat of the full force and sanctioning of the government. Indeed, Christians and other parents who wish to adopt children, but reject fictional “gender identity” constructs, should be honored, not persecuted. Article 1, Section 3 of the Tennessee Constitution clearly states that “all men have a natural and indefeasible right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own conscience” and that “no human authority can, in any case whatever, control or interfere with the rights of conscience.” On the contrary, there is nothing in the U.S. Constitution that can be used to support homosexuality, sex mutilation, or other forms of “gender affirming” behavior, which should be illegal. These grossly illicit, self-inhibiting, and unsanitary acts of sexual perversion violate the “Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God,” making them destructive of self-government and the family—the very foundations of a free society.