Policy Watch Archive 2023:
Our weekly Policy Watch will include the status of the bills we are tracking, resources to help you engage in public policy, links to legislative information, and details about upcoming events. Our public policy work includes research, analysis, community outreach, and education of policymakers, focusing our work at the state-level and on proposed legislation that may impact Tennesseans with disabilities.
The 2023 session of the One Hundred Thirteenth General Assembly adjourned on Friday, April 21, 2023. The General Assembly will reconvene at 12:00 noon (CST) on Tuesday, January 9, 2024.
- Week 1: Policy Watch Intro
- Week 2: The Impact of Inclusion: New Legislative Transparency for Tennesseans
- Week 3: Keeping an Eye on Youth Justice
- Week 4: O Caption! My Caption!
- Week 5: The State of Our State: Examining the Intersection of Disability and Reproductive Rights
- Week 6: Making Cuts is Hard to Do!
- Week 7: A Tale of Two Bills
- Week 8: Better Together: Disability Day on the Hill and the Importance of Capacity Building in Policy Work
- Week 9: Reinventing the Education Wheel
- Week 10: Dissolution of the Tennessee Commission on Children and Youth in a Time of Crisis for Vulnerable Children
- Week 11: Debate Over 3rd Grade Retention Bills
- Week 12: School Safety in Tennessee: Guns, Security, and Mental/Behavioral Health
- Week 13: Expulsion of House Democrats and the State of Democracy
- Week 13 (part two): House Democratic expulsions, gun legislation, and the General Assembly’s plans to wrap session
- Week 14: General Assembly Adjourns With Governor’s Potential Call for a Special Session