Tennessee House Bill 2117 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Failed on March 1 2022 - 100% progression
Action: 2022-03-01 - Failed in s/c Civil Justice Subcommittee of Civil Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [PDF]

As introduced, requires an employer with a policy requiring employees to receive a medical procedure to provide an exemption and reasonable accommodations to each employee who refuses to receive the medical procedure based on the employee's religious beliefs; defines "medical procedure" as any drug, device, or product for which use is authorized by an emergency use authorization by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and includes the COVID-19 vaccine. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 14 and Title 50.

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4; Title 14 and Title 50, relative to civil rights.

Rep. John Ragan [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2022-03-01	House	Failed in s/c Civil Justice Subcommittee of Civil Justice Committee
2022-02-23	House	Placed on s/c cal Civil Justice Subcommittee for 3/1/2022
2022-02-07	House	Assigned to s/c Civil Justice Subcommittee
2022-02-03	House	P2C, ref. to Civil Justice Committee -- Commerce Committee
2022-02-02	House	Intro., P1C.
2022-01-31	House	Filed for introduction

SB2156 (Crossfiled) 2022-03-01 - Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Commerce and Labor Committee

Type	Source
Summary	https://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/Billinfo/default.aspx?BillNumber=HB2117&ga=112
Text	https://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/112/Bill/HB2117.pdf
Supplement	https://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/112/Fiscal/HB2117.pdf