1. Navigating the TN General Assembly Website
Presented by Doria Panvini, Public Policy Chair
Carrie Hobbs Guiden, Executive Director

2. How do I learn about my legislators and legislation that could impact me?
Tennessee has a website that makes it easy to learn about your legislators, legislation, how legislators vote on legislation and so much more:
Our goal today is to help you learn how to navigate this website so that you can easily find what you are looking for

3. General Assembly Home Page

4. General Assembly Home Page
General Assembly website:
Tabs:
Legislators – Information about the Senate and House and Links to Legislators’ Home pages
Legislation – Links to all bills filed, search options, Publications and Archives
Videos – Links to video coverage of Senate and House committee and floor sessions when meeting
Schedules and Calendars – Senate and House schedules for committee and floor sessions and bills on the calendars or agendas for each meeting
Committees – Lists of all House, Senate and Joint committee members
Directory – Lists of Senate and House members and staff
Find My Legislator – Search to locate individual’s Senate and House members by address
My Bills - MyBills provides personalized bill tracking for current Tennessee Legislation.

5. MyBills

6. MyBills With MyBills, You Can
Create lists of bills to track and modify them at any time.
Track unlimited bills on each list.
View the legislative status of your bills and see items with significant current action highlighted for you.
Log in to get daily updates.
Keep the same lists until the end of the biennial legislative session.
To create an account click on: Register Here

7. General Assembly Home Page, con’t.

8. General Assembly Home Page, con’t.
Calendar of Daily Meetings of:
Senate Committees
Senate Floor Sessions
House Committees
House Floor Sessions
Joint Committees

9. Legislators

10. Legislators, con’t.

11. Legislators, con’t. Legislators:
Click on Legislator’s name to go to individual home pages
Home pages include Personal Information, Committee assignments and Bills the legislator is sponsoring or co-sponsoring

12. How to locate House & Senate Bills

13. How to locate House & Senate Bills
Legislation:
Click on bill number range to locate bill by
HB – House Bill;
SB - Senate Bill;
HJR or SJR – House Joint Resolution or Senate Joint Resolution
HR or SR - House Resolution or Senate Resolution

14. Sample Bill Page

15. Sample Bill Page Information for SB 2003/HB 2014 Left column:
Bill numbers with Prime Sponsor. Click on Bill number to read text of bill as filed. To see co- sponsors of each bill, click on bill number and then on Show Co-Prime Sponsors
Summary of bill
Public Chapter number – assigned if bill has passed the Senate and House and been signed by the Governor
Right column:
Bill History -- Every action on the bill in the House or Senate is recorded with the most current action at the top of the House or Senate column.
Amendments – Shows all amendments added to bill with new Fiscal Note
Video – Video of presentation of bill in committee or on the Floor
Summary – Includes Fiscal Summary and Bill Summary
Fiscal Note – Fiscal Note for bill as originally filed
Votes – Votes taken on bill in Committee and in Floor Session

16. Legislative Publications

17. Legislative Publications
Right column: Click on “more” to expand list
Search Bills
Browse Bills by Index
Browse Bills by Subject
My Bills
Legislative Publications
How a Bill Becomes a Law
Legislation Archives - Bills from previous sessions
Bill History Abbreviations
Glossary – Glossary of Legislative terms
Tennessee Code – Tennessee Code Annotated- Tennessee laws
Acts and Resolutions
Tennessee Constitution

18. Tennessee Code Annotated TCA

19. Tennessee Code Annotated TCA

20. Tennessee Code Annotated TCA
Title 33 Chapter 5 Part 2 Section 01
  Part definitions.    As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:    (1) "Council" means the state family support council appointed under ง ;    (2) "Family" means a unit that consists of either a person with a severe or developmental disability and the parent, relative, or other care giver who resides in the same household or a person with a severe or developmental disability who lives alone without such support;

21. Videos

22. Videos
Videos:
Video links to live-streaming of Committee and Floor Sessions. On Demand Videos includes archives of all meetings and floor sessions.
Click on Committee in left column to access videos of each committee

23. Schedules and Calendars

24. Schedules and Calendars
Left column:
Click on date to view which committees are meeting each day, to access their calendar/agenda and to connect to streaming video of live committee proceedings
Right column:
Weekly Calendars available from January to end of session in April/May give complete calendars of each committee and sub- committee and the time and location of each meeting

25. House and Senate Committees

26. House and Senate Committees
Committees and Sub-Committees:
Click on name of committee for list of all committee members
Senate Committees
House Committees
Joint Committees
List of Select Committees follows list of Committees

27. Directory

28. Directory Directory: Links to Senate Members Senate Staff
House Members
House Staff
Joint Staff

29. Questions?
Carrie Hobbs Guiden Doria Panvini