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As Tennessee House Speaker, shepherded the state's near-total abortion trigger ban — among the strictest in the nation — which took effect in August 2022 after Dobbs. Supported a narrow life-of-mother clarification but opposed broader exceptions, stating proposals that permit abortion 'up to birth' go too far.
In a 2021 special legislative session, introduced legislation to make school board elections partisan rather than nonpartisan, part of a coordinated Republican effort to contest progressive education policies on gender identity and transgender students' rights in Tennessee public schools.
Supported Tennessee's 2021 permitless-carry bill allowing adults 21 and over to carry handguns without a permit, and publicly pushed to expand it toward full constitutional carry, calling the initial measure a step in the right direction while vowing to 'continue pushing and fighting until we can get to true constitutional carry.'
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