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Tennessee Senate Passes Health Care Freedom Act
Tenth Amendment Center
February 23rd, 2011
On Wednesday, the Tennessee Senate passed SB0079, the Tennessee Health Care Freedom Act sponsored by Sen. Mae Beavers. The bill passed with 21 Ayes, 10 Nays, and one Present Not Voting. The Tennessee Health Care Freedom Act is essentially the same bill that passed in the Senate but failed in the House during the 2010 legislative session, with a few minor revisions.
Later in the afternoon, the House companion bill, HB0115 sponsored by Rep. Terri Lynn Weaver, was recommended for passage by the General Subcommittee of the House Commerce Committee. It will be forwarded to the full House Commerce Committee. Contact information for the House Commerce Committee members is listed below. Please begin contacting them now to express your support.
The Tennessee Health Care Freedom Act seeks to return the choice of health care and health insurance to individual Tennesseans instead of leaving decisions in the hands of the federal government. While SB0079 does not nullify the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in its entirety, it prohibits Tennesseans from being penalized if they choose not to participate in a federal or federally-approved health care plan.
The bill states:
“The power to require or regulate a person’s choice in the mode of securing health care services, or to impose a penalty related thereto, is not found in the Constitution of the United States of America, and is therefore a power reserved to the people pursuant to the Ninth Amendment, and to the several states pursuant to the Tenth Amendment. This state hereby exercises its sovereign power to declare the public policy of this state regarding the right of all persons residing in this state in choosing the mode of securing health care services.”
SB0079 goes on to declare the public policy of the state of Tennessee to be one where Tennesseans are free to choose any method of securing health care services or to refuse to do so without threat of penalty. This is a crucial step forward in the fight to protect Tennesseans from the unconstitutional mandates imposed by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act passed by Congress last year.
The passage of the bill in the Senate is a victory, but we still need to keep up the fight to ensure that it passes through the House and is signed by the Governor. Please begin today to contact the legislators below to express your support for HB0115.
House Commerce Committee
Rep. Steve McManus, Chair: Republican, District 96
107 WMB, (615) 741-1920, [email protected]
Rep. Jon C. Lundberg, Vice-Chair: Republican, District 1
205 WMB, (615) 741-7623, [email protected]
Rep. Pat Marsh, Secretary: Republican, District 62
110 WMB, (615) 741-6824, [email protected]
Rep. Charles Curtiss: Democrat, District 43
34 LP, (615) 741-1963, [email protected]
Rep. Linda Elam: Republican, District 57
215 WMB, (615) 741-7462, [email protected]
Rep. JoAnne Favors: Democrat, District 29
25 LP, (615) 741-2702, [email protected]
Rep. Brenda Gilmore: Democrat, District 54
22 LP, (615) 741-1997, [email protected]
Rep. G. A. Hardaway, Sr.: Democrat, District 92
109 WMB, (615) 741-5625, [email protected]
Rep. Bill W. Harmon: Democrat, District 37
24 LP, (615) 741-6849, [email protected]
Rep. Ryan A. Haynes: Republican, District 14
203 WMB, (615) 741-2264, [email protected]
Rep. Curtis Johnson: Republican, District 68
212 WMB, (615) 741-4341, [email protected]
Rep. Phillip Johnson: Republican, District 78
104 WMB, (615) 741-7477, [email protected]
Rep. Jimmy Matlock: Republican, District 21
219 WMB, (615) 741-3736, [email protected]
Rep. Don Miller: Republican, District 10
37 LP, (615) 741-6877, [email protected]
Rep. Richard Montgomery: Republican, District 12
201 WMB, (615) 741-5981, [email protected]
Rep. Joe Pitts: Democrat, District 67
34 LP, (615) 741-2043, [email protected]
Rep. Mark Pody: Republican, District 46
202 WMB, (615) 741-7086, [email protected]
Rep. Dennis Powers: Republican, District 36
G-4 WMB, (615) 741-3335, [email protected]
Rep. John D. Ragan: Republican, District 33
32 LP, (615) 741-4400, [email protected]
Rep. Dennis E. Roach: Republican, District 35
217 WMB, (615) 741-2534, [email protected]
Rep. Charles Michael Sargent, Jr.: Republican, District 61
206 WMB, (615) 741-6808, [email protected]
Rep. Cameron Sexton: Republican, District 25
17 LP, (615) 741-2343, [email protected]
Rep. David A. Shepard: Democrat, District 69
34 LP, (615) 741-3513, [email protected]
Rep. Janis Baird Sontany: Democrat, District 53
32 LP, (615) 741-6861, [email protected]
Rep. Art Swann: Republican, District 8
214 WMB, (615) 741-5481, [email protected]
Rep. Curry Todd: Republican, District 95
209 WMB, (615) 741-1866, [email protected]
Rep. Joe Towns, Jr.: Democrat, District 84
36 LP, (615) 741-2189, [email protected]
Rep. Kent Williams: Independent, District 4
19 LP, (615) 741-7450, [email protected]
Rep. Tim Wirgau: Republican, District 75
17 LP, (615) 741-6804, [email protected]
SOURCE:
http://tennessee.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2011/02/tennessee-senate-passes-health-care-freedom-act/
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