Tennessee Governor Bill Lee announced Wednesday he will deliver his fourth State of the State address to the General Assembly and fellow Tennesseans on January 31 at 6 p.m. CT. The joint session will take place in the House Chamber of the Tennessee State Capitol.
“I look forward to sharing my vision for Tennessee, including my budget and legislative priorities for the year,” Governor Lee said in a statement. “Tennessee shows the rest of the country that America hasn’t lost her way, and with the support of the General Assembly, we’ll continue to ensure Tennessee is a national leader for opportunity and freedom.”
Looking forward to sharing my vision for TN's future at the State of the State. TN shows the rest of the country that America hasn’t lost her way, & with the support of the General Assembly, we’ll continue to ensure we are a national leader for opportunity & freedom.
— Gov. Bill Lee (@GovBillLee) January 19, 2022
The address can be found on Lee’s Facebook and YouTube channels and will be aired statewide, the press release notes.
During last year’s State of the State address, Lee touted the state’s COVID-19 response, economy, and budget among other subjects.
This year, Lee is expected to further tout the state’s continued COVID-19 response, successful legislation the state has passed in the past year including the Constitutional Carry Bill, as well as the initiative Lee has taken part in to address the supply chain crisis – Operation Open Road.
As part of the state’s COVID-19 response in 2021, Lee issued an executive order in August that granted parents the right to opt their children out of a school’s COVID-19 mask mandate if a school board or a health board enacts one over a district. Although challenged by a small number of school districts, the order was praised by a majority of Republican lawmakers and utilized by many Tennessee parents.
The Constitutional Carry Bill, which Lee signed early on in 2021, was seen as a “huge win” for the Second Amendment and was praised by Republicans. Operation Open Road, which was signed by Lee and 14 other governors, called on the Biden Administration to address the supply chain crisis by suspending burdensome regulations.
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Kaitlin Housler is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network. Email tips to [email protected].
you said you would protect our historic civil war monuments, but you changed the makeup of a committee to do just the opposite. . Bye Bye…….
lee is a mushy conservative at best. his non-response on jab mandates is unexcusable.
Let me help Lee prepare with this outline:
(1) I continue to have the utmost confidence in the leftwing Director of Schools, Penny Scwhinn.
(2) I am proud of my track record in continuing to flood Tennessee with unwanted refugees and pledge to increase the number in the coming year along with assisting Catholic Charities with bilking the taxpayers at the same time. A two-fer!
(3) I am so drunk with the great power of emergency orders that I plan to double that number in 2022.
(4) I am a proud, spineless RINO.