Tennessee

Introduction

A comprehensive legal and technical guide for transforming a policy proposal, specifically the elimination of sales tax on menstrual hygiene products, into a professionally drafted, legally sound bill suitable for introduction in the Tennessee General Assembly. The objective of this legislative proposal is to produce an unambiguous text, integrates seamlessly with current law and effectively achieves the underlying policy goal.

Strategy

A threshold determination in legislative drafting is whether to create a new, freestanding law or to amend an existing statute.