Tennessee 28th District Capitol Hill Week in Review; Senator Joey Hensley, MD

These new laws will improve public education in Tennessee

Education was a primary focus of the 2022 legislative session, adding to the books a variety of new laws that will improve our public school system in Tennessee. With the new school year upon us, I’ll summarize in the following paragraphs a few of these important laws, several of which I am proud to have sponsored.

I sponsored two bills aimed at ensuring fairness in both girls’ sports in K-12 public schools as well as NCAA women’s sports in public colleges in Tennessee. The latter prohibits biological males from competing in women’s spo...