Right-to-Carry Reform Study Committee

[Tim Nunan]

Guess we can spend the summer wonder who Commissar Naifeh will assign to this committee:

http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bill ... HR0390.pdf

HOUSE RESOLUTION 390
By McCord
A RESOLUTION to create a special House committee to study the issue of allowing persons with a valid handgun permit to carry in restaurants that serve alcoholic beverages, the licensing of clubs allowing only persons eighteen years of age and older or twenty-one years of age and older and the licensing of restaurants by the alcoholic beverage commission.

BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE HUNDRED FIFTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE, that there is hereby created a special House committee to study the issue of allowing persons with a permit to carry a handgun in restaurants that serve alcoholic beverages and the issue of licensing by the
alcoholic beverage commission of restaurants and clubs allowing only persons eighteen ( 18 ) years of age and older or twenty-one (21) years of age and older.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the committee shall consist of five (5) members of the House of Representatives, to be appointed by the Speaker of the House.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that all appropriate state agencies shall provide assistance to the special committee upon request of the chair.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that all legislative members of the special committee who are duly elected members of the General Assembly shall remain members of such committee until the committee reports its findings and recommendations to the General Assembly.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the special committee shall be convened by the member with the most years of continuous service in the General Assembly, and at its first meeting shall elect a chair, vice-chair, and such other officers the committee deems necessary.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the special committee shall timely report its findings and recommendations, including any proposed legislation, to the One Hundred Sixth General Assembly no later than February 1, 2009, at which time the committee shall cease to exist.