WHAT? A proposal to amend Tennessee's constitution to make hunting and fishing a right in Tennessee.

NOTABLES: Nearly 100 legislators have signed on as co-sponsors of the constitutional amendment . . . The bill can be read in its entirety here.

OUR POSITION: This is a fine bill that will hopefully pass and give Tennessee voters an opportunity to decide whether the Volunteer State should constitutionally protect the right to hunt and fish.

ACTION? Find and contact your representatives in the Tennessee House and Senate by clicking here. Support the Tennessee Wildlife Federation.

THE LATEST: The bill passed the State House by an 89-1 vote on March 17 and action on the bill is now completed for 2008. The bill will now go back before the legislature next term and must pass by a two-thirds majority vote. It would then be placed on the ballot for a referendum vote, probably in 2010.

INTERNAL LINKS:
• HUNTING NEWS: Right to Hunt takes another step (March 18, 2008)
• BLOG POST: Right to Hunt amended slightly (Feb. 21, 2008)
• HUNTING NEWS: Right to Hunt moves forward (Feb. 7, 2008)