(a) No agency created by statute and subject to review under chapter 29 of this title shall promulgate rules or implement policies that infringe on an agency member's freedom of speech in violation of the Constitution of Tennessee, Article I, § 19, or the First Amendment of the United States Constitution.(b) An agency's appointing authority shall have sole power to remove a member from a board, commission, council, committee, authority, task force, or other similar multi-member agency created by statute and subject to review under chapter 29 of this title. This subsection (b) shall not impair the ability of the general assembly to reconstitute, restructure, or reestablish such agency.(c) Subsection (b) does not apply to the state board of education.Amended by 2021 Tenn. Acts, ch. 493, s 36, eff. 5/25/2021.Added by 2018 Tenn. Acts, ch. 929, s 3, eff. 7/1/2018.
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