Tennessee Disability Coalition News Blog

For more than two months the Tennessee Disability Coalition, its friends and partners have mobilized to defeat legislation that was filed specifically to cut funding to Coalition programs like Family Voices, Project Brain as well as support for other disability organizations.
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We are happy to report that your voices were heard. The calls, the faxes, [...]

The Senate Finance Committee will not be meeting on Tuesday, April 17th so the funding cut legislation will not come up for a vote this week.
If you would like to know how you can help stop SB 441 please contacts Courtney at courtney_j@tndisability.org

There is a very important education bill that is up for a possible vote in the House and Senate Education Committees this week. Representative Rob Briley is the house sponsor and Senator Bill Ketron is the senate sponsor so they are working hard on our children’s behalf and need your voices to be heard.
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Last week, the Senate Finance Committee took up Senate Bill 441. This legislation would cut a major source of funding for direct disability programming through the Coalition by 66% and is being pushed by TNCO.
The Committee had a full agenda that day and could only devote the final 15 minutes to the legislation and spent [...]