Tennessee General Assembly - Tennessee, State legislature, Tennessee State Constitution, Tennessee House of Representatives, Ron Ramsey

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Tennessee General Assembly is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Tennessee. According to the Tennessee State Constitution of 1870, the General Assembly is a bicameral legislature and consists of a Senate of thirty-three members and a House of Representatives of ninety-nine members. The representatives are elected to two-year terms; according to a 1966 constitutional amendment the senators are elected to four-year terms which are staggered, with the districts with even numbers being elected in the year of Presidential elections and the those in the districts with odd numbers being elected in the years of Tennessee gubernatorial elections.