Senator Niceley (Bills enacted into law):
- 2009: Sponsored bill legalizing the distribution of raw milk through herdshare agreements. (In 2012, followed up on that bill by getting an Attorney General’s opinion that it was legal to distribute other raw dairy products through a herdshare agreement as well.)
- 2012: Got an Attorney General’s opinion that farmers didn’t need a permit to sell eggs from their own farm.
- 2014: Sponsored a bill adopting the federal poultry exemption enabling farmers to process up to 20,000 birds a year. The Tennessee Department of Agriculture has since expanded the exemption by policy to include processing rabbit meat on the farm.
- 2017: Sponsored a bill adopting the federal exemption on custom slaughter and the exemption on custom slaughter and the exemption on non-amenable species. The latter exemption allows the sale of meat from animals such as bison and domestically raised deer that are slaughtered and processed at a custom facility.
- 2017: Received Attorney General’s opinion stating that there can be an unlimited number of owners for an animal slaughtered and processed at a custom facility and that entities such as a food buyers club can be an owner of such a custom animal.
- 2019: Sponsored bill legalizing sales of raw butter by licensed dairies.
- 2020: Sponsored a bill requiring that any meat labeled as a product of Tennessee must be from an animal that was born and raised in the state.
- 2020: Sponsored a resolution commending the Weston A. Price Foundation for its 50-50 Campaign urging people to buy at least 50% of their food budget direct from the farm.
- 2022: Sponsored the Tennessee Food Freedom Act legalizing the unlicensed unregulated sale from homemade food producers of food that does not require time and temperature control for safety; these sales, including fermented foods, can be direct to consumers and also by some third parties such as food buyers clubs and grocery stores.
- 2022: Sponsored bill making over-the-counter sales of ivermectin legal.
- 2022: Sponsored bill exempting gold and silver coins from the sales tax.
- 2022: Sponsored a bill that decriminalized shotguns and short-barreled rifles. The latter is important due to the ATF’s efforts to criminalize pistol braces.
- 2023: Sponsored bill authorizing State Treasurer to purchase gold and silver.
- 2023: Sponsored a bill that created a state meat inspection program so that Tennessee is no longer under federal USDA oversight.
- 2023: Sponsored a bill, as enacted, that prohibits this state and its political subdivisions from adopting or implementing policy recommendations that deliberately or inadvertently infringe or restrict private property rights without due process, as may be required by policy recommendations originating in, or traceable to, “Agenda 21,” adopted by the United Nations in 1992 at its Conference on Environment and Development, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and the UN’s proposal to reach net zero emissions by 2050, or any other international law or ancillary plan of action that contravenes the constitution of the United States or the constitution of this state.
Representative Hulsey (Bills enacted into law):
- Bill removing sales tax on the purchase of precious metals, coins, and currency.
- Bill giving a property owner the ability to pay their property taxes forward.
- Bill requiring nursing homes to allow at least one family member in to visit a Covid patient.
- Bill ensuring that state and local governments cannot force someone to take a Covid shot.
- Bill for the State Treasurer to buy gold bullion.
Representative Hulsey (Bills sponsored – not enacted into law):
- Bill that would have made private employers who mandate the Covid shot as a condition of employment no longer immune from civil liability if the employee was harmed.
- Bill that would have required those involved in in-person transactions to take cash if offered.
- Bill that would have not allowed the executive branch of government to use police power to enforce executive orders.
- Bill that would have prevented medical boards from bringing adverse action against a doctor for recommending alternative treatment for Covid, and pharmacies from blocking access to ivermectin.
- Bill that would have forbidden ESG (environmental, social, and governance) scoring for lending institutions and insurance companies.
- Act that declared that acquired immunity is as good or better than the Covid shot.
- In 2024, will again sponsor the Restoring State Sovereignty Through Nullification Act.