Tennessee Code Title 4. State Government § 4-5-108

(a) Any legislation that, in whole or in part, amends or repeals any provision of this chapter, or any legislation that reestablishes, restructures or otherwise delegates any type of rulemaking authority to any new or preexisting governmental entity to which this chapter applies, shall be referred to the government operations committee according to the rules of the senate and the rules of the house of representatives. The government operations committees of each house shall then review the legislation and shall recommend that the legislation be considered for passage or shall recommend against passage to the appropriate standing committee.

(b) Except when the government operations committee is designated as the appropriate standing committee, nothing contained in this section shall be construed to authorize the government operations committee to delay or prevent consideration of such legislation by the appropriate house by withholding its recommendation.

(c) Nothing contained within this chapter shall be construed to prevent the government operations committee from being considered as an appropriate standing committee to consider legislation that amends or repeals any provision of this chapter.