Tennessee Code Title 4. State Government § 4-5-214

(a) A rule may be withdrawn by the agency proposing the rule at any point prior to the effective date of the rule. The withdrawal shall become effective upon delivery of a written notification of such withdrawal to the office of the secretary of state and shall result in the nullification of all procedures undertaken or performed in order to promulgate the rule. The secretary of state may require the online submission of the notification of withdrawal of rules filed pursuant to this part.

(b) If, pursuant to this chapter, an agency withdraws a rule amending a previously existing rule, then such previously existing rule shall continue in effect until it is later amended, repealed or superseded by law.