Nashville works to pass two school safety related bills [Video]

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) – A few weeks remain in the 2024 legislative session in Nashville and lawmakers continue to narrow down bills.

One awaits Gov. Bill Lee’s signature while the other is tabled in the house until next week.

The bill awaiting Lee’s signature addresses harsher penalties for making a school threat.

”With social media that is extremely common now, it’s too common and we don’t take any of those threats lightly. If we get a threat at two or three o’clock in the morning, we’re going to assimilate and come together at two or three o’clock in the morning and take care of that threat and it could be on a Saturday morning,” said Cumberland County Sheriff Casey Cox in a conversation with WVLT in March.

The bill would suspend a kid’s driver’s license for one year, or prevent them from obtaining a driver’s license for one year if …