CONSTITUTION of the State of Tennessee
ARTICLE II, Sec. 18. Passage of bills.


 A bill shall become law when it has been considered and passed on three different days in 
each House and on third and final consideration has received the assent of a majority 
of all the members to which each House is entitled under this Constitution, when the 
respective speakers have signed the bill with the date of such signing appearing in the 
journal, and when the bill has been approved by the Governor or otherwise passed under 
the provisions of this Constitution. 

[As amended; Adopted in Convention September 29, 1977; approved at election 
March 7, 1978; Proclaimed by Governor, March 31, 1978.]