TN’s House Bill 1896 (2025-26 Session):
https://legiscan.com/TN/text/HB1896/2025

AND
TN’s House Bill 1729 (same session):
https://legiscan.com/TN/bill/HB1729/2025

Diane’s information for our live portion:
A series of Substack articles written by a man named McQuaid for the CT Capitol Dispatch:
First article: https://capitoldispatch.substack.com/p/in-focus-when-connecticuts-lack-of

CT’s Homeschool Network response to a series of articles attacking homeschooling: https://myemail.constantcontact.com/Media-Claims–FOIA-Records–and-the-Gap-Legislators-Should-Examine.html?soid=1140823210111&aid=I09TvkmEzaY

Black’s Law on parental rights, parental liability:
Rights: (see attachment #3, from the US Gov’ts Ethics Office, below)
Liability: https://thelawdictionary.org/parental-liability/
How do parental rights/liability tie to tort reform (mentioned before now and happening all across America): 
GA: https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/georgias-tort-reform-battle-parents-rally-against-proposed-legal-changes
FL: https://www.floridabar.org/the-florida-bar-journal/neither-goose-nor-gander-why-tort-reform-fails-all/
IL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk3tLFPdoeU
(Brief description:  American Potential, host David From talks with Christie Black and Matt Black, Illinois homeschool parents who became grassroots leaders in the fight against a proposed state mandate that would have forced homeschooling families to register with the government—backed by fines and even jail time for parents who failed to comply. )
SC: House Bill 4757 (on parental rights): https://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess126_2025-2026/bills/4757.htm
AND
SC’s House Bill 3974 (goes after ‘private schools’ and seeks to increase community full service schools):
https://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess126_2025-2026/bills/3974.htm

IA: https://chooseeducationindependence.com/blog/iowa-sjr2005-stop-constitutional-amendment/

(All youth must be funneled through a public system)
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Links for the archive version of our show, aring 2/10/26:
Our previous show on the US Congressional bill that was aired 12/30/25 and supposedly is designed to ‘end’ homeschoolers entering colleges discrimination. In this show we detailed how this sales pitch is diverting citizens from the truth of more gov’t oversight and control by the STATE.
https://sonsoflibertymedia.com/homeschools-defined-by-the-state-video/The press release by NC’s Mark Harris that HSLDA supports: https://markharris.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-mark-harris-targets-colleges-discriminating-against-homeschoolers

https://tennesseeconservativenews.com/william-slater-to-force-aggressive-intervention-on-homeschool-parents-by-brandon-lewis/

Rep. Slater’s testimony (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_1NolAbrWs

From the CT Capitol Dispatch, the 3 other articles about state views on homeschooling:
Check out our previous entries in Capitol Dispatch’s ongoing ‘In Focus’ series on Homeschool Regulation.

–Part 1: CT Has Among the Weakest Homeschool Oversight in New England

-Part 2: How School Employees Help Alert Authorities to Child Abuse

-Part 3: High Rate of DCF Involvement Found Among Homeschooled CT Children

General pro/con aspects of tort reform: https://www.justia.com/injury/negligence-theory/tort-reform/

The Civil Rights Act of 1983, Section 1981 (we’ve featured many times to be used as a parental recourse: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/1981

The American Tort Reform Association (can help you keep up with tort reform from most angles at a federal/state level: https://atra.org/reforms/ )

OGE Designated Agency Ethics Officials by Tim Brown