These new laws take effect today in Tennessee [Video]

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV/WBIR) – A new set of laws are now in effect in Tennessee.

These laws were passed by the General Assembly during the latest legislative session.

Here’s a look at the laws:

Law requires students to be expelled at least a year for making mass threats:

Students who bring a gun to school, assault teachers, are found with drugs or threaten mass violence against the school could face a year’s expulsion. School leaders could intervene and make case-by-case changes.

Law banning gender-affirmed care for transgender youth:

This law bans forms of gender-affirming care for minors. It can include banning puberty blockers or hormone therapy. The law doesn’t limit the ban to gender-affirming surgeries or drug prescriptions.

It states that trans youth already undergoing gender-affirming care as of July 1 will lose access to it after March 31, 2024, in Tennessee. Those who have not received the care by July 1 will be unable to start receiving …