Terms Used In Tennessee Code 3-3-108

  • Committee: as used in this chapter , except when more particularly provided in this chapter, includes:

    (1) A committee appointed by either the house of representatives or the senate. See Tennessee Code 3-3-101
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Joint session: When both chambers of a legislature adopt a concurrent resolution to meet together.

Either house of the general assembly, acting in committee of the whole, or both houses acting in joint session or committee of the whole, or any committee of either or both houses, has the power, respectively, to compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of papers or other evidence; and to that end each of them, respectively, has the power to issue subpoenas, including subpoenas duces tecum, to enforce the attendance of witnesses and the production of any records, documents, papers or other items of evidence, deemed to be material to any matter under inquiry or investigation by any of them respectively.

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