Career
Bud Hulsey is a retired Kingsport Police lieutenant with post graduate work at the University of Virginia via the FBI National Academy. [1]
He is the owner and President of Burlington Logistics,Inc.,a trucking company located in the Tri-Cities area of East Tennessee. [2]
Hulsey was elected to the Tennessee House of Representatives as a member of the 109th General Assembly in 2014 after defeating three-term incumbent Tony Shipley [3] in the Republican primary and Independent J.R. Enfield in the general election. [3] He was again elected to serve in the 110th General Assembly in 2016 after a victory over Democratic challenger J.S. Moore. [4] On November 6,2018,Hulsey was re-elected to serve in the 111th General Assembly after defeating Democratic challenger Arvil Love,Jr. and Independent challenger Robert Ellis in the General Election. [4] The second district proved its loyalty to Hulsey yet again on November 3,2020,when they overwhelmingly supported him against repeat challenger Arvil Love,Jr. in the general election. [4] He has since been re-elected uncontested.
During the COVID-19 pandemic,he proposed legislation to prohibit mandatory COVID-19 vaccination. [5]
In 2023,the Tennessee House voted on motions to remove three sitting Democratic representatives — Gloria Johnson,Justin Jones,and Justin J. Pearson — for disrupting proceedings with a protest as citizens were at the capitol voicing their outrage over a mass shooting at a Nashville school that left six dead. [6] Hulsey voted in favor of all three resolutions:HR 63,to remove Pearson; [7] HR 64,to remove Johnson; [8] and HR 65,to remove Jones. [9] Pearson and Jones were expelled,while Johnson was not. [10]
In 2024,Hulsey proposed to ban lab-grown meat. He argued that exposing humans to lab-grown meat was a violation of the Nuremberg Code (a set of ethical research principles for human experimentation established in the wake of Nazi experiments on humans). [11]
Committee assignments
Hulsey serves in the 114th General Assembly as:
- Chair,Appropriations and Oversight Committee [1]
- Member,Agriculture and National Resources Committee [1]
- Member,Private Acts Committee [1]
- Member,Finance,Ways,and Means Committee [1]
Hulsey served in the 113th General Assembly as:
- Chair,Criminal Justice Committee [1]
- Member,Criminal Justice Subcommittee [1]
- Member,Agriculture and National Resources Committee [1]
- Member,Agriculture and National Resources Subcommittee [1]
- Member,Calendars and Rules Committee*Member [1]
Hulsey served in the 112th General Assembly as:
- Chair,Corrections Subcommittee [1]
- Member,Agriculture and National Resources Committee [1]
- Member,Agriculture and National Resources Subcommittee [1]
- Member,Criminal Justice Subcommittee [1]
- Member,State Government Committee [1]
Hulsey served in the 111th General Assembly as:
- Chair,Corrections Subcommittee [1]
- Member,State Committee [1]
- Member,Agriculture and National Resources Committee [1]
- Member,Agriculture and National Resources Subcommittee [1]
- Member,Judiciary Committee [1]
- Member,Public Safety Committee of Extraordinary Session II [1]
Hulsey served in the 110th General Assembly as:
- Vice-chair,House State Government Committee [1]
- Member,House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee [1]
- Member,House State Government Committee [1]
Hulsey served in the 109th General Assembly as:
- Member,House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee [1]
- Member,House State Government Committee [1]
- Member,House State Government Subcommittee [1]
Other
- In July 2014,Hulsey lost his campaign chair,former Tennessee State Representative Michael Locke,in a hit and run incident by a drunk driver. [12]
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