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This bill, by amending Tennessee Code Annotated (TCA) Title 1, Chapter 3 and Title 49, aims to significantly alter the legal avenues available for challenging governmental actions. Specifically, it removes the right for any affected person to seek declaratory and injunctive relief, which are legal remedies used to clarify rights or prevent harm, in actions questioning the legality or constitutionality of state governmental actions. The bill also introduces a new section that allows for such legal challenges, but only against political subdivisions of the state, which are defined as local governmental entities like cities, towns, and counties, and explicitly prohibits seeking damages or challenging the validity of state statutes. Furthermore, it clarifies that this new provision does not permit lawsuits against the state itself or waive its sovereign immunity, which is a legal protection that shields governments from lawsuits.

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