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A Tennessee Senate committee recently approved a bill that would prohibit state colleges and universities from taking disciplinary action against an employee or student with a handgun-carry permit for transporting or storing a gun in their vehicle on campus.

Senate Bill 1991 would add a new provision to state law governing public colleges and universities declaring that: "No public postsecondary institution shall take any adverse or disciplinary action against an employee or student of the postsecondary institution for such person's transportation and storage of a firearm or firearm ammunition in compliance with [the guns-in-parking-lots act] while on or using a parking area located on property owned, used, or operated by the postsecondary institution."

State Rep. Jon Lundberg, R-Bristol, said anyone with a carry permit should be able to have their weapon in their car on college campus.