David Hatley

His campaign website calls for pausing approval of new data centers until Tennessee writes rules for them, ending their tax breaks, and requiring them to pay for the power capacity they need.³

1. Encourage new data centers with tax breaks and faster approvals
2. Require data centers to pay the full cost of the power plants and lines they need
3. Pause or limit new data centers

His campaign website says he would work to make Tennessee a center for designing, building and staffing small modular nuclear reactors.³

His campaign website says he would hold the school voucher program at its current size, let current students keep their seats, and publish data on who receives the money and how those students perform.³

His campaign website says women's sports teams and locker rooms should be for women and that athletes born male should not compete in women's categories.³

1. Require teams based on sex at birth
2. Let each state decide
3. Let schools or sports organizations set rules case by case
4. Teams based on gender identity

His campaign website says he would eliminate the state sales tax on groceries and pay for it by cutting waste in the state budget.³

1. Lower sales tax rates or stop taxing necessities such as groceries
2. Keep current sales taxes
3. Raise sales taxes or apply them to more goods and services, to replace other taxes or fund state programs

His campaign website proposes expanding property tax relief for seniors, including a higher income limit and 50% off, and ending property taxes for permanently and totally disabled veterans.³

1. Eliminate property taxes on primary homes
2. Cap yearly increases or expand homeowner exemptions
3. No new state caps or exemptions; leave property taxes to local governments

His campaign website proposes state infrastructure grants for communities that set aside 5% to 10% of new developments for homes priced at $250,000 or less and speed up approvals.³

1. Have states require cities to allow more types of housing, such as apartments near transit
2. Give extra state or federal money to communities that allow more homes
3. Leave zoning decisions to local governments

His campaign website proposes adding child care seats by cutting licensing red tape, bringing Tennessee's rules by age group in line with other states, letting providers lease empty public school classrooms and offering a tax credit to employers that help with child care.³

1. Make child care free, or cap what families pay at a set share of income (such as 7%), paid for with new public funding
2. Expand help for lower- and middle-income families through grants and tax credits
3. Keep current child care funding and tax credits
4. Lower costs mainly by easing rules on providers, not with new federal spending

His campaign website says he would support rewriting Tennessee's carry law so that lawful handgun carry by law-abiding adults is the default.³

1. No permit needed for adults who can legally own a gun
2. Require a permit, with a background check and training
3. Require a permit and bar carrying in more places, such as parks, public transit and bars

His campaign website proposes mandatory life without parole for adults convicted of a second serious child sex offense.³

1. Reduce or end mandatory minimums for nonviolent drug crimes
2. Keep current mandatory minimums
3. Add or raise mandatory minimums, for example for selling fentanyl

His campaign website says he would make a state-regulated medical cannabis program a priority in 2027 and sign it into law.³

His campaign website proposes making minors' accounts private by default, blocking unknown adults from messaging children, giving parents control over feeds and notifications, and limiting the sale of children's data.³

1. Bar children under a set age, such as 16, from having social media accounts, with age checks
2. Require safer designs and settings for minors, and parental consent for younger users
3. Leave it to parents, with no new government requirements on apps

His campaign website says buyers of farmland and land near military bases and infrastructure should disclose who actually controls them, and that Tennessee's limits on adversarial foreign ownership should also cover long-term leases.³

His campaign website says that people in the country illegally who commit violent crimes should not be in Tennessee communities and that the state should work toward that.³

His campaign website says he is pro-life.³

His campaign website proposes banning campaign contributions from significant state contractors while they seek or perform state work.³