Each house may determine the rules of its proceedings, punish its members for disorderly behavior, and, with the concurrence of two-thirds, expel a member, but not a second time for the same offence, and shall have all other powers necessary for a branch of the Legislature of a free state.
Section 12
Tenn. Const. art. II, § 12, under Distribution of Powers.
Tenn. Const. art. II, § 12
Section 12