On February 8, Tennessee Representative Bud Hulsey (R-Kingsport) introduced HB 662. It lowers the number of signatures for a newly-qualifying party from 2.5% of the last gubernatorial vote (now 33,816 signatures) to exactly 5,000. It also lowers the vote test from 5% for any statewide race at the last election, to 1.5% at any of the last three elections. Here is the text. Thanks to Jim Tomasic for this news.