A proposal to add Tennessee’s right-to-work law to the state constitution came one step closer to passage Monday when it passed the state Senate for a second time.

Tennessee has had a right-to-work statute on the books since 1947. Last year, amid an effort by legislators in neighboring Virginia to repeal that state’s right-to-work law, also passed in 1947, Sen. Brian Kelsey, R-Germantown, proposed Tennessee’s right-to-work statute be added to the state constitution.