As Republican Gov. Bill Lee ramps up his new effort to pass a 95-county school voucher program, Tennessee House Democrats are calling on U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland and the U.S. Justice Department to probe 2019 allegations of attempted bribery back when Lee first sought to push through similar legislation.
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has been elected as the Republican Governors Association's new chair for 2024 while fellow Republican Brian Kemp of Georgia is vice chair of the organization whose top objective is helping elect and support Republican governors.
Tennessee House Finance Chair Patsy Hazlewood, R-Signal Mountain, has introduced legislation aimed at preventing children from accessing pornography online.
Gov. Bill Lee is rejecting what he charges is a "false narrative" promoted by critics who say his effort to expand private-school voucher programs to all 95 Tennessee counties will come at the expense of public education.
Public school advocates and Democratic lawmakers are raising concerns not only about costs, but educational quality, testing and accountability under Republican Gov. Bill Lee's proposed statewide school voucher program.
State Finance and Administration Commissioner Jim Bryson said last week that state revenues continue to lag behind last year's revenues and this year's budgeted projections.
NASHVILLE — Most Tennessee and Georgia Republican U.S. House members, including Reps. Chuck Fleischmann and Marjorie Taylor Greene, voted Friday against expelling GOP Rep. George Santos after an ethics committee report alleged misuse of campaign contributions.
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee on Tuesday announced a sweeping plan to push legislation next year to extend the state's school voucher program beyond Davidson, Shelby and Hamilton counties to all 95 counties.
Freshman state Rep. Aftyn Behn, D-Nashville, and Sen. Charlane Oliver, D-Nashville, said they are introducing legislation in the Tennessee General Assembly's 2024 session to eliminate the state's 4% sales tax on food purchased in grocery stores.
Often allies, Tennessee House Speaker Cameron Sexton, R-Crossville, and Lt. Gov. Randy McNally, the Republican speaker of the Senate from Oak Ridge, find themselves at odds over the death an 18-year-old college student in Nashville who was walking on a track when struck by a stray bullet.
