Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee is allowing to become law without his signature a bipartisan bill he opposed, which gives the House and Senate speakers control of two-thirds of the appointments to the State Board of Education.
A two-year effort by Rep. Yusuf Hakeem to have Black history taught in Tennessee public schools as a stand-alone subject paid off Thursday as the House approved legislation on an 80-2 vote.
A Republican-backed bill that allows Tennessee pharmacists to fill prescriptions for the anti-parasitic-drug ivermectin for human patients for COVID-19 - which also contains a provision shielding pharmacists and physicians from getting sued over it - is headed to Gov. Bill Lee for his consideration.
Proponents of a bill establishing common law marriages in Tennessee limited to one man and one woman have amended the measure to specify it excludes minors amid charges the original language would have allowed marriages between statutory rapists and children they have abused.
Tennessee Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Mike Bell filed resolution calling for their removal
Effort to regulate delta-8 products falters in Senate
Gov. Bill Lee has included a $725,700 grant to help Chattanooga officials secure downtown Tennessee River front property seen as critical to build on the area's past successes and promote additional development and bring more people to the thriving area.
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga would see funding for a new $98 million multi-story residence hall housing up to 900 students under a massive $2.66 billion amendment to the state's budget that Gov. Bill Lee is recommending state lawmakers adopt.
Tennessee and Georgia congressmen split along partisan lines this week in a vote on an election-year bill that seeks to cap insulin costs for insured patients at $35 a month.
Three state legislators from Hamilton County say they are agreeable to allowing local officials to use state sales tax revenues generated within a proposed new Chattanooga Lookouts baseball stadium to help fund the South Broad area project.
