More than a year after the bill squeaked by in a Senate floor vote, Sen. Bo Watson, R-North Chattanooga, pushed his own bill back to the Calendar and Rules Committee on Thursday, sending dueling versions of a controversial immigration schools bill into a tailspin.
As the U.S. Senate considers passing the SAVE America Act — a second attempt by the Trump administration to increase voter ID requirements around citizenship, sprinkled with anti-transgender policies — Tennessee elections officials are bracing for a slew of different state and federal election changes that could hit just before the state's busy election season.
A bill concerning undocumented public school students that has dominated Tennessee's two-year legislative session passed on the House floor Monday, but its fate is unclear due to a conflicting Senate version of the bill.
A rift among Tennessee House Democrats seems to have impeded the minority party's efforts to pass affordable housing legislation, despite the bill's success in the Senate. After a heated text exchange between Democratic lawmakers, the state party is begging the caucus to work together.
Some Tennessee lawmakers want more privacy for agents involved in immigration enforcement and less privacy for residents who use public services.
Before Mark Green abruptly retired from the U.S. House of Representatives last summer, the embattled congressman and his lobbyist business partner allegedly used trade information from one of the partner's clients to compete for a lucrative fuel agreement with the Guyanese government, according to a lawsuit.
Before a meeting of the House Finance, Ways and Means Subcommittee started Wednesday morning, hundreds of people flooded the hallway of the Cordell Hull legislative office building to oppose a pair of bills that would require schools and other public entities to track and report immigration status.
Tennessee's legislature advanced two anti-immigrant bills on Tuesday during their first hearings on each. One would require local law enforcement to cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the other would require law enforcement agencies, local governments and institutions such as schools, hospitals and prisons to track and report individuals based on immigration status.
The clankers are coming.
A Tennessee state lawmaker filed a series of anti-LGBTQ+ bills this week, challenging the Supreme Court Obergefell decision, threatening anti-discrimination protections and attempting to ban pride flags and symbols on state property.
