Gov. Bill Haslam said he’d like to see lawmakers revive a bill that would give undocumented immigrants in-state tuition at Tennessee colleges.
The effort suffered its latest narrow defeat last week, when the legislation failed by one vote in the House Education Administration & Planning Committee after a formerly supportive representative flipped on the issue. A similar measure failed by one vote on the House floor in 2015.
“I was disappointed, obviously,” Haslam said in an interview last week. “It was a bill that we have supported that we think is the right thing to do.”
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