Image Credit: John Partipilo By Adam Friedman [Tennessee Lookout -CC BY-NC-ND 4.0] – Unlike in previous years, when Tennessee’s coffers were flush with cash, the state budget will likely play a much more central role in this year’s legislative session as Gov. Bill Lee proposes spending down cash reserves for more business tax cuts and his […]
Image Credit: Canva The Tennessee Conservative [By Kelly M. Jackson] – In last year’s general session, a bill was passed that changes the definition of money, and what kinds would be able to be used in the state of Tennessee without the necessity of currency exchange. Specifically, the bill legally redefined what the law currently […]
Image Credit: Canva By Sam Stockard [Tennessee Lookout -CC BY-NC-ND 4.0] – Key House lawmakers say the state’s Achievement School District needs major changes amid the apparent dismissal of the state director charged with running the program after just five months. The Department of Education confirmed Bren Elliott, who took over the post Aug. 31, […]
Image: Interstate 275 – Tennessee Image Credit: Doug Kerr / CC By Adam Friedman [Tennessee Lookout -CC BY-NC-ND 4.0] – Tennessee’s transportation infrastructure needs have grown almost every year since 2008, reports compiled by the state’s intergovernmental advisory agency show. Over that period, lawmakers have partially addressed the backlog by raising the gas tax in 2017 and dedicating […]
Image Credit: capitol.tn.gov The Tennessee Conservative [By Paula Gomes] – A private school handgun bill will move on to full committee after passing out of the House Civil Justice Subcommittee yesterday. House Bill 1631 (HB1631) sponsored by Representative Gino Bulso (R-Brentwood-District 61) expands state law that already allows a private school serving grades K-12 to […]
Image Credit: нυвιѕ тανєяη / Unsplash The Tennessee Conservative Staff – One Democrat legislator wants to make physician assisted suicide an option for Tennessee residents, calling it death in a “humane and dignified manner.” State Representative Bob Freeman (D-Nashville-District 56) filed House Bill 1710 (HB1710) to give terminally ill individuals access to drugs that could […]
Case sent back to trial court for judicial review. Image: Gov. Bill Lee, pictured unveiling his plan for statewide private school vouchers on Nov. 28, 2023. Image Credit: John Partipilo By Sam Stockard [Tennessee Lookout -CC BY-NC-ND 4.0] – The Tennessee Court of Appeals has ruled a challenge to the state’s pilot Education Savings Account […]
Image Credit: State Senator Richard Briggs / Facebook The Tennessee Conservative [By Adelia Kirchner] – Sen. Richard Briggs (R-Knoxville-District 7) has announced new legislation called the “Freedom to Have Children and a Family Act,” which would weaken Tennessee’s current abortion law under the guise that women cannot be properly treated by their doctors under current […]
Image Credit: tn.gov/education The Center Square [By Jon Styf] – The state of Tennessee spent 43% of the state sales tax on education last fiscal year and 56 cents of every dollar of state and local sales tax went to education in that same span. Sales tax accounts for most of both state and local […]
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