Republicans Focus On Jobs, Education, Opioids; Adjourn In Timely Manner In the final few days of this year’s legislative session, State Representative Clark Boyd (R-Lebanon) and the House of Representatives passed Tennessee’s annual budget with a near-unanimous vote. The bill’s passage and the official adjournment was the culmination of months of tireless work crafting a…

Republicans Focus On Jobs, Education, Opioids; Adjourn In Timely Manner In the final few days of this year’s legislative session, State Representative John Holsclaw (R-Elizabethton) and the House of Representatives passed Tennessee’s annual budget with a near-unanimous vote. The bill’s passage and the official adjournment was the culmination of months of tireless work crafting a…

Republicans Focus On Jobs, Education, Opioids; Adjourn In Timely Manner In the final few days of this year’s legislative session, State Representative Paul Sherrell (R-Sparta) and the House of Representatives passed Tennessee’s annual budget with a near-unanimous vote. The bill’s passage and the official adjournment was the culmination of months of tireless work crafting a…

NASHVILLE - As the 110th General Assembly began to wrap up its business for the year yesterday, Speaker Beth Harwell (R-Nashville) and the House of Representatives fought for a last-minute provision in an education bill to hold teachers completely harmless for the student achievement data generated from the 2017-2018 TNReady assessments. "I am proud we were…

(NASHVILLE) — A measure sponsored by State Representative Jason Zachary (R-Knoxville) reforming Tennessee’s juvenile justice system has passed in both the House and Senate chambers. House Bill 2271, also known as the Juvenile Justice Reform Act of 2018, recently passed by a 98-1 vote tally in the House. The measure overhauls the current system of juvenile…

HB 1782 receives broad support in House (NASHVILLE) – Members of the Sumner County Legislative Delegation, including State Representative William Lamberth (R-Cottontown), State Representative Courtney Rogers (R-Goodlettsville), and State Representative Terri Lynn Weaver (R-Lancaster) enabling counties to take all necessary steps to end mandatory vehicle emissions testing in Tennessee has passed in the House…