House Minority Leader Karen Camper believes a legislative oversight committee needs to be renewed amid another poor audit for Tennessee's prisons.

State Rep. Jesse Chism is calling it a “moral imperative” for the state to pass legislation restricting solitary confinement of juveniles and pregnant women. But his legislation is likely to hit a Republican wall.

A University of Tennessee economist says warlike events between the United States and Iran could “dampen” the state’s economy but won’t cause a recession without a full-scale military conflict or other shock to the economic system.

State Sen. Brian Kelsey is helping lead a charge to pass legislation adding Tennessee’s Right to Work law to the Tennessee Constitution, a move that union officials believe is designed to clamp down on unions and hurt workers' rights.

Feeling opposition over his decision to put Tennessee in the federal refugee resettlement program, Gov. Bill Lee defended his move Tuesday among fellow Republicans at a Nashville social gathering.

House Speaker Cameron Sexton was in Collierville Monday evening to attend a fundraiser for Collierville state Rep. Kevin Vaughan. The legislative session that begins next week will be Sexton's first regular session since becoming speaker this past summer.

Former governor Winfield Dunn put a dent in a proposal to rename the Cordell Hull Office Building for him, saying he has “reservations” about the plan. He said he asked state Rep. Ron Gant not to push the idea.

House Education Committee Chairman Mark White says two "go-to" liaisons to the Legislature who resigned Friday leave a communication void as the 2020 General Assembly session begins Jan. 14.

The state will fund a Fayette County landfill incinerator east of Shelby County to dispose of deer carcasses testing positive for chronic wasting disease.

The East Shelby Drive and Summer Avenue driver’s license testing centers were still expecting new examiners by late December to help with processing Real IDs.

The new law requires health insurance providers to disclose the price of treatment options to people enrolled in their plans.

State Sen. Raumesh Akbari is working on legislation designed to give prisoners who commit murder as juveniles a chance for earlier release if they can prove they’ve changed their lives.

Republican leaders are determined to push a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the federal Refugee Resettlement Program despite losses in court and opposition to the lawsuit by Memphis Democrats and an organization that settles refugees in Shelby County.

Tennessee could see sweeping changes through recommendations from the governor’s Criminal Justice Investment Task Force to deal with a billion-dollar budget and increased incarcerations.

House Minority Leader Karen Camper drew the ire of the House Finance chairwoman and got gaveled down Thursday for making a political point as frustration appeared to boil over among Republicans after the impeachment of President Donald Trump.

The Tennessee Capitol Commission chairman is guaranteeing a meeting by the end of February to discuss the process for a vote on removing the Nathan Bedford Forrest bust from the State Capitol.

State Sen. Raumesh Akbari is encouraging money to be spent for programs such as Agape in Memphis, which are cutting into poverty, as the state studies how to spend $732 million in TANF "reserves."

Gov. Bill Lee announced Wednesday he will agree to a refugee resettlement plan in Tennessee, responding to the executive order by President Donald Trump allowing states to make the decision on how to handle refugees. 

Tennessee Finance & Administration Commissioner Stuart McWhorter said Tuesday a list of projects could have existed for a $4 million rural grants being criticized as a “slush fund” for lawmakers but denied ever seeing one.

Department of Veterans Services Commissioner Courtney Rogers is considering “rare exceptions” for burying soldiers on weekends, a situation stemming from the state's refusal to hold services for Maj. Trevor Joseph of Collierville on a weekend when more family and friends could attend.

Lawmakers will try to derail Gov. Bill Lee’s education savings account law in 2020 amid “suspicions” about whether some lawmakers were offered perks for supporting it.

With questions surfacing about whether state Rep. David Byrd will run for re-election in 2020, state Rep. G.A. Hardaway is renewing his request for a House investigation into allegations of misconduct against the Waynesboro Republican as a high school girls basketball coach 30 years ago.

State Sen. Brian Kelsey and House Minority Leader Karen Camper are sponsoring legislation that would allow the zoo to sell alcoholic beverages during regular operating hours.

Memphis and Shelby County grab the attention of the Beacon Center in its annual Pork Report focusing on government spending for private projects, much of it targeting funds and incentives handed out by EDGE.

A healthcare advocacy organization is calling the state’s federal block grant proposal too “vague” for “meaningful” public comment and says it should be rewritten to show exactly how the state plans to spend any “shared savings” with the federal government.