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Relationships between Democrats and Republicans in the state legislature appeared to improve little as lawmakers looked back over the session.
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Tennessee youth, parents and teachers voiced their opposition to a bill that would allow school staff to carry guns on campus — without notifying parents or students — on Monday morning.
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Republicans scrapped a contentious change to the otherwise broadly supported “momnibus” bill on Monday. That cleared its path to becoming law.
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The new law would allow Kentucky to issue medical cannabis licenses to businesses as early as this summer, increasing the odds that cannabis will be available for patients at dispensaries beginning 2025.
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Leaders of the Tennessee House and Senate say they are meeting privately to discuss compromises on two main bills that came directly from Gov. Bill Lee. But in public, negotiations haven’t yet drawn the chambers any closer together.
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