Rep. Brooks named the bill after her son, Akilah Dasilva, who was one of four victims in the 2018 Waffle House shooting in ...

The bill, SB 0763, was introduced by two Republican lawmakers as a way to curtail vaping use in schools and make the products ...

Imagine getting arrested. The whole incident is caught on police body camera video. But the department refuses to give it to ...

The bill would, with some exceptions, protect officers from lawsuits if that officer used force against a suspect resisting ...

At the House Criminal Justice Subcommittee, Pearson presented House Bill 1392, legislation that would repeal Tennessee’s ...

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The bill is otherwise known as "Akilah's Law," named after a victim of a 2018 shooting at an Antioch restaurant.

executive director of the Tennessee Soybean Council, said. However, Democrats criticized the bill’s sponsor, Sen. John Stevens (R-Huntingdon). Stevens told lawmakers — after being asked ...

Republicans in the Tennessee General Assembly are pushing legislation that would penalize people in the Volunteer State who are harboring illegal immigrants. The bill would transform existing ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee lawmakers on opposite sides of the aisle introduced a bill that would make it a felony to assault educators while they are at work. The House version of the bill ...

Former Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam was in office at the time, and Gardenhire said the governor asked him to kill the bill because of a naming that was in the works for someone who hadn't been out ...

A Tennessee House bill passed out of committee that would allow local schools to bar undocumented students from enrolling. The bill would directly violate the Plyler V. Doe Supreme Court ruling, which ...