By Associated Press
Nashville, TN – Pressed by GOP leaders to end the legislative session early, Tennessee's General Assembly passed 154 bills in the final three days, 30 percent of the year's entire package of enacted legislation. According to public records, lawmakers moved out 133 of them in the final two days. That number was roughly a fourth of the 510 bills the Secretary of State's office lists as passing both chambers during the session that stretched from January 11th to May 21st. Among the bills were extensively debated items, such as reshaping tenure and collective bargaining for teachers. Others got little attention, including measures that brought far-reaching changes to how residents are allowed to use the Internet, and some are going to need to be redone next session because they contained mistakes.