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More than two dozen Chattanooga-area business owners condemning the legislation live in the district represented by Sen. Bo Watson, its chief sponsor

A Tennessee proposal that would challenge federal education rights for immigrant students is headed to the state Senate floor. The bill passed its final committee vote 7-4 on Tuesday with two Republicans dissenting.

Bill would transfer civil rights enforcement power to the Attorney General, whose embrace of conservative causes has been criticized by Democrats as politically motivated

Pesticide companies are among the wealthiest corporations in the world. Take Bayer: The chemical and pharmaceutical corporation made about half of its $50 billion revenue last year from pesticide and seed sales.

The measure would take effect only after a Supreme Court decision, Constitutional Amendment or other action allows states to regulate immigration

Tennessee’s Republican governor may sign a proposal that would require educational institutions that house students overnight to separate bathrooms “by immutable biological sex.”

The bill has raised alarms among nonprofits, churches and faith organizations that charity work they provide regardless of immigration status could lead to arrest

Tennessee may become the first state to legally define gas as “renewable energy.”

A bill moving through the Tennessee state legislature would require schools to segregate some facilities based on biological sex.

Two Tennessee Republican lawmakers are supporting a measure that would enable physicians to perform abortions involving “fatal fetal anomalies,” setting up a potential clash with those who oppose changes in the state’s abortion ban.