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Battle lines drawn as Tennessee legislature speeds toward adjournment • Tennessee Lookout

Tennessee lawmakers are hanging up the phone to hemp, Memphis schools and immigrant children to fuss at home before being called to testify at the April 22nd corruption trial.

The version of the hemp restriction bill passed the Senate and House Finance Committee this week, but there are huge differences from state regulations and taxes to small elephants in the room to THCA.

The Tennessee Journal reported that the House bill could add significantly more to its financial resources than the Senate bill through taxes and fees on hemp products. Extra money is important, especially as lawmakers want to set up their pet projects in the state budget on behalf of the governor. The Senate version only costs about $14 million in additional taxes and fees online, but the House version keeps the buzz factor intact, while the THCA is also banned.

Memphis Shelby’s school “Takeover” begins with the Tennessee subcommittee

In addition to being caught up in Weed as a kickback trial for former speaker Glen Casada and former Chief of staff Kade Koren Approach, the state of Memphis Shelby County schools has hit a hindrance with the Senate acquisition. Leadership is not keen on the idea of ​​setting up a board that could return to plague them, seen as a relative obstacle in a decade, and about $1 billion in drains, and that could have come back.

The Senate bill is broad, but the watering version of House Education Committee Chairman Mark White says he has struggled for decades without instructions on the state legislative board where he is responsible for the district.

In the Senate version, Tennessee’s Board of Education members receive approval from the Department of Education to remove the principal or board of education members, allowing the county board to replace them. If the district ran through three district directors over three years, the county mayor could appoint a new director for a four-year term.

The bill also lifts the income cap for the Shelby County Educational Savings Account Program, the governor’s first private school voucher program, and changes the process for public schools to become charter schools.

Sounds like a complete facelift in a Memphis public school.

Republican Sen. Brent Taylor, a Memphis Republican Sen. carrying the Senate version, predicted that the bill would go to a conference committee where differences could be resolved.

Again, some bills that end in negotiations do not get enough traction for passing.

Lawmakers could also be stuck restricting immigrant children at K-12 schools. The Senate bill, sponsored by Republican Sen. Bo Watson, Chattanooga/Hixon, will require students to check immigration status and allow the district the option to deny opportunities to go to school without legal status or charge family tuition.

Sen. Bo Watson, a Republican of Hixon, counts the costs of educating immigrant children. (Photo: John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout)

Watson, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, gave a PowerPoint presentation this week showing how expensive it can be to teach immigrant children.

Due to this bill and the federal deportation efforts, some people already ongoing may have immigrant parents keep their children home, and in fact, they could create another lower class when the children are as smart and perhaps clever as anyone else.

The biggest contrast to the House bill is that it provides the district with the option to check the status of immigration. This means that you will be bound by a fixed point over the next two weeks and put the bill in a position to negotiate.

State troopers removed opponents of the bill from Senate committee rooms this week, including 80-year-old Lynn McFarland, who looked extremely comfortable with the weapons of Tennessee patrol officers. She was later imprisoned for allegedly hindering the meeting.

In light of photographs taken by John Partipillo of Tennesselee Lookout, ideas emerged to set up conveyor belts in committee rooms, allowing protesters and others to accidentally load and move. Troopers don’t need to strain their backs and make unnecessary workers’ comp claims. In particular, on unconstitutional bills that are designed to challenge the Supreme Court precedents but are likely to drove old prejudices.

Large corporations bill

Usually you’re going to nod to the golf god before you backswing. At least that’s what Kevin Costner said in “Tincup.”

In the case of Congress, it nods to the gods of business, those who make a big contribution to the campaign account.

The right case, the Senate voted 21-7 on Thursday to pass the Bayer/Monsanto bill, allowing businesses to hold farmers accountable if they contract cancer after spreading company roundups based on product labels, of course. The company faces more than 170,000 lawsuits over its products, and Germany-based Bayer, the parent company of Monsanto, has recently agreed to pay around $2.1 billion to a man who claimed to have signed a non-Hodgkin lymphoma from Roundup.

Oddly, the Agriculture Bureau and farmers support the bill as it is said that spraying plants and weeds can farm larger roads more efficiently, despite the high chances of pesticides/herbicides getting sick.

Republican Sen. John Stevens, a Huntingdon Republican Sen., who sponsored the bill, read a letter from former US Rep. Stephen Fincher on Thursday, claiming that he needed “common sense protection” to spray “stricken” tests with US environmental protection as a “money standard.” Yes, and without fear of political motivation.

Whaddya knows! Sen. John Stevens, a Huntingdon Republican and sponsor of Bill Holding Bayer, Monsanto’s German-based parent company, received $12,000 from both Bayer and the lobbying company you guessed – Bayer.

It’s always funny to hear lawmakers boast about the federal government on one hand and kick it when it’s convenient.

Stevens has received $12,000 from Bayer over the past five years and $15,000 from BIV-PAC, the lobbying company’s political action committee. The Farm Bureau also plays a heavy role in this semi-final.

Democrats opposed the bill Thursday morning, with Senator Heidi Campbell calling it “crazy” to protect the big chemical companies, instead of the right to sue a nearby product that kills them.

Stevens retorted, saying that consumers can continue to sue beyond product labels. This means that the EPA and the manufacturers do the right thing and don’t bring any cancer-causing chemicals to the market.

But as long as you can get some bushels of corn per acre, is that really important?

Incidentally, along with Democrats, Republicans Rusty Crow and Janice Bowling voted against the bill, while Mark Podys and Kelly Roberts were present without a vote, not without a vote. It’s necessary for many to die before they find nine votes in the Senate.

It doesn’t exist

The dead, great Richard Stockard (my father) was ahead of his time and had no idea. He has been an English and Spanish teacher for nearly 35 years, and he called all his students by their last name. He also frequently used paddles to send messages, but after softening in the second half he simply threw out the unruly students out of class, getting out and paddles the soles of their shoes to make lots of noise before telling them to act like they were hurt. Those horrifying tactics have never worked with me.

Anyway, using student surnames would make it easier for everyone to remember in a few years and not have to worry about using pronouns that reached the prevalence rate in Tennessee. Thank you, Archie Bunker.

And then nodded to Archie (we nodded again), and the Senate passed. SB937 On Thursday, people such as teachers are not sued for using or refusing to use names or pronouns that do not match the gender of the student at birth. The bill also allows civil lawsuits to be filed against employers and public schools that allow students to use pronouns that they prefer without parental permission.

Senator Paul Rose took a photo at Cordell Hull's Legislative Office Building. (Photo: John Partipilo)
Solutions for Problems: The bill proposed by Sen. Paul Rose, a Republican Covington, will be responsible for educators to use pronouns that students like. (Photo: John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout)

That means it’s okay to call a girl “he” as long as the parents approves it, but does that parent’s permission mean nothing when it comes to gender affirmation? I think so.

Nashville Democrat Sen. Jeff Yarbro argued in debate Thursday that if the bill becomes law it would likely “create more fights.”

Sen. Paul Rose of Covington, sponsoring the bill, retorted, believing that young people today can be guided to believe there are two or more genders created by God, and that they can change the sex they were born.

“This is common sense law,” Rose said.

In and out of the room, I was able to slowly detect the faint sounds of Tennessee’s government, but it certainly is expanding. And you know what it means: don’t call me Shirley. But if that’s the case, use “her” or get caught up in court.

“We’re going to party, Y’all.”

Thanks to President Donald Trump, the two-week prison sentence that changed the two-week prison from 21 months was held by former state senator Brian Kelsey (he speculated that it was).

Tennessee Journal’s Crack Investigation Reporter unearthed an invitation from a former Germantown Republican this weekend to celebrate his pardon. Without a doubt, will the president attend as feather birds flock together?

It’s always nice to see a happy ending.

But what we have here is the case where Kelsey pours over $80,000 from his state’s campaign accounts into a conservative coalition in America through two political action committees.

Not a party like the pardon party: Former Sen. Brian Kelsey, who pleaded guilty to a federal campaign finance violation, celebrates his escape free card.
Not a party like the pardon party: Former Sen. Brian Kelsey, who pleaded guilty to a federal campaign finance violation, celebrates his non-escaping card.

It may be a bad law, but it is illegal to use state funds for federal campaigns because they are collected under different rules.

Kelsey knows it’s wrong and pleads guilty, but decides that he has “what alcoholics call a clear moment,” not breaking the law and that he has given bad advice from his lawyer. He also claimed he was affected by the birth of twin sons and the looming death of his father. Both are stressful (no joke). However, he also said that despite earning a law degree from Georgetown and serving as Senate attorney, he does not understand criminal law. But there’s ample background.

Kelsey won $197,519 in his state account before transferring to the Red State Political Action Committee on June 1, 2023. His PAC received $1,000 from Sen. Ferrell Hale’s Haile PAC last year and $250 from Sen. Jeremy Faison’s Faison Freedom PAC.

The election finance register did not allow him to use his state funds to pay legal fees. But he might be able to use that money to fund this weekend’s party. That is, if he pretends to run for reelection after receiving a full pardon, it will likely allow him to renew his vote and gun rights.

It seems like it’s very fun. Unfortunately, there was no invitation. Perhaps Rep. Jeremy Durham, the unnamed co-conspirator in the case, has got it. Psychedelic.

“Goodbye yellow brick road, where social dogs can see.” *

*”Goodbye Yellow Brick Road”, Elton John

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