Under the Tennessee Lawful Employment Act that kicked in Jan. 1, businesses and governments are required to either verify their new hires’ citizenship through the federal E-Verify system or maintain records like driver’s licenses or birth certificates that show the employees are lawfully in the country.
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The House speaker says the Haslam administration’s contingency plan will “give us some idea of what we could rein back in” when lawmakers take up the task of writing next year’s state government spending plan.
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(Nashville) – Lt. Governor Ron Ramsey (R-Blountville) today urged President Obama to oppose a Federal Communications Commission plan to classify broadband…
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They say they’re concerned about increasingly oppressive regulations at all levels of government. And, in the cases of TDOT and TDEC, they worry the state seems more interested in taking policy cues from the feds than in developing programs and protections that seek to balance the legitimate interests of all Tennesseans.
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Forty-five legislative ideas for a prosperous Tennessee
NASHVILLE – The Tennessee Center for Policy Research today made available in electronic version its…
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Eleven professional regulatory boards are scheduled to terminate at the end of June if the Legislature doesn’t extend their bureaucratic life. Government Operations Committee chair Susan Lynn says she doesn’t foresee lawmakers refusing to reissue statutory approval for the boards, but Tennessee’s consumers and economy might be better served if they did.
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For three years proponents of bringing Tennessee’s retail wine-sale laws in line with 33 other states have been pushing reform in the Legislature. This time around some of their old foes might be getting an invite to belly up to the bargaining table.
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