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#kustoff

Cherfilus-McCormick was found guilty by the Ethics Committee on a litany of charges, most notably for funneling $5 million in COVID relief funds to her congressional campaign.

HB1885 serves as the House companion to Senate Bill 2136, which has already cleared key stages in the Tennessee Senate. If the legislation ultimately becomes law, it would expand the state's ability to investigate and pursue companies running sweepstakes-style online casino platforms and other illegal internet gambling operations.

House Bill 754 is put forward as a measure to make insurance companies that cover gender-affirming care also provide coverage for "detransition procedures", it goes much further, mandating the collection of sensitive details from providers including patient treatment timelines, prescription or surgery information, a patient's location data, and a patient's age and biological sex.

"It got me to thinking about political lines, pendulums, they're always moving ... I kind of think that way about tenure," Republican Justin Lafferty told his subcommittee Wednesday in a brief but wide-ranging explanation for dropping the bill. According to a video of the meeting posted on the state General Assembly's website, Lafferty said tenure goes back to the 1600s or 1700s, "a time when there weren't that many highly educated folks," so "it was very important to keep the best and the brightest."

Californians, on average, paid about $29 billion more a year in federal taxes than the state received in return over the past decade. That's the largest imbalance in the nation. By contrast, there are about 30 states that receive more money from the federal government each year than their residents pay the IRS.

Republicans in the Tennessee House of Representatives yesterday passed a bill that says that people and private organizations don't have to recognize same-sex marriages. It also shields people from facing professional discipline if they refuse to officiate or "celebrate" a same-sex wedding. Opponents of the bill say that, if it passes, hospitals, banks, and other businesses could refuse to accept same-sex couples as clients or patients.

The legislation - which only applies to large oil companies - would impose a per-barrel tax "equal to 50% of the difference between the current price per barrel of oil and the average price per barrel last year, when big oil companies were already earning large profits."

If there is anyone in the House who can run point and cobble together the pieces on what meaningful federal AI standards and an AI package could look like, it's Jay Obernolte,

Earlier this month, the Knoxville News Sentinel reported that Miller had been meeting in Washington DC with Tennessee speaker of the house, Cameron Sexton, to craft model legislation for states around the country. A few weeks later, the speaker announced a suite of eight bills that would turn state and local police officers, judges, teachers, social workers and others into an auxiliary extension of the federal immigration system.