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Governor Bill Haslam’s latest update to the budget covers the cost of a bill that would make designer drugs illegal to make and sell. The legislation had been stopped cold because of the added cost to incarcerate more offenders.

State Representative Curry Todd told fellow lawmakers today he is battling a rare form of cancer. His admission came during debate over a new, simpler chemotherapy treatment.

A Shelby County fight over who should run the schools boiled over into the rest of the state last night. A proposal that passed in the state senate would allow the creation of new city schools.

The State Senate Monday night passed a bill that would allow any college instructor to receive a license to teach his subject in high schools with no additional educational training.

This week state lawmakers will get down to the business of passing a budget. Governor Bill Haslam says he’ll unveil his final update Monday, adding back at least some funds that were cut from the original $30 billion spending plan.

School boards who want to use teleconferencing to let absent members participate in meetings could do so under a bill passed in the state House Thursday.

On Thursday, the state House passed a bill that would require all doctors who perform abortions have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital.

State economic development officials want legislation passed this year to expand a cash grant program and close some company recruitment records. They’re at least halfway to that goal.

State senators jumped into the fray over a nondiscrimination policy at Vanderbilt yesterday. They threatened to cut off lottery scholarship funds to private universities who adopt similar rules for student groups.