What’s in store for you
The Tennesseean reports the following is on the legislature’s agenda:
But first, I like Bredesen’s quote about the budet: about $22 billion worth of stuff.
Proposal for TennCare.
There are other major issues, including rewriting state law on workers’ compensation partly to reduce employer insurance premiums, equalizing rural-urban teacher pay, capping punitive damages at $250,000 in medical malpractice lawsuits, requiring sprinklers in nursing homes, removing the lottery board’s absolute authority to decide when its meetings should be open to the public, returning to a system where local school superintendents are elected directly by the voters and combating identity theft by requiring those seeking vital records, such as birth certificates, to identify themselves.
Relaxing concelaed carry laws.
