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Tennessee lawmakers completed their annual session April 21, approving Gov. Bill Lee's $56.2 billion budget, which includes a $3.3 billion road plan that allows the state to use private companies to build, operate and run toll lanes in urban areas, branded as choice lanes by the governor because people can choose not to use them.
Steve Earle's signature 'Copperhead Road,' from his 1988 album of the same name, has been named an official state song of Tennessee.
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The future of Memphis’s police oversight board is in jeopardy after the Tennessee Legislature passed a bill abolishing community oversight boards.
A special session could be on the way for lawmakers. This comes as many people have protested and ask lawmakers to pass gun reform bills after The Covenant School shooting.
After lawmakers declined to take up a gun proposal by Gov. Bill Lee, he has called them back for a special session on gun reform.