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Posted by: Kate Prince on Feb 1, 2022

Gov. Bill Lee delivered his fourth annual State of the State address last night, promising to boost funding for education, infrastructure projects and law enforcement, the Associated Press reports. Lee outlined a $52.5 billion spending plan for fiscal year 2022-2023, up nearly 20% from last year’s proposal. The budget gives an additional $125 million to boosting teacher salaries, $356 million for a new multi-agency law enforcement training academy, $150 million to create a violent crime intervention grant and funding to hire 100 more state troopers. An additional $623 million has been allocated for road projects and $200 million has been set aside to help Tennessee’s Colleges of Applied Technology, designed to double the state’s skilled workforce by 2026. Read Lee’s entire address at the Tennessee Journal.