{"id":12619,"date":"2017-05-26T18:00:22","date_gmt":"2017-05-26T23:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/?p=12619"},"modified":"2017-05-26T16:08:02","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T21:08:02","slug":"tennessee-governor-bill-haslam-signs-tennessee-strong-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/2017\/05\/26\/tennessee-governor-bill-haslam-signs-tennessee-strong-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam Signs Tennessee Strong Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-330575\" title=\"Tennessee State Government\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Tennessee-State-Government-2.jpg\" alt=\"Tennessee State Government\" width=\"250\" height=\"74\">Nashville, TN<\/strong> &#8211; Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam signed the Tennessee STRONG (Support, Training and Renewing Opportunity for National Guard) Act at the Tennessee Department of Military in Nashville. Haslam was joined by Rep. Tilman Goins (R-Morristown), Rep. David Hawk (R-Greeneville) and Major General Max Haston, Tennessee\u2019s Adjutant General.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_383811\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Tennessee-Governor-Bill-Haslam-Signs-Tennessee-Strong-Act.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-383811\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-383811\" title=\"Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam signs the Tennessee STRONG (Support, Training and Renewing Opportunity for National Guard) Act May 25th, 2017 at the Tennessee Department of Military in Nashville. (MSgt Robin Brown, Tennessee National Guard)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Tennessee-Governor-Bill-Haslam-Signs-Tennessee-Strong-Act-480x320.jpg\" alt=\"Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam signs the Tennessee STRONG (Support, Training and Renewing Opportunity for National Guard) Act May 25th, 2017 at the Tennessee Department of Military in Nashville. (MSgt Robin Brown, Tennessee National Guard)\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-383811\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam signs the Tennessee STRONG (Support, Training and Renewing Opportunity for National Guard) Act May 25th, 2017 at the Tennessee Department of Military in Nashville. (MSgt Robin Brown, Tennessee National Guard)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tn.gov\/nexttennessee\/section\/next-tennessee-tennessee-strong-act\" >Tennessee STRONG Act<\/a> is the governor\u2019s legislation that provides tuition free educational opportunities for eligible members of the Tennessee National Guard and supports the Drive to 55 goal to increase the number of Tennesseans with a degree or certificate to 55 percent by 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate passed <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/wapp.capitol.tn.gov\/apps\/BillInfo\/Default.aspx?BillNumber=HB0530\" >HB 530\/SB 1216<\/a> 31-0 on April 3rd, and the House of Representatives passed the legislation 97-0 on April 10th.<\/p>\n<p>The Tennessee STRONG Act creates a four-year pilot program for members of the Tennessee National Guard. Eligible members will qualify for tuition reimbursement toward a first time bachelor\u2019s degree. The legislation is part of Haslam\u2019s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tn.gov\/nexttennessee\" >NextTennessee<\/a> legislative plan aimed at building and sustaining economic growth and the state\u2019s competitiveness for the next generation of Tennesseans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nashville, TN &#8211; Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam signed the Tennessee STRONG (Support, Training and Renewing Opportunity for National Guard) Act at the Tennessee Department of Military in Nashville. Haslam was joined by Rep. Tilman Goins (R-Morristown), Rep. David Hawk (R-Greeneville) and Major General Max Haston, Tennessee\u2019s Adjutant General.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[3359,10379,8285,9488,11640,11641,2651,5593,284,11471,11642,11643,3350,457,5737,2650,11483,10104],"class_list":["post-12619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","tag-bill-haslam","tag-david-hawk","tag-drive-to-55","tag-greeneville-tn","tag-hb-530","tag-house-bill-530","tag-max-haston","tag-morristown-tn","tag-nashville-tn","tag-nexttennessee","tag-sb-1216","tag-senate-bill-1216","tag-tennessee-governor","tag-tennessee-house-of-representatives","tag-tennessee-military-department","tag-tennessee-national-guard","tag-tennessee-strong-act","tag-tilman-goins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12620,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12619\/revisions\/12620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}