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House Speaker Says No Consensus On Special Session

(AP) NASHVILLE, Tenn. - House Speaker Kent Williams said there's no consensus among lawmakers about whether to call a special legislative session next month to delay a workers' compensation law. 

Williams wrote in an e-mail to lawmakers on Monday that his impression is that some lawmakers would prefer to wait until the January session to address the law. 

The law requiring workers' compensation coverage for most sole proprietors in the construction industry was passed in 2008 and is set to take effect Dec. 31. 

Gov. Phil Bredesen said he's not against calling a special session, but only if there's agreement over proposed changes. Otherwise he'd prefer to wait until January. 

The last time the Legislature was called into special session was in 2006 to take up a sweeping ethics reform package in the aftermath of the FBI's Tennessee Waltz bribery sting. 

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