Free Community College Tuition? But in Tennessee

The California Community College system used to be free with the exception of some student fees.  Those days are long gone with the advent of a two tiered fee structure piloted by LBCC.  In the Chronicle of Higher Education, Tennessee is sort of floating an old idea that we used to have--free tuition.  It goes as follows:

Gov. William E. Haslam of Tennessee this week proposed a relatively simple idea: Have the state pay the tuition and fees of all high-school graduates who want to go to a community or technical college for two years. The governor's plan, called the Tennessee Promise, would use state lottery reserves to create an endowment to pay for the program, estimated to cost about $34-million the first year, if it is approved by the General Assembly.
A bill is advancing in Oregon’s legislature to study a similar proposal.