Education Administration

TN - Representative Mark White (R)

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TN - Representative William Slater (R)

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TN - Representative Charlie Baum (R)

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TN - Representative Gino Bulso (R)

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TN - Representative Ed Butler (R)

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TN - Representative Scott Cepicky (R)

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TN - Representative Monty Fritts (R)

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TN - Representative Ron Gant (R)

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TN - Representative John Gillespie (R)

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TN - Representative Kirk Haston (R)

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TN - Representative Chris Hurt (R)

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TN - Representative Justin Lafferty (R)

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TN - Representative Harold Love, Jr. (D)

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TN - Representative Sam McKenzie (D)

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TN - Representative Antonio Parkinson (D)

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TN - Representative John Ragan (R)

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TN - Representative Bryan Richey (R)

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TN - Representative Robert Stevens (R)

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TN - Representative Todd Warner (R)

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TN - HB7 Tennessee Investment in Student Achievement (TISA) - As introduced, increases, from $200 to $500, the amount each LEA and public charter school is required to pay each teacher in kindergarten through grade 12 for the purchase of instructional supplies for the 2023-2024 school year. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 3.

TN - HB27 Scholarships and Financial Aid - As enacted, allows a student who earns the student's first baccalaureate degree in less than the projected completion time to continue to receive the Tennessee HOPE scholarship in pursuit of an advanced degree. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.

TN - HB36 Schools, Charter - As enacted, revises the requirement for automatic revocation of a public charter school agreement to apply only if certain conditions exist; prohibits the 2022 and 2023 priority school list from being considered as one of the priority school cycles required for automatic revocation of a public charter school agreement. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 13.

TN - HB41 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, expands, from only local boards of education in distressed rural counties to all local boards of education, the governing bodies for LEAs that are authorized to adopt a policy allowing their director of schools to authorize and select employees who may carry a concealed handgun on school grounds. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB68 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires LEAs to conduct summer learning camps and after-school learning mini-camps annually instead of only in the summers immediately following the 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 school years; revises the definition of "priority student" to allow additional "at-risk" children and students entering certain grade levels to participate in after-school learning mini-camps, learning loss bridge camps, and summer learning camps. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Pa...

TN - HB74 Education - As enacted, updates the terms "general education development credential," "high school equivalency test," and variations of the terms to "high school equivalency credential." - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 4; Title 8; Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; Title 40; Title 41; Title 49; Title 50; Title 54; Title 55; Title 62; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB93 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, changes, from the department of education to the student's LEA, the entity responsible for determining whether a third or fourth grade student who previously tested not proficient in English language arts has shown adequate growth on an assessment administered to the student for purposes of promotion. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB98 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, enacts the "Rep. Barbara Ward Cooper Act"; requires LEAs to include in the course of instruction for students in kindergarten through grade 12 curricula designed to educate students in conflict resolution. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB102 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires the principal of a public school in the bottom 20 percent of schools based on an evaluation of all schools' performance data to develop a written proposal each school year for the principal's school that identifies the resources the school needs to provide students an adequate and equitable education; that identifies areas of improvement for the school; and that provides data to evidence each of the needs identified in the proposal; encourage...

TN - HB107 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires an LEA or public charter school to adopt and implement a retention policy for third grade students who are not proficient in English language arts (ELA), rather than requiring the LEA to retain a third grade student who does not achieve a certain performance level rating on the ELA portion of the student's most recent Tennessee comprehensive assessment program test; establishes parental notice requirements for LEAs and public charter schools ...

TN - HB116 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, expands the definition of "eligible postsecondary institution" to include certain private postsecondary institutions for purposes of a Tennessee HOPE scholarship, Tennessee HOPE access grant, Tennessee HOPE teacher's scholarship, or Wilder-Naifeh technical skills grant. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.

TN - HB117 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, specifies that the department must submit the early grades reading report to the education committee of the senate and the education committees of the house of representatives by January 15 of each year. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB127 Education - As introduced, allows a school resource officer, school security officer, or other law enforcement officer who is trained and certified for completing a behavior intervention training program to use a mechanical restraint on a student receiving special education services in an emergency situation. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 10, Part 13 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB158 Education - As enacted, prohibits a local education agency, public charter school, public institution of higher education, the state board of education, and the department of education from requiring an educator, employee of an LEA or charter school, faculty member, or employee of a public institution of higher education to complete or participate in implicit bias training; defines "implicit bias training"; prohibits adverse licensure and employment actions from being taken against such an in...

TN - HB179 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, removes the commissioner's authority to directly operate, or contract for the management of, a school or any grade configuration within a school in the achievement school district (ASD), and to assign a school or any grade configuration within a school to the ASD, on or after July 1, 2024; removes all schools from the ASD by July 1, 2024; removes all authority of, and requirements established for, the ASD on July 1, 2024. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB250 Education - As enacted, requires, beyond the 2022-2023 school year, each LEA and public charter school to provide each high school senior, instead of students generally, the opportunity to take nationally recognized assessments if the assessments meet certain criteria. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB251 Scholarships and Financial Aid - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Special Educator Scholarship Act." - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB252 Schools, Home - As enacted, removes the requirement that a parent-teacher of a home school student provide proof of the student's immunizations and receipt of health services or examinations required by law generally for children in this state to the local education agency; exempts home school students from the immunization requirements applicable to students attending a school, nursery school, kindergarten, preschool, or child care facility; authorizes an LEA, in situations where a home scho...

TN - HB255 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires each local school board to establish a school lunch program and a school breakfast program that provides a free breakfast and lunch to each student enrolled in a school under the board's jurisdiction; requires the state to reimburse each LEA the cost of providing a free breakfast and lunch to each student enrolled in the LEA after all available federal funds have been applied. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB258 Education - As enacted, changes, from the state board of education to local boards of education, the entity responsible for requiring certain examinations of school bus drivers, for requiring certain reports, and for revoking the certificates of school bus drivers found to be unfit; expands the types of convictions for which a school bus driver's certificate must be revoked; revises various provisions to change, from the state board of education to the department of safety, the entity respons...

TN - HJR43 Memorials, Sports - Abby Cheeseman, The Webb School, TSSAA Division II, Class A Girls' Individual State Cross Country Champion

TN - HB270 Students - As introduced, allows a third grade student to be promoted, even if the student does not test proficient on the English language arts (ELA) portion of the student's most recent Tennessee comprehensive assessment program (TCAP) test, if the student tests proficient in reading on each Tennessee universal reading screener administered to the student in the student's third grade year; allows a student's LEA to file an appeal regarding the student's identification for retention based on...

TN - HB276 Scholarships and Financial Aid - As introduced, changes the amount of a minority teaching fellowship award for a recipient who is enrolled in a degree program leading to licensure as a teacher in an institution of higher education with an approved educator preparation program from $5,000 to the cost of tuition and fees at the respective institution. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4.

TN - HB294 Education, Higher - As enacted, expands the Save Tennessee Students Act to require public institutions of higher education that issue new student identification cards to students enrolled in the institution to include certain contact information for crisis and suicide prevention resources on the cards; requires the institutions to post certain contact information for crisis and suicide prevention resources in a conspicuous place on each campus operated by the institution. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB306 Schools, Private - As enacted, limits the ability of a student enrolled in a private school to participate in an interscholastic athletic activity or event, to such activity or event where membership in the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association is required, in accordance with the student's immutable biological sex as determined by anatomy and genetics existing at the time of birth. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1 and Title 49, Chapter 50.

TN - HB307 Board of Regents - As introduced, requires the board to develop and administer a two-year pilot program to award grants to students enrolled in an eligible program and to students pursuing a quality non-degree credential. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB322 Education - As enacted, revises various provisions of present law relative to safety in elementary and secondary education and the Schools Against Violence in Education Act. - Amends TCA Section 10-7-504; Title 49, Chapter 6 and Title 62, Chapter 35.

TN - HB326 Education - As introduced, extends the repeal date for the Virtual Public Schools Act from June 30, 2023, to June 30, 2027. - Amends TCA Section 49-16-216.

TN - HB329 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, generally increases the base salaries in the state salary schedule for teachers formulated by the commissioner of education; prohibits an LEA from deducting dues from the wages of the LEA's employees for a professional employees' organization. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 2, Part 1 and Title 49, Chapter 3, Part 3.

TN - HB331 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, requires the salaries paid to teachers and other professional personnel in a state special school on or after July 1, 2023, to equal or exceed the salaries paid to teachers and other professional personnel with comparable training and experience at the state special school with the highest paying salary schedule on July 1, 2023; prohibits reduction of the salaries paid to teachers and other professional personnel in the state special ...

TN - HB332 TennCare - As introduced, requires the bureau to contract with at least one managed care organization that is partnered with a provider participation entity; establishes eligibility requirements for such entities to contract with TennCare; prohibits TennCare from choosing managed care organizations through a request for proposal or competitive bidding process beginning January 1, 2024; and makes other various changes. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 56; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB340 Education - As enacted, requires a student to be considered in violation of a zero tolerance offense and be expelled for not less than one calendar year, except that a director of schools may modify such expulsion on a case-by-case basis, for threatening mass violence on school property or at a school-related activity. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB344 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires LEAs to classify school nurses as licensed personnel for salary purposes; requires an LEA to pay a school nurse the base salary established for licensed teachers for the respective school year if the school nurse holds a valid license to practice professional nursing as a registered nurse with zero years of experience; requires an LEA to pay a school nurse more or less than the established base salary per school year if the nurse has more or ...

TN - HB348 Scholarships and Financial Aid - As introduced, changes the date within which a student must be enrolled in a full-time eligible postsecondary program to be eligible for a Tennessee Promise scholarship from the fall term after the student's graduation of high school or similar achievement to no later than 16 months after the student's graduation of high school or similar achievement. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4.

TN - HB358 Education, State Board of - As enacted, removes the requirement that the state board establish guidelines to suspend, deny, or revoke the license of a teacher who is delinquent or in default on a repayment or service obligation under a guaranteed student loan; deletes a provision that authorized the state board to exercise discretion with regard to certain licensure actions if the teacher's default or delinquency is the result of a medical hardship. - Amends TCA Section 49-5-108.

TN - HB359 Schools, Charter - As enacted, removes the requirement that the annual training course for a charter school governing body be certified by the Tennessee Charter School Center; requires all training for the governing body of a public charter school to be approved by the state board of education. - Amends TCA Section 49-13-111.

TN - HB364 Tennessee Investment in Student Achievement (TISA) - As introduced, requires the TISA to fund one full-time licensed professional school counselor position for every 250 student members of the local education agency (LEA), or one full-time position for each LEA and public charter school within the LEA, whichever is greater; requires each LEA and public charter school to employ one full-time licensed professional school counselor for each position funded. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB367 Education - As introduced, requires, if a student transfers from a public charter school to a local education agency in the spring semester of a school year, the student performance and growth data derived from the Tennessee comprehensive assessment program tests and end-of-course examinations administered to the student to be used to determine the public charter school's performance designation and assigned letter grade. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 13 and Title 49, Ch...

TN - HB368 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, prohibits an LEA from suspending or expelling a student enrolled in any of the grades pre-kindergarten through two unless the student's behavior endangers the physical safety of others; authorizes an LEA to suspend such a student for such behavior for no more than three days if certain measures are taken before the student is suspended. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB369 Education, Higher - As introduced, prohibits a public institution of higher education that accepts applications for admission from inquiring about an applicant's criminal history on the application. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7.

TN - HJR62 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Bradford D. Box, University of Tennessee Board of Trustees

TN - HJR63 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Lang Wiseman, University of Tennessee Board of Trustees

TN - HJR64 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Dr. Shanea McKinney, University of Tennessee Board of Trustees

TN - HJR65 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - William C. Rhodes III, University of Tennessee Board of Trustees

TN - HB390 Education - As introduced, deletes a provision authorizing the state board of education to, in its discretion, waive the requirement that a person employed as a supervisor for the supervision of teaching grades 1-12 have a license of qualification issued by the board if the supervisor was employed and serving in that capacity in a nonequalizing local school district as of January 1, 1957. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB391 Scholarships and Financial Aid - As introduced, requires the board of regents to develop and administer a two-year pilot program to award grants to students enrolled in an eligible workforce training program. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB401 Education - As introduced, establishes a school safety technology fund as a special account within the general fund to provide local education agencies with the funding necessary to purchase a technology platform designed to assist schools in performing routine checks of school building doors to ensure that the doors are locked. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB423 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to allocate to each local education agency (LEA) sufficient funds for the LEA to employ one full-time public school nurse for every 750 students enrolled in the LEA, or one full-time public school nurse for the LEA, whichever is greater. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 68, Chapter 1, Part 12.

TN - HB424 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, authorizes the commissioner of education to grant an individual pursuing clinical experience in an educator preparation program (EPP) who meets certain requirements a temporary permit to teach in a teaching position in which an LEA or public charter school is unable to secure a qualified teacher with a valid license for the type and kind of school in which a vacancy exists. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB426 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the commissioner to report the average student performance level rating achieved in each subject tested on the most recently administered Tennessee comprehensive assessment program test and on the most recently administered assessment for purposes of the National Assessment of Educational Progress, along with the median household income for each county in which each LEA or public charter school is located, to the education committee of the senate ...

TN - HB432 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Future Teacher Scholarship Act of 2023." - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB433 Education - As enacted, expands the eligibility criteria for an education savings account to include students zoned to attend an LEA with at least three schools identified as priority schools in 2015, and at least three schools identified as being in the bottom 10 percent of schools in 2017. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB435 Education - As enacted, establishes a deaf mentor and parent advisor program to assist families in implementing bilingual and bicultural home-based programming for young children who are deaf, hard of hearing, or deaf-blind at the Tennessee Schools for the Deaf and the West Tennessee School for the Deaf. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 50, Part 10.

TN - HB437 Education, Dept. of - As enacted, revises various provisions of present law pertaining to the promotion of students from third grade. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB439 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, changes from no later than October 1 of each year to no later than October 15 of each year in which an LEA in which one or more charter school operates must catalog all underutilized or vacant property owned or operated by the LEA or that is within any educational facility owned or operated by the LEA. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB454 Education - As introduced, increases the amount, from $200 to $600, each LEA is required to pay each teacher in kindergarten through grade 12 for the purchase of instructional supplies for the 2023-2024 school year. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 3.

TN - HB456 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, makes various changes to the Tennessee Learning Loss Remediation and Student Acceleration Act, including changes to require LEAs and participating public charter schools to conduct summer learning camps and after-school learning mini-camps annually beginning in the summer of 2021, instead of only in the summers immediately following the 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 school years; requires the department of education to issue guidance to assist LEAs and publ...

TN - HB457 Sports - As enacted, makes changes concerning youth sports safety. - Amends TCA Title 49; Title 62, Chapter 50 and Title 68.

TN - HB459 Education - As enacted, clarifies that public charter schools and the state board of education are prohibited from employing individuals found by the department of children's services to have committed an act of child abuse in the same manner as other educational entities; clarifies that the state board is prohibited from granting, reactivating, or restoring an educator license or temporary teaching permit for such individuals; adds the state board and public charter schools to the list of ed...

TN - HB481 Education - As introduced, requires the standards recommendation committees to identify each academic standard it recommends to the state board of education for adoption on or after January 1, 2024, as foundational or advanced; requires the department of education to include student proficiency rates for foundational and advanced academic standards that are tested on each Tennessee comprehensive assessment program test to be published on the department's website. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB519 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, adds William R. Moore College of Technology as an eligible institution for receipt of the Wilder-Naifeh reconnect grant and Wilder-Naifeh technical skills grant. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.

TN - HB520 Education - As introduced, requires local education agencies and public institutions of higher education to provide information to students and parents on the importance of water safety courses and to inform them of age appropriate water safety courses available in their area each school year. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6; Title 49, Chapter 7 and Title 49, Chapter 8.

TN - HB524 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, clarifies that the office of early learning is required, by February 1, to provide an annual report to the governor and the general assembly on the status of pre-kindergarten programs, which must include, at a minimum, the number, location, and types of providers of pre-kindergarten classrooms and the number of at-risk children served. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB529 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, revises various provisions regarding the automatic revocation of educator licenses. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1 and Title 49, Chapter 5.

TN - HB534 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, allows a student who did not test proficient in English language arts (ELA) on the Tennessee comprehensive assessment program test administered to the student in third grade, but who was promoted to fourth grade after attending a learning loss bridge camp, to be promoted to fifth grade if the student's parent or guardian mutually agrees with the LEA or public charter school in which the student is enrolled that the student has shown adequate growth in...

TN - HB549 Administrative Procedure (UAPA) - As introduced, exempts a governing board of a public institution of higher education from the requirement to promulgate rules to establish traffic and parking regulations. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 5; Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, Chapter 8 and Title 49, Chapter 9.

TN - HB558 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires an LEA or public charter school to allow a student to be absent from school for one full school day each year to allow the student time to address the student's mental or behavioral health. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB559 School Vouchers - As enacted, expands student eligibility for an education savings account (ESA) to include students who were not enrolled, and who did not attend, a Tennessee public school for the one full school year immediately preceding the school year for which the student receives an ESA, but who were enrolled in, and who attended, a Tennessee public school in the 2019-2020, 2020-2021, or 2021-2022 school year, and to include students who are not eligible, for the first time, to enroll ...

TN - HB569 Students - As introduced, extends the amount of time, from within 10 days to within 30 days, from the order making the assignment, within which a parent who is dissatisfied with the assignment of the parent's student may make a written application to the board for a hearing before the board as to the reasonableness of the assignment and ask for a transfer to another school. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB571 Education, Higher - As introduced, prohibits public institutions of higher education offering certain medical and health-related degree or certificate programs, and state contractors, from requiring diversity, equity, and inclusion training and education for purposes of the issuance of a degree, or the approval of a state contract or grant, as applicable. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 12; Title 49 and Title 63.

TN - HB582 Education - As introduced, requires the office of the comptroller to annually conduct a review of the English language arts textbooks and instructional materials adopted for use by each LEA and public charter school to ensure they are aligned to Tennessee's academic standards and annually submit a report detailing the findings of the review to the education committees of the senate and house of representatives no later than February 1 of each year. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB588 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, specifies that an LEA that has established a virtual school may enter into an agreement with an LEA that has not established a virtual school for the LEA's virtual school to provide remote instruction to students enrolled in either LEA who have been suspended or expelled from the regular school program. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB595 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, allows registered voters of any county, instead of only Madison County, who reside within the geographic boundaries of an LEA to file a petition with the county election commission demanding the recall of a member of the LEA's local board of education. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 49.

TN - HB597 Board of Regents - As introduced, requires the board, in consultation with the Tennessee higher education commission, to develop a standardized entrepreneurial program that must be offered at each institution governed by the board to provide an affordable, cost effective training program for students interested in starting a new business. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 8.

TN - HB629 Education - As introduced, requires an LEA to provide information on its website concerning the career-based experiences available to high school students. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB644 Education - As enacted, replaces Financial Literacy Week, the first full week of April, with Financial Literacy Month, the entire month of April; requires the financial literacy commission to study financial literacy in this state and report to the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2 and Title 49.

TN - HB648 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases the penalty, from a Class C misdemeanor to a Class B misdemeanor, for educational neglect of a child who is in poor academic standing; requires a petition filed with a juvenile court alleging educational neglect to state whether the child is in poor academic standing, - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB649 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires an LEA to provide employees the opportunity to serve in a working group that annually collects, compiles, and submits a report of written suggestions received from the LEA's employees on how to improve the LEA to the LEA's director of schools and local board of education. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 5 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB662 Education - As enacted, revises present law that relative to a local board of education keeping on file and available in each school library added or amended operating policies and a notice of each deleted operating policy; authorizes a person who holds an active industry license or credential relevant to a career and technical education course to provide instruction to students in the career and technical education course as long as the instruction is supervised at all times in the classroom...

TN - HB663 Education - As enacted, makes changes to the "Age-Appropriate Materials Act of 2022." - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB664 Education - As introduced, revises provisions governing criminal history checks of certain persons who come in direct contact with school children or children in a child care program, or who enter the grounds of a school or child care center while children are present. - Amends TCA Section 49-5-413.

TN - HB670 Education - As introduced, requires a student to be seven years of age or older on or before August 15 or test proficient in the kindergarten academic standards based on a first-grade entry assessment before the student may be promoted to the first grade; requires the department of education to create, and local education agencies and public charter schools to administer, a first-grade entry assessment. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB678 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, deletes the provision repealing the "Virtual Public Schools Act" on June 30, 2023. - Amends TCA Section 49-16-216.

TN - HB680 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, increases, from one-half unit to one unit, the amount of elective credit a student may receive for completing a released time course if the student's local board of education has adopted a policy to allow credit to be awarded to students for work completed in a released time course. - Amends TCA Section 49-2-130.

TN - HB692 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, changes from February 1 to February 15, the date by which the commissioner is required to annually report to the governor and the general assembly on the implementation and compliance with the Schools Against Violence in Education Act. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB695 Education, Dept. of - As enacted, establishes the amount of an occupational educator scholarship awarded by the department to prospective educators seeking a Tennessee occupational teaching license as the cost of tuition and mandatory fees at the postsecondary institution attended less all other gift aid, which must be credited first to the eligible prospective educator's tuition and mandatory fees. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB715 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, authorizes an LEA or public charter school to use TANF program funds to cover costs associated with programs that provide covered services to eligible students; requires the department to consult with the department of human services to determine which programs are eligible to be funded with TANF program funds; requires the department to publish a list of eligible programs on its website. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 71.

TN - HB723 Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, expands employees allowed to carry a handgun on property owned, operated, or controlled by a public institution of higher education to include retired law enforcement officers who retired in good standing with 20 years of service and are employed on a part-time basis by a public institution of higher education. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17.

TN - HB727 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires a student's parent or legal guardian, or the student if the student has reached the age of majority, to provide certain consent before the student may engage in certain activities at school. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 6 and Title 68.

TN - HB739 Schools, Charter - As introduced, requires the governing body of a public charter school to submit the proposed compensation of a member of its licensed administrative or supervisory staff to its authorizer for approval if the proposed compensation exceeds 150 percent of the average statewide compensation of LEA licensed administrative and supervisory staff according to the position held and training and experience compiled for each school year by the comptroller. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapt...

TN - HB741 School Vouchers - As introduced, repeals the Tennessee Education Savings Account Pilot Program. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB745 Schools, Charter - As introduced, enacts the "Transparency in Charter School Finance Act." - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7 and Title 49, Chapter 13.

TN - HB783 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, increases, from 90 to 95, the number of days before the date on which the Tennessee student assistance corporation anticipates that it will need to draw funds from the lottery for education accounts that the Tennessee student assistance corporation is required to provide notice to the general assembly, state treasurer, state funding board, and the Tennessee higher education commission. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 51 and Title 49.

TN - HB784 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, requires the department of education to establish a fund to reimburse educators in an amount equal to the cost of an assessment required for licensure if the educator receives a qualifying score on the required assessment and receives a license to teach in this state or an endorsement while currently employed by a local education agency or public charter school. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5, Part 56.

TN - HB785 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to create and implement a promising futures program to provide scholarships to children who are not school age to assist them in developing early language and literacy skills in a high-quality early care and learning program; redirects, from the lottery for education account to an account administered by the department to provide funding for the promising futures scholarship program, a certain percentage of the privilege tax collect...

TN - HB786 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, creates a new pathway for honorably discharged veterans to receive an occupational teaching license. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5.

TN - HB809 Education - As introduced, repeals the maximum class sizes, maximum class size averages, student-teacher ratios, and the prohibition against split-grade classes established by law; authorizes each local education agency (LEA) and public charter school to establish the maximum class sizes for schools under its control and jurisdiction; requires the state board of education, in consultation with the department of education, to develop guidance for LEAs and public charter schools in establishing...

TN - HB826 Education - As enacted, authorizes a director of schools, or a director's designee, to not assign a student in grades 7-12 who has been suspended for more than 10 days or expelled from the regular school program for an offense of violence or threatened violence, or an offense that threatened the safety of persons attending or assigned to the student's school, to an alternative school or alternative program if the director or designee determines that assigning the student to the alternative sc...

TN - HB839 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, enacts the "Wholesome Public School Learning Environment Act"; prohibits teachers or other employees of an LEA from discussing sexual preferences or drug use with a student of the LEA during school instruction or a school activity; prohibits an LEA from displaying symbols of drugs or drug paraphernalia on school grounds. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB843 Education, Higher - As introduced, changes, from September 15 to October 1, the date by which each public institution of higher education operating a hearing center must provide a written report to the Tennessee higher education commission, the education committee of the senate, and the education administration committee of the house of representatives regarding the operation of the hearing center. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB848 Education - As introduced, adds various exceptions to mandatory retention for third grade students who are not proficient in English language arts; allows an LEA to retain students in any of the grades kindergarten through two who have not shown a basic understanding of the curriculum and an ability to perform the skills required in reading; requires the department of education to provide LEAs with individual student performance level ratings from the Tennessee comprehensive assessment progra...

TN - HB849 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, enacts the "Rural Schools Innovation Act"; requires the department of education to establish a two-year pilot program for rural districts to partner together to expand access to high-quality, robust college and career pathways. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB852 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, allows a third grade student who is not proficient in English language arts (ELA) based on the student's achieving a performance level rating of "approaching" on the ELA portion of the student's most recent Tennessee comprehensive assessment program test to be promoted to the next grade level if the student has demonstrated growth above the national norm on a universal reading screener and has demonstrated growth in standards mastery based on the stud...

TN - HB869 Tennessee Higher Education Commission - As introduced, requires the commission to continue submitting to the governor, the speaker of the senate, and the speaker of the house of representatives annual reports on or before December 31 assessing food security among student populations. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB889 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, requires a school official or teacher who observes or otherwise has knowledge of an assault and battery or vandalism endangering life, health, or safety committed by a student on school property to report the action immediately to the school principal and the director of schools, instead of reporting only to the school principal. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB892 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, adds the director of schools as a person to whom a principal must report the principal's direct knowledge of an offense of assault and battery or vandalism committed by a student on school property endangering the life, health, or safety of others; expands the educator's bill of rights to include the educator's right to report an offense of assault and battery or vandalism committed by a student on school property and the educator's righ...

TN - HB897 Education - As enacted, authorizes, upon a request of a director of schools or the director of a public charter school, the commissioner of education to issue an endorsement exemption to a teacher, in accordance with state board rules, to teach a physical education class required by law to elementary school students. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB902 Education - As introduced, establishes the future of work commission to govern the activities of the Tennessee education and workforce data center established in the department of finance and administration's office of evidence and impact to collect, conduct research using, respond to public records requests for, and publish reports regarding certain education and workforce data to create a web-based platform to provide an overview of progress from education into the workforce. - Amends TCA T...

TN - HB927 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, allows a third grade student who is not proficient in English language arts (ELA) based on the student's achieving a performance level rating of "approaching" on the ELA portion of the student's most recent Tennessee comprehensive assessment program (TCAP) test to be promoted to fourth grade if the student maintains a 90 percent attendance rate at a learning loss bridge camp without having to demonstrate adequate growth on the post-test administered a...

TN - HB928 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, expands the exemption from an assessment to advance or renew a teaching license to include a public school teacher who, at the time of the application of an initial license, possessed an active teaching license in another state and has taught for more than 10 years. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5.

TN - HB934 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, makes various changes to the Professional Educators Collaborative Conferencing Act of 2011. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5, Part 6.

TN - HB957 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As enacted, allows an eligible independent postsecondary institution and certain private, nonprofit technical schools to charge dual enrollment students tuition or fees in an amount that exceeds the amount of the student's dual enrollment grant. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.

TN - HB958 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, extends eligibility for a Tennessee middle college scholarship to students enrolled in any eligible postsecondary institution located in this state, instead of only eligible public two-year postsecondary institutions, that is partnering with a local education agency to offer middle college to students. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.

TN - HB959 Students - As introduced, requires LEAs to allow nonresident students to enroll in a school in which spaces are available. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB961 Education, Higher - As enacted, allows adjunct faculty to participate in the Brian Byrge Act by allowing them to enroll in one course consisting of no more than four credit hours or 120 clock hours, per term at the community college or Tennessee college of applied technology at which they are employed, without paying tuition charges or maintenance fees. - Amends TCA Section 49-7-158.

TN - HB962 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, authorizes an LEA to award a high school student credit for a course offered by the LEA's high school if the student attains a qualifying score on the course's final examination without requiring the student to enroll in the course. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB977 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, allows law enforcement officers to carry a firearm when under the influence of alcohol or controlled substances and certain other circumstances; deletes the prohibition on carrying firearms and other weapons on higher education campuses and in parks; prohibits the carrying of weapons in K-12 schools except by certain persons, including any person permitted to carry a firearm under federal law. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13; Title 49, Chapt...

TN - HB978 Education, State Board of - As introduced, requires the rules promulgated by the board to establish an appeal process for certain students identified for retention in the third grade to allow, in addition to the student's parent or guardian, the parent's or guardian's student's principal, guidance counselor, teacher, or another administrator of the student's school to file an appeal with the department, if the student's parent or guardian consents to same in writing. - Amends TCA Title 49, Ch...

TN - HB983 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, requires local education agencies (LEAs) to provide licensed employees of the LEA 6 paid workweeks after a birth or stillbirth of the employee's child or employee's adoption of a newly placed minor child. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8 and Title 49.

TN - HB992 Schools, Charter - As introduced, changes the name of the Tennessee public charter school commission to the Tennessee charter school commission; changes references of public charter schools to charter schools. - Amends TCA Title 1, Chapter 3; Section 2-3-107; Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2; Section 8-35-242; Section 8-38-126; Section 9-8-203; Section 10-7-504; Section 37-1-408 and Title 49.

TN - HB995 Education - As enacted, requires, prior to the administration of corporal punishment against a student, the student's teacher or school principal to make certain documentation in the student's educational record; prohibits corporal punishment against a student found to have a disability unless authorized in accordance with law. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HJR97 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Mike OMalley, Austin Peay State University Board of Trustees

TN - HJR98 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Katherine Cannata, Austin Peay State University Board of Trustees

TN - HJR99 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Ron Ramsey, East Tennessee State University Board of Trustees

TN - HJR100 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Melissa Steagall-Jones, East Tennessee State University Board of Trustees

TN - HJR101 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Dr. Lisa Piercey, East Tennessee State University Board of Trustees

TN - HJR102 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Pam Martin, Tennessee State University Board of Trustees

TN - HJR103 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Trudy Harper, Tennessee Technological University Board of Trustees

TN - HJR104 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Tom Jones, Tennessee Technological University Board of Trustees

TN - HJR105 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Alan Graf Jr., University of Memphis Board of Trustees

TN - HJR106 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - David McKinney, University of Memphis Board of Trustees

TN - HJR107 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Jimmy Granbery, University of Tennessee Southern Campus Advisory Board

TN - HJR108 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Beverly Johnson, University of Tennessee Southern Campus Advisory Board

TN - HJR109 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Natalie Tate, University of Tennessee Health Science Center Advisory Board

TN - HJR110 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Monice Moore Hagler, University of Tennessee Martin Advisory Board

TN - HJR111 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Chris Tutor, Public Charter School Commission

TN - HJR112 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Alan Levine, Public Charter School Commission

TN - HJR113 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Michael Carter Sr., Public Charter School Commission

TN - HJR120 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Honors the memories of Zackery Grooms and Chance Black and requests TWRA to erect a marker in remembrance of the young men.

TN - HB1033 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, authorizes an LEA or public charter school to retain a student in the third grade if the student has not shown a basic understanding of the curriculum and an ability to perform the skills required in the subject of reading, as demonstrated by the student's grades or standardized test results, instead of requiring an LEA or public charter school to retain a third grade student who did not achieve a performance level rating of "on track" or "mastered" o...

TN - HB1034 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, makes various changes to the Voluntary Pre-K for Tennessee Act of 2005; requires, instead of authorizes, an LEA to provide a pre-kindergarten program that is open to any child who is four years of age on or before August 15 and who resides within the geographic area served by the LEA; removes all application requirements for pre-kindergarten programs; removes the requirement for a community pre-k advisory council; requires this state to fund 100 perce...

TN - HB1035 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, removes the retention requirement for third grade students who did not test proficient on the English language arts (ELA) portion of their most recent Tennessee comprehensive assessment program test; authorizes a student's ELA teacher or school principal to retain the student in the third or fourth grade if the teacher or principal determines that the student is not proficient in ELA; requires written notice to a student's parent of the student's pote...

TN - HB1040 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, excludes materials obtained by an individual teacher, which are made available in the teacher's classroom to students assigned to the teacher's class or classes, from having to be identified in a list posted on the school's website, and from being subject to the development, review, and feedback process established by the school's local board of education or public charter school governing body for materials in the school's library collection. - Amend...

TN - HB1042 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, allows an LEA that uses the career academy or small learning community model to extend career and technical education (CTE) class sizes in grades six through eight if the extended CTE class size does not exceed the maximum class size for general education classes in grades four through six; allows an LEA to seek a waiver from the commissioner of education to exceed the average CTE class size in grades six through eight. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1.

TN - HB1059 Education, Higher - As introduced, removes a provision that, in developing course equivalencies and awarding academic credits, required state institutions of higher education to submit such equivalencies to the Tennessee higher education commission (THEC) on or before December 15, 2018, detailing how academic credit toward the institution's respective credentials will be awarded. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1075 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, expands eligibility for a dual enrollment grant to include students who are sophomores in high school and admitted to an eligible postsecondary institution as a dual enrollment student. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4.

TN - HB1078 Education, Curriculum - As introduced, requires the department of education to make available to LEAs on its website the guidelines developed by the state board of education, with the assistance of the department, for appropriate kindergarten through grade 12 instruction on adoption, what adoption is, and the benefits of adoption. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1082 School Vouchers - As introduced, makes various changes to the Tennessee Education Savings Account Pilot Program; expands student eligibility to allow all students eligible to enroll in a Tennessee public school in any of the grades kindergarten through 12 to participate, regardless of a local education agency's academic performance or the student's household income level; allows a participating student who is enrolled in a home school program to receive an education savings account. - Amends ...

TN - HB1086 Schools, Charter - As enacted, revises various provisions relative to charter schools. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 13.

TN - HB1088 Tennessee Investment in Student Achievement (TISA) - As introduced, allows a local education agency (LEA) that experiences growth in its average daily membership (ADM), excluding the ADM of the LEA's virtual schools, exceeding 2 percent for each year of a two-consecutive-year period to be eligible for an infrastructure stipend for the 2023-2024 school year. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1096 Sports - As introduced, prohibits a public school from using public funds to join, become members of, or maintain membership in an association that regulates interscholastic athletics unless the association's bylaws allow a home school student in good standing to immediately participate in an interscholastic athletic offered by a public school if the student was previously enrolled in the public school and participated as a member of the interscholastic athletic team while enrolled. - Amends ...

TN - HB1107 Education, Higher - As introduced, requires the chairs of the government operations committees of each house to review the report submitted to the general assembly by Tennessee State University of the university's progress in improving facilities and infrastructure and to determine if a further review of the university is needed based upon the university's progress of improvement in the report. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49.

TN - HB1114 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, expands eligibility for the Tennessee reconnect grant to include students who completed high school or obtained a GED or HiSET diploma during the 2019-2020 or 2020-2021 school year, and who are at least 21 years of age by January 1 of the academic year in which they enroll in an eligible program of study. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4.

TN - HB1115 Tennessee Higher Education Commission - As introduced, authorizes the commission to require the governing board of a public institution of higher education to terminate an existing on-campus or off-campus program, instead of only making recommendations regarding the termination of certain programs; requires the commission's executive director to notify the education committee of the senate and the education administration committee of the house of representatives of the commission's vote to t...

TN - HB1130 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires an LEA to provide for the enrollment of students who are residents of this state, regardless of the student's residence, race, ethnicity, or language proficiency, the resources of the LEA or its schools, or other considerations regarding the appropriateness of a particular school for a particular student; allows a student's parent or legal guardian to appeal an LEA's enrollment or assignment decision for the student to the commissioner of edu...

TN - HB1133 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, allows counties and municipalities to reestablish the office of elected school superintendent. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1138 Education, Higher - As introduced, requires each higher education institution to distribute or make available, prior to the beginning of each school year instead of at the beginning of each school year, a written policy prohibiting hazing by any student or organization operating under the sanction of the institution. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 49; Title 50; Title 56; Title 62; Title 63 and Title 67.

TN - HB1150 Education, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to conduct a statewide needs analysis of preschool education in this state; requires the department to establish the Tennessee preschool task force to assist in developing a strategic plan for preschool education in this state and to provide recommendations on high-quality programming; requires, subject to available funding, the department to implement a pilot program to award grant funds to five LEAs to implement innovative and high-q...

TN - HB1165 Law Enforcement - As introduced, requires law enforcement officers, school resource officers, or other school security officers to report to a law enforcement agency a suspected offense rising from an investigation of harassment, intimidation, bullying, hazing, or cyber-bullying of a student or a visitor of a school who is under 18; creates a criminal offense for a person to knowingly interfere with a law enforcement officer, school resource officer, or other school security officer consultin...

TN - HB1174 Education - As introduced, removes language that incorrectly refers to the department of safety as the department of safety and homeland security in a provision that requires the department of safety, in collaboration with the department of education, to develop a school security assessment for use in Tennessee public schools. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 10, Chapter 7; Title 38 and Title 49.

TN - HB1183 Education - As introduced, extends from October to November, the time within which a public institution of higher education that receives funds from the distribution of credit cards to students or any percentage from the use of cards bearing the college or university name or logo must report the amount of such funds or percentage received as well as how the funds were expended during the previous fiscal year to the education committee of the senate and the education administration committee o...

TN - HB1191 Education - As introduced, increases from 16 to 20 point font the minimum font size that a postsecondary educational institution must use for the required transferability of credits disclosure given to a student prior to the student signing an enrollment contract. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1199 Tennessee Higher Education Commission - As enacted, revises present law relative to tuition reimbursement for national guardsmen. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4.

TN - HB1202 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, authorizes a faculty or staff member of a school to carry a concealed handgun on school grounds subject to certain conditions, including obtaining an enhanced handgun carry permit and completing annual training. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13 and Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 8.

TN - HB1214 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, changes, from five days to five business days, the amount of notice a local board of education member must give the board before a scheduled meeting of the member's intent to participate in the meeting electronically because the member is or will be out of the county at the time of the meeting. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1232 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, authorizes a local board of education to contract with a private college or university accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges to maintain a training school for grades pre-kindergarten through 12 to provide practice teaching experience for teachers in training. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1244 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, enacts the "Local School District Empowerment Act"; allows for the establishment of the office of elected superintendent of schools; adjusts duties of local boards of education in school systems in which the office of elected superintendent of schools is established. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1249 Education - As introduced, deletes an obsolete reference to the date July 1, 1993, after which a child is not able to enter first grade without having attended an approved kindergarten program, unless the child otherwise meets the requirements of the state board of education for transfer or admission and is accepted by the LEA. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 51; Title 5; Title 6; Title 9; Title 49 and Title 67.

TN - HB1261 Education, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department, in administering the individualized education account program, to develop and implement a process for notifying all parents of their children's potential eligibility for an individualized education account, instead of only ensuring lower-income families are so notified; requires the department to report whether the process increased student participation in the program to the education committee of the senate and the education adminis...

TN - HB1269 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, specifies that a teacher or other employee of a public school or LEA is not required to refer to a student using the student's preferred pronoun if the pronoun is not consistent with the student's biological sex; insulates a teacher or other employee of a public school or LEA from civil liability and adverse employment action for referring to a student using the pronoun that is consistent with the student's biological sex. - Amends TCA T...

TN - HB1271 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, enacts the "Access and Opportunity Act." - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1281 Scholarships and Financial Aid - As enacted, establishes a family medicine student loan repayment grant program to incentivize physicians in residency training to provide medical health services in health resource shortage areas following completion of their training. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 63.

TN - HB1294 Tennessee Student Assistance Corporation - As introduced, requires TSAC to administer a tuition loan program for students who are not otherwise eligible to receive the in-state tuition rate at a public institution of higher education to receive the in-state tuition rate at the institution at which they are enrolled for up to four academic years with no repayment obligation if the student serves as an educator in a public school in this state for no less than five consecutive years. - Amends T...

TN - HB1295 Education, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to conduct a study of best practices in other states for the use of ninth grade "on-track" indicators in state accountability systems to prevent students from dropping out of high school, to submit a report of the outcomes of the study to legislative committees, and to publish the report on the department's website. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1324 Education - As enacted, revises present law concerning participation in school board meetings by electronic participation. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1332 Education - As introduced, changes from October 31 to October 1, the date by which the departments of education and health are required to jointly compile an annual report to the governor and the general assembly of self-administered medications and healthcare procedures. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1334 Education, Higher - As introduced, extends the 25 percent discount on tuition to any state institution of higher education to children under 24 years of age whose parent is employed full time as an educational assistant in a public school in Tennessee. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 49, Chapter 7.

TN - HB1338 Scholarships and Financial Aid - As introduced, removes the interest rate for scholarship loans evidenced by notes made payable to the Tennessee student assistance corporation for fellowship awards received by an aspiring teacher through the minority teaching fellows program. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4.

TN - HB1340 Political Parties - As introduced, requires a statewide executive committee to fill a vacancy on the committee at the next regularly scheduled meeting of the committee unless the next regular August election precedes such meeting. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - HB1357 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires an LEA to pay a teacher their full salary, in addition to their full benefits, if the teacher is absent from assigned duties as the result of a personal injury caused by a physical assault or other violent criminal act committed against the teacher in the course of the teacher's employment activities, with certain limitations and exceptions. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5, Part 7.

TN - HB1364 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, expands who receives the Tennessee Learning Loss Remediation and Student Acceleration Act progress report that is developed by the department to include all of the general assembly, instead of only the speaker of the senate, the speaker of the house of representatives, and the chairs of the education committees of the senate and house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1376 Education, Higher - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Higher Education Freedom of Expression and Transparency Act." - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7 and Title 49, Chapter 8.

TN - HB1377 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, creates a process by which certain individuals may file a complaint with an LEA or public charter school for the LEA's or public charter school's including or promoting certain prohibited concepts as part of a course of instruction, in a curriculum or instructional program, or by allowing teachers or other employees to use supplemental materials that include or promote certain prohibited concepts. - Amends TCA Section 49-6-1019.

TN - HB1381 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, authorizes a third-grade student who is not proficient in English language arts (ELA) to be promoted to fourth grade if at least 66 percent of the third-grade students in the student's LEA or public charter school test proficient on the ELA portion of the most recently administered Tennessee comprehensive assessment program test and if the student's parent or guardian, teacher, and school principal mutually agree and recommend in writing that the stud...

TN - HB1405 Education - As introduced, specifies that each local board of education of a local education agency and governing body of a public charter school has the sole authority to select a mascot for the respective school; prohibits a state agency from interfering with such authority. - Amends TCA Section 4-1-405; Section 4-1-412 and Title 49.

TN - HB1406 School Vouchers - As introduced, requires private schools that participate in the education savings account program or the individualized education account program to publish the school's lesson plans and syllabus for each class offered by the school, a current list of materials in the school's library collection, and the academic standards for each class offered by the school on the school's website. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1408 University of Tennessee - As introduced, requires the board of trustees to report the initial compensation approved by the board for each chancellor of each campus and for the Institute of Agriculture to the education committee of the senate and the education administration committee of the house of representatives by December 1, 2023. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 9; Title 49, Chapter 9; Title 49, Chapter 7 and Title 49, Chapter 8.

TN - HB1410 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, authorizes, instead of requires, an LEA or public charter school to retain a student in the third grade if the student has not shown a basic understanding of the curriculum and an ability to perform the skills required in the subject of reading or English language arts; requires an LEA or public charter school that conducts a learning loss bridge camp to offer a third-grade student identified for retention the opportunity to attend the camp before the...

TN - HB1411 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires an LEA to obtain a student's parent's or legal guardian's consent to allow the student to participate in instruction, an activity, evaluation, assessment, survey, or analysis offered by the student's LEA. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1412 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, changes the date, from October 1 to October 15, by which the office of coordinated school health in the department must submit an annual report regarding the implementation of local education agencies integrating physical activity in a school week. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1414 Children - As introduced, enacts the "Families' Rights and Responsibilities Act," which declares that the ability of a parent to direct the upbringing, education, health care, and mental health of that parents child is a fundamental right. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 49.

TN - HB1416 Education - As enacted, extends the benefits and opportunities provided to children of active duty members of the uniformed services in the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children to school-aged children in the household of a member of any reserve component of the armed forces of the United States, including members of the Tennessee army and air national guard who are enrolled in any of the grades K-12. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1428 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, authorizes the Tennessee financial literacy commission to create an incentive payment program that provides incentive payments to middle school and senior high school teachers that promotes financial literacy to students in middle schools and senior high schools. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 17.

TN - HB1433 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, removes retention requirements for students who did not achieve a certain performance level rating on the English language arts portion of the student's most recent Tennessee comprehensive assessment program test; authorizes an LEA or charter school to retain or promote a student who has not shown a basic understanding of the curriculum and an ability to perform the skills required in the subject of reading, as determined by the LEA or charter school;...

TN - HB1435 Schools, Charter - As introduced, removes the Tennessee public charter school commission as an appellate charter school authorizer; transfers the commission's authority to authorize charter schools on appeal and to serve as the local education agency for each charter school it authorizes to the state board of education; terminates the commission on July 1, 2023. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49.

TN - HB1445 Education, Higher - As enacted, prohibits a public postsecondary institution that provides internet access to students, faculty, staff, or the general public from allowing an individual to access a social media platform using the institution's network if the platform is owned or hosted by a company based in the People's Republic of China; grants certain exemptions for law enforcement activities; investigatory functions; and audit, compliance, or legal functions of the institution. - Amends TC...

TN - HB1456 Schools, Private - As enacted, authorizes a private school and a local government to execute a contract or memorandum of understanding to allow the law enforcement agency of the local government to provide school resource officers to the private school. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 9; Title 38 and Title 49.

TN - HB1491 Redistricting, Legislative - As introduced, requires the general assembly to post an interactive map showing the boundaries of the districts of the state house of representatives on the general assembly's website. - Amends TCA Section 3-1-103.

TN - HJR154 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Stephen Corbeil, Tennessee State University Board of Trustees

TN - HJR155 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Hal Bynum, University of Tennessee at Martin Advisory Board

TN - HJR156 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Scott LeRoy, University of Tennessee Chattanooga Advisory Board

TN - HJR158 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Dr. Charles Doug Haney, University of Tennessee Southern Advisory Board

TN - HJR159 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Caroline Ezell McAnally, University of Tennessee Southern Advisory Board

TN - HJR160 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Doran Johnson, University of Tennessee Southern Advisory Board

TN - HJR303 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Alexia Poe, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, advisory board

TN - HJR304 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Tom Smith, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, advisory board

TN - HB1601 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires each local board of education and public charter school governing body to adopt a comprehensive code of conduct for each school under the authority of the board or governing body that describes the types of acceptable behavior from persons on school grounds. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1604 Scholarships and Financial Aid - As introduced, waives tuition, maintenance fees, student activity fees, and required registration or matriculation fees to a public institution of higher education for dependent children of veterans who are residents of this state and who are 100 percent permanently and totally disabled due to a service-connected injury. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 58.

TN - HB1605 Flags - As introduced, prohibits LEAs and public charter schools from displaying in public schools flags other than the official United States flag and the official Tennessee state flag. - Amends TCA Section 5-5-114; Section 6-54-144 and Title 49.

TN - HB1627 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to award school safety grants to LEAs, public charter schools, private schools, and church-related schools for the purchase of a wearable emergency alert system for teachers and substitute teachers. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1630 Education - As introduced, requires the governing board of each public institution of higher education to promulgate rules, and requires each local board of education and governing body of a public charter school to adopt a policy, regarding the use of artificial intelligence technology by students, teachers, faculty, and staff for instructional and assignment purposes. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1631 Schools, Private - As introduced, clarifies that a private school serving students in any of the grades pre-K through 12 is authorized to adopt a handgun carry policy for the private school's property. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13; Title 49, Chapter 1 and Title 49, Chapter 50.

TN - HB1632 Education - As introduced, gives a parent of a child who attends, or who is eligible to attend, a school operated by a local education agency or a public charter school standing to file a civil action against the LEA or public charter school in a chancery court of competent jurisdiction to enforce the Age-Appropriate Materials Act of 2022. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 38.

TN - HB1633 Safety - As introduced, requires the department of safety to create de-escalation training for teachers, administrators, and other school personnel; requires LEAs and public charter schools to ensure that the LEA's or public charter school's teachers, administrators, and other school personnel annually receive the de-escalation training. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1634 Education - As introduced, revises language prohibiting educators from discriminating against students on certain, specified bases to generally prohibiting educators from discriminating against students who are members of a protected class under federal or state law; removes the definition of "gender identity" for purposes of the family life curriculum. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1644 Safety - As introduced, requires each LEA, public charter school, private school, and church-related school to develop a procedure to determine the cause of a fire alarm activation, including the potential of an active shooter event; requires each LEA to coordinate with appropriate safety teams to incorporate the procedure; specifies that the procedure must be implemented no later than July 1, 2024. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 49.

TN - HB1654 Education - As introduced, enacts the "Smart Heart Act"; establishes various requirements for automatic external defibrillators in schools and response protocols for medical emergencies at high school athletic events. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 68.

TN - HB1655 Education - As introduced, enacts the "Mathematics Supports Act." - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1660 Education, Higher - As introduced, prohibits certain institutions of higher education from defining discriminatory practices in their antidiscrimination policies in a manner inconsistent with the definition of discriminatory practices in state law; prohibits certain institutions of higher education from establishing or recognizing forms of discrimination in their antidiscrimination policies in a manner inconsistent with the forms of discrimination recognized as legally actionable by this stat...

TN - HB1664 Law Enforcement - As introduced, authorizes a law enforcement agency to assign a law enforcement officer to serve as a school resource officer at a school within a local board of education's control that has not entered into a memorandum of understanding with a law enforcement agency to assign a school resource officer to the school. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 37; Title 38; Title 49 and Title 62.

TN - HB1676 Children - As introduced, specifies that a juvenile court proceeding may be commenced by the taking of a child into custody or the removal of custody from a parent or legal guardian; requires the juvenile court in a dependency and neglect proceeding to determine whether a parent, guardian, relative, or caregiver of the child cannot be excluded as a perpetrator of severe child abuse against the child; prohibits a juvenile court from returning a child victim of severe child abuse to the custody...

TN - HB1697 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, removes the requirement that LEAs administer a pretest to students participating in an after-school learning mini-camp, learning loss bridge camp, or summer learning camp; deletes various reporting, funding, and accountability provisions regarding such pretests. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1699 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires local boards of education to include school safety training in the training requirements for substitute teachers. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1700 School Transportation - As introduced, requires each LEA to post a conspicuous notice on all school buses in operation in the LEA notifying others that no person shall enter onto school buses except those authorized by law; requires the training standards for school bus drivers established by the departments of education and safety to include procedures concerning persons improperly on school buses; requires student transportation management training for transportation supervisors appointed b...

TN - HB1709 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, authorizes LEAs and public charter schools to reimburse teachers for child care expenses paid by the teacher each month for the teacher's dependent child to receive child care services through a child care program certified by the department of education or a child care agency licensed by the department of human services; requires, subject to appropriation, this state to reimburse LEAs and public charter schools a portion of any such monthly reimburse...

TN - HB1785 Education - As introduced, replaces the uniform accounting policy manual for local school systems with an internal school funds manual; removes the requirement that the commissioner of finance and administration approve the manual so that only the comptroller of the treasury's approval is required. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 2, Part 1.

TN - HB1789 Education, State Board of - As introduced, clarifies that pleas of guilt and nolo contendere to certain criminal offenses subject an educator to automatic revocation of an educator license by the state board; specifies that criminal offenses committed in another jurisdiction that are equivalent to those that if committed in this state subject an educator to automatic revocation of an educator license similarly subject an educator to automatic revocation of an educator license by the state boa...

TN - HB1797 Education, State Board of - As introduced, requires the public high school in which the public high school student member of the state board of education is enrolled to count the student as present for time the student spends performing the student's duties as a member of the state board of education. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 30.

TN - HB1803 Scholarships and Financial Aid - As introduced, clarifies when a student must be enrolled in an eligible postsecondary program to be eligible to receive a Tennessee Promise scholarship. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4.

TN - HB1809 Scholarships and Financial Aid - As introduced, extends eligibility for a Tennessee Promise scholarship to students who are enrolled full-time in a private, for-profit trade school that has been approved by the Tennessee state board of cosmetology and barber examiners to operate in this state for at least 10 consecutive years, that is accredited by the National Accrediting Commission of Career Arts and Sciences, Inc., and that is authorized by the Tennessee higher education commission to offe...

TN - HB1812 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, allows all LEA and public charter school employees, instead of only teachers, to receive their full salary, or average pay, and full benefits in the event they sustain a personal injury as the result of a physical assault or other violent criminal act committed against them while they are acting in the course and scope of their employment. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1831 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, allows the parent or guardian of a student with a documented academic or behavioral delay to voluntarily retain the student in the student's current grade level; requires the LEA or public charter school in which such student is enrolled to retain the student in the student's current grade level at the request of the student's parent or guardian unless the student has already been retained in that grade level. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1837 Education, Higher - As introduced, prohibits a public institution of higher learning that holds personal information of students from sharing the personal information with a third party, unless the third party agrees in writing that the personal information will only be used for the purpose for which information is originally requested. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7 and Title 49.

TN - HB1844 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires each local school board to establish a school lunch program and a school breakfast program that provide a free breakfast and lunch to each student enrolled in a school under the board's jurisdiction; requires the state to reimburse each LEA for the cost of providing a free breakfast and lunch to each student enrolled in the LEA after all available federal funds have been applied. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1847 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, requires the department of education to allocate to each local education agency sufficient funds for the LEA to employ one full-time licensed professional school counselor position for every 250 student members of the LEA or one full-time position for each LEA and public charter school within the LEA, whichever is greater; requires each LEA and public charter school to employ a licensed professional school counselor for each position ...

TN - HB1855 Education, Higher - As introduced, requires each public institution of higher education to establish a policy framework to promote the security of academic research conducted at the institution to mitigate against the risk of foreign influence. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7.

TN - HB1860 Education - As introduced, requires each local school board to establish a school lunch program and a school breakfast program that provide a free breakfast and lunch to each student enrolled in a school under the board's jurisdiction; requires the state to reimburse each LEA the cost of providing a free breakfast and lunch to each student enrolled in the LEA after all available federal funds have been applied. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HJR747 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Dan Strasser, UT-Martin Advisory Board

TN - HJR748 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Mario Duarte, UT Chattanooga Advisory Board

TN - HB1861 Schools, Home - As introduced, requires a public school that is not a member of an interscholastic athletic regulatory organization or association to offer home school students who are zoned to attend the school the same opportunity to participate in the interscholastic athletics offered by the school as is required of a public school who is a member of an interscholastic athletic regulatory organization or association that maintains eligibility requirements for home school students. - Amends...

TN - HB1865 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, changes from August 15 to May 15 the date by which a child must be five years of age in order to enroll in kindergarten; removes authorization for directors of schools to allow early enrollment in kindergarten for emotionally mature students who do not otherwise qualify for enrollment based on their birth date. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1866 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, allows Tennessee comprehensive assessment program (TCAP) tests to be administered to students enrolled in a virtual school in an online setting; requires the department of education to ensure that TCAP tests administered to virtual school students in online settings are administered in a manner and format that does not invalidate the tests. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 16 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HJR757 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Dr. Michael Ugwueke, University of Tennessee Health Science Center Advisory Board

TN - HJR758 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Garnett Decosimo, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Advisory Board

TN - HJR759 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Robert Carter, University of Memphis Board of Trustees

TN - HJR764 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Darrell Cobbins, State Board of Education

TN - HJR765 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Krissi McInturff, State Board of Education

TN - HJR766 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Lauren Smith, Public Charter School Commission

TN - HJR767 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Christine P. Richards, Public Charter School Commission

TN - HJR768 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Tom Griscom, Public Charter School Commission

TN - HJR769 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Stephen Smith, Middle Tennessee State University Board of Trustees

TN - HJR770 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Michael Wade, Middle Tennessee State University Board of Trustees

TN - HJR771 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - William S. Jones, Middle Tennessee State University Board of Trustees

TN - HJR772 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Tony Treadway, East Tennessee State University Board of Trustees

TN - HB1899 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, authorizes LEAs and public charter schools to employ retired law enforcement officers who are retired from a federal, state, or local law enforcement agency and honorably discharged veterans of the United States armed forces to serve as school resource officers on school premises. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 37; Title 38; Title 49 and Title 62.

TN - HB1908 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, enacts the "Beyond Ordinary Learning Opportunities (BOLO) Act," which requires the department to establish a one-year pilot program to place a therapy dog in five public schools in the 2024-2025 school year. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1909 Weapons - As introduced, specifies that it is not a criminal offense for an adult person to carry or possess pepper spray, a taser, or another similar device for purposes of self-defense when on property owned, operated, or in use by any college or university board of trustees, regents, or directors for the administration of any public or private educational institution; prohibits the adoption of a policy by a college, university, or other educational institution prohibiting an adult person f...

TN - HB1912 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, allows a Tennessee HOPE scholarship student or a nontraditional Tennessee HOPE scholarship student who earned the student's first baccalaureate degree between July 1, 2022, and July 1, 2023, in less than five years from the date of the student's initial enrollment at any postsecondary institution to continue to receive the scholarship upon resuming the student's education at an eligible postsecondary institution in pursuit of an advanced deg...

TN - HB1914 Education, Higher - As introduced, establishes the hunger-free campus grant program; provides grants to higher education institutions to address student hunger. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1917 Tennessee Investment in Student Achievement (TISA) - As introduced, revises the weighted allocations generated by a student for purposes of the TISA based on the number of students who are members of the LEA in which the student resides. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 3.

TN - HB1923 Board of Regents - As introduced, requires a Tennessee college of applied technology (TCAT) to reserve an enrollment slot for each dual enrollment student in the term immediately following the last term in which the student was enrolled in the TCAT as a dual enrollment student if space is available for the student at the TCAT in the program in which the student was previously enrolled. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4.

TN - HB1927 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, authorizes LEAs and public charter schools to reimburse teachers for child care expenses paid by the teacher each month for the teacher's dependent child to receive child care services through certain child care programs certified by the department of education or child care agencies licensed by the department of human services; requires, subject to appropriation, this state to reimburse LEAs and public charter schools a portion of any such monthly re...

TN - HB1929 Education, Higher - As introduced, provides a 25 percent discount on the tuition charged by a state institution of higher education to the child of an active or retired member of the Tennessee army national guard or the Tennessee air national guard. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7.

TN - HB1936 Education - As introduced, requires, beyond the 2023-2024 school year, each LEA and public charter school to provide each high school senior the opportunity to take nationally recognized assessments if the assessments meet certain criteria. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6 and Chapter 439 of the Public Acts of 2023.

TN - HB1948 Education, Higher - As introduced, establishes various prohibitions and requirements for public institutions of higher education regarding diversity, equity, and inclusion. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1951 Taxes, Privilege - As introduced, enacts the "Universal Pre-K Funding Act." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 51; Title 49 and Title 67.

TN - HB1965 Students - As introduced, prohibits the use of corporal punishment against students; deletes various provisions relative to the use of corporal punishment. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 37; Title 39; Title 41 and Title 49.

TN - HB1997 Public Funds and Financing - As introduced, requires the trust principal of the K-12 mental health endowment account to be reduced by $75,000,000 in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, and reallocated to the trust's K-12 mental health special reserve account. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 3, Part 5.

TN - HB2008 Education - As introduced, requires organizers of public school athletic events to accept cash as a form of payment for admission to the event or the purchase of concessions or other items for sale at the event; prohibits organizers of public school athletic events from charging a cash price that exceeds the price if paid by credit or debit card; designates a violation to be an unfair or deceptive act or practice in violation of the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act of 1977. - Amends TCA Titl...

TN - HJR785 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Dr. Tonya Reynoldson, UT Martin Advisory Board

TN - HJR786 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Camron Rudd, Tennessee Technological University board of trustees

TN - HB2024 Education - As introduced, requires the department of education to contract with the TCAP test provider to offer students who receive language assistance services in the classroom the same language assistance services during the administration of a TCAP test. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2028 Safety - As introduced, adds training in the use of anti-choking devices to the training that coaches of school youth athletic activities at an LEA or public charter school are required to receive. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 68.

TN - HB2042 Education, Higher - As introduced, specifies that no more than 49 percent of a public institution of higher education's entering freshman class may be composed of students who are classified as out-of-state students. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2049 Education - As introduced, requires the department of education to ensure that an equivalent amount given as a scholarship amount to students in grades K-12 for the purposes of attending private schools be disbursed to the LEA in which the student was enrolled before participating in a scholarship program if the department administers such a scholarship program. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2056 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, authorizes an LEA to adopt a policy for retired law enforcement officers to serve as armed school security officers on school premises. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 49.

TN - HB2059 Education - As introduced, increases from three to six the maximum number of credits a student may earn in a work-based learning program in one school year. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2098 Education - As introduced, increases the number of credits, from three to four, a student in a work-based learning program can earn in a year; reduces the number of hours of supervised work experience, from 10 to five, required for a student in a work-based learning program to earn one additional credit; reduces the number of hours of supervised work experience, from 20 to five, required for a student in a work-based learning program to earn additional credits. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter ...

TN - HB2102 Tennessee Higher Education Commission - As introduced, authorizes the commission to designate VETS campuses that strive to increase enrollment, continuation, and graduation rates of veterans, and that meet certain qualification criteria established by the commission, as VETS Bravo campuses; establishes reporting requirements for VETS Bravo campuses. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 13.

TN - HB2115 Education - As introduced, requires local education agencies (LEAs) and public charter schools to recognize November 7 of each year as Victims of Communism Day to honor the people who have fallen victim to communist regimes across the world; requires LEAs and public charter schools to provide students enrolled in a world history and geography course with at least 45 minutes of instruction on Victims of Communism Day. - Amends TCA Title 15; Title 49, Chapter 1 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB2116 Education, Higher - As introduced, extends the 25 percent tuition discount at state institutions of higher education for children of public school teachers to children of full-time law enforcement officers employed by a county or municipality in this state. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 49.

TN - HB2132 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, reduces, from 23 to 21, the minimum age required for a student to be eligible for the Tennessee reconnect grant. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4.

TN - HB2133 Education, Higher - As introduced, extends a 25 percent tuition discount, provided to the children of state employees at state institutions of higher education to the children of county and municipal employees. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 50 and Title 49.

TN - HB2142 Education - As introduced, increases from a Class C misdemeanor to a Class B misdemeanor the penalty for a student's parent, guardian, or legal custodian failing to report an adjudication that the student committed certain delinquent acts to the school principal; specifies that a school principal shall ask a student's parent, guardian, or legal custodian whether there has been any such adjudication. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 1, Part 1 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB2154 Education - As introduced, reduces, from 90 to 60, the number of days following the issuance of a temporary certificate that the department of education has to determine whether an applicant to operate a child care program has complied with all regulations governing the classification of the child care program for which the application was made. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2155 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, names the law prohibiting an LEA from deducting dues from the wages of the LEA's employees for a professional employees' organization the "Michael Maren Paycheck Protection Act." - Amends TCA Section 49-2-123.

TN - HB2158 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, reduces, from 3,000 to 750, the number of students for which one public school nurse is considered sufficient to adequately provide services for purposes of the Tennessee public school nurse program. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 68.

TN - HB2165 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires a request made by a student to an employee of the student's LEA or public charter school for an accommodation to affirm the student's gender identity to be reported to a school administrator and to the student's parent; prohibits an employee of an LEA or public charter school from knowingly providing false or misleading information to a student's parent regarding the student's gender identity or intention to transition to a gender that differ...

TN - HB2179 Scholarships and Financial Aid - As introduced, requires high school students to complete the eighth grade and be admitted to an eligible postsecondary institution as a dual enrollment student to qualify for a dual enrollment grant. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4.

TN - HB2180 Scholarships and Financial Aid - As introduced, expands student eligibility for a Tennessee future teacher scholarship to include students enrolled in an approved educator preparation program at Western Governors University. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 7.

TN - HB2181 Tennessee Investment in Student Achievement (TISA) - As introduced, adds pre-kindergarten students with special education needs and peer models to the categories of students who generate education funding through the TISA. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2184 Tennessee Higher Education Commission - As introduced, reallocates 5 percent of the privilege tax collected from licensees that offer sports wagering in this state from the lottery for education account to a new Tennessee Promise completion grant special account created to assist the commission in awarding completion grants to certain Tennessee Promise scholarship students; makes the four-year pilot program established by the commission to award completion grants to certain Tennessee Promise ...

TN - HB2186 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, makes various changes to the Voluntary Pre-K for Tennessee Act of 2005; requires, instead of authorizes, an LEA to provide a pre-kindergarten program that is open to any child who is four years of age on or before August 15 and who resides within the geographic area served by the LEA; removes the requirement for a community pre-k advisory council; requires this state to fund 100 percent of the costs required for an LEA to provide a pre-kindergarten pr...

TN - HB2191 School Districts, Special - As introduced, allows a local board of education for a special school district to initiate an advisory, non-binding referendum election on the question of whether one or more schools in the special school district should be consolidated. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 49.

TN - HB2193 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, imposes an additional 15-percent tax on the retail sale of firearms; requires revenue from the firearms tax to be deposited into the K-12 mental health counselor fund to be administered by the department of education and used exclusively to provide school counselors in elementary and secondary public schools and public charter schools in this state and for mental health assessments and services for students pursuant to a school counselor's referral. - ...

TN - HB2201 Criminal Procedure - As introduced, changes the reporting month from January to July for when the attorney general and reporter must report information about orders for wiretapping and electronic surveillance to the administrative office of the United States courts, the speaker of the senate, and the speaker of the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB2207 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, enacts the "Menstrual Hygiene Products Accessibility Act." - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 49 and Title 67.

TN - HB2215 Real Property - As introduced, enacts the Real Estate Fraud Reduction Act, which requires county registers of deeds and notaries public to verify the identity of a person recording or notarizing a document relating to certain real estate transactions, as applicable, using a government-issued identification card; requires such registers and notaries to document and maintain as a permanent record certain personally identifying information of a person recording or notarizing such a document; spe...

TN - HB2219 Education, Higher - As introduced, requires this state to match the federal funds appropriated to Tennessee State University at a rate that is two times the rate required by the federal government for receipt of the funds. - Amends TCA Title 9 and Title 49.

TN - HB2224 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to annually notify each local education agency (LEA) in writing of all state and federal grant programs available to assist the LEA in expanding mental health services and resources in schools. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2228 Education - As introduced, requires, as a condition of participating in the education savings account program, a participating school to retain a participating student in the third grade if the student does not achieve a performance level of "on track" or "mastered" on the English language arts portion of the Tennessee comprehensive assessment program test most recently administered to the student; requires, as a condition of participating in the education savings account program, a participa...

TN - HB2234 Taxes, Privilege - As introduced, enacts the "Universal Pre-K Funding Act." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 51; Title 49 and Title 67.

TN - HB2238 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, allows an LEA or public charter school to elect not to receive a letter grade for one or more of its schools by notifying the commissioner of education, in writing, of its decision to opt out of such requirements; allows, instead of requires, an LEA or public charter school to retain certain students in fourth grade if the student's LEA or public charter school determines that retention may benefit the student. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2248 Health, Dept. of - As introduced, authorizes the department to contract with a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that maintains a principal office in this state and that is affiliated with a nonprofit membership organization composed of family physicians, family medicine residents, and medical students in this state for the nonprofit organization to administer some or all portions of the family medicine student loan repayment program. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 63.

TN - HB2251 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, enacts the "Smart Heart Act"; establishes various requirements for automatic external defibrillators in schools and response protocols for cardiac-related medical emergencies. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 68.

TN - HB2264 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, allows certain schools in need of intervention to exit the school turnaround pilot program before the 2024-2025 school year. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2272 Education - As introduced, requires the state department of education to submit the U.S department of education's interpretations and directives on the implementation of department rules providing guidance to this state to the chairs of certain legislative committees; requires such information to be submitted to each member of the joint government operations rule review committee prior to each rule review meeting. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49.

TN - HB2276 Education, Higher - As introduced, reduces from 65 to 60 the age at which a person is eligible to enroll in courses for credit at state-supported colleges and universities without payment of tuition, maintenance fees, student activity fees, or registration fees. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2283 Education - As introduced, changes, from October 1 to December 1, the annual deadline for private and church-related schools to provide school building-level school safety plans to local law enforcement agencies and other participating emergency response organizations. - Amends TCA Section 49-6-804.

TN - HB2285 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, authorizes the issuance of temporary teaching permits for courses for which an end-of-course examination is required. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2287 University of Tennessee - As introduced, changes, from the governor to the president of the university, the appointing authority for members of an advisory board; removes the requirement that advisory board members be confirmed by the general assembly prior to beginning a term of office; authorizes the removal of an advisory board member for misconduct, incapacity, or neglect of duty; requires certain advisory board recommendations to be submitted to the president of the university. - Amends ...

TN - HB2311 Education - As introduced, requires the principal or head of a school that maintains an opioid antagonist at the school to ensure that the opioid antagonist is stored in accordance with manufacturer instructions; prohibits a school from prohibiting a student, employee, or visitor from possessing an opioid antagonist while the person is on school property or attending a school-sponsored activity held at a location that is not school property. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2324 Education - As introduced, requires the office of early learning to submit its annual report on pre-kindergarten programs by November 1. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2326 Education - As introduced, changes, from 10 days to 10 business days, the maximum amount of time the commissioner of education can suspend schools in a year when the commissioner requires all teachers to attend county institutes or educational meetings. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HJR811 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Recognizes the benefits of chess in education and correctional systems.

TN - HB2335 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, enacts the "Separation of Need Act"; removes income eligibility requirements from free school lunch and breakfast programs; requires each local board of education and governing body of a public charter school to provide a free breakfast and lunch to all enrolled students; requires the state to reimburse each LEA and public charter school for the cost of providing a free breakfast and lunch to enrolled students after all available federal funds have be...

TN - HB2344 Education - As introduced, enacts the "Protecting Tennessee Schools and Events Act"; subject to appropriations, requires the department of education to contract for the provision of walk-through metal detectors to LEAs. - Amends TCA Title 12 and Title 49.

TN - HB2345 Emergency Communications Districts - As introduced, transfers the state emergency communications board to the department of safety from the department of commerce and insurance. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 7, Chapter 86.

TN - HB2346 Tennessee Higher Education Commission - As introduced, creates a mechanism for the management and governance functions of a local governing board of trustees for a state university to be transferred and assumed by the commission in the event a state university board ceases to exist under the Tennessee Governmental Entity Review Law. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49.

TN - HB2349 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, reduces, from 25 to 15, the maximum class size in grades K-2 at a priority school. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2357 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, revises certain requirements for film coverings on entry doors and removes requirements for film coverings on basement windows in public school buildings constructed or remodeled after July 1, 2024. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2381 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires each local board of education and public charter school governing body to adopt a code of conduct for visitors for each school under the authority of the board or governing body that describes the types of acceptable behavior from visitors on school grounds. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB2388 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, authorizes LEAs to extend career technical education (CTE) class sizes and averages in middle school CTE courses grades six through eight; provided, that CTE classes in grades six through eight do not exceed the maximum class size and the class size average set for general education classes in grades six through eight. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1.

TN - HB2392 State Universities - As introduced, adds state university boards of trustees to the list of governing boards authorized to promulgate rules to effectuate the requirement that persons required to register for the federal draft must be registered for the draft in order to be eligible for enrollment in a state postsecondary school. - Amends TCA Section 49-7-114.

TN - HB2393 Tennessee Higher Education Commission - As introduced, makes various changes to the fees collected by the commission from Tennessee SARA institutions pursuant to the State Authorization Reciprocity Agreement Act. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7.

TN - HB2398 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, adds local law enforcement officials to those who must be appointed to each district-wide school safety team; specifies that it is each district-wide school safety team and each building-level school safety team that is required to annually review the respective district-wide or building-level school safety plan. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2399 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, authorizes a director of schools to delegate one or more of the director's official duties to another person employed by the LEA, if the local board of education has adopted a policy authorizing such delegation. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 2.

TN - HB2403 Education - As introduced, adds the Classical Learning Test (CLT) to the assessments on which a student must attain a certain minimum score in order to be eligible for certain financial aid opportunities; adds the CLT as an acceptable assessment of student readiness for postsecondary education for purposes of high school graduation requirements; requires each public institution of higher education to accept student scores on the CLT for purposes of admission, and to weigh scores achieved on t...

TN - HB2409 Education - As introduced, requires the department of education to annually collect and report certain information for each provider and nonpublic school that receives public funds through a scholarship, voucher, education savings account, individualized education account, or similar program created to provide parents, guardians, or students state or local funds to assist the parent, guardian, or student in paying tuition, fees, and any other approved expenses associated with the student enro...

TN - HB2410 Child Abuse - As introduced, requires a school to comply with the obligation to report suspected child abuse or neglect in order for the school to qualify as a school in which a student may be enrolled to satisfy school attendance requirements; specifies that certain training and reporting requirements apply to nonpublic schools; prohibits persons who knowingly fail to comply, or who knowingly prevent compliance, with the obligation to report suspected child abuse or neglect from serving as a...

TN - HB2416 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires LEAs and public charter schools to notify parents and guardians of students who do not test proficient in mathematics on the student's most recent Tennessee comprehensive assessment program test of academic supports in mathematics that are available to the student before the beginning of the upcoming school year or during the upcoming school year. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2427 Education, Higher - As introduced, requires a faculty member appointed or selected to serve on a standing committee of the University of Tennessee board of trustees, the advisory board of a University of Tennessee institution, the board of regents, or a state university board of trustees to be confirmed by the general assembly before beginning a term of office; changes, from May 31 to January 31, the date by which a faculty member must be appointed or selected to serve on a standing committee...

TN - HB2433 Tobacco, Tobacco Products - As introduced, authorizes the department of agriculture to submit and publish its annual report to the general assembly and the public on efforts to prevent the sale of tobacco products to individuals under 21 years of age electronically and on the department's website. - Amends TCA Title 25; Title 39; Title 47 and Title 67.

TN - HB2436 Agriculture, Dept. of - As introduced, reduces, from 30 to 25, the number of days within which the commissioner is required to declare a county to be a "Johnson grass extermination area" following receipt of notice from the county's legislative body that it has elected such designation. - Amends TCA Title 1, Chapter 3; Title 43 and Title 44.

TN - HB2438 Health Care - As introduced, requires public schools in this state that serve any combination of grades nine through 12 to maintain an opioid antagonist in at least one location in the school. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 49; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB2441 Education - As introduced, requires the state board of education to publish on its website the reports on night schools that it receives from school boards. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 67.

TN - HB2450 Scholarships and Financial Aid - As introduced, requires a nonpublic school that accepts publicly funded vouchers for student tuition to comply with the same requirements for student testing applicable to public schools, subject to certain exemptions; requires a nonpublic school that accepts a publicly funded voucher to pay back a pro-rated amount of the scholarship if the student leaves school before the end of the school year. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2457 Libraries - As introduced, requires the removal of sexually explicit material from the libraries of public schools; creates a process for evaluating library materials for sexually explicit material in public schools. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2464 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, requires local boards of education to include school safety training in the training requirements for substitute teachers; clarifies that LEAs are prohibited from hiring a substitute teacher whose license in another state is revoked; makes other changes concerning LEA policies for substitute teachers. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2468 Education - As introduced, requires the department of education to study the school choice programs available in other states and to submit a report of the department's findings at the conclusion of the study to the governor, the speaker of the house of representatives, and the speaker of the senate no later than January 1, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2470 Education - As introduced, requires the department of education to contract with a vendor to provide internet security software for school-issued electronic devices in selected LEAs as part of a two-year pilot program. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2472 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires LEAs and public charter schools to advise an employee who is assaulted by a student of the employee's rights as a result of the assault; requires, instead of authorizes, the suspension of a student who commits an assault against an employee of the LEA or public charter school in which the student is enrolled from attendance at school and from attendance at all school-sponsored events for at least one calendar year. - Amends TCA Title 37; Titl...

TN - HB2480 Milk, Dairy Products - As introduced, changes from February 1 to February 15 the date by which licensees and registrants under the Dairy Law must provide an annual report concerning their business to the commissioner of agriculture. - Amends TCA Title 43; Title 44; Title 49 and Title 53.

TN - HB2486 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, authorizes a director of schools to delegate one or more of the duties assigned to the director by the local board of education to another administrator or employee of the LEA, if the board has adopted a policy authorizing the respective duty to be delegated to the respective individual. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2487 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, conditions the expulsion of a student for committing the zero tolerance offense of threatening mass violence on school property or at a school-related activity to threats of mass violence determined to be valid based on the results of a threat assessment; requires directors of schools and heads of public charter schools to report threats of mass violence on school property or at a school-related activity made by a student that are determined, based on...

TN - HB2488 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, provides a 25 percent tuition discount to a full-time certified teacher employed in a public school in this state for courses taken at a public institution of higher education in this state that are related to the person's employment as a teacher. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2489 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, authorizes the issuance of temporary teaching permits to teach physical education classes in elementary schools. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2491 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, expands, beyond just student performance in English language arts (ELA) on the most recent Tennessee comprehensive assessment program (TCAP) test, the measures of student growth in ELA that an LEA or public charter school may use in determining whether certain fourth-grade students show adequate growth in ELA; requires LEAs and public charter schools to convene a parent-teacher conference for purposes of determining whether a student who does not show...

TN - HB2492 Education - As introduced, changes, from 15 days to 15 business days, the amount of notice required before a school board extends the contract of a director of schools at a scheduled meeting. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2494 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, revises certain enrollment, attendance, individualized education program, and resident requirements for certain education funding to follow a student who is admitted to a state-licensed or out-of-state mental health facility from the student's LEA to the facility. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2498 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires each local school board and governing body of a public charter school to provide a free breakfast and lunch to each student enrolled in a school under the board's or body's jurisdiction; requires the state to reimburse each LEA and public charter school for the cost of providing a free breakfast and lunch to each student enrolled in the LEA or public charter school after all available federal funds have been applied. - Amends TCA Title 49, Ch...

TN - HB2528 Education - As introduced, changes from February 1 to January 15, the deadline for the commissioners of safety and education to present their annual report to the governor and the general assembly concerning implementation of the Schools Against Violence in Education (SAVE) Act. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 49 and Title 67.

TN - HB2559 Education - As introduced, changes from 10 to 14 the number of days public high schools, including public charter high schools, are required to notify freshman and sophomore high school students enrolled at their schools of the opportunity to pursue an Industry 4.0 diploma distinction. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB2561 Education - As introduced, changes from October 31 to October 15, the date by which the departments of health and education are required to submit their annual report of self-administered medications and healthcare procedures to students served in all public and nonpublic accredited schools in this state. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2562 Education - As introduced, changes from November 1 to November 15 of each year, the deadline for LEAs to provide feedback and recommendations regarding TISA to the department of education and the comptroller. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2565 Education - As introduced, increases the amount of time both parents or a guardian have to make a written application for a hearing challenging a local school board's order placing a student in a certain public school from within 10 days after an assignment order to within 15 days after an assignment order. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2569 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, requires LEAs and public charter schools to strive to employ school personnel in a manner that fairly represents the racial and ethnic composition of the student body for the school to which such personnel are assigned. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 21; Title 8; Title 49 and Title 50.

TN - HB2591 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, allows Tennessee comprehensive assessment program (TCAP) tests to be administered to students enrolled in a virtual school or virtual education program through the internet in a virtual or remote setting if certain requirements are met. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2596 Scholarships and Financial Aid - As introduced, creates an advanced practice registered nurse student loan repayment grant program to incentivize advanced practice registered nurses to provide health services in health resource shortage areas. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 7 and Title 63.

TN - HB2602 Employees, Employers - As introduced, increases the hourly minimum wage to $20.00, or the federal minimum wage established pursuant to the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, whichever rate is greater. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 23; Title 12, Chapter 4, Part 4 and Title 50, Chapter 2.

TN - HB2616 Education - As introduced, requires agreements and obligations of local education agencies (LEAs) relative to school-based health-related services to be fair, reasonable, and suitable to the objectives of the LEA with respect to the school-based health-related services. - Amends TCA Title 49; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB2625 Education, Higher - As introduced, requires the Tennessee higher education commission and each governing board of a public institution of higher education in this state to revise certain rules and take certain actions with respect to institutional accreditation; specifies that a public institution of higher education in this state may bring a civil cause of action against an accrediting agency or association in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7.

TN - HB2652 Education - As introduced, requires each local school board to establish programs for free school lunch and free school breakfast for students regardless of income eligibility; requires the state to reimburse each LEA the cost of providing a free breakfast and lunch to each student enrolled in the LEA after all available private funding and federal funds have been applied. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2664 Public Health - As introduced, requires the commissioner of health to submit an electronic copy of the annual report on immunization rates of children, by county, to the governor and the speakers of the senate and the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 14; Title 37, Chapter 10, Part 4; Title 49 and Title 63.

TN - HB2670 Alcoholic Beverage Commission - As introduced, requires the commission to prescribe requirements for a notice that must be prominently posted at the establishment of a retail package store licensee that sells at retail a product containing a hemp-derived cannabinoid, including the age restriction for purchasing such products and other information regarding consumer health and safety. - Amends TCA Title 43; Title 57 and Title 67.

TN - HB2676 Tennessee Higher Education Commission - As introduced, abolishes the governing board of directors for the Tennessee student assistance corporation and designates the corporation as a division of the commission; revises certain duties and powers of the commission; vacates and reconstitutes the commission on July 1, 2024. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 49.

TN - HB2678 Education - As introduced, changes from November 1 to October 15 the deadline for the comptroller to annually submit a report concerning the implementation of the Tennessee Literacy Success Act. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 37; Title 49; Title 50; Title 66 and Title 67.

TN - HB2679 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, extends the school turnaround pilot program beyond the 2024-2025 school year; increases, from five to 15, the number of schools in need of intervention that may participate in the school turnaround pilot program. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 37.

TN - HB2697 Schools, Charter - As introduced, requires public charter schools to provide educators six work weeks of paid leave after the birth or stillbirth of the educator's child or after the educator's adoption of a newly placed minor child. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 49.

TN - HB2705 Education, Higher - As introduced, provides a 25 percent tuition discount to children under 24 years of age whose parent is a full-time employee of a public school or public charter school in a position other than as a teacher, and has been employed by public school or public charter school in this state for at least seven consecutive years. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2726 Students - As introduced, reduces maximum class sizes and maximum average class sizes by one student each school year over a period of five school years, beginning with the 2025-2026 school year. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 1.

TN - HB2739 Education - As introduced, establishes that an after-school learning mini camp must provide at least one beverage, in addition to one snack, each day to each student attending the camp. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 49 and Title 71.

TN - HB2743 Education, Higher - As introduced, requires each institution of higher education in this state to classify a student who is the spouse or dependent child of a service member as an in-state student for tuition purposes if certain criteria are met. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2751 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, expands the category of primary elections in which candidates nominated for school boards are to appear on the regular August election ballot for which the date of such election may be reset by an election commission to coincide with the regular primary or general election from those falling within 90 days of an upcoming regular primary or general election to those falling within 120 days of an upcoming regular primary or general election. - Amends TC...

TN - HB2756 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, makes students who graduate from an out-of-state high school eligible for the Tennessee HOPE scholarship if at least one of the student's parents resides in this state and has resided in this state no less than 10 years; requires the board of regents and each state university board to consider such students residents of this state. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2758 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires LEAs and public charter schools to prohibit students from displaying, using, or accessing an electronic device during instructional time unless the electronic device is authorized, or provided to the student, by the LEA or public charter school for instructional purposes; requires local boards of education and public charter school governing bodies to develop and adopt a policy to implement the prohibition. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2764 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires a parent or guardian to notify their student's school if the student is adjudicated delinquent for any criminal offense involving a firearm, whether the offense was committed in this state or in another state. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39 and Title 49.

TN - HB2769 Education - As introduced, requires the commissioner of education, subject to appropriations, for the 2024-2025 school year, to approve voluntary pre-kindergarten programs in an amount sufficient to provide up to 1,200 pre-kindergarten classrooms. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2784 Education, Higher - As introduced, establishes deadlines for public institutions of higher education to initiate and complete an investigation into a report filed by a student or employee alleging they have been penalized, discriminated against, or received adverse treatment due to their refusal to support or otherwise assent to a divisive concept, specific ideology, or political viewpoint; establishes financial penalties for institutions that fail to timely investigate such reports or fail t...

TN - HB2818 Education - As introduced, authorizes public school students in grades nine through 12 to be excused from school attendance for one school day per school year to allow students to participate in a civic engagement activity. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2826 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department, using existing resources, to develop a conflict resolution program that may be adopted and implemented by LEAs and public charter schools to assist students in any of the grades K-12 in developing the skills necessary for nonviolent conflict resolution. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2834 University of Tennessee - As introduced, directs the University of Tennessee Health Science Center to study and take other steps as necessary to establish a state academic health authority. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49, Chapter 9.

TN - HB2851 Education, Higher - As introduced, requires the office of the comptroller of the treasury to include in any audit conducted by the office of a governing board of a public institution of higher education an examination into whether each institution governed by the board is complying with the equal protection provisions of the Tennessee and United States constitutions in the institution's admission program and practices. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8, Chapter 4; Title 49, Chapter 8; Title 49, C...

TN - HB2883 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, allows law enforcement officers, whether on-duty or off-duty, retired law enforcement officers, active duty and retired members of the armed forces of the United States, whether in discharge of official duties or not, and enhanced handgun carry permit holders, except in certain circumstances, to possess or carry, whether openly or concealed, with or without the intent to go armed, a handgun in any Pre-K-12 public school building or bus, school campus, ...

TN - HB2909 Interstate Compacts - As introduced, prohibits this state from paying an annual assessment to the interstate commission on educational opportunity for military children that exceeds $1.15 per active duty military child whose legal residence is located within the geographic boundaries of this state, unless the proposed increase to the established assessment cap is submitted to the governor and approved by joint resolution of the senate and house of representatives in the next regular session o...

TN - HB2922 Education - As introduced, authorizes the department of education to make its standardized form for reporting student allergies available to all local education agencies on its website. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2923 Education - As introduced, requires public charter schools to provide licensed employees of the public charter school six paid workweeks after a birth or stillbirth of the employee's child or the employee's adoption of a newly placed minor child. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 49.

TN - HJR857 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Requests the commissioner of education to forgive any snow days used by local education agencies during the week of January 15, 2024.