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TN - Representative Debra Moody (R)

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TN - Representative Kevin Raper (R)

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TN - Representative Aftyn Behn (D)

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TN - Representative Scott Cepicky (R)

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TN - Representative Jesse Chism (D)

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TN - Representative Mark Cochran (R)

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TN - Representative Tandy Darby (R)

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TN - Representative Vincent Dixie (D)

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TN - Representative Ronnie Glynn (D)

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TN - Representative Yusuf Hakeem (D)

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TN - Representative Tim Hicks (R)

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TN - Representative Gloria Johnson (D)

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TN - Representative Tom Leatherwood (R)

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TN - Representative Jake McCalmon (R)

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TN - Representative John Ragan (R)

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TN - Representative Chris Todd (R)

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TN - Representative Todd Warner (R)

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TN - Representative Mark White (R)

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TN - HB29 Education, Higher - As enacted, authorizes a state university and the University of Tennessee system to coordinate with a two-year institution governed by the board of regents for the two-year institution to provide remedial or developmental courses or coursework, regardless of whether the university offers remedial or developmental courses or coursework at present. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7.

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 - 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 - HB122 Education, Curriculum - As introduced, changes the grade levels, from grades kindergarten through 12 to grades six through 12, that may receive family life instruction beginning in the 2029-2030 school year. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1 and Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 13.

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 - HB691 Education, State Board of - As introduced, requires the board to allow one credit of data science to satisfy one of the mathematics credits required for high school graduation. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB736 Education - As enacted, changes from urges to requires the standards recommendation committee to include certain academic standards regarding the civil rights movement in the committee's final recommendation of academic standards in the subject of social studies for students in grades nine through 12. - Amends TCA Title 49.

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 - HB782 Education, Curriculum - As enacted, requires, upon the request of the commission, each public elementary and middle school, or each LEA on behalf of the schools, to provide information to the commission or department of education about the financial literacy education provided to elementary and middle school students during the school year. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 17.

TN - HB896 Education, State Board of - As enacted, extends, from six years to eight years, the minimum period of time from the last adoption within which the board is required to ensure that the standards review and development committees and advisory teams review the standards for English language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies; extends, from 73 months to 97 months, the maximum term of a contract made by the state textbook and instructional materials quality commission with a publisher....

TN - HB973 Law Enforcement - As introduced, changes from February 1 to February 15 the date by which a community oversight board must submit a report to the chair of the senate judiciary committee and the chair of the criminal justice committee of the house of representatives that includes the number and nature of matters reported to the board, the number and nature of reviews conducted by the board, and the number and nature of advisory reports and recommendations issued by the board. - Amends TCA Titl...

TN - HB996 Education - As introduced, changes from February 15 to February 1, the date by which the state board of education, with the assistance of the department of education and the Tennessee higher education commission, must issue a report card or assessment on the effectiveness of teacher training programs. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HJR114 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Daniel French, State Textbook and Instructional Materials Quality Commission

TN - HJR119 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Encourages the State of Tennessee to develop an energy production plan in an effort to become an energy exporter.

TN - HB1070 Public Contracts - As enacted, prohibits a state agency, local agency, or law enforcement agency from purchasing or acquiring a drone or other covered telecommunications equipment or service produced by a manufacturer banned under the federal National Defense Authorization Act of 2019. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 12 and Title 39, Chapter 13.

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 - HB1097 Education, Curriculum - As introduced, requires each local education agency that operates a high school and each public charter high school to offer independent study programs to its enrolled high school students; establishes certain requirements for LEAs and public charter high schools offering independent study programs. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1168 Education - As introduced, requires the Tennessee financial literacy commission to host a financial literacy webinar for students in each of the grades six through eight that is age and grade appropriate and designed to educate students on budgeting, saving, spending, credit, debit, insurance, investment, and other topics and concepts associated with personal financial responsibility; requires public school students in any of the grades six through eight to participate in the financial litera...

TN - HB1188 Education - As introduced, authorizes the department of education to submit, in electronic format, its annual report on virtual education programs to the governor, the general assembly, and the state board of education. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1293 Education, Curriculum - As introduced, authorizes a local education agency to revise its family life curriculum to include instruction on contraceptives, consent, pregnancy, abortion, and certain relationship and communication skills; specifies that an individual or organization does not endorse student nonabstinence as an appropriate or acceptable behavior, or promote gateway sexual activity, in violation of state law by providing such instruction. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1536 School Districts, Special - Pursuant to the request of the Franklin special school district of Williamson County, permits the district to issue bonds or notes in an amount not to exceed $20 million and to authorize the issuance of tax anticipation notes from time to time. - Amends Chapter 563 of the Private Acts of 1949.

TN - HJR189 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Dr. Chad Lewis, Standards Recommendation Committee for Science and Social Studies

TN - HJR190 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Stephen Powell, Standards Recommendation Committee for Science and Social Studies

TN - HJR191 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Ashley Flood, Standards Recommendation Committee for Science and Social Studies

TN - HJR192 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Linda Moss Mines, Standards Recommendation Committee for Science and Social Studies

TN - HJR261 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Lea Bartch, Standards Recommendation Committee for Science and Social Studies

TN - HJR263 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Katherine Shultz, Standards Recommendation Committee for Science and Social Studies

TN - HJR274 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Ray Smith, Standards Recommendation Committee for Science and Social Studies

TN - HJR391 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Jeff Cobble, Standards Recommendation Committee for Social Studies

TN - HB1564 Burns - Subject to local approval, moves from the first Monday in April to the second Monday in December the date for the biennial organizational meeting of the incoming board of commissioners; moves the monthly meeting of the board to the second Monday of each month. - Amends Chapter 89 of the Private Acts of 2008.

TN - HJR691 Memorials, Death - Margaret Elizabeth "Bettie" Kirkland

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 - HB1724 Education - As introduced, expands the category of textbooks and instructional materials that are prohibited from use in a public school in this state from those created to align exclusively with the Common Core State Standards to those that are aligned to, associated with, or derived from the Common Core State Standards. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1736 Education, Curriculum - As introduced, requires the department of education to recommend, and the state board of education to adopt, academic standards for a year-long course in civics education for students in eighth grade; requires LEAs and public charter schools to implement the year-long course in civics education for students in eighth grade beginning with the 2025-2026 school year. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1849 Tennessee Housing Development Agency - As introduced, requires the authority to report quarterly to each member of the general assembly information relating to grants, tax credits, and other funds distributed through the authority, the resources utilized by the authority to facilitate such distributions, and information relating to mechanisms by which the public may apply for and access such distributions. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 6, Chapter 58; Title 9 and Title 13, Chapter 20.

TN - HJR755 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Dr. Cherrye Robertson, Textbook and Instructional Materials Quality Commission

TN - HB1879 Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, requires a utility to notify the utility's customer and the owner of the property, if different from the utility's customer, when the utility service provided to a property by the utility is terminated. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 65; Title 68 and Title 69.

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 - HB2058 Education, State Board of - As introduced, requires the board, in collaboration with the department of education, to identify math courses that may be substituted for Algebra II for purposes of satisfying high school graduation requirements and to submit a report to the education committees by October 15, 2024. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2106 Criminal Procedure - As introduced, allows certain felony offenders to petition to have the offender's criminal history records sealed after completion of all requirements of sentencing and at least five years without being convicted of a new offense. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB2177 Textbooks - As introduced, requires a local board of education that provides electronic textbooks and instructional materials to provide a student reasonable access to a printed version of an electronic textbook or instructional material if the student or the student's parent or legal guardian submits a written request to the principal of the student's school for a physical or hard copy of the textbook or instructional material. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 22.

TN - HB2242 Education, Curriculum - As introduced, specifies that only middle school students enrolled in the lowest grade level at a middle school are required to take one course in computer science; authorizes the board to promulgate rules to effectuate the act. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

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 - HJR813 Memorials, Death - Babette Ann "Babs" Antoniak

TN - HB2435 Education - As introduced, requires the commissioner of education to annually transmit, no later than October 1 of each year, filings submitted to the commissioner by a local board of education regarding any action or inaction taken by the board in response to an investigation conducted by the director of schools in response to a complaint filed by a parent or legal guardian of a student who received instruction in family life that the parent or legal guardian believes to violate the requirem...

TN - HB2687 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, revises the instruction required as part of a family life curriculum; requires the Tennessee joint task force on children's justice and child sexual abuse, in consultation with the children's services advisory council, to annually recommend certain age-appropriate curricula to the department of education; revises the information that LEAs and public charter schools must annually provide to the department of children's services. - Amends TCA Title 37 a...

TN - HB2882 Education, Curriculum - As introduced, requires, beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, each local education agency and public charter school to provide students with age-appropriate and grade-appropriate instruction on firearm safety. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB2895 Education, Curriculum - As introduced, specifies that authorization to provide nonsectarian, nonreligious academic study of the Bible extends to public charter schools; makes various changes to the approval process and notice requirements for such courses. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.