Education

TN - Senator Jon Lundberg (R)

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TN - Senator Bill Powers (R)

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TN - Senator Raumesh Akbari (D)

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TN - Senator Rusty Crowe (R)

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TN - Senator Todd Gardenhire (R)

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TN - Senator Ferrell Haile (R)

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TN - Senator Joey Hensley (R)

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TN - Senator Mark Pody (R)

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TN - Senator Dawn White (R)

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TN - SB2582 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 - SB2327 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 - SB2121 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 - SB2032 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 - SB2213 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 - SB2210 Education - As introduced, changes from 30 to 45 the number of days a principal or director of schools must provide notice to the commissioner of education of an intent to withdraw from an approved alternative program for innovative educational programs. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB2527 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 - SB772 Education - As introduced, changes from July 1 to August 1 the date by which the department of education must submit its annual report on virtual education programs to the governor, the general assembly, and the state board of education. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB2122 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 - SJR166 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Doran Johnson, University of Tennessee Southern Advisory Board

TN - SB2492 Education - As introduced, requires the state board of education to submit a report to the general assembly, no later than February 1, 2025, regarding the feasibility of reducing the maximum class size in all classrooms that include students with disabilities and students eligible for special education services by 10 percent by the 2026-2027 school year. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB2156 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 - SB421 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 - SB1220 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Future Teacher Scholarship Act of 2023." - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB112 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 - SJR236 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Ray Smith, Standards Recommendation Committee for Science and Social Studies

TN - SJR142 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Natalie Tate, University of Tennessee Health Science Center Advisory Board

TN - SB968 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 - SB824 Education - As introduced, deletes obsolete language that removed the requirement for Tennessee comprehensive assessment program tests to be administered in the 2019-2020 school year. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB1438 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 - SR34 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Robert S. Eby, State Board of Education

TN - SB578 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 - SB417 Students - As introduced, prohibits a parent or guardian of a student who has accumulated five or more days of unexcused absences during the school year from withdrawing the student from school during the school year except for certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - SB503 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 - SB706 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 - SB349 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 - SB2406 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 - SB724 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 - SB805 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 - SB1117 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 - SJR135 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Pam Martin, Tennessee State University Board of Trustees

TN - SB748 Education - As introduced, requires the written disclosure regarding transferability of credits made by a postsecondary educational institution to a prospective student to be in 20 point font instead of 16 point font. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB579 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 - SJR131 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Mike OMalley, Austin Peay State University Board of Trustees

TN - SB191 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 - SJR147 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Daniel French, State Textbook and Instructional Materials Quality Commission

TN - SB861 Education, Higher - As introduced, requires Tennessee State University and Middle Tennessee State University to submit a report by February 1, 2024, in an electronic format to the chairs of the education committee of the senate and the education administration committee of the house of representatives that details the research and methods developed by the universities addressing how to use materials in solid waste as raw materials to create jobs, business, and compost. - Amends TCA Title 7; T...

TN - SR17 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Todd Kaestner, Tennessee Board of Regents

TN - SB781 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 - SB1305 Scholarships and Financial Aid - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Special Educator Scholarship Act." - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB715 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 - SB1167 Education - As introduced, removes the provisions of law regarding denial of a driver license or learner's permit to persons under 18 who are not enrolled in and making satisfactory progress in high school. - Amends TCA Section 49-6-3017 and Title 55, Chapter 50.

TN - SB1054 Education - As introduced, changes, from 30 to 45, the number of days prior to a local education agency's adoption of a district-wide school safety plan or building-level school safety plan that a summary of the plan must be made available for public comment. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 10, Chapter 7; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 49 and Title 62.

TN - SB12 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 - SB24 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 - SB1303 Tennessee Higher Education Commission - As enacted, revises present law relative to tuition reimbursement for national guardsmen. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4.

TN - SB899 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 - SB208 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 - SB82 School Transportation - As introduced, changes, from August 1 to July 31, the date by which the name, address, and telephone number of persons designated to check buses transporting children with disabilities for such children must be supplied to the LEA each year. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 49 and Title 55.

TN - SB903 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 - SB412 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 - SB1231 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 - SB815 School Transportation - As enacted, clarifies that the registration fee for one school bus owned by a person under contract with a local education agency (LEA) for the provision of transportation services is equal to the fee charged for a school bus owned by an LEA. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 21 and Title 55, Chapter 4.

TN - SB1064 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 - SB1008 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 - SJR173 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - John Charles Wilson, State Forestry Commission

TN - SB883 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 - SJR214 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Dr. Chad Lewis, Standards Recommendation Committee for Science and Social Studies

TN - SB1040 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 - SB879 Education - As introduced, removes provisions establishing a three-year pilot program concerning parent-teacher engagement in any grade from kindergarten through grade two that began with the 2018-2019 school year. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB1501 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, changes the date, from February 1 to January 15, by which the commissioner must annually report to the governor and the general assembly on the implementation of and compliance with the Schools Against Violence in Education Act. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39 and Title 49.

TN - SB185 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 - SB169 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 - SB348 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 - SB1412 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department's office of early learning to include in its annual report on the status of pre-kindergarten programs submitted to the governor and general assembly, the number of open positions for at-risk children in pre-kindergarten programs that remained open for the majority of the immediately preceding school year, or that were filled by children who were not at-risk. - Amends TCA Title 49; Title 67 and Title 71.

TN - SB1141 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 - SB1081 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 - SB404 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 - SB466 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 - SB971 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 - SB364 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 - SJR137 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Tom Jones, Tennessee Technological University Board of Trustees

TN - SJR133 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Melissa Steagall-Jones, East Tennessee State University Board of Trustees

TN - SB197 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 - SB251 Tennessee Investment in Student Achievement (TISA) - As introduced, directs the department of education to publish the TISA guide on its website. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SJR69 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Lang Wiseman, University of Tennessee Board of Trustees

TN - SB951 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 - SB1408 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 - SB134 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 - SB1090 Public Health - As introduced, prohibits the state or a political subdivision of the state from requiring an immunization unless exemptions are provided for persons who file signed, written statements affirming that the immunization conflicts with their religious tenets and practices; makes certain other changes related to immunizations. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 14; Title 36, Chapter 1, Part 1; Title 37; Title 49; Title 50 and Title 68.

TN - SB225 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 - SB1429 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 - SB665 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 - SB980 Schools, Charter - As enacted, revises various provisions relative to charter schools. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 13.

TN - SJR141 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Beverly Johnson, University of Tennessee Southern Campus Advisory Board

TN - SB1123 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 - SB819 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 - SB283 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 - SB322 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 - SB943 Education - As introduced, authorizes nonprofit entities that have entered into an agreement with THEC to administer the work-based learning program to provide, in consultation with THEC, a method for employers of work-based learning students to submit applications electronically. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SJR145 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Alan Levine, Public Charter School Commission

TN - SB189 Education - As introduced, deletes a section requiring the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy at the University of Tennessee to, by December 15, 2014, perform a study on the economic feasibility of creating and utilizing a statewide comprehensive energy policy and submit its final report to the energy task force of the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49.

TN - SB2061 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 - SB2312 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 - SB2295 Scholarships and Financial Aid - As introduced, establishes a physician assistant student loan repayment grant program to incentivize physician assistants to provide health services in health resource shortage areas. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 63.

TN - SB1589 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 - SB1691 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 - SB1647 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 - SB1656 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 - SB1696 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 - SB1576 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 - SB1665 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 - SB1679 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 - SB1672 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 - SB1689 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 - SB1680 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 - SB1663 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 - SB1136 Public Funds and Financing - As introduced, requires each board to notify the commissioner of finance and administration when the estimate of board fees for a fiscal year is more than the certified amount of board fees required by the board for that fiscal year. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 12; Title 13; Title 16; Title 49, Chapter 3; Title 54; Title 55; Title 64; Title 67 and Title 71.

TN - SB2029 Education - As introduced, increases from 60 days to 75 days the length of the notice period that the state board of education must observe before joining a testing consortium inclusive of multiple states that requires the adoption of common standards in social studies or science subjects. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB642 Sewage - As introduced, requires an affidavit of affixation for a manufactured home affixed to a parcel of real property to contain a statement that the manufactured home is permanently connected to a functioning septic system, not just a septic system. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 47; Title 55; Title 66; Title 68 and Title 69, Chapter 3.

TN - SB1175 Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As enacted, increases the compensation for members of the board of directors of the Tellico Reservoir Development Agency to $300 per meeting and $225 for meetings of committees of the board; increases the threshold at which sealed bids are required for purchases and contracts. - Amends TCA Title 64, Chapter 1, Part 7.

TN - SJR153 Memorials, Recognition - "Litter Awareness Month," March 2023

TN - SB2465 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 - SJR928 Memorials, Recognition - Ken Hall, Tennessee Disaster Response Team

TN - SB1246 Professions and Occupations - As introduced, exempts persons licensed as instructors to teach the practice and theory of aesthetics, manicuring, barbering, or cosmetology from the course requirements necessary to practice as an aesthetician, manicurist, barber, or cosmetologist. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 3 and Title 62, Chapter 4.

TN - SJR165 Memorials, Sports - Lipscomb Academy football team, TSSAA Division II, Class AA State Champions

TN - SB2669 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases the penalties for certain violations of the offense of unlawful photography; requires the court, rather than allowing the court discretion, to order a person convicted of certain unlawful photography offenses to register as a sexual offender; makes various other changes to the offense of unlawful photography. - Amends TCA Section 39-13-605 and Title 40, Chapter 39, Part 2.

TN - SJR845 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Charles Hankla, Heritage Conservation Trust Fund Board

TN - SB2268 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 - SB2132 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 - SB2487 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 - SB2494 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to annually submit a report to the education committees of the senate and house of representatives on the availability of family resource centers in this state; requires the report to identify, by school and LEA, each family resource center established or contracted for by an LEA in this state. - Amends TCA Section 36-2-312; Section 37-5-125 and Title 49.

TN - SB2211 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 - SB2528 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 - SB2214 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 - SB2291 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 - SB2351 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 - SB1990 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 - SB2557 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 - SB2493 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 - SB2473 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 - SB2190 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 - SB2175 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 - SB2296 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 - SB2095 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 - SB2173 Libraries - As introduced, enacts the "Restricted Access by Minors to Obscene Library Materials Act." - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 1 and Title 10, Chapter 3.

TN - SB2114 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 - SB1120 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, allows counties and municipalities to reestablish the office of elected school superintendent. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB2267 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 - SB2025 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 - SB2598 Education - As introduced, changes, from October 1 to November 1, the deadline for child care programs to submit an annual report to the commissioner of education. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB2265 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 - SB2597 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, changes from January 15 to January 25 of each year, the deadline for the department to submit its annual TISA report to members of the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB1208 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 - SB1518 Salaries and Benefits - As introduced, authorizes the director of schools to submit, in an electronic format, to the commissioner of education the director's annual report of the salary rating of each person employed as teacher, principal-teacher, and other school personnel employed on a system-wide basis in the public schools. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 49.

TN - SB884 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 - SB1304 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, increases the time period by which a local education agency must make a district-wide and building-level school safety plan available for public comment, from 30 to 45 days, prior to the adoption of the proposed plan. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 10, Chapter 7; Title 39, Chapter 17; Title 49, Chapter 6 and Title 62, Chapter 35.

TN - SB605 Education, Higher - As introduced, requires the board of regents and each state university board to post on their respective websites the tenure policy or policies for faculty at their respective institutions. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB323 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 - SB920 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 - SB198 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 - SB1069 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 - SB1268 Education - As enacted, revises present law concerning participation in school board meetings by electronic participation. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SR16 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Kyle Spurgeon, Tennessee Board of Regents

TN - SB2371 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 - SB1249 Education - As introduced, changes, from May 1 to June 1, the annual date before which the commission must publish the Tennessee postsecondary education fact book. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB1070 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 - SB350 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 - SB1455 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 - SB1229 Education, Higher - As introduced, changes, from December 1 to December 15, the date by which the Tennessee higher education commission is required to submit the revised higher education funding formula and any projected tuition increases for the next academic year to the office of legislative budget analysis and the comptroller of the treasury. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB1042 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 - SB1265 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 - SB635 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 - SB945 Human Services, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to allocate any temporary assistance for needy families funds remaining unexpended at the end of a fiscal year to eligible after school programs in underserved communities to allow the programs to provide nutritious meals to enrolled students. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 49 and Title 71.

TN - SB1443 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 - SB1507 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 - SB1177 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 - SB825 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to annually release the Tennessee comprehensive assessment program and end-of-course assessment blueprints and scoring methodology to the education committees of the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB1189 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 - SB1163 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 - SB377 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 - SB1018 Tennessee Investment in Student Achievement (TISA) - As introduced, requires the comptroller of the treasury to submit a report on the comptroller's study of TISA to determine effectiveness of state expenditures on K-12 education and any legislative recommendations to the general assembly, instead of only to the speakers of the senate and house of representatives and to the members of the education committee of the senate and the education administration committee of the house of representati...

TN - SB1261 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 - SB1026 Schools, Charter - As introduced, enacts the "Transparency in Charter School Finance Act." - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7 and Title 49, Chapter 13.

TN - SB231 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 - SB1139 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 - SB881 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 - SB1014 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 - SB567 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 - SB773 Sports - As enacted, makes changes concerning youth sports safety. - Amends TCA Title 49; Title 62, Chapter 50 and Title 68.

TN - SB842 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 - SB297 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 - SB1281 School Transportation - As enacted, revises present law provisions relative to cameras on school buses and failing to stop upon approaching a school bus that has stopped on the highway. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 8.

TN - SB1209 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, specifies the early grades reading report should be submitted to the education administration committee of the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SJR139 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - David McKinney, University of Memphis Board of Trustees

TN - SJR167 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Caroline Ezell McAnally, University of Tennessee Southern Advisory Board

TN - SB1213 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 - SB571 Education, Higher - As introduced, delays the annual reporting date, from February 1 to February 15, that each governing board of a public institution of higher education must report to the office of legislative budget analysis with information regarding expenditures of revenues derived from tuition or fee increases in the previous full academic year. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, Chapter 8; Title 49, Chapter 9 and Title 49, Chapter 4.

TN - SB809 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 - SJR216 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Ashley Flood, Standards Recommendation Committee for Science and Social Studies

TN - SB484 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 - SB703 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, deletes obsolete provision regarding the exclusion of student growth evaluation composites generated by assessments administered in the 2017-2018 school year for the 2018-2019 and 2019-2020 school years. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 49.

TN - SB1519 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 - SB1237 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 - SB619 Education - As introduced, requires a public high school from which a student who participated each semester of attendance in community service graduates to recognize the student's achievement at graduation by acknowledging such achievement on the school's website. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SJR171 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Hal Bynum, University of Tennessee at Martin Advisory Board

TN - SB301 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 - SJR233 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Katherine Shultz, Standards Recommendation Committee for Science and Social Studies

TN - SB281 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 - SB1221 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 - SJR67 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - William C. Rhodes III, University of Tennessee Board of Trustees

TN - SB961 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 - SB817 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 - SB1374 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 - SB199 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 - SB444 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 - SB709 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 - SB1060 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 - SB1259 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 - SB1024 School Vouchers - As introduced, repeals the Tennessee Education Savings Account Pilot Program. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - SJR320 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Jeff Cobble, Standards Recommendation Committee for Social Studies

TN - SB1227 Education - As introduced, requires the commissioner of education to submit the annual report on the implementation of, and compliance with, the Schools Against Violence in Education Act, in addition to the governor, to the chair of the senate education committee, the chair of the education administration committee of the house of representatives, and the legislative librarian, instead of the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 9; Title 49 and Title 67.

TN - SB255 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 - SB371 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 - SB1216 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 - SB1228 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, requires each school to make available to the department, instead of upon request by the department, the results of the school safety team's annual armed intruder drill, conducted in coordination with the local law enforcement agency. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5; Title 49 and Title 62, Chapter 35.

TN - SJR130 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Katherine Cannata, Austin Peay State University Board of Trustees

TN - SJR170 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Scott LeRoy, University of Tennessee Chattanooga Advisory Board

TN - SB972 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 - SB892 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 - SB872 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 - SB1078 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 - SB1204 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 - SJR66 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Dr. Shanea McKinney, University of Tennessee Board of Trustees

TN - SB1264 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 - SB860 Education, Higher - As introduced, removes provisions that required Middle Tennessee State University to implement a one-year pilot program pursuant to the Student Information in Higher Education Act of 2005. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 9; Title 49; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - SB1240 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 - SJR215 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Stephen Powell, Standards Recommendation Committee for Science and Social Studies

TN - SJR134 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Dr. Lisa Piercey, East Tennessee State University Board of Trustees

TN - SR20 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Shane Hooper, Tennessee Board of Regents

TN - SB1434 School Transportation - As enacted, allows school bus drivers to use a portable electronic device for navigation of the school bus and for accurately accounting for students at bus pick-up and drop-off locations through use of the device's global positioning system if no hands are used to hold the device or to enter data into the device while the school bus is in motion; the device is mounted on the school bus's windshield, dashboard, or center console area; and the driver views only data rel...

TN - SB244 Children's Services, Dept. of - As enacted, makes changes to the compensation of teachers in the special school district. - Amends TCA Section 37-5-119.

TN - SB638 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 - SB1200 Education - As introduced, adds the education administration committee of the house of representatives to the committees of the general assembly to which the dyslexia advisory council is required to submit an annual report on the number of students screened for dyslexia intervention services. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB205 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires an LEA that provides suspended students with remote instruction as part of an alternative school or alternative program to record the students as present for attendance purposes in the same manner as students attending regular classes. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB1272 Education, Higher - As introduced, changes, from February 1 to January 15, the date by which each governing board must provide a report to the office of legislative budget analysis with information regarding expenditures of revenues derived from any tuition and fees increase in the previous full academic year. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49.

TN - SB508 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 - SB455 Medical Occupations - As introduced, requires the University of Tennessee and East Tennessee State University to annually submit a report to the education and health committees of the general assembly that includes the number of students who graduated from the respective institution in the previous year to become practitioners in the fields of primary care medicine or family practice medicine. - Amends TCA Title 49; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB443 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, enacts the "Access and Opportunity Act." - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB973 Students - As introduced, requires LEAs to allow nonresident students to enroll in a school in which spaces are available. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB743 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 - SJR138 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Alan Graf Jr., University of Memphis Board of Trustees

TN - SB190 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 - SJR146 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Michael Carter Sr., Public Charter School Commission

TN - SB794 Sports - As introduced, requires a person who is required to disclose a relationship with an educational institution offering a student athlete a scholarship to also provide, within 48 hours instead of 72 hours of providing the initial disclosure, another written disclosure of such relationship to the student athlete's parent or legal guardian, the secretary of state, and to the athletic director, president, and the general counsel of the educational institution from which such person has inf...

TN - SJR136 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Trudy Harper, Tennessee Technological University Board of Trustees

TN - SB644 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 - SB878 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 - SB461 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 - SB2525 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 - SB2141 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 - SB2065 Taxes, Privilege - As introduced, enacts the "Universal Pre-K Funding Act." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 51; Title 49 and Title 67.

TN - SB2592 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 - SB2161 Libraries - As introduced, prohibits certain kinds of provisions in contracts and agreements between publishers and libraries related to the licensing of electronic literary materials. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18.

TN - SB2177 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 - SB2215 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 - SB2596 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 - SB2594 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 - SB2440 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 - SB1688 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 - SB2164 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 - SB2224 Education, Higher - As introduced, reduces, from 65 to 62, the minimum age of a person who is eligible to enroll in courses for credit at state-supported colleges and universities without payment of tuition and certain fees; adds law schools and veterinary schools to the list of schools at which disabled persons and persons of a certain age are not eligible to audit or enroll without payment of tuition and fees. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB2364 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 - SB2444 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 - SB2501 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 - SB2509 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 - SB2546 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 - SB2200 Education - As introduced, requires the department of education to report, for the 2023-2024 school year, the number of appeals filed with the department for a student who is identified for retention in third grade based on the student achieving a performance level rating of "approaching" on the English language arts portion of the student's most recent Tennessee comprehensive assessment program test by December 1, 2025, and each December 1, thereafter. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB2202 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 - SB2455 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 - SB2350 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 - SB2294 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 - SB2167 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, changes from January 31 to January 1 the date by which the department must submit a report to the education administration committee of the house of representatives and the education committee of the senate documenting each LEA's and public charter school's compliance with regulations concerning foster care students participating in interscholastic athletics. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB290 Infectious Diseases - As introduced, requires the department of health to seek federal funding to implement programs for the prevention, testing, and treatment of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) for residents of this state, including programs in partnership with community and nonprofit partners; requires the department to annually report to the general assembly certain information about the programs and funding. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB1732 Election Laws - As introduced, changes the deadline for filing nominating petitions for candidates for election as delegates to the national convention of a political party from the second Thursday in December to the first Thursday in April. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - SB2106 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 - SB1708 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 - SB1748 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 - SB1724 School Transportation - As introduced, for the purpose of receiving the commissioner of safety's approval for a conventional or Class D school bus in its eighteenth year of service to be operated for additional years, requires the bus to have less than 300,000 miles, instead of less than 200,000 miles; requires a bus that has been approved to operate beyond its eighteenth year to be discontinued once it reaches 300,000 miles, instead of 200,000 miles. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 21.

TN - SB1773 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 - SB1712 Education - As introduced, enacts the "Mathematics Supports Act." - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB1711 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 - SB1714 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 - SB1726 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 - SB1783 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 - SB1718 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 - SB1721 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 - SB1752 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 - SB1722 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 - SB1701 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 - SB1745 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 - SB1928 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 - SB1788 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 - SB1925 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 - SB1959 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 - SB1901 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 - SB1977 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 - SB1796 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 - SB1858 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 - SB1943 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 - SB1872 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 - SB1980 Education - As introduced, changes, from December 1 to December 31, the deadline for the department of education to report information to the education committees of the senate and the house of representatives on the number of students in each LEA who, despite being deemed not proficient on the most recent TCAP test, were promoted to the fourth grade because the students demonstrated ELA proficiency on their most recent state-provided benchmark assessment. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB1924 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 - SB1790 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 - SB1810 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 - SB1897 Taxes, Privilege - As introduced, enacts the "Universal Pre-K Funding Act." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 51; Title 49 and Title 67.

TN - SB1979 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 - SB1795 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 - SB1931 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 - SB1923 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 - SB1867 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 - SB1892 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 - SB1896 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 - SB1981 Education - As introduced, changes from December 1 to December 31 the deadline for the department of education to report to the education committees of the senate and the house of representatives the number of students in each LEA who were identified for mandatory retention and were promoted to the fourth grade. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB1938 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 - SB1854 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 - SB1902 School Transportation - As introduced, clarifies, for purposes of obtaining a school bus endorsement on a driver license and for other purposes, that a school bus is a vehicle designed to transport 16 or more passengers, including the driver; makes other related revisions. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 21 and Title 55, Chapter 50.

TN - SB1856 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires differentiated pay plans to apply to, and be implemented in, schools with a significant population of historically disadvantaged students, schools with significant populations of students who achieved a performance level rating of "below" or "approaching" on the most recently administered Tennessee comprehensive assessment program tests, and schools with low teacher retention rates, high teacher turnover rates, and effective teaching gaps. - ...

TN - SB1853 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 - SB1947 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 - SJR833 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Lauren Smith, Public Charter School Commission

TN - SJR879 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Dr. Tonya Reynoldson, UT Martin Advisory Board

TN - SR170 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Barry Stephenson, Tennessee Board of Regents

TN - SJR837 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Garnett Decosimo, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Advisory Board

TN - SJR831 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Stephen Smith, Middle Tennessee State University Board of Trustees

TN - SJR832 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Christine P. Richards, Public Charter School Commission

TN - SJR839 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Dan Strasser, UT-Martin Advisory Board

TN - SJR835 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Dr. Cherrye Robertson, Textbook and Instructional Materials Quality Commission

TN - SJR834 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Tom Griscom, Public Charter School Commission

TN - SJR880 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Camron Rudd, Tennessee Technological University board of trustees

TN - SJR838 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Mario Duarte, UT Chattanooga Advisory Board

TN - SB2847 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 - SB1157 Forfeiture of Assets - As introduced, adds information to be provided by the department of safety in a report detailing seizures for the previous calendar year and provided to the speakers of the senate and the house of representatives and the chairs of the appropriate committees. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 33.

TN - SB227 Salaries and Benefits - As introduced, authorizes 12 workweeks of paid family leave during a 12-month period for qualified state employees. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 8.

TN - SB634 Annexation - As introduced, increases from three to four the number of copies of a plan of services that a municipality must provide for public inspection in connection with a proposed annexation. - Amends TCA Title 6 and Title 68, Chapter 221.

TN - SB685 Solid Waste Disposal - As introduced, permits municipalities that operate a residential solid waste collection service to create a solid waste authority. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 211.

TN - SB1893 Real Property - As introduced, requires a landlord, leasing company, or management company to disclose all fees charged in addition to the rent during a billing cycle to a prospective tenant prior to the prospective tenant's submission of an application, and whether the landlord or company accepts reusable screening reports or charges an application fee; creates requirements for an individual to use a reusable tenant screening report in an application for residential rental property; makes ot...

TN - SB387 Election Laws - As introduced, clarifies that a child 17 years of age and under may enter the voting booth with the child's parent or guardian. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - SB1399 Taxes - As introduced, adds the directors of the office of legislative budget analysis to the list of persons to whom the comptroller must provide the estimates of the annual income limit for eligibility in the property tax relief program that are likely to maintain the program at a constant level of expenditure. - Amends TCA Title 67.

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

TN - SB1089 Public Funds and Financing - As introduced, requires 10 percent of tax revenue over-collections from the prior fiscal year to be deposited into the infrastructure and building fund reserve account in the general fund; authorizes appropriations from the infrastructure and building fund account only for capital improvement and infrastructure projects. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 54 and Title 67.

TN - SB2738 Health Care - As introduced, removes an outdated requirement that the apprentice plan developed by the boards and commissions of the various medical professions, in consultation with the division of health related boards, be submitted to the speakers, the government operations committees of the senate and house of representatives, the commissioner of commerce and insurance, the commissioner of health, and the commissioner of labor and workforce development on or before December 31, 2014. - Am...

TN - SB2281 Real Property - As introduced, enacts the "Housing Optimization and Market Empowerment Solutions (HOMES) Act of 2024." - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13; Title 62; Title 66; Title 67 and Title 68.

TN - SB2183 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 - SB2165 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 - SB2366 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 - SB2472 Education - As introduced, requires the department to provide to the general assembly a list that identifies each LEA that received an infrastructure stipend, along with the amount of the infrastructure stipend received, beginning with infrastructure stipends awarded on or after July 1, 2022, no later than December 31, 2024, and by each December 31 thereafter until January 1, 2030. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB2365 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 - SB2273 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 - SB2318 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 - SB2470 Human Rights - As introduced, allows employers and public institutions of higher education in this state to establish, maintain, and implement policies, practices, and requirements designed to safeguard employees, applicants for employment, students, faculty, and staff from discrimination based on race, creed, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, or gender identity, which may be developed and administered through an office of diversity, equity, and inclusion. - Amen...

TN - SB2255 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 - SB2595 Education - As introduced, adds the legislative librarian to the list of persons to whom copies of energy efficient schools audits are provided. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB2389 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 - SB2217 Education - As introduced, changes, from 30 days to 30 business days, the amount of time an athletic agent applicant has to respond to a request for clarifying information from the secretary of state before risking the denial, revocation, or non-renewal of a certificate of registration for failing to submit information. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB2551 Children - As introduced, permits parents to request electronically a copy of the child's report card, notice of school attendance, names of teachers, class schedules, standardized test scores, and any other records customarily available to parents. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 20; Title 24; Title 26; Title 29; Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; Title 40; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB2216 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 - SB2491 Education - As introduced, reduces, from more than five days to more than three days, the period of suspension that the school principal must develop and implement a plan for improving the behavior, which must be made available for review by the director of schools upon request. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB1998 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 - SB2593 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 - SB582 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, provides that a civil cause of action exists for an intentional assault upon educational personnel by any person on school grounds or in vehicles owned, leased, or under contract by the LEA and used for transporting students or faculty, even if such assault occurs outside of school hours or school functions. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13; Title 40 and Title 49.

TN - SB2107 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 - SB2338 Taxes, Business - As introduced, for purposes of the commissioner of revenue changing a taxpayer's business tax period to correspond to the taxpayer's fiscal year, authorizes the commissioner to change the due date of the taxpayer's business tax return to a date that is not less than 60 calendar days, rather than two calendar months, following the end of the taxpayer's business tax period. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 7.

TN - SB315 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 - SB102 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 - SB1447 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 - SB901 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 - SB1155 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 - SB1427 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 - SB74 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 - SB897 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 - SB744 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 - SB1217 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 - SJR143 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Monice Moore Hagler, University of Tennessee Martin Advisory Board

TN - SB833 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 - SB249 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 - SB324 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 - SB330 Education, Higher - As introduced, changes, from October 1 to March 30, the date by which the Tennessee student assistance corporation and the Tennessee higher education commission must report the findings of its research and analysis of data concerning the Tennessee Promise scholarship program to the education committee of the senate and the education committee of the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SJR172 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Stephen Corbeil, Tennessee State University Board of Trustees

TN - SB1234 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, adds the education instruction committee of the house of representatives to the list of committees of the general assembly to which the department is required to submit a report regarding the number of endorsement exemptions and temporary permits requested and issued for each of the 2021-2022, 2022-2023, and 2023-2024 school years. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB556 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 - SB684 Education, Higher - As introduced, increases, from 15 days to 20 days, the notice a public university board must give prior to a meeting of the board to consider a proposed tuition and mandatory fee increase; extends the 15-day period for public comment to 20 days. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB688 Scholarships and Financial Aid - As introduced, authorizes the comptroller to submit, in electronic format, the report of the findings from each study, conducted every four years, of the effectiveness of the Tennessee Promise scholarship program to the speakers of the senate and house of representatives and the members of the education committee of the senate and the education administration committee of the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB274 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 - SJR168 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Dr. Charles Doug Haney, University of Tennessee Southern Advisory Board

TN - SB1266 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 - SB104 Board of Regents - As introduced, changes, from five days to seven days, the amount of notice the secretary must give board members of called meetings. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49.

TN - SB359 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 - SJR68 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Bradford D. Box, University of Tennessee Board of Trustees

TN - SB830 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the commissioner to notify each LEA when the office of research and education accountability publishes a report germane to kindergarten through grade 12 education. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SJR278 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Alexia Poe, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, advisory board

TN - SB300 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 - SB622 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 - SB1458 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 - SB135 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 - SB152 Education - As introduced, changes from July 31 to August 15 the date by which the department of education must submit an annual report on the outcomes of the parent-teacher engagement pilot program to the education committee of the senate and the education administration committee of the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB577 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 - SB1368 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 - SJR277 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Tom Smith, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, advisory board

TN - SJR235 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Lea Bartch, Standards Recommendation Committee for Science and Social Studies

TN - SB557 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 - SB1267 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 - SB1400 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 - SB750 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 - SB4 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 - SB967 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 - SB603 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 - SB999 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 - SB966 Education - As enacted, makes changes to the "Age-Appropriate Materials Act of 2022." - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB1194 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 - SJR140 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Jimmy Granbery, University of Tennessee Southern Campus Advisory Board

TN - SB141 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 - SB890 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 - SB636 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 - SB382 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 - SJR217 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Linda Moss Mines, Standards Recommendation Committee for Science and Social Studies

TN - SB317 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 - SB355 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 - SB910 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 - SB192 Education - As introduced, corrects the name of the Cumberland Museum and Science Center to the Adventure Science Center for purposes of receipt of appropriations of state funds made for educational grants-in-aid under allotments of the commissioner of finance and administration. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB882 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 - SJR132 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Ron Ramsey, East Tennessee State University Board of Trustees

TN - SB1306 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 - SB1419 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 - SB712 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 - SB1226 Tennessee Higher Education Commission - As introduced, requires the commission to post a notice on the commission's website within 30 days of designating a degree-granting institution of higher learning as a university. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SJR144 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Chris Tutor, Public Charter School Commission

TN - SB838 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 - SB1524 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 - SB599 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 - SB1071 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 - SB906 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 - SB1464 State Universities - As introduced, requires the University of Memphis to evaluate the university's educational programs to determine if changes are needed in any of the educational programs and to make the needed changes. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 8; Title 9; Title 11; Title 12; Title 49; Title 58; Title 67; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB1210 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 - SB660 Education - As introduced, changes from July 1 of each year to August 1 of each year, the date by which the department of education must annually submit to the governor, the general assembly, and the state board of education a complete and detailed reporting of virtual education programs. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB843 Comptroller, State - As introduced, deletes antiquated language that required the office of research and education accountability in the office of the comptroller to submit a report by November 1, 2019, to the education committees of the senate and house of representatives regarding the formation and operation of community schools. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB987 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 - SB818 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 - SB826 Education - As introduced, deletes an obsolete requirement that certain chief law enforcement officers submit a report by September 1, 2021, concerning school security deficiencies and recommendations for security improvement of schools. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB1190 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 - SB188 Education - As introduced, removes the requirement that the principal-administrator academy offer training to educators in evaluation techniques and procedures consistent with processes provided in provisions that have been repealed. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB89 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 - SB1302 Education - As introduced, extends the deadline for appointing a member to the Tennessee council for career and technical education to fill a vacancy created by the death or resignation of a member, or by other cause, from 15 days to 30 days after the vacancy occurs. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB668 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 - SB834 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 - SB250 Education - As introduced, extends, from 30 days to 45 days, the period of time before a teacher on leave is scheduled to return to work that the teacher must give the director of schools notice if the teacher does not intend to return to the position from which the teacher is on leave. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB802 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 - SB278 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 - SJR827 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Krissi McInturff, State Board of Education

TN - SJR825 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Michael Wade, Middle Tennessee State University Board of Trustees

TN - SJR824 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Tony Treadway, East Tennessee State University Board of Trustees

TN - SJR829 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Dr. Michael Ugwueke, University of Tennessee Health Science Center Advisory Board

TN - SR168 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Vanessa Pilkinton, Tennessee Board of Regents

TN - SR169 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Ross Roberts, Tennessee Board of Regents

TN - SJR823 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - William J. Carver, Tennessee Lottery Corporation Board

TN - SJR830 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - William S. Jones, Middle Tennessee State University Board of Trustees

TN - SJR822 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - John Crosslin, Tennessee Lottery Corporation Board

TN - SR167 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Thomas A.H. White, Tennessee Board of Regents

TN - SJR826 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Darrell Cobbins, State Board of Education

TN - SJR828 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Robert Carter, University of Memphis Board of Trustees

TN - SB2018 Tort Liability and Reform - As introduced, declares a private entity to be not civilly liable in a class action resulting from a cybersecurity event unless the cybersecurity event was caused by willful, wanton, or gross negligence on the part of the private entity. - Amends TCA Title 29 and Title 47.

TN - SB2109 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 - SB2729 Education - As introduced, extends, from February 1 to March 1, the date by which the commissioner of education and the commissioner of safety are required to report to the governor and the general assembly on the implementation and compliance with the Schools Against Violence in Education Act. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 49.

TN - SB2932 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 - SB2701 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires an LEA or public charter school to install, maintain, and use, subject to parental request and approval, a video camera surveillance system in each special education classroom operated by the LEA or public charter school to continuously monitor students, teachers, and staff in special education classrooms while special education or related services are being provided to students. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB2931 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 - SB2820 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 - SB2672 Education - As introduced, increases, from 45 to 60, the number of days a child care person or entity may receive an extension on a temporary certificate from the state board of education to operate a child care program prior to the issuance of an initial annual certificate of approval. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB2758 Education - As introduced, extends, from October 1 to October 15, the date by which the department of education is required to provide a report regarding the physical education programs and activity for each local education agency to the education committee of the senate and the education instruction committee of the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB2681 Scholarships and Financial Aid - As introduced, extends the time period prior to the start of an academic term, from 30 calendar days to 45 calendar days, that the state or a department, division, or agency of the state establishing a scholarship program must select the scholarship beneficiary and notify the board of trustees of the college savings trust fund program. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB2764 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 - SB2765 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 - SB2854 Education - As introduced, clarifies that it is the commissioner of safety with whom a copy of each local education agency's district-wide comprehensive safety plan and each building-level school safety plan, including all amendments to each such plan, must be filed no later than 30 days after its adoption. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 37; Title 49 and Title 68.

TN - SB2830 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 - SB2809 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 - SB2815 Tennessee Investment in Student Achievement (TISA) - As introduced, changes from November 1 to October 1 the deadline for the TISA review committee to submit its annual report. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB2889 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 - SB2787 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 - SB2683 Education - As introduced, increases, from 30 to 60, the number of days that a tenured state university or community college faculty member has to file a petition for review in chancery court if the faculty member is dismissed or suspended for cause. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB2923 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 - SB1596 Sunset Laws - As introduced, extends the termination date for the Tennessee State University, board of trustees to June 30, 2024. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 49, Chapter 8.

TN - SB2674 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 - SB2670 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 - SB2754 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 - SB2826 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 - SB2703 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 - SB2728 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 - SB2924 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, aligns local school board elections with the August primary and November general elections. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 49, Chapter 2.

TN - SB2667 Education - As introduced, changes, from at least 14 calendar days to at least 10 business days, the number of days before the beginning of an open enrollment period that an LEA must post on its website the number of spaces available for enrollment in each school by grade, class, and program level. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB2936 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 - SB2822 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 - SB2766 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 - SB2933 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 - SB2655 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 - SB2731 Education, Higher - As introduced, changes, from January 1 to December 1, the date by which the department of correction is required to transmit its annual report detailing the higher education opportunities available to eligible incarcerated individuals in this state to the chairs of the judiciary and education committees of the senate and the criminal justice and education administration committees of the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB2767 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 - SB2685 Education - As introduced, increases from 45 to 60, the number of days, following service of a petition for judicial review from a tenured faculty member seeking review for dismissal or suspension, that the board of regents or state university board has to transmit to the reviewing court an original or certified copy of the entire record of a dismissal or suspension proceeding against the tenured faculty member. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB2930 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 - SB2659 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 - SB2727 Education - As introduced, increases, from 60 to 70, the percentage of students enrolled in a school in the achievement school district (ASD) whose parents must have signed a petition demonstrating their support for their child's school remaining in the ASD in order for the school to remain in the ASD beyond the initial 10-year period. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB2664 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 - SB2652 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 - SB2684 Education - As introduced, increases, from 5 to 10, the number of business days that the department of education has to include on its website any rules, regulations, or policies of the state board that are waived by the local board of education, following approval by the commissioner of education. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB2856 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 - SB2872 Education - As introduced, increases, from 14 to 15, the number of calendar days within which a person must accept or reject, in writing, an offer of employment as a teacher made between April 1 and June 1, including offers made on April 1, but excluding offers made on June 1. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 49.

TN - SB2653 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 - SB2675 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 - SB2673 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 - SB2622 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 - SB2742 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 - SB2682 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 - SB2852 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.

TN - SB2713 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 - SB2666 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 - SJR1082 Memorials, Death - Angela Hope Gibson