| TN | SB7060 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department of education to establish a school safety alert grant program to provide grants to LEAs to offset expenses incurred by schools for the installation of school safety alert systems. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 49 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-23
Lay on the Table |
| TN | SB7079 | Intro
25% | As introduced, establishes a loan forgiveness program for psychiatrists, psychologists, and counselors. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-23
Lay on the Table |
| TN | HB7095 | Intro
25% | As introduced, adds to requirements for school safety plans that the plans include measures to ensure district employees, including substitute teachers, have classroom access to communications devices that allow for immediate contact with first respo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-22
Taken off notice for cal in s/c K-12 Subcommittee of Education Administration |
| TN | HB7093 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department of safety, in conjunction with the department of education to, at least once every three years, conduct an inspection of the facilities of each public school in this state that serves students in pre-K-12 to ass...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-22
Taken off notice for cal in s/c K-12 Subcommittee of Education Administration |
| TN | HB7096 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department of education to establish a school bulletproofing grant program to provide grants to public schools located in counties with a crime rate of 13 percent or higher for violent offenses, for the purpose of offsetti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-22
Taken off notice for cal in s/c K-12 Subcommittee of Education Administration |
| TN | SB0102 | Pass | 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 mem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Effective date(s) 05/17/2023 |
| TN | HB0158 | Pass | 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 mem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 438 |
| TN | SB0198 | Pass | 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 cr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Effective date(s) 05/17/2023 |
| TN | HB0250 | Pass | 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 cr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 439 |
| TN | HB0663 | Pass | As enacted, makes changes to the "Age-Appropriate Materials Act of 2022." - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 472 |
| TN | SB0966 | Pass | As enacted, makes changes to the "Age-Appropriate Materials Act of 2022." - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Effective date(s) 05/17/2023 |
| TN | SB0274 | Pass | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-18
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 367 |
| TN | HB0322 | Pass | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-18
Effective date(s) 05/10/2023, 07/01/2023 |
| TN | SB0004 | Pass | 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-17
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | SB0012 | Pass | 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-17
Effective date(s) 05/05/2023 |
| TN | HB0433 | Pass | 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-17
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 328 |
| TN | HB0435 | Pass | 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-17
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 327 |
| TN | HB0662 | Pass | 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 activ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-17
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 344 |
| TN | SB0967 | Pass | 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 activ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-17
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | HB1324 | Pass | As enacted, revises present law concerning participation in school board meetings by electronic participation. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-17
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 350 |
| TN | SB1268 | Pass | As enacted, revises present law concerning participation in school board meetings by electronic participation. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-17
Effective date(s) 05/05/2023 |
| TN | HB0826 | Pass | 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,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 279 |
| TN | HB0897 | Pass | 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 educat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 280 |
| TN | SB1069 | Pass | 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,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
Effective date(s) 04/28/2023 |
| TN | SB1070 | Pass | 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 educat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
Effective date(s) 04/28/2023 |
| TN | SB0317 | Pass | 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 o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 04/28/2023 |
| TN | HB0459 | Pass | 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 educationa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 222 |
| TN | HB0644 | Pass | 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 assem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 04/28/2023 |
| TN | SB0668 | Pass | 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 assem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 307 |
| TN | SB0743 | Pass | 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 educationa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 04/25/2023 |
| TN | HB0995 | Pass | 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 f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 275 |
| TN | HB1416 | Pass | 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 o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 257 |
| TN | SB0972 | Pass | 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 f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 04/28/2023 |
| TN | SB0190 | Pass | 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 vi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-02
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 299 |
| TN | HB0340 | Pass | 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 vi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-02
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | HB0074 | Pass | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-18
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 114 |
| TN | HB0258 | Pass | 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 drive...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-18
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 122 |
| TN | SB0255 | Pass | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-18
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | SB0579 | Pass | 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 drive...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-18
Effective date(s) 04/04/2023; 07/01/2024 |
| TN | HB0736 | Pass | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-18
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 127 |
| TN | SB0872 | Pass | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-18
Effective date(s) 04/04/2023 |
| TN | HB1174 | Intro
25% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-18
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee |
| TN | HB1249 | Intro
25% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-05
Taken off notice for cal. in Education Administration |
| TN | HB0520 | Intro
25% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-30
Re-ref. to Education Administration |
| TN | SB1240 | Intro
25% | 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 acad...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-29
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB1264 | Intro
25% | 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-29
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | HB0367 | Intro
25% | 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 test...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
Taken off notice for cal in s/c K-12 Subcommittee of Education Administration |
| TN | HB0582 | Fail | 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 acad...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
Failed in s/c K-12 Subcommittee of Education Administration |
| TN | SB0141 | Intro
25% | 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 speci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB0324 | Intro
25% | 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 test...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
To Senate Education Committee |
