| TN | SB1261 | Intro
25% | 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 resourc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-29
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| 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
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| TN | SB1064 | Intro
25% | 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-29
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| TN | SB0104 | Intro
25% | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
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| TN | SB0892 | Intro
25% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
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| TN | SB0712 | Intro
25% | 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; requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
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| TN | SB0715 | Intro
25% | 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
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| TN | SB1024 | Intro
25% | As introduced, repeals the Tennessee Education Savings Account Pilot Program. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
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| 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
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| TN | SB0199 | Intro
25% | 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 t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
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| TN | SB0603 | Intro
25% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
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| TN | SB1507 | 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] | 2023-03-22
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| TN | SB1194 | Intro
25% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
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| TN | SB0417 | Intro
25% | 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 T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
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| 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
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| TN | SB0897 | 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] | 2023-03-22
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| TN | SB0684 | Intro
25% | 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. - Am...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
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| TN | SB0665 | Intro
25% | 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 p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
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| TN | SB1167 | Intro
25% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
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| TN | SB0169 | Intro
25% | 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
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| TN | SB1071 | Intro
25% | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
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| TN | SB1412 | Intro
25% | 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-kind...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
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| TN | SB1213 | Intro
25% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
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| TN | SB1190 | Intro
25% | As introduced, makes various changes to the Professional Educators Collaborative Conferencing Act of 2011. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5, Part 6.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
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| TN | SB0703 | Intro
25% | 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 2...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
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| TN | SB0599 | Intro
25% | 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 educati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
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| TN | SB1304 | Intro
25% | 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 Titl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-20
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| TN | SB0819 | Intro
25% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
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| TN | SB0706 | Intro
25% | 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 scho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
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| TN | SB0772 | Intro
25% | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
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| TN | SB0412 | Intro
25% | 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
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| TN | SB0861 | Intro
25% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
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| TN | SB0951 | Intro
25% | 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 understa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
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| TN | SB0809 | Intro
25% | 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 res...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
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| TN | SB0557 | Intro
25% | 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 dir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
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| TN | SB0297 | Intro
25% | 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
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| TN | SB1163 | Intro
25% | 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 c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
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| TN | SB0860 | Intro
25% | 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 6...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
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| TN | SB0899 | Intro
25% | 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 p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
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| TN | SB1090 | Intro
25% | 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 te...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
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| TN | SB0444 | Intro
25% | 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 learn...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
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| TN | SB1368 | Intro
25% | 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 a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
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| TN | SB0371 | Intro
25% | 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 t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
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| TN | SB0883 | Intro
25% | 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 Titl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
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| TN | SB1306 | Intro
25% | 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 n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
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| TN | SB0818 | Intro
25% | 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 th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
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| TN | SB0484 | Intro
25% | 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
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| TN | SB0794 | Intro
25% | 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 wri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
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| TN | SB1524 | Intro
25% | 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
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| TN | SB0920 | Intro
25% | 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 asse...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
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