Bills Pending Tennessee Senate Education Committee

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TNSB2121Intro
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...
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2024-03-20
To Senate Education Committee
TNSB2190Intro
25%
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. - Amend...
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2024-03-20
To Senate Education Committee
TNSB2622Intro
25%
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.
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2024-03-20
To Senate Education Committee
TNSB2930Intro
25%
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 a...
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2024-03-20
To Senate Education Committee
TNSB2371Intro
25%
As introduced, requires the office of early learning to submit its annual report on pre-kindergarten programs by November 1. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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2024-03-20
To Senate Education Committee
TNSB2809Intro
25%
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 pub...
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2024-03-20
To Senate Education Committee
TNSB2318Intro
25%
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.
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2024-03-20
To Senate Education Committee
TNSB2065Intro
25%
As introduced, enacts the "Universal Pre-K Funding Act." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 51; Title 49 and Title 67.
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2024-03-20
To Senate Education Committee
TNSB2273Intro
25%
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 tha...
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2024-03-20
To Senate Education Committee
TNSB2465Intro
25%
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 l...
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2024-03-20
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TNSB2754Intro
25%
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 T...
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2024-03-20
To Senate Education Committee
TNSB2122Intro
25%
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 re...
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2024-03-20
To Senate Education Committee
TNSB0322Intro
25%
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 s...
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2024-03-20
To Senate Education Committee
TNSB2440Intro
25%
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, ...
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2024-03-20
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TNSB2444Intro
25%
As introduced, reduces, from 25 to 15, the maximum class size in grades K-2 at a priority school. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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2024-03-13
To Senate Education Committee
TNSB2729Intro
25%
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 A...
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2024-03-13
To Senate Education Committee
TNSB2268Intro
25%
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 educati...
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2024-03-13
To Senate Education Committee
TNSB2295Intro
25%
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.
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2024-03-13
To Senate Education Committee
TNSB1790Intro
25%
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 reim...
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2024-03-13
To Senate Education Committee
TNSB1464Intro
25%
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;...
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2024-03-13
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TNSB2265Intro
25%
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...
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2024-03-13
To Senate Education Committee
TNSB1656Intro
25%
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-t...
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2024-03-13
To Senate Education Committee
TNSB2177Intro
25%
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; ...
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2024-03-13
To Senate Education Committee
TNSB1724Intro
25%
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, instea...
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2024-03-13
To Senate Education Committee
TNSB2216Intro
25%
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.
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2024-03-13
To Senate Education Committee
TNSB1752Intro
25%
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 ...
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2024-03-13
To Senate Education Committee
TNSB1872Intro
25%
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.
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2024-03-13
To Senate Education Committee
TNSB2294Intro
25%
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 ...
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2024-03-13
To Senate Education Committee
TNSB2291Intro
25%
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 de...
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2024-03-13
To Senate Education Committee
TNSB0208Intro
25%
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 rei...
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2024-03-13
To Senate Education Committee
TNSB2653Intro
25%
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.
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2024-03-13
To Senate Education Committee
TNSB2675Intro
25%
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.
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2024-03-13
To Senate Education Committee
TNSB1081Intro
25%
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 ...
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2024-03-12
To Senate Education Committee
TNHJR0811Engross
50%
Recognizes the benefits of chess in education and correctional systems.
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2024-03-11
To Senate Education Committee
TNSB1714Intro
25%
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.
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2024-03-06
To Senate Education Committee
TNSB1748Intro
25%
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 imple...
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2024-03-06
To Senate Education Committee
TNSB2350Intro
25%
As introduced, establishes various prohibitions and requirements for public institutions of higher education regarding diversity, equity, and inclusion. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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2024-03-04
To Senate Education Committee
TNSB0567Intro
25%
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.
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2024-02-26
To Senate Education Committee
TNSB1689Intro
25%
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 lear...
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2024-02-21
To Senate Education Committee
TNSB2546Intro
25%
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.
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2024-02-12
To Senate Education Committee
TNSB1896Intro
25%
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 reim...
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2024-02-07
To Senate Education Committee
TNSB2595Intro
25%
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.
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2024-02-05
To Senate Education Committee
TNSB2681Intro
25%
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 ...
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2024-02-05
To Senate Education Committee
TNSB2527Intro
25%
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.
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2024-02-05
To Senate Education Committee
TNSB2597Intro
25%
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.
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2024-02-05
To Senate Education Committee
TNSB2683Intro
25%
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 TC...
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2024-02-05
To Senate Education Committee
TNSB2598Intro
25%
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.
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2024-02-05
To Senate Education Committee
TNSB2758Intro
25%
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 t...
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2024-02-05
To Senate Education Committee
TNSB2815Intro
25%
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.
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2024-02-05
To Senate Education Committee
TNSB2684Intro
25%
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 appro...
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2024-02-05
To Senate Education Committee
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