Tennessee House Bill 826 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: Passed on May 4 2023 - 100% progression
Action: 2023-05-04 - Comp. became Pub. Ch. 279
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [PDF]

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 school or program may endanger the safety of the students or staff of the alternative school or program. - Amends TCA Title 49.

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, relative to K-12 education.

Rep. John Gillespie [R]

Rep. John Ragan [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2023-05-04		Comp. became Pub. Ch. 279
2023-04-17	House	Sponsor(s) Added.
2023-04-17	House	Comp. SB subst.
2023-04-13	House	H. Placed on Regular Calendar for 4/17/2023
2023-04-12	House	Placed on cal. Calendar & Rules Committee for 4/13/2023
2023-04-12	House	Rec. for pass. if am., ref. to Calendar & Rules Committee
2023-04-05	House	Placed on cal. Education Administration for 4/12/2023
2023-04-05	House	Action def. in Education Administration to 4/12/2023
2023-03-29	House	Placed on cal. Education Administration for 4/5/2023
2023-03-28	House	Rec for pass if am by s/c ref. to Education Administration
2023-03-22	House	Placed on s/c cal K-12 Subcommittee for 3/28/2023
2023-03-15	House	Placed on s/c cal K-12 Subcommittee for 3/21/2023
2023-02-07	House	Assigned to s/c K-12 Subcommittee
2023-02-02	House	P2C, ref. to Education Administration
2023-02-01	House	Intro., P1C.
2023-01-30	House	Filed for introduction

SB1069 (Crossfiled) 2023-05-04 - Effective date(s) 04/28/2023

Type	Source
Summary	https://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/Billinfo/default.aspx?BillNumber=HB0826&ga=113
Text	https://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/113/Bill/HB0826.pdf
Text	https://publications.tnsosfiles.com/acts/113/pub/pc0279.pdf
Amendment	https://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/113/Amend/HA0428.pdf
Supplement	https://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/113/Fiscal/HB0826.pdf
Supplement	https://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/113/Fiscal/FM0967.pdf