Tennessee Senate Bill 802 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 30 2023 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2023-03-15 - Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Education Committee
Pending: Senate Education Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #2) [PDF]

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" on the English language arts portion of the student's most recent Tennessee comprehensive assessment program test. - Amends TCA Title 49.

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, relative to student retention.

Sen. Jeff Yarbro [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2023-03-15	Senate	Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Education Committee
2023-03-08	Senate	Placed on Senate Education Committee calendar for 3/15/2023
2023-02-06	Senate	Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Education Committee
2023-02-02	Senate	Introduced, Passed on First Consideration
2023-01-30	Senate	Filed for introduction

HB1033 (Crossfiled) 2023-03-14 - Taken off notice for cal in s/c K-12 Subcommittee of Education Administration

Type	Source
Summary	https://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/Billinfo/default.aspx?BillNumber=SB0802&ga=113
Text	https://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/113/Bill/SB0802.pdf
Supplement	https://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/113/Fiscal/SB0802.pdf