Tennessee Senate Bill 920

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 31 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 #1) [PDF]

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 assessment program test to be promoted to the next grade level if the student has demonstrated growth above the national norm on a universal reading screener and has demonstrated growth in standards mastery based on the student's scores on a state-adopted benchmark assessment. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, Chapter 1 and Title 49, Chapter 6, relative to student retention.

Sen. Paul Rose [R]

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
2023-01-31	Senate	Filed for introduction

HB0852 (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=SB0920&ga=113
Text	https://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/113/Bill/SB0920.pdf
Supplement	https://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/113/Fiscal/HB0852.pdf