| TN | HB0645 | Intro
25% | As introduced, adds Western Governors University as a postsecondary institution at which Tennessee resident students may be enrolled for purposes of receiving a Senator Ben Atchley opportunity grant. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 8.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 12:00 pm]
To House Education Committee |
| TN | HB1324 | Intro
25% | As introduced, terminates the governing board of directors for the Tennessee student assistance corporation (TSAC); requires the Tennessee higher education commission to be the governing board for TSAC; changes the name of the "Wilder-Naifeh technica...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 12:00 pm]
To House Education Committee |
| TN | HB0410 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department to convene a working group to study and develop best practices, strategies, and programming for English language learner (EL) educators in this state to utilize in educating EL students enrolled in a public scho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 12:00 pm]
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| TN | HB1188 | Intro
25% | As introduced, prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sex, disability, religion, or marital status against a student or an employee in a public institution of education; requires public institutions of education to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 12:00 pm]
To House Education Committee |
| TN | HB0025 | Intro
25% | As introduced, prohibits a public school from using public funds to have a membership with an association that regulates interscholastic athletics and prohibits a student from participating in an interscholastic athletic competition due to the studen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 12:00 pm]
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| TN | HB0880 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department to compile a list of all of the educator preparation providers' teacher training requirements for licensed educators to teach students in any of the grades K-12 who are employees of a local education agency or p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 12:00 pm]
To House Education Committee |
| TN | HB0148 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates the Tennessee Promise completion grant special account in the state treasury for purposes of awarding completion grants to certain Tennessee Promise scholarship students; makes the four-year pilot program established by the com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 12:00 pm]
To House Education Committee |
| TN | HB0515 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires an LEA and public charter school that provides parents or guardians of K-12 students with information on immunizations, infectious diseases, medications, or other school health issues to include information about Type 1 and Ty...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 12:00 pm]
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| TN | HB1250 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes a local board of education and public charter school governing body to employ or accept as a volunteer a school chaplain to provide support, services, and programs for students, school staff, and students' parents. - Amends ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 12:00 pm]
To House Education Committee |
| TN | HB0919 | Intro
25% | As introduced, modifies the appointing authority of the governor, the speaker of the senate, and the speaker of the house of representatives to the advisory council on workers' compensation by requiring the governor's employee appointment to be from ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 12:00 pm]
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| TN | HB0085 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases, from 130 minutes per full school week to 60 minutes per school day, the minimum amount of physical activity required for elementary school students; establishes additional requirements for the minimum amount of physical acti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 12:00 pm]
To House Education Committee |
| TN | HB1002 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the state board of education to approve at least one universal screener for pre-kindergarten students as an alternative growth model to generate individual growth scores for pre-kindergarten teachers; requires, instead of auth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 12:00 pm]
To House Education Committee |
| TN | HB1150 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes an eligible education employee to qualify for paid leave during the legal process for adopting a newly placed minor child, specifically during that period of time beginning with the filing of a petition for adoption when a m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 12:00 pm]
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| TN | HB1197 | Intro
25% | As introduced, makes various changes to the approval process and notice requirements for nonsectarian, nonreligious Bible courses; clarifies that public charter schools are authorized to provide nonsectarian, nonreligious Bible courses in the same ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 12:00 pm]
To House Education Committee |
| TN | HB0392 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the school grading system to apply to all high schools with 20 or more students in the most recent graduating cohort. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 12:00 pm]
To House Education Committee |
| TN | HB0506 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires at least one full-time employee at each school under the jurisdiction of an LEA or public charter school to annually receive training in seizure safety and first aid. - Amends TCA Title 49; Title 50 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 12:00 pm]
To House Education Committee |
| TN | HB1016 | Intro
25% | As introduced, establishes October 15 of each year as the date by which the department must submit an early grades reading report; updates the committees for which the department must submit the early grades reading report to be the education committ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 12:00 pm]
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| TN | HB0408 | Intro
25% | As introduced, changes, from February 1 to January 31, the date each year that the commissioner of education and commissioner of safety must jointly report to the governor and general assembly regarding implementation and compliance with the Schools ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 12:00 pm]
To House Education Committee |
| TN | HB0134 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires LEAs and public charter schools to prohibit food or beverage items that contain Red 40 to be sold, offered for sale, or provided to students on school property unless the food or beverage item is sold to the student as part of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 12:00 pm]
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| TN | HB0793 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes LEAs and public charter schools to refuse to enroll students who are unlawfully present in the United States. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
[Hearing: Mar 26 @ 4:30 pm]
To House Education Committee |
| TN | HB1135 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department of education to submit an early grades reading report to legislative committees with jurisdiction over subject matter pertaining to education by December 31 of each year. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 12:00 pm]
To House Education Committee |
| TN | HB0007 | Intro
25% | As introduced, establishes the hunger-free campus grant program; provides grants to higher education institutions to address student hunger. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 12:00 pm]
To House Education Committee |
| TN | HB1175 | Intro
25% | As introduced, allows a child care agency to lease or purchase underutilized property from local education agencies; classifies a child care family home as residential property for certain purposes, including zoning and building codes; permits a host...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 12:00 pm]
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| TN | HB0964 | Intro
25% | As introduced, changes the standard for entry-resistant window treatment for school buildings constructed or remodeled on or after July 1, 2025; requires the state-level school safety team to issue guidelines to the state fire marshal for inclusion i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 12:00 pm]
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| TN | HB0194 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the executive director of the commission to submit to the governor and the chairs of certain legislative committees a report that includes an evaluation of the utilization, state financial support, and student academic outcome...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 12:00 pm]
To House Education Committee |
| TN | HB0764 | Intro
25% | As introduced, specifies that certain physical searches of students and searches of lockers, vehicles, and other property must be conducted by a school resource officer. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 12:00 pm]
To House Education Committee |
| TN | HB1153 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires local boards of education to establish a program to provide free school breakfast and lunch to disadvantaged students; subject to funding, requires the state to reimburse LEAs for providing such free breakfasts and lunches aft...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 12:00 pm]
To House Education Committee |
| TN | HB1088 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires an LEA that receives credible information regarding a threat of violence or significantly disruptive behavior directed toward, or occurring on the grounds of, a public school in the LEA, and that reports the threat or disrupti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 12:00 pm]
To House Education Committee |
| TN | HB1193 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department to conduct a landscape analysis of teacher evaluation practices in this state and other states; requires the department to convene a teacher evaluation advisory committee to review and evaluate current teacher e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 12:00 pm]
To House Education Committee |
| TN | HB0662 | Intro
25% | As introduced, changes the date, from October 31 to October 1, by which the departments of education and health must submit a report to the governor and general assembly regarding the self-administered medications and healthcare procedures for studen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 12:00 pm]
To House Education Committee |
| TN | HB0067 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department to compile an annual report on the number of students who complete the early graduation program to the education committee of the senate and the committee of the house of representatives having jurisdiction over...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 12:00 pm]
To House Education Committee |
| TN | HB0377 | Intro
25% | As introduced, prohibits the exclusion of persons from participating in, being denied the benefits of, or being subject to discrimination by a four-year public or private institution of higher education in this state on the basis of race, color, ethn...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 12:00 pm]
To House Education Committee |
| TN | HB1383 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires elections for county boards of education to be held at the same time and on the same election cycle as elections for members of the local legislative body for the county; requires members of county boards of education to have ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 12:00 pm]
To House Education Committee |
| TN | HB0505 | Intro
25% | As introduced, converts the school safety alert grant pilot program to a statewide two-year school safety alert grant program; removes the limit on the number of grants that may be awarded in a fiscal year. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Chapter 994 of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 12:00 pm]
To House Education Committee |
| TN | HB1281 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires that persons who hold positions with independent entities that teach released time courses and who have proximity to students undergo a criminal history records check conducted by the TBI; requires LEAs to notify students' par...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 12:00 pm]
To House Education Committee |
| TN | HB0047 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes local boards of education and governing bodies of public charter schools to display the Ten Commandments, the Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, the Constitution of Tennessee, the Bill of Rights, a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 12:00 pm]
To House Education Committee |
| TN | HB1113 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires each student who participates in a school youth athletic activity to file with the local education agency (LEA) or public charter school a preparticipation medical evaluation or an exemption; creates the safe stars advisory co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 12:00 pm]
To House Education Committee |
| TN | HB0997 | Intro
25% | As introduced, clarifies that a public charter school authorized in its charter agreement to locate in a county local education agency (LEA) is not allowed to charge a student who resides in the county any registration fees, enrollment fees, or tuiti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 12:00 pm]
To House Education Committee |
| TN | HB1308 | Intro
25% | As introduced, makes various changes to reporting requirements, school and district accountability, the accumulation of excess instructional time, remote instruction, the immunization status of students in state custody, the individualized education ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 12:00 pm]
To House Education Committee |
| TN | HJR0198 | Intro
25% | Annie Dockery, Standards Recommendation Committee for English Language Arts
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 12:00 pm]
To House Education Committee |
| TN | HB0665 | Intro
25% | As introduced, removes an obsolete provision that required, on or before February 15, 2019, the Tennessee higher education commission to submit a report to legislative committees with jurisdiction over education detailing progress made in formalizing...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 12:00 pm]
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| TN | HB0081 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires local education agencies to transfer a student's record, including the student's disciplinary record, to the school to which the student is transferring within three days of the transfer date. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 12:00 pm]
To House Education Committee |
| TN | HB0545 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department to provide at least one professional development course that provides asynchronous instruction on the use of artificial intelligence in the classroom and that is made available, at no cost, to teachers in grades...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 12:00 pm]
To House Education Committee |
| TN | HJR0179 | Intro
25% | Recognizes mental health consequences of social media on K-12 students.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 12:00 pm]
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| TN | HB1006 | Intro
25% | As introduced, expands the list of those who are prohibited from serving on a state university board to include those who hold the position of a member of a governing body for another institution of higher education, not just public institutions of h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 12:00 pm]
To House Education Committee |
| TN | HB0759 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes an LEA to adopt and implement a merit-based pay structure for educators to award additional compensation to high-performing educators and to incentivize educators to meet and exceed expectations. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 12:00 pm]
To House Education Committee |
| TN | HB1036 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department of education to evaluate the effectiveness of an innovative school district after the first school year of operation and make recommendations, which may include encouraging additional public universities to oper...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 12:00 pm]
To House Education Committee |
| TN | HB1262 | Intro
25% | As introduced, makes various changes to the categories of individuals who are not required to use a preferred pronoun, and for whom a preferred pronoun can be disregarded, if the pronoun is inconsistent with the person's biological sex; makes various...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 12:00 pm]
To House Education Committee |
| TN | HB1307 | Intro
25% | As introduced, extends the date, from October 1 to October 15, on which the department must file an annual report evaluating the progress of the school turnaround pilot program. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 12:00 pm]
To House Education Committee |
| TN | HB1322 | Intro
25% | As introduced, establishes a process by which the governing body of an existing public charter school may replicate that public charter school in the same district by applying to the local board of education or directly to the Tennessee public charte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 12:00 pm]
To House Education Committee |
