| TN | SB2936 | Intro
25% | As introduced, revises certain requirements for film coverings on entry doors and removes requirements for film coverings on basement windows in public school buildings constructed or remodeled after July 1, 2024. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
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| TN | SB2852 | Intro
25% | As introduced, specifies that authorization to provide nonsectarian, nonreligious academic study of the Bible extends to public charter schools; makes various changes to the approval process and notice requirements for such courses. - Amends TCA Titl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
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| TN | SB2872 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases, from 14 to 15, the number of calendar days within which a person must accept or reject, in writing, an offer of employment as a teacher made between April 1 and June 1, including offers made on April 1, but excluding offers ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
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| TN | SB2830 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires public charter schools to provide licensed employees of the public charter school six paid workweeks after a birth or stillbirth of the employee's child or the employee's adoption of a newly placed minor child. - Amends TCA Ti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
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| TN | SB2592 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases the amount of time both parents or a guardian have to make a written application for a hearing challenging a local school board's order placing a student in a certain public school from within 10 days after an assignment orde...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
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| TN | SB2685 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases from 45 to 60, the number of days, following service of a petition for judicial review from a tenured faculty member seeking review for dismissal or suspension, that the board of regents or state university board has to trans...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
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| TN | SB2854 | Intro
25% | As introduced, clarifies that it is the commissioner of safety with whom a copy of each local education agency's district-wide comprehensive safety plan and each building-level school safety plan, including all amendments to each such plan, must be f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
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| TN | SB2727 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases, from 60 to 70, the percentage of students enrolled in a school in the achievement school district (ASD) whose parents must have signed a petition demonstrating their support for their child's school remaining in the ASD in o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
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| TN | SB2731 | Intro
25% | As introduced, changes, from January 1 to December 1, the date by which the department of correction is required to transmit its annual report detailing the higher education opportunities available to eligible incarcerated individuals in this state t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
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| TN | SB2701 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires an LEA or public charter school to install, maintain, and use, subject to parental request and approval, a video camera surveillance system in each special education classroom operated by the LEA or public charter school to co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
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| TN | SB2672 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases, from 45 to 60, the number of days a child care person or entity may receive an extension on a temporary certificate from the state board of education to operate a child care program prior to the issuance of an initial annual...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
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| TN | SB2594 | Intro
25% | As introduced, changes from October 31 to October 15, the date by which the departments of health and education are required to submit their annual report of self-administered medications and healthcare procedures to students served in all public and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
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| TN | SB2492 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the state board of education to submit a report to the general assembly, no later than February 1, 2025, regarding the feasibility of reducing the maximum class size in all classrooms that include students with disabilities an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
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| TN | SB2491 | Intro
25% | As introduced, reduces, from more than five days to more than three days, the period of suspension that the school principal must develop and implement a plan for improving the behavior, which must be made available for review by the director of scho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
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| TN | SB2455 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "Separation of Need Act"; removes income eligibility requirements from free school lunch and breakfast programs; requires each local board of education and governing body of a public charter school to provide a free breakfas...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
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| TN | SB2493 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires LEAs and public charter schools to strive to employ school personnel in a manner that fairly represents the racial and ethnic composition of the student body for the school to which such personnel are assigned. - Amends TCA Ti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
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| TN | SB2472 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department to provide to the general assembly a list that identifies each LEA that received an infrastructure stipend, along with the amount of the infrastructure stipend received, beginning with infrastructure stipends aw...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
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| TN | SB2473 | Intro
25% | As introduced, makes students who graduate from an out-of-state high school eligible for the Tennessee HOPE scholarship if at least one of the student's parents resides in this state and has resided in this state no less than 10 years; requires the b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
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| TN | SB2351 | Intro
25% | As introduced, prohibits certain institutions of higher education from defining discriminatory practices in their antidiscrimination policies in a manner inconsistent with the definition of discriminatory practices in state law; prohibits certain ins...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
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| TN | SB2164 | Intro
25% | As introduced, adds the Classical Learning Test (CLT) to the assessments on which a student must attain a certain minimum score in order to be eligible for certain financial aid opportunities; adds the CLT as an acceptable assessment of student readi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
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| TN | SB2470 | Intro
25% | As introduced, allows employers and public institutions of higher education in this state to establish, maintain, and implement policies, practices, and requirements designed to safeguard employees, applicants for employment, students, faculty, and s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
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| TN | SB2255 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires a parent or guardian to notify their student's school if the student is adjudicated delinquent for any criminal offense involving a firearm, whether the offense was committed in this state or in another state. - Amends TCA Tit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
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| TN | SB2389 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires each local school board and governing body of a public charter school to provide a free breakfast and lunch to each student enrolled in a school under the board's or body's jurisdiction; requires the state to reimburse each LE...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
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| TN | SB2210 | Intro
25% | As introduced, changes from 30 to 45 the number of days a principal or director of schools must provide notice to the commissioner of education of an intent to withdraw from an approved alternative program for innovative educational programs. - Amend...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
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| TN | SB2494 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department to annually submit a report to the education committees of the senate and house of representatives on the availability of family resource centers in this state; requires the report to identify, by school and LEA...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
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| TN | SB2487 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires agreements and obligations of local education agencies (LEAs) relative to school-based health-related services to be fair, reasonable, and suitable to the objectives of the LEA with respect to the school-based health-related s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
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| TN | SB2165 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires LEAs and public charter schools to notify parents and guardians of students who do not test proficient in mathematics on the student's most recent Tennessee comprehensive assessment program test of academic supports in mathema...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
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| TN | SB2167 | Intro
25% | As introduced, changes from January 31 to January 1 the date by which the department must submit a report to the education administration committee of the house of representatives and the education committee of the senate documenting each LEA's and p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
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| TN | SB2161 | Intro
25% | As introduced, prohibits certain kinds of provisions in contracts and agreements between publishers and libraries related to the licensing of electronic literary materials. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
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| TN | SB2200 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department of education to report, for the 2023-2024 school year, the number of appeals filed with the department for a student who is identified for retention in third grade based on the student achieving a performance le...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
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| TN | SB2224 | Intro
25% | As introduced, reduces, from 65 to 62, the minimum age of a person who is eligible to enroll in courses for credit at state-supported colleges and universities without payment of tuition and certain fees; adds law schools and veterinary schools to th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
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| TN | SB2217 | Intro
25% | As introduced, changes, from 30 days to 30 business days, the amount of time an athletic agent applicant has to respond to a request for clarifying information from the secretary of state before risking the denial, revocation, or non-renewal of a cer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
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| TN | SB1589 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department to award school safety grants to LEAs, public charter schools, private schools, and church-related schools for the purchase of a wearable emergency alert system for teachers and substitute teachers. - Amends TCA...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
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| TN | SB2025 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes LEAs and public charter schools to employ retired law enforcement officers who are retired from a federal, state, or local law enforcement agency and honorably discharged veterans of the United States armed forces to serve a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
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| TN | SB2029 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases from 60 days to 75 days the length of the notice period that the state board of education must observe before joining a testing consortium inclusive of multiple states that requires the adoption of common standards in social ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
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| TN | SB1980 | Intro
25% | As introduced, changes, from December 1 to December 31, the deadline for the department of education to report information to the education committees of the senate and the house of representatives on the number of students in each LEA who, despite b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
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| TN | SB1925 | Intro
25% | As introduced, specifies that no more than 49 percent of a public institution of higher education's entering freshman class may be composed of students who are classified as out-of-state students. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
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| TN | SB1924 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department of education to ensure that an equivalent amount given as a scholarship amount to students in grades K-12 for the purposes of attending private schools be disbursed to the LEA in which the student was enrolled b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
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| TN | SB1981 | Intro
25% | As introduced, changes from December 1 to December 31 the deadline for the department of education to report to the education committees of the senate and the house of representatives the number of students in each LEA who were identified for mandato...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
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| TN | SB1928 | Intro
25% | As introduced, reduces maximum class sizes and maximum average class sizes by one student each school year over a period of five school years, beginning with the 2025-2026 school year. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
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| TN | SB1923 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires, as a condition of participating in the education savings account program, a participating school to retain a participating student in the third grade if the student does not achieve a performance level of "on track" or "maste...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
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| TN | SB1795 | Intro
25% | As introduced, changes from August 15 to May 15 the date by which a child must be five years of age in order to enroll in kindergarten; removes authorization for directors of schools to allow early enrollment in kindergarten for emotionally mature st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
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| TN | SB1856 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires differentiated pay plans to apply to, and be implemented in, schools with a significant population of historically disadvantaged students, schools with significant populations of students who achieved a performance level ratin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
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| TN | SB1796 | Intro
25% | As introduced, allows Tennessee comprehensive assessment program (TCAP) tests to be administered to students enrolled in a virtual school in an online setting; requires the department of education to ensure that TCAP tests administered to virtual sch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
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| TN | SB1718 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes LEAs and public charter schools to reimburse teachers for child care expenses paid by the teacher each month for the teacher's dependent child to receive child care services through a child care program certified by the depa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
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| TN | SB1696 | Intro
25% | As introduced, expands the category of textbooks and instructional materials that are prohibited from use in a public school in this state from those created to align exclusively with the Common Core State Standards to those that are aligned to, asso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
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| TN | SB1576 | Intro
25% | As introduced, waives tuition, maintenance fees, student activity fees, and required registration or matriculation fees to a public institution of higher education for dependent children of veterans who are residents of this state and who are 100 per...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
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| TN | SB1665 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires local boards of education to include school safety training in the training requirements for substitute teachers. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
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| TN | SB7107 | Intro
25% | As introduced, specifies that an LEA must provide a responding law enforcement agency with immediate access to the LEA's security systems during a drill or in an emergency situation. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Chapter 367 of the Public Acts of 2023.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-23
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| TN | SB1240 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the office of the comptroller to annually conduct a review of the English language arts textbooks and instructional materials adopted for use by each LEA and public charter school to ensure they are aligned to Tennessee's acad...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-29
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