| TN | HB2158 | Pass | As introduced, reduces, from 3,000 to 750, the number of students for which one public school nurse is considered sufficient to adequately provide services for purposes of the Tennessee public school nurse program. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HB2472 | Pass | As introduced, requires LEAs and public charter schools to advise an employee who is assaulted by a student of the employee's rights as a result of the assault; requires, instead of authorizes, the suspension of a student who commits an assault again...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HB2155 | Pass | As enacted, names the law prohibiting an LEA from deducting dues from the wages of the LEA's employees for a professional employees' organization the "Michael Maren Paycheck Protection Act." - Amends TCA Section 49-2-123.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 770 |
| TN | HB2494 | Intro
25% | As introduced, revises certain enrollment, attendance, individualized education program, and resident requirements for certain education funding to follow a student who is admitted to a state-licensed or out-of-state mental health facility from the s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
Comp. SB subst. |
| TN | HB0849 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "Rural Schools Innovation Act"; requires the department of education to establish a two-year pilot program for rural districts to partner together to expand access to high-quality, robust college and career pathways. - Amend...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Returned to the Clerk's Desk. |
| TN | HB1899 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-04-17
Received from House, Passed on First Consideration |
| TN | HB1927 | 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 certain child care programs certified by t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee |
| TN | HB2207 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "Menstrual Hygiene Products Accessibility Act." - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 49 and Title 67.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee |
| TN | HB2388 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes LEAs to extend career and technical education (CTE) class sizes and averages for CTE classes in grades 6-8; prohibits the CTE classes in grades 6-8 from exceeding the maximum class size and average set for general education cla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 712 |
| TN | HB1831 | Intro
25% | As introduced, allows the parent or guardian of a student with a documented academic or behavioral delay to voluntarily retain the student in the student's current grade level; requires the LEA or public charter school in which such student is enroll...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | HB2264 | Intro
25% | As introduced, allows certain schools in need of intervention to exit the school turnaround pilot program before the 2024-2025 school year. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | HB2487 | Intro
25% | As introduced, conditions the expulsion of a student for committing the zero tolerance offense of threatening mass violence on school property or at a school-related activity to threats of mass violence determined to be valid based on the results of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | HB2486 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes a director of schools to delegate one or more of the duties assigned to the director by the local board of education to another administrator or employee of the LEA, if the board has adopted a policy authorizing the respecti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
Comp. SB subst. |
| TN | HB2165 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires a request made by a student to an employee of the student's LEA or public charter school for an accommodation to affirm the student's gender identity to be reported to a school administrator and to the student's parent; prohib...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | HB2398 | Intro
25% | As introduced, adds local law enforcement officials to those who must be appointed to each district-wide school safety team; specifies that it is each district-wide school safety team and each building-level school safety team that is required to ann...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | HB2381 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires each local board of education and public charter school governing body to adopt a code of conduct for visitors for each school under the authority of the board or governing body that describes the types of acceptable behavior ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
Comp. SB subst. |
| TN | HB1697 | Pass | As enacted, removes the requirement that LEAs administer a pretest to students participating in an after-school learning mini-camp, learning loss bridge camp, or summer learning camp; deletes various reporting, funding, and accountability provisions ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 639 |
| TN | HB2891 | Intro
25% | As introduced, aligns local school board elections with the August primary and November general elections. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 49, Chapter 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Held on desk. |
| TN | HB2251 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Smart Heart Act"; establishes various requirements for automatic external defibrillators in schools and response protocols for cardiac-related medical emergencies. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Effective date(s) 03/27/2024, 07/01/2024 |
| TN | HB2238 | Intro
25% | As introduced, allows an LEA or public charter school to elect not to receive a letter grade for one or more of its schools by notifying the commissioner of education, in writing, of its decision to opt out of such requirements; allows, instead of re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Taken off notice for cal in s/c K-12 Subcommittee of Education Administration |
| TN | HB2335 | Fail | 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] | 2024-03-26
Failed for lack of second in: K-12 Subcommittee |
| TN | HB2687 | Pass | As enacted, revises the instruction required as part of a family life curriculum; requires the Tennessee joint task force on children's justice and child sexual abuse, in consultation with the children's services advisory council, to annually recomme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 571 |
| TN | HB2758 | Fail | As introduced, requires LEAs and public charter schools to prohibit students from displaying, using, or accessing an electronic device during instructional time unless the electronic device is authorized, or provided to the student, by the LEA or pub...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
Failed in Education Administration |
| TN | HB2357 | 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] | 2024-03-20
Taken off notice for cal. in Education Administration |
| TN | HB0368 | Fail | As introduced, prohibits an LEA from suspending or expelling a student enrolled in any of the grades pre-kindergarten through two unless the student's behavior endangers the physical safety of others; authorizes an LEA to suspend such a student for s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
Failed in s/c K-12 Subcommittee of Education Administration |
| TN | HB2186 | Intro
25% | As introduced, makes various changes to the Voluntary Pre-K for Tennessee Act of 2005; requires, instead of authorizes, an LEA to provide a pre-kindergarten program that is open to any child who is four years of age on or before August 15 and who res...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
Taken off notice for cal in s/c K-12 Subcommittee of Education Administration |
| TN | HB2591 | Intro
25% | As introduced, allows Tennessee comprehensive assessment program (TCAP) tests to be administered to students enrolled in a virtual school or virtual education program through the internet in a virtual or remote setting if certain requirements are met...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
Taken off notice for cal in s/c K-12 Subcommittee of Education Administration |
| TN | HB2349 | Fail | As introduced, reduces, from 25 to 15, the maximum class size in grades K-2 at a priority school. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | HB0255 | Fail | As introduced, requires each local school board to establish a school lunch program and a school breakfast program that provides a free breakfast and lunch to each student enrolled in a school under the board's jurisdiction; requires the state to rei...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
Failed in s/c K-12 Subcommittee of Education Administration |
| TN | HB7077 | 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] | 2024-03-12
Taken off notice for cal in s/c K-12 Subcommittee of Education Administration |
| TN | HB1844 | Fail | As introduced, requires each local school board to establish a school lunch program and a school breakfast program that provide a free breakfast and lunch to each student enrolled in a school under the board's jurisdiction; requires the state to reim...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
Failed for lack of second in: K-12 Subcommittee |
| TN | HB2751 | Intro
25% | As introduced, expands the category of primary elections in which candidates nominated for school boards are to appear on the regular August election ballot for which the date of such election may be reset by an election commission to coincide with t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
Taken off notice for cal in s/c K-12 Subcommittee of Education Administration |
| TN | HB1042 | Intro
25% | As introduced, allows an LEA that uses the career academy or small learning community model to extend career and technical education (CTE) class sizes in grades six through eight if the extended CTE class size does not exceed the maximum class size f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-22
Withdrawn. |
| TN | HB1865 | Fail | 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] | 2024-02-20
Failed in s/c K-12 Subcommittee of Education Administration |
| TN | HB2399 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes a director of schools to delegate one or more of the director's official duties to another person employed by the LEA, if the local board of education has adopted a policy authorizing such delegation. - Amends TCA Title 49, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
Assigned to s/c K-12 Subcommittee |
| TN | HB2764 | 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] | 2024-02-13
Taken off notice for cal in s/c K-12 Subcommittee of Education Administration |
| TN | HB2491 | Intro
25% | As introduced, expands, beyond just student performance in English language arts (ELA) on the most recent Tennessee comprehensive assessment program (TCAP) test, the measures of student growth in ELA that an LEA or public charter school may use in de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
Assigned to s/c K-12 Subcommittee |
| TN | HB2416 | 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] | 2024-02-06
Assigned to s/c K-12 Subcommittee |
| TN | HB2498 | 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] | 2024-02-06
Assigned to s/c K-12 Subcommittee |
| TN | HB1601 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires each local board of education and public charter school governing body to adopt a comprehensive code of conduct for each school under the authority of the board or governing body that describes the types of acceptable behavior...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
Withdrawn. |
| TN | HB1699 | 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] | 2024-01-31
Withdrawn. |
| TN | HB1866 | 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] | 2024-01-31
Withdrawn. |
| TN | HB2056 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes an LEA to adopt a policy for retired law enforcement officers to serve as armed school security officers on school premises. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
Assigned to s/c K-12 Subcommittee |
| TN | HB1377 | Intro
25% | As introduced, creates a process by which certain individuals may file a complaint with an LEA or public charter school for the LEA's or public charter school's including or promoting certain prohibited concepts as part of a course of instruction, in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
Taken off notice for cal. in Education Administration |
| TN | HB1991 | Intro
25% | As introduced, establishes a complaint, hearing, and removal process for clubs and organizations available to students attending a public school. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
Withdrawn. |
| TN | HB1709 | 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
Withdrawn. |
| TN | HB7063 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2023-08-29
Received from House, Passed on First Consideration |
| TN | HB7092 | Intro
25% | As introduced, adds local law enforcement officials to those who are appointed to each district-wide school safety team; specifies that each district-wide school safety team and each building-level school safety team shall annually review the respect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-23
Tabled |
| TN | HB7102 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires an LEA to provide its students with a certain minimum amount of social interaction time each month depending on the amount of instruction being provided to students each month. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-22
Taken off notice for cal in s/c K-12 Subcommittee of Education Administration |
| TN | HB1232 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes a local board of education to contract with a private college or university accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges to maintain a training school for grades pre-kindergarten through...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 435 |
