| TN | HB9034 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, specifies that private schools have the sole authority to require people on the school's property to wear masks due to COVID-19 and to provide proof of COVID-19 vaccination. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-10-28
To House Covid-19 Committee |
| TN | HB9054 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, establishes a uniform standard regarding quarantining and testing for COVID-19 for students, teachers, or personnel in public schools who are exposed to a person who tests positive for COVID-19. - Amends TCA Title 49; Title 58, Chapter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-10-28
Taken off notice for cal. in Covid-19 Committee of Extraordinary Session III |
| TN | SB9016 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, establishes a uniform standard regarding quarantining and testing for COVID-19 for students, teachers, or personnel in public schools who are exposed to a person who tests positive for COVID-19. - Amends TCA Title 49; Title 58, Chapter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-10-28
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB0122 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "School Turnaround Pilot Program Act." - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1 and Title 49, Chapter 6.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-02
Pub. Ch. 578 |
| TN | HB1501 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "School Turnaround Pilot Program Act." - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1 and Title 49, Chapter 6.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-02
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 578 |
| TN | HB0073 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "K-12 Mental Health Trust Fund Act." - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-02
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 595 |
| TN | SB0739 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "K-12 Mental Health Trust Fund Act." - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-02
Pub. Ch. 595 |
| TN | HB0580 | Pass | As enacted, deletes several obsolete provisions and makes various substantive changes to education laws; establishes parameters for the teaching of certain concepts related to race and sex. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 493 |
| TN | SB0623 | Pass | As enacted, deletes several obsolete provisions and makes various substantive changes to education laws; establishes parameters for the teaching of certain concepts related to race and sex. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-01
Pub. Ch. 493 |
| TN | HB0074 | Pass | As enacted, revises various provisions regarding the achievement school district. - Amends TCA Section 49-1-614.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-01
Pub. Ch. 490 |
| TN | SB0737 | Pass | As enacted, revises various provisions regarding the achievement school district. - Amends TCA Section 49-1-614.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 490 |
| TN | HB1131 | Pass | As enacted, revises provisions governing criminal history checks of certain persons who come in direct contact with school children or children in a child care program. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-19
Pub. Ch. 417 |
| TN | HB1233 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Accommodations for All Children Act." - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-19
Pub. Ch. 452 |
| TN | SB1367 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Accommodations for All Children Act." - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-19
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 452 |
| TN | SB1424 | Pass | As enacted, revises provisions governing criminal history checks of certain persons who come in direct contact with school children or children in a child care program. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-19
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 417 |
| TN | HB0487 | Pass | As enacted, extends, beginning with the 2021-2022 school year, the counties within which each LEA must implement a program of family life education from counties with a pregnancy rate of 19.5 pregnancies for every 1,000 females ages 15 to 17 to all c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-18
Pub. Ch. 290 |
| TN | SB1175 | Pass | As enacted, requires schools, nursery schools, preschools, child care facilities, and public institutions of higher education to include information on immunization exemptions on any communications to students or parents regarding immunization requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-18
Pub. Ch. 369 |
| TN | SB1156 | Pass | As enacted, requires, if an appeal of a mandatory retention in third grade based on a student's scores on the ELA portion of the student's TCAP test is filed, it must be filed by the student's parent or guardian; requires an LEA or public charter sch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-18
Pub. Ch. 367 |
| TN | SB1360 | Pass | As enacted, extends, beginning with the 2021-2022 school year, the counties within which each LEA must implement a program of family life education from counties with a pregnancy rate of 19.5 pregnancies for every 1,000 females ages 15 to 17 to all c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-18
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 290 |
| TN | HB1403 | Pass | As enacted, requires schools, nursery schools, preschools, child care facilities, and public institutions of higher education to include information on immunization exemptions on any communications to students or parents regarding immunization requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-18
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 369 |
| TN | HB1591 | Pass | As enacted, requires, if an appeal of a mandatory retention in third grade based on a student's scores on the ELA portion of the student's TCAP test is filed, it must be filed by the student's parent or guardian; requires an LEA or public charter sch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-18
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 367 |
| TN | SB1579 | Pass | As enacted, requires the commissioner of education to obtain approval from the state board of education for changes to the formula used to calculate school or LEA performance goals and measures; requires the commissioner to convene a working group be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-18
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 299 |
| TN | HB1570 | Pass | As enacted, requires the commissioner of education to obtain approval from the state board of education for changes to the formula used to calculate school or LEA performance goals and measures; requires the commissioner to convene a working group be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-18
Pub. Ch. 299 |
| TN | HB1332 | Pass | As enacted, establishes certain requirements regarding student athletes who are placed in foster care. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-05
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 274 |
| TN | SB1303 | Pass | As enacted, establishes certain requirements regarding student athletes who are placed in foster care. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-05
Pub. Ch. 274 |
| TN | SB0636 | Pass | As enacted, specifies, for purposes of certain provisions governing leave, that a teacher's school or school district is not considered to be closed when teachers are required to work remotely and provide virtual instruction to students. - Amends TCA...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-04
Pub. Ch. 261 |
| TN | HB1342 | Pass | As enacted, specifies, for purposes of certain provisions governing leave, that a teacher's school or school district is not considered to be closed when teachers are required to work remotely and provide virtual instruction to students. - Amends TCA...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-04
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 261 |
| TN | SB0248 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, establishes a deaf mentor program to be carried out by the West Tennessee School for the Deaf in Jackson and the Tennessee School for the Deaf in Nashville and Knoxville. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 10, Part 9.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-03
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB0414 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "SEM Advancement Act," which requires a local board of education or charter school governing body to develop and adopt a policy that establishes criteria for the enrollment of students in grades seven through 12 into available ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-03
Pub. Ch. 170 |
| TN | HB0973 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "SEM Advancement Act," which requires a local board of education or charter school governing body to develop and adopt a policy that establishes criteria for the enrollment of students in grades seven through 12 into available ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 170 |
| TN | SB1313 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, prohibits a school from forcing, coercing, or requiring a student to receive an immunization for COVID-19; prohibits a school from taking an adverse action against a student who refuses to receive an immunization against COVID-19; proh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-03
Re-refer to Senate Cal. Comm. |
| TN | HB0587 | Pass | As enacted, allows LEAs and private or church-related schools to use excess instructional time accumulated during the school year for serious outbreaks of illness affecting or endangering students or staff without requiring approval from the commissi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-03
Pub. Ch. 180 |
| TN | SB0596 | Pass | As enacted, allows LEAs and private or church-related schools to use excess instructional time accumulated during the school year for serious outbreaks of illness affecting or endangering students or staff without requiring approval from the commissi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 180 |
| TN | HB0631 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, establishes a deaf mentor program to be carried out by the West Tennessee School for the Deaf in Jackson and the Tennessee School for the Deaf in Nashville and Knoxville. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 10, Part 9.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-21
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee |
| TN | HB0770 | Pass | As enacted, makes various changes to the Special Education Behavioral Supports Act, including the use of isolation and physical holding restraints. - Amends TCA Section 37-1-120 and Title 49, Chapter 10, Part 13.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-21
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 134 |
| TN | SB0738 | Pass | As enacted, makes various changes to the Special Education Behavioral Supports Act, including the use of isolation and physical holding restraints. - Amends TCA Section 37-1-120 and Title 49, Chapter 10, Part 13.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-21
Pub. Ch. 134 |
| TN | HB1421 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, prohibits a school from forcing, coercing, or requiring a student to receive an immunization for COVID-19; prohibits a school from taking an adverse action against a student who refuses to receive an immunization against COVID-19; proh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-21
Taken off notice for cal. in Health Committee |
| TN | HB0165 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, authorizes community schools and communities of schools to establish programs to make professional counseling services available to individuals held in correctional or detention facilities in this state. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-14
Re-ref. Calendar & Rules Committee |
| TN | HB0917 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, revises bidding procedures for an LEA that does not follow the local governing body’s procedures to require 10 business days’ notice prior to the acceptance of bids for construction of, or additions to, buildings in excess of $10,0...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-14
Taken off notice for cal. in Education Administration |
| TN | HB1516 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, deletes antiquated language that required the comptroller's office to study the formation and operation of community schools and report its finding by November 1, 2018. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-14
To House Education Instruction Committee |
| TN | SB0103 | Pass | As enacted, specifies that local boards of education and governing bodies of public charter schools, as applicable, have the sole authority to open or close schools during a public health emergency; authorizes the board or governing body to delegate ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-12
Pub. Ch. 96 |
| TN | HB0225 | Pass | As enacted, specifies that local boards of education and governing bodies of public charter schools, as applicable, have the sole authority to open or close schools during a public health emergency; authorizes the board or governing body to delegate ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-12
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 96 |
| TN | SB0642 | Fail | As introduced, authorizes community schools and communities of schools to establish programs to make professional counseling services available to individuals held in correctional or detention facilities in this state. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-07
Failed in Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB0879 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, changes the date by which the department must submit its annual report on the pilot program to improve parent-teacher engagement from July 31 to August 15. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB0898 | Fail | As introduced, revises bidding procedures for an LEA that does not follow the local governing body’s procedures to require 10 business days’ notice prior to the acceptance of bids for construction of, or additions to, buildings in excess of $10,0...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-07
Failed in Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB1190 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, specifies that the information the department of education must make publicly available concerning the course access program must be available by July 1 following the immediately preceding school year. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | HB1207 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, requires the commissioner of education to file the commissioner's annual report concerning K-12 education by October 1 of each year instead of by November 1. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-07
To House Education Administration Committee |
| TN | SB1474 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, enacts the "Keep Kids in School Act." - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB1426 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, changes from January 31 to January 15 the date by which the department of health must provide the governor's office, the speaker of the senate, and the speaker of the house of representatives a report of the aggregate results of all BM...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | HB1335 | Intro
Recessed | As introduced, changes the date by which the department must submit its annual report on the pilot program to improve parent-teacher engagement from July 31 to August 15. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-07
Taken off notice for cal. in Education Administration |
