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TNHB0485PassAs enacted, authorizes local education agencies and public charter schools to provide up to four days of the required 180 days of classroom instruction via hybrid learning in the event of dangerous or extreme weather conditions, or an emergency, as d...
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2025-05-27
Effective date(s) 07/01/2025
TNSB0517PassAs enacted, authorizes local education agencies and public charter schools to provide up to four days of the required 180 days of classroom instruction via hybrid learning in the event of dangerous or extreme weather conditions, or an emergency, as d...
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2025-05-27
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 484
TNSB0415PassAs enacted, creates an advisory committee on innovations in K-12 education . - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 49.
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2025-05-15
Effective date(s) 05/09/2025
TNSB0602PassAs enacted, requires the department of education to develop guidelines and criteria for determining how long a student must have been present in a teacher's classroom before the student's record is attributable to the teacher for purposes of evaluati...
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2025-05-15
Effective date(s) 05/09/2025
TNHB0675PassAs enacted, creates an advisory committee on innovations in K-12 education . - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 49.
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2025-05-15
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 426
TNHB0958PassAs enacted, creates a federal education deregulation cooperation task force to prepare Tennessee for the potential of deregulation of federal laws, regulations, requirements, and guidance for K-12 education. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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2025-05-15
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 454
TNHB0964PassAs enacted, 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 in r...
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2025-05-15
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 448
TNSB0899PassAs enacted, 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 in r...
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2025-05-15
Effective date(s) 05/09/2025, 07/01/2025
TNSB0950PassAs enacted, creates a federal education deregulation cooperation task force to prepare Tennessee for the potential of deregulation of federal laws, regulations, requirements, and guidance for K-12 education. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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2025-05-15
Effective date(s) 05/09/2025
TNSB0937PassAs enacted, prohibits a public school, LEA, or teacher, employee, or contractor of a public school or LEA from requiring a student, teacher, employee, or contractor of the public school or LEA to provide the individual's preferred pronouns; makes rel...
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2025-05-15
Effective date(s) 05/09/2025
TNHB1125PassAs enacted, requires the department of education to develop guidelines and criteria for determining how long a student must have been present in a teacher's classroom before the student's record is attributable to the teacher for purposes of evaluati...
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2025-05-15
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 433
TNHB1270PassAs enacted, prohibits a public school, LEA, or teacher, employee, or contractor of a public school or LEA from requiring a student, teacher, employee, or contractor of the public school or LEA to provide the individual's preferred pronouns; makes rel...
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2025-05-15
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 453
TNHB0665PassAs enacted, requires each public senior high school to provide official recruiting representatives of the armed forces of this state and the United States access to the high school at least once a month during student lunch periods for the purpose of...
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2025-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 377
TNSB0713PassAs enacted, requires each public senior high school to provide official recruiting representatives of the armed forces of this state and the United States access to the high school at least once a month during student lunch periods for the purpose of...
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2025-05-13
Effective date(s) 07/01/2025
TNSB1332PassAs enacted, prohibits excusing a student from school to attend a released time course in religious moral instruction during the school year unless certain criteria is met. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 5 and Title 49, Chapter 6.
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2025-05-13
Effective date(s) 07/01/2025
TNHB1281PassAs enacted, prohibits excusing a student from school to attend a released time course in religious moral instruction during the school year unless certain criteria is met. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 5 and Title 49, Chapter 6.
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2025-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 401
TNHB1377PassAs enacted, requires each local board of education and public charter school governing body to develop and implement a policy to provide, with each K-8 student's report card, the student's score on the universal reading screener if administered to th...
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2025-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 330
TNSB1423PassAs enacted, requires each local board of education and public charter school governing body to develop and implement a policy to provide, with each K-8 student's report card, the student's score on the universal reading screener if administered to th...
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2025-05-13
Effective date(s) 05/02/2025
TNHB1002PassAs enacted, requires, if an approved universal reading screener is administered to pre-k students at an LEA or public charter school, the LEA or public charter school to allow the pre-k teacher whose students were administered the screener to use the...
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2025-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 385
TNSB1003PassAs enacted, requires, if an approved universal reading screener is administered to pre-k students at an LEA or public charter school, the LEA or public charter school to allow the pre-k teacher whose students were administered the screener to use the...
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2025-05-13
Effective date(s) 07/01/2025
TNSB0196PassAs enacted, prohibits the department of education from excluding from the calculation of a school letter grade the data of any group of students within a school if the department collects, aggregates, and reports the data, and if the group of student...
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2025-04-29
Effective date(s) 07/01/2025
TNHB0392PassAs enacted, prohibits the department of education from excluding from the calculation of a school letter grade the data of any group of students within a school if the department collects, aggregates, and reports the data, and if the group of student...
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2025-04-29
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 219
TNHB0408PassAs enacted, requires the Tennessee higher education commission (THEC), to serve as the governing board of directors for the Tennessee student assistance corporation (TSAC); requires THEC's review committee to aid in the development or revision of sta...
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2025-04-29
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 234
TNSB0689PassAs enacted, requires the Tennessee higher education commission (THEC), to serve as the governing board of directors for the Tennessee student assistance corporation (TSAC); requires THEC's review committee to aid in the development or revision of sta...
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2025-04-29
Effective date(s) 07/01/2025
TNHB1036PassAs enacted, authorizes a state university board of trustees to conduct private meetings to discuss or deliberate on matters related to senior administration, personnel positions, and contracts, without taking action on such matters in a private meeti...
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2025-04-29
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 267
TNSB1024PassAs enacted, authorizes a state university board of trustees to conduct private meetings to discuss or deliberate on matters related to senior administration, personnel positions, and contracts, without taking action on such matters in a private meeti...
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2025-04-29
Effective date(s) 04/24/2025
TNHB1085PassAs enacted, prohibits a local board of education or public charter school governing body from removing a material from a library collection for the sole reason that the material is religious. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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2025-04-29
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 270
TNSB1112PassAs enacted, prohibits a local board of education or public charter school governing body from removing a material from a library collection for the sole reason that the material is religious. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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2025-04-29
Effective date(s) 04/24/2025
TNSB1272PassAs enacted, 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 acc...
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2025-04-29
Effective date(s) 04/23/2025
TNHB1308PassAs enacted, 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 acc...
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2025-04-29
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 235
TNHB1385PassAs enacted, requires a school support organization and a group or organization that collects and raises money, materials, property, or securities while representing itself to be a school support organization to annually provide a detailed report of t...
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2025-04-29
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 277
TNSB1417PassAs enacted, requires a school support organization and a group or organization that collects and raises money, materials, property, or securities while representing itself to be a school support organization to annually provide a detailed report of t...
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2025-04-29
Effective date(s) 04/24/2025
TNSB0582PassAs enacted, requires the department to establish enrollment deadlines for voluntary pre-kindergarten programs so that at-risk students who will be four years old by August 15 must be enrolled by the beginning of the school year and students who are f...
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2025-04-28
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 192
TNHB0623PassAs enacted, requires the department to establish enrollment deadlines for voluntary pre-kindergarten programs so that at-risk students who will be four years old by August 15 must be enrolled by the beginning of the school year and students who are f...
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2025-04-28
Effective date(s) 04/11/2025
TNHB0676PassAs enacted, requires that certain employees of state special schools receive the same leave and certain other benefits as employees of LEAs and public charter schools. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 50 and Title 49.
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2025-04-28
Effective date(s) 07/01/2025
TNSB0705PassAs enacted, requires that certain employees of state special schools receive the same leave and certain other benefits as employees of LEAs and public charter schools. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 50 and Title 49.
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2025-04-28
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 284
TNSB1209PassAs enacted, prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sex, or religion against a student or an employee in a public institution of education; requires public institutions of education to treat harassment or discrimina...
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2025-04-28
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 293
TNHB1188PassAs enacted, prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sex, or religion against a student or an employee in a public institution of education; requires public institutions of education to treat harassment or discrimina...
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2025-04-28
Effective date(s) 04/24/2025
TNSB0714Engross

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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...
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2025-04-23
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB0662Intro

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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...
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2025-04-22
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB0505Intro

Sine Die
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...
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2025-04-17
To House Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee
TNSB0470Intro

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As introduced, enacts the "Protecting Tennessee Schools and Events Act." - Amends TCA Title 12 and Title 49.
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2025-04-17
Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/21/2025
TNSB0612Intro

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As introduced, creates a special fund to provide grants to local education agencies and public charter schools for the acquisition, retention, or expansion of digital career and technical education curricula through platforms containing comprehensive...
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2025-04-17
Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/21/2025
TNSB0695Intro

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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...
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2025-04-17
Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/21/2025
TNSB0740Intro

Sine Die
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...
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2025-04-17
Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/21/2025
TNSB0989Intro

Sine Die
As introduced, corrects the name of the Cumberland Museum and Science Center to the Adventure Science Center for purposes of receipt of appropriations of state funds made for educational grants-in-aid under allotments of the commissioner of finance a...
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2025-04-17
Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/21/2025
TNSB0614Engross

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As introduced, requires, if a local government adopts a budget that includes the required maintenance of effort for education funding but fails to appropriate or allocate the full amount budgeted to the LEA, the local government, in the following fis...
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2025-04-15
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk.
TNHB0138Intro

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As introduced, creates a special fund to provide grants to local education agencies and public charter schools for the acquisition, retention, or expansion of digital career and technical education curricula through platforms containing comprehensive...
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2025-04-14
To House Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee
TNHB1056Intro

Sine Die
As introduced, corrects the name of the Cumberland Museum and Science Center to the Adventure Science Center for purposes of receipt of appropriations of state funds made for educational grants-in-aid under allotments of the commissioner of finance a...
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2025-04-14
To House Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee
TNHB1153Intro

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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...
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2025-04-14
To House Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee
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