| TN | HB2678 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Innovative School District Act," which authorizes a public university in this state that is a comprehensive doctoral-extensive institution of higher learning, is the home to a public training school compendium that includes Pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1053 |
| TN | HB2922 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes certain opportunity public charter schools serving any of the grades six through 12 for which at least 75 percent of the students enrolled in the school, at the time of enrollment, are at-risk students. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1066 |
| TN | HB0390 | Pass | As enacted, makes revisions to law relative to safety in school buildings, policies and procedures regarding grades, and the use of performance goals and measures for a public school or LEA; requires professional licenses issued by the state board of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1005 |
| TN | HB2326 | Pass | As enacted, requires a student's LEA or public charter school to convene a conference attended by the student's guardian, ELA teacher, and school principal if the student is promoted to fourth grade and does not show adequate growth in order to deter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
Effective date(s) 05/21/2024 |
| TN | HB2528 | Pass | As enacted, establishes a school safety alert grant pilot program. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 49 and Title 67.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | HB0996 | Pass | As enacted, clarifies that instruction in topics related to sexual activity are generally not age-appropriate for students in grades K-5 and must generally not be taught to students in grades K-5 as part of a family life curriculum; clarifies that su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Effective date(s) 05/21/2024 |
| TN | HB1191 | Pass | As enacted, makes revisions to the "Tennessee Public Charter Schools Act of 2002." - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 923 |
| TN | HB1936 | Pass | As enacted, requires, beyond the 2023-2024 school year, each LEA and public charter school to provide each high school senior the opportunity to take nationally recognized assessments if the assessments meet certain criteria. - Amends TCA Title 49, C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 05/03/2024 |
| TN | HB2008 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits an LEA or public charter school governing body from participating in a public school athletic activity that is hosted by an organizer who does not allow students of a public school that is participating in the public school athl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 841 |
| TN | HB2283 | Pass | As enacted, makes revisions to the "Schools Against Violence in Education Act." - Amends TCA Section 49-6-804.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 936 |
| TN | HB2559 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes a local board of education to contract for services with a nonprofit or for-profit entity for the operation and management of an adult high school. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 960 |
| TN | HB2486 | Pass | As enacted, requires a director of schools who is appointed by the local board of education elected by the general public to have a baccalaureate degree and meet any other qualifications or requirements established by the local board of education. - ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 883 |
| TN | HB1016 | Pass | As enacted, makes various changes to the present law relative to the offense of communicating a threat concerning a school employee. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39 and Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | HB1831 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes a parent or guardian of a student enrolled in grades K-2 to elect to retain the parent's or guardian's student in the student's current grade level if the student has a documented academic or behavioral delay and the parent or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 829 |
| TN | HB1634 | Pass | As enacted, revises language prohibiting educators from discriminating against students on certain, specified bases to generally prohibiting educators from discriminating against students on any basis. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5 and Title 49, C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 780 |
| TN | HB0843 | Pass | As enacted, revises various provisions of present law pertaining to the "Age-Appropriate Materials Act of 2022" and the state textbook and instructional materials quality commission. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | HB2142 | Pass | As enacted, increases from a Class C misdemeanor to a Class B misdemeanor the penalty for a student's parent, guardian, or legal custodian failing to report an adjudication that the student committed certain delinquent acts to the school principal; s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | HB2272 | Pass | As enacted, requires the state department of education to submit the U.S department of education's interpretations and directives on the implementation of department rules providing guidance to this state to the chairs of certain legislative committe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | HB1632 | Intro
25% | As introduced, gives a parent of a child who attends, or who is eligible to attend, a school operated by a local education agency or a public charter school standing to file a civil action against the LEA or public charter school in a chancery court ...
[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 | HB2344 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "Protecting Tennessee Schools and Events Act"; subject to appropriations, requires the department of education to contract for the provision of walk-through metal detectors to LEAs. - Amends TCA Title 12 and Title 49.
[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 | HB0902 | Intro
25% | As introduced, establishes the future of work commission to govern the activities of the Tennessee education and workforce data center established in the department of finance and administration's office of evidence and impact to collect, conduct res...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To House Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee |
| TN | HB1183 | Intro
25% | As introduced, extends from October to November, the time within which a public institution of higher education that receives funds from the distribution of credit cards to students or any percentage from the use of cards bearing the college or unive...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
To House Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee |
| TN | HB2024 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department of education to contract with the TCAP test provider to offer students who receive language assistance services in the classroom the same language assistance services during the administration of a TCAP test. - ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Taken off notice for cal. in Education Administration |
| TN | HB2311 | Pass | As enacted, requires the principal or head of a school that maintains an opioid antagonist at the school to ensure that the opioid antagonist is stored in accordance with manufacturer instructions; prohibits a school from prohibiting a student, emplo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Effective date(s) 03/27/2024 |
| TN | HB2154 | Intro
25% | As introduced, reduces, from 90 to 60, the number of days following the issuance of a temporary certificate that the department of education has to determine whether an applicant to operate a child care program has complied with all regulations gover...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
Def. to Summer Study in Education Administration |
| TN | HB2562 | Intro
25% | As introduced, changes from November 1 to November 15 of each year, the deadline for LEAs to provide feedback and recommendations regarding TISA to the department of education and the comptroller. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Taken off notice for cal in s/c K-12 Subcommittee of Education Administration |
| TN | HB2565 | 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] | 2024-03-26
Taken off notice for cal in s/c K-12 Subcommittee of Education Administration |
| TN | HB2468 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department of education to study the school choice programs available in other states and to submit a report of the department's findings at the conclusion of the study to the governor, the speaker of the house of represen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
Withdrawn. |
| TN | HB2561 | 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] | 2024-03-20
Taken off notice for cal. in Education Administration |
| TN | HB0664 | Intro
25% | As introduced, revises provisions governing criminal history checks of certain persons who come in direct contact with school children or children in a child care program, or who enter the grounds of a school or child care center while children are p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
Taken off notice for cal in s/c K-12 Subcommittee of Education Administration |
| TN | HB1188 | Pass | As enacted, requires, beginning with the 2026-2027 school year, each LEA and public charter school to have fifth grade students complete one semester of Tennessee history in the first semester of the students' fifth grade year. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 523 |
| TN | HB1630 | Pass | As enacted, requires the board of trustees of the University of Tennessee, the board of regents, each local governing board of trustees of a state university, each local board of education, and the governing body of each public charter school to adop...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 550 |
| TN | HB1655 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Mathematics Supports Act." - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 551 |
| TN | HB1785 | Pass | As enacted, replaces the uniform accounting policy manual for local school systems with an internal school funds manual; removes the requirement that the commissioner of finance and administration approve the manual so that only the comptroller of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
Effective date(s) 03/07/2024 |
| TN | HB1860 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-03-19
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | HB2059 | Pass | As enacted, increases from three to six the maximum number of credits a student may earn in a work-based learning program in one school year; reduces from 10 to 5 hours per week, the amount of time of supervised work experience required for each addi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
Effective date(s) 03/07/2024 |
| TN | HB2115 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires local education agencies (LEAs) and public charter schools to recognize November 7 of each year as Victims of Communism Day to honor the people who have fallen victim to communist regimes across the world; requires LEAs and pu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
Taken off notice for cal in s/c K-12 Subcommittee of Education Administration |
| TN | HB2769 | Fail | As introduced, requires the commissioner of education, subject to appropriations, for the 2024-2025 school year, to approve voluntary pre-kindergarten programs in an amount sufficient to provide up to 1,200 pre-kindergarten classrooms. - Amends TCA T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
Failed in s/c K-12 Subcommittee of Education Administration |
| TN | HB2492 | Intro
25% | As introduced, changes, from 15 days to 15 business days, the amount of notice required before a school board extends the contract of a director of schools at a scheduled meeting. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
Taken off notice for cal in s/c K-12 Subcommittee of Education Administration |
| TN | HB1644 | Pass | As enacted, requires each LEA, public charter school, private school, and church-related school to develop a procedure to determine the cause of a fire alarm activation, including the potential of an active shooter event; requires each LEA to coordin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
Effective date(s) 03/12/2024 |
| TN | HB2324 | Fail | As introduced, requires the office of early learning to submit its annual report on pre-kindergarten programs by November 1. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
Failed in s/c Higher Education Subcommittee of Education Administration |
| TN | HB2616 | 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] | 2024-03-13
Assigned to s/c K-12 Subcommittee |
| TN | HB2818 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes public school students in grades nine through 12 to be excused from school attendance for one school day per school year to allow students to participate in a civic engagement activity. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To House Calendar and Rules Committee |
| TN | HB2441 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the state board of education to publish on its website the reports on night schools that it receives from school boards. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 67.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
Taken off notice for cal in s/c K-12 Subcommittee of Education Administration |
| TN | HB2409 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department of education to annually collect and report certain information for each provider and nonpublic school that receives public funds through a scholarship, voucher, education savings account, individualized educati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
To House K-12 Subcommittee |
| TN | HB2470 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department of education to contract with a vendor to provide internet security software for school-issued electronic devices in selected LEAs as part of a two-year pilot program. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
Taken off notice for cal in s/c K-12 Subcommittee of Education Administration |
| TN | HB2652 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires each local school board to establish programs for free school lunch and free school breakfast for students regardless of income eligibility; requires the state to reimburse each LEA the cost of providing a free breakfast and l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
Assigned to s/c K-12 Subcommittee |
| TN | HB2739 | Intro
25% | As introduced, establishes that an after-school learning mini camp must provide at least one beverage, in addition to one snack, each day to each student attending the camp. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 49 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
Assigned to s/c K-12 Subcommittee |
| TN | HB2923 | 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] | 2024-02-07
Assigned to s/c K-12 Subcommittee |
| TN | HB2403 | 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] | 2024-02-06
Assigned to s/c Higher Education Subcommittee |
