Tennessee Subject | Education | House

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State	Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
TN	HB2706	Intro Sine Die	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]	2024-02-06 Sponsor change.
TN	HB2609	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, changes, from at least 14 calendar days to at least 10 business days, the number of days before the beginning of an open enrollment period that an LEA must post on its website the number of spaces available for enrollment in each schoo... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-05 P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
TN	HB2819	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, extends, from February 1 to March 1, the date by which the commissioner of education and the commissioner of safety are required to report to the governor and the general assembly on the implementation and compliance with the Schools A... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-05 P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
TN	HB2871	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, extends, from October 1 to October 15, the date by which the department of education is required to provide a report regarding the physical education programs and activity for each local education agency to the education committee of t... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-05 P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
TN	HB2740	Intro Sine Die	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 P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
TN	HB2724	Intro Sine Die	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 P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
TN	HB2776	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, requires each local education agency to post its policy for alternatives to exclusionary discipline practices for students in pre-kindergarten through kindergarten (pre-K-K) on its website. - Amends TCA Title 49. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-05 P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
TN	HB2257	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, increases, from 30 to 60, the number of days that a tenured state university or community college faculty member has to file a petition for review in chancery court if the faculty member is dismissed or suspended for cause. - Amends TC... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-01 P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
TN	HB2256	Intro Sine Die	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]	2024-02-01 P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
TN	HB2284	Intro Sine Die	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 P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
TN	HB2258	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, increases, from 5 to 10, the number of business days that the department of education has to include on its website any rules, regulations, or policies of the state board that are waived by the local board of education, following appro... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-01 P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
TN	HB2355	Intro Sine Die	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 P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
TN	HB2493	Intro Sine Die	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 P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
TN	HB2558	Intro Sine Die	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 P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
TN	HB2563	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, changes, from October 1 to November 1, the deadline for child care programs to submit an annual report to the commissioner of education. - Amends TCA Title 49. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-01 P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
TN	HB2571	Intro Sine Die	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 P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
TN	HB2570	Intro Sine Die	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 P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
TN	HB2156	Intro Sine Die	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]	2024-01-31 P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
TN	HB2228	Intro Sine Die	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]	2024-01-31 Assigned to s/c K-12 Subcommittee
TN	HB2560	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, adds the legislative librarian to the list of persons to whom copies of energy efficient schools audits are provided. - Amends TCA Title 49. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-31 Withdrawn.
TN	HB0670	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, requires a student to be seven years of age or older on or before August 15 or test proficient in the kindergarten academic standards based on a first-grade entry assessment before the student may be promoted to the first grade; requir... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-30 Taken off notice for cal in s/c K-12 Subcommittee of Education Administration
TN	HB1405	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, specifies that each local board of education of a local education agency and governing body of a public charter school has the sole authority to select a mascot for the respective school; prohibits a state agency from interfering with ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-30 Taken off notice for cal in s/c K-12 Subcommittee of Education Administration
TN	HB2049	Intro Sine Die	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]	2024-01-30 Assigned to s/c K-12 Subcommittee
TN	HB2098	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, increases the number of credits, from three to four, a student in a work-based learning program can earn in a year; reduces the number of hours of supervised work experience, from 10 to five, required for a student in a work-based lear... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-30 Assigned to s/c K-12 Subcommittee
TN	HB1915	Intro Sine Die	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]	2024-01-25 P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
TN	HB1654	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, enacts the "Smart Heart Act"; establishes various requirements for automatic external defibrillators in schools and response protocols for medical emergencies at high school athletic events. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 68. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-23 Sponsor(s) Added.
TN	HB1724	Intro Sine Die	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 Assigned to s/c Education Instruction Subcommittee
TN	HB7035	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, establishes a loan forgiveness program for psychiatrists, psychologists, and counselors. - Amends TCA Title 49. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-08-29 Sponsor(s) Added.
TN	HB7038	Engross Sine Die	As introduced, requires the department of education to establish a school safety alert grant program to provide grants to LEAs to offset expenses incurred by schools for the installation of school safety alert systems. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 49 ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-08-29 Received from House, Passed on First Consideration
TN	HB7095	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, adds to requirements for school safety plans that the plans include measures to ensure district employees, including substitute teachers, have classroom access to communications devices that allow for immediate contact with first respo... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-08-22 Taken off notice for cal in s/c K-12 Subcommittee of Education Administration
TN	HB7093	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, requires the department of safety, in conjunction with the department of education to, at least once every three years, conduct an inspection of the facilities of each public school in this state that serves students in pre-K-12 to ass... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-08-22 Taken off notice for cal in s/c K-12 Subcommittee of Education Administration
TN	HB7096	Intro Sine Die	As introduced, requires the department of education to establish a school bulletproofing grant program to provide grants to public schools located in counties with a crime rate of 13 percent or higher for violent offenses, for the purpose of offsetti... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-08-22 Taken off notice for cal in s/c K-12 Subcommittee of Education Administration
TN	HB0158	Pass	As enacted, prohibits a local education agency, public charter school, public institution of higher education, the state board of education, and the department of education from requiring an educator, employee of an LEA or charter school, faculty mem... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-05-24 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 438
TN	HB0250	Pass	As enacted, requires, beyond the 2022-2023 school year, each LEA and public charter school to provide each high school senior, instead of students generally, the opportunity to take nationally recognized assessments if the assessments meet certain cr... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-05-24 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 439
TN	HB0663	Pass	As enacted, makes changes to the "Age-Appropriate Materials Act of 2022." - Amends TCA Title 49. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-05-24 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 472
TN	HB0322	Pass	As enacted, revises various provisions of present law relative to safety in elementary and secondary education and the Schools Against Violence in Education Act. - Amends TCA Section 10-7-504; Title 49, Chapter 6 and Title 62, Chapter 35. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-05-18 Effective date(s) 05/10/2023, 07/01/2023
TN	HB0433	Pass	As enacted, expands the eligibility criteria for an education savings account to include students zoned to attend an LEA with at least three schools identified as priority schools in 2015, and at least three schools identified as being in the bottom ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-05-17 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 328
TN	HB0435	Pass	As enacted, establishes a deaf mentor and parent advisor program to assist families in implementing bilingual and bicultural home-based programming for young children who are deaf, hard of hearing, or deaf-blind at the Tennessee Schools for the Deaf ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-05-17 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 327
TN	HB0662	Pass	As enacted, revises present law that relative to a local board of education keeping on file and available in each school library added or amended operating policies and a notice of each deleted operating policy; authorizes a person who holds an activ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-05-17 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 344
TN	HB1324	Pass	As enacted, revises present law concerning participation in school board meetings by electronic participation. - Amends TCA Title 49. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-05-17 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 350
TN	HB0826	Pass	As enacted, authorizes a director of schools, or a director's designee, to not assign a student in grades 7-12 who has been suspended for more than 10 days or expelled from the regular school program for an offense of violence or threatened violence,... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-05-04 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 279
TN	HB0897	Pass	As enacted, authorizes, upon a request of a director of schools or the director of a public charter school, the commissioner of education to issue an endorsement exemption to a teacher, in accordance with state board rules, to teach a physical educat... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-05-04 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 280
TN	HB0459	Pass	As enacted, clarifies that public charter schools and the state board of education are prohibited from employing individuals found by the department of children's services to have committed an act of child abuse in the same manner as other educationa... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-05-03 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 222
TN	HB0644	Pass	As enacted, replaces Financial Literacy Week, the first full week of April, with Financial Literacy Month, the entire month of April; requires the financial literacy commission to study financial literacy in this state and report to the general assem... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-05-03 Effective date(s) 04/28/2023
TN	HB0995	Pass	As enacted, requires, prior to the administration of corporal punishment against a student, the student's teacher or school principal to make certain documentation in the student's educational record; prohibits corporal punishment against a student f... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-05-03 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 275
TN	HB1416	Pass	As enacted, extends the benefits and opportunities provided to children of active duty members of the uniformed services in the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children to school-aged children in the household of a member o... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-05-03 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 257
TN	HB0340	Pass	As enacted, requires a student to be considered in violation of a zero tolerance offense and be expelled for not less than one calendar year, except that a director of schools may modify such expulsion on a case-by-case basis, for threatening mass vi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-05-02 Effective date(s) 07/01/2023
TN	HB0074	Pass	As enacted, updates the terms "general education development credential," "high school equivalency test," and variations of the terms to "high school equivalency credential." - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 4; Title 8; Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; Title... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-04-18 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 114
TN	HB0258	Pass	As enacted, changes, from the state board of education to local boards of education, the entity responsible for requiring certain examinations of school bus drivers, for requiring certain reports, and for revoking the certificates of school bus drive... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-04-18 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 122
TN	HB0736	Pass	As enacted, changes from urges to requires the standards recommendation committee to include certain academic standards regarding the civil rights movement in the committee's final recommendation of academic standards in the subject of social studies... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-04-18 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 127