| TN | SB2183 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-04-25
Conf. comm. report adopted, Ayes 82, Nays 3 PNV 0 |
| TN | SB1400 | Intro
25% | As introduced, removes language that incorrectly refers to the department of safety as the department of safety and homeland security in a provision that requires the department of safety, in collaboration with the department of education, to develop...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB2156 | Intro
25% | As enacted, establishes a school safety alert grant pilot program. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 49 and Title 67.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB0461 | 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] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB0503 | 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] | 2024-04-19
Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/23/2024 |
| TN | SB2765 | 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] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB2371 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-03-20
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB2465 | 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] | 2024-03-20
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB2622 | 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] | 2024-03-20
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB2596 | 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] | 2024-03-20
Deferred to Summer Study |
| TN | SB2673 | 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] | 2024-03-20
Deferred to Summer Study |
| TN | SB2754 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-03-20
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB2787 | 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] | 2024-03-20
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB2216 | 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] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB2268 | 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] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB2675 | 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] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB2729 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB1714 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-03-06
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB1689 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-02-21
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB2546 | 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] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB1896 | 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] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB2592 | 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] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB2594 | 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] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB2595 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB2598 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB2683 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB2758 | Intro
25% | 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
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB2684 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB2667 | Intro
25% | 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
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB2685 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB2727 | Intro
25% | 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
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB2672 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB2830 | 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] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB2854 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB2872 | Intro
25% | 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
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB2164 | 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] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB2217 | Intro
25% | 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
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB2210 | Intro
25% | 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
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB2200 | Intro
25% | 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
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB2491 | Intro
25% | 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
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB2472 | Intro
25% | 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
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB2487 | 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] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB2492 | Intro
25% | 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
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB2029 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB1924 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB1923 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB1981 | Intro
25% | As introduced, changes from December 1 to December 31 the deadline for the department of education to report to the education committees of the senate and the house of representatives the number of students in each LEA who were identified for mandato...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB1980 | Intro
25% | As introduced, changes, from December 1 to December 31, the deadline for the department of education to report information to the education committees of the senate and the house of representatives on the number of students in each LEA who, despite b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB1696 | Intro
25% | 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
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB7070 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2023-08-23
Lay on the Table |
