| 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 | 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 | SB1177 | 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
Effective date(s) 03/01/2024 |
| 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 | SB1711 | 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
Effective date(s) 03/11/2024 |
| TN | SB1712 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Mathematics Supports Act." - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
Effective date(s) 03/11/2024 |
| 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 | SB1853 | 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
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 543 |
| 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 | SB1959 | 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
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 537 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | SB2889 | Fail | 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] | 2024-03-13
Failed in Senate Education 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | SB2132 | Fail | 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] | 2024-02-21
Failed in Senate Education Committee / no second |
| 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 | 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 |
| TN | HB2706 | 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] | 2024-02-06
Sponsor change. |
| TN | HB2609 | 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
P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt. |
| 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 | HB2819 | 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] | 2024-02-05
P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt. |
| 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 | HB2871 | 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
P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt. |
| TN | HB2740 | 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
P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt. |
| TN | HB2724 | 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
P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt. |
| TN | HB2776 | Intro
25% | 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. |
