| TN | SB2032 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes the issuance of temporary teaching permits to teach physical education classes in elementary schools. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 05/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2674 | Pass | As enacted, makes changes to the law relative to temporary teaching permits and teaching end-of-course examination classes. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 05/01/2024, 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB1943 | Pass | As enacted, allows all LEA and public charter school employees, instead of only teachers, to receive their full salary, or average pay, and full benefits in the event they sustain a personal injury as the result of a physical assault or other violent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB1325 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes a faculty or staff member of a school to carry a concealed handgun on school grounds subject to certain conditions. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13 and Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 8.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-07
Effective date(s) 04/26/2024 |
| TN | SB2652 | Pass | As enacted, requires local boards of education to include school safety training in the training requirements for substitute teachers; clarifies that LEAs are prohibited from hiring a substitute teacher whose license in another state is revoked; make...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 04/19/2024 |
| TN | SB0466 | Pass | As enacted, specifies that a teacher or other employee of a public school or LEA is not required to refer to a student using the student's preferred pronoun if the pronoun is not consistent with the student's biological sex; insulates a teacher or ot...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Effective date(s) 05/17/2023 |
| TN | SB0281 | Pass | As enacted, generally increases the base salaries in the state salary schedule for teachers formulated by the commissioner of education; prohibits an LEA from deducting dues from the wages of the LEA's employees for a professional employees' organiza...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | SB1458 | Pass | As enacted, requires local education agencies (LEAs) to provide licensed employees of the LEA 6 paid workweeks after a birth or stillbirth of the employee's child or employee's adoption of a newly placed minor child. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8 and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-19
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 399 |
| TN | SB1221 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes the commissioner of education to grant an individual pursuing clinical experience in an educator preparation program (EPP) who meets certain requirements a temporary permit to teach in a teaching position in which an LEA or pub...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
Effective date(s) 4/28/2023, 07/01/2023 |
| TN | SB0724 | Pass | As enacted, creates a new pathway for honorably discharged veterans to receive an occupational teaching license. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 311 |
| TN | SB0744 | Pass | As enacted, revises various provisions regarding the automatic revocation of educator licenses. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1 and Title 49, Chapter 5.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 04/28/2023 |
| TN | SB1155 | Pass | As enacted, adds the director of schools as a person to whom a principal must report the principal's direct knowledge of an offense of assault and battery or vandalism committed by a student on school property endangering the life, health, or safety ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-18
Effective date(s) 04/13/2023 |
