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TNSB1359PassAs enacted, authorizes, subject to appropriation, an institution of higher education to request to redirect the institution's capital outlay funds for purposes other than those set out in the 2022 appropriations act; makes related revisions. - Amends...
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2025-05-15
Effective date(s) 05/09/2025
TNHB1344PassAs enacted, authorizes, subject to appropriation, an institution of higher education to request to redirect the institution's capital outlay funds for purposes other than those set out in the 2022 appropriations act; makes related revisions. - Amends...
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2025-05-15
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 467
TNHB0377PassAs enacted, prohibits institutions of higher education from excluding a person from benefits, activities, and employment, or making decisions, based on a person's race, color, ethnicity, or national origin; requires such institutions to provide notic...
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2025-04-29
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 245
TNSB0376PassAs enacted, prohibits institutions of higher education from excluding a person from benefits, activities, and employment, or making decisions, based on a person's race, color, ethnicity, or national origin; requires such institutions to provide notic...
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2025-04-29
Effective date(s) 04/24/2025
TNSB0603Intro

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As introduced, requires the Tennessee student assistance corporation to submit an annual report, by July 31 each year, to legislative committees having jurisdiction over postsecondary education detailing, for each of the five immediately preceding ac...
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2025-04-21
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNSB0172Intro

Sine Die
As introduced, establishes the hunger-free campus grant program; provides grants to higher education institutions to address student hunger. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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2025-04-17
Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/21/2025
TNHB0007Intro

Sine Die
As introduced, establishes the hunger-free campus grant program; provides grants to higher education institutions to address student hunger. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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2025-04-15
To House Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee
TNHB1147Intro

Sine Die
As introduced, requires the Tennessee student assistance corporation to submit an annual report, by July 31 each year, to legislative committees having jurisdiction over postsecondary education detailing, for each of the five immediately preceding ac...
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2025-04-14
To House Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee
TNHB1324Intro

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As introduced, terminates the governing board of directors for the Tennessee student assistance corporation (TSAC); requires the Tennessee higher education commission to be the governing board for TSAC; changes the name of the "Wilder-Naifeh technica...
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2025-04-09
To House Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee
TNSB0295Intro

Sine Die
As introduced, extends to the dependent children and spouses of veterans who sustained a permanent and total service-connected disability during a qualifying period of armed conflict the same waiver of all tuition and fees at public institutions of h...
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2025-03-26
To Senate Education Committee
TNSB0810Intro

Sine Die
As introduced, changes the date, from October to November 1, by 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 univer...
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2025-03-26
To Senate Education Committee
TNSB1077Intro

Sine Die
As introduced, requires the institute of American civics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, to develop materials and curricula for a course in a baccalaureate degree program including American government or American history; requires each stu...
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2025-03-26
To Senate Education Committee
TNHB1103FailAs introduced, enacts the "Tennessee for Tampons Act," which requires public institutions of higher education to provide feminine hygiene products in all women's and girl's bathrooms and locker rooms. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, Chapt...
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2025-03-26
Failed for lack of second in: Higher Education Subcommittee
TNSB1340Intro

Sine Die
As introduced, requires the commission to review and update the outcomes-based funding formula model at least once every five years to provide incentives for institutions that offer programs leading to job placement in high-demand fields in this stat...
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2025-03-26
To Senate Education Committee
TNSB1324Intro

Sine Die
As introduced, changes the reporting requirements for the board of regents, each state university board, and the board of trustees of the University of Tennessee summarizing grievance activities of the previous year from annually to upon the request ...
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2025-03-26
To Senate Education Committee
TNHB1386Intro

Sine Die
As introduced, requires institutions of higher education to conduct various programs for intercollegiate athletes covering name, image, and likeness; authorizes institutions of higher education to collect talent fees; makes various other changes to i...
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2025-03-26
To House Higher Education Subcommittee
TNHB1348Intro

Sine Die
As introduced, requires the commission to review and update the outcomes-based funding formula model at least once every five years to provide incentives for institutions that offer programs leading to job placement in high-demand fields in this stat...
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2025-03-26
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Higher Education Subcommittee of Education Committee
TNSB1419Intro

Sine Die
As introduced, requires institutions of higher education to conduct various programs for intercollegiate athletes covering name, image, and likeness; authorizes institutions of higher education to collect talent fees; makes various other changes to i...
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2025-03-26
To Senate Education Committee
TNSB0125Intro

Sine Die
As introduced, requires the Tennessee higher education commission, in consultation with the department of labor and workforce development, to study all state-funded financial aid and scholarship programs in this state to determine whether programs ma...
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2025-03-19
To Senate Education Committee
TNHB0474Intro

Sine Die
As introduced, requires the Tennessee higher education commission, in consultation with the department of labor and workforce development, to study all state-funded financial aid and scholarship programs in this state to determine whether programs ma...
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2025-03-19
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Higher Education Subcommittee of Education Committee
TNSB0588Intro

Sine Die
As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee for Tampons Act," which requires public institutions of higher education to provide feminine hygiene products in all women's and girl's bathrooms and locker rooms. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, Chapt...
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2025-03-19
To Senate Education Committee
TNSB0189Intro

Sine Die
As introduced, requires the Tennessee higher education commission to develop a program to award full-time students enrolled in public institutions of higher education in this state a $250 grant for voluntarily obtaining testing for sexually transmitt...
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2025-03-05
To Senate Education Committee
TNHB0407Intro

Sine Die
As introduced, requires the Tennessee higher education commission to develop a program to award full-time students enrolled in public institutions of higher education in this state a $250 grant for voluntarily obtaining testing for sexually transmitt...
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2025-03-05
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Higher Education Subcommittee of Education Committee
TNHB0291Intro

Sine Die
As introduced, requires the institute of American civics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, to develop materials and curricula for a course in a baccalaureate degree program including American government or American history; requires each stu...
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2025-03-03
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNSB1118Intro

Sine Die
As introduced, reduces, from 65 to 62, the minimum age of a person who is eligible to enroll in courses for credit at state-supported colleges and universities without payment of tuition and certain fees; adds law schools and veterinary schools to th...
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2025-02-20
Withdrawn.
TNSB0570Intro

Sine Die
As introduced, deletes an obsolete requirement for the University of Memphis and certain other collaborators on the Memphis Research Consortium to provide a progress report to the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 8; Title 9; Tit...
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2025-02-12
To Senate Education Committee
TNSB0684Intro

Sine Die
As introduced, increases, from 30 to 45, the number of days after which a municipal corporation must cease to prescribe and enforce traffic ordinances on the campus of a state institution after a state university and community college system or the b...
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2025-02-12
To Senate Education Committee
TNSB1021Intro

Sine Die
As introduced, adds the general assembly to the list of entities that each public institution of higher education must submit its annual foreign gifts and contracts disclosure report. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 14; Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, ...
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2025-02-12
To Senate Education Committee
TNHB1178Intro

Sine Die
As introduced, changes the reporting requirements for the board of regents, each state university board, and the board of trustees of the University of Tennessee summarizing grievance activities of the previous year from annually to upon the request ...
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2025-02-12
P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
TNSB1312Intro

Sine Die
As introduced, terminates the governing board of directors for the Tennessee student assistance corporation (TSAC); requires the Tennessee higher education commission to be the governing board for TSAC; changes the name of the "Wilder-Naifeh technica...
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2025-02-12
To Senate Government Operations Committee
TNHB0998Intro

Sine Die
As introduced, adds the general assembly to the list of entities that each public institution of higher education must submit its annual foreign gifts and contracts disclosure report. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 14; Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, ...
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2025-02-10
P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
TNHB0637Intro

Sine Die
As introduced, deletes an obsolete requirement for the University of Memphis and certain other collaborators on the Memphis Research Consortium to provide a progress report to the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 8; Title 9; Tit...
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2025-02-06
P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
TNHB0818Intro

Sine Die
As introduced, changes the date, from October to November 1, by 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 univer...
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2025-02-06
P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
TNHB0299Intro

Sine Die
As introduced, extends to the dependent children and spouses of veterans who sustained a permanent and total service-connected disability during a qualifying period of armed conflict the same waiver of all tuition and fees at public institutions of h...
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2025-02-03
Assigned to s/c Higher Education Subcommittee
TNHB0163Intro

Sine Die
As introduced, increases, from 30 to 45, the number of days after which a municipal corporation must cease to prescribe and enforce traffic ordinances on the campus of a state institution after a state university and community college system or the b...
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2025-01-27
P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
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