| TN | SB0709 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, removes a provision that, in developing course equivalencies and awarding academic credits, required state institutions of higher education to submit such equivalencies to the Tennessee higher education commission (THEC) on or before D...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
Signed by H. Speaker |
| TN | SB2528 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, requires the Tennessee higher education commission and each governing board of a public institution of higher education in this state to revise certain rules and take certain actions with respect to institutional accreditation; specifi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
Signed by H. Speaker |
| TN | SB2501 | Enroll
75% | As introduced, establishes deadlines for public institutions of higher education to initiate and complete an investigation into a report filed by a student or employee alleging they have been penalized, discriminated against, or received adverse trea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Transmitted to Governor for action. |
| TN | SB1647 | Intro
25% | As introduced, provides a 25 percent discount on the tuition charged by a state institution of higher education to the child of an active or retired member of the Tennessee army national guard or the Tennessee air national guard. - Amends TCA Title 4...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB1977 | Intro
25% | As introduced, establishes the hunger-free campus grant program; provides grants to higher education institutions to address student hunger. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB2095 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires each public institution of higher education to establish a policy framework to promote the security of academic research conducted at the institution to mitigate against the risk of foreign influence. - Amends TCA Title 49, Ch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB1745 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits a public institution of higher learning that holds personal information of students from sharing the personal information with a third party, unless the third party agrees in writing that the personal information will only be us...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 619 |
| TN | SB2822 | Engross
50% | As introduced, requires the office of the comptroller of the treasury to include in any audit conducted by the office of a governing board of a public institution of higher education an examination into whether each institution governed by the board ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| TN | SB1990 | Fail | As introduced, requires this state to match the federal funds appropriated to Tennessee State University at a rate that is two times the rate required by the federal government for receipt of the funds. - Amends TCA Title 9 and Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
Failed in Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB2190 | Intro
25% | As introduced, reduces from 65 to 60 the age at which a person is eligible to enroll in courses for credit at state-supported colleges and universities without payment of tuition, maintenance fees, student activity fees, or registration fees. - Amend...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB2318 | Intro
25% | As introduced, extends a 25 percent tuition discount, provided to the children of state employees at state institutions of higher education to the children of county and municipal employees. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 50 and Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB2664 | Engross
50% | As introduced, requires each institution of higher education in this state to classify a student who is the spouse or dependent child of a service member as an in-state student for tuition purposes if certain criteria are met. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| TN | SB2742 | Fail | As introduced, extends the 25 percent tuition discount at state institutions of higher education for children of public school teachers to children of full-time law enforcement officers employed by a county or municipality in this state. - Amends TCA...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
Failed in Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB2856 | Fail | As introduced, provides a 25 percent tuition discount to children under 24 years of age whose parent is a full-time employee of a public school or public charter school in a position other than as a teacher, and has been employed by public school or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
Failed in Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB1081 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires each higher education institution to distribute or make available, prior to the beginning of each school year instead of at the beginning of each school year, a written policy prohibiting hazing by any student or organization ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB1060 | Intro
25% | As introduced, changes, from September 15 to October 1, the date by which each public institution of higher education operating a hearing center must provide a written report to the Tennessee higher education commission, the education committee of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| TN | SB2350 | Intro
25% | As introduced, establishes various prohibitions and requirements for public institutions of higher education regarding diversity, equity, and inclusion. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB2731 | Intro
25% | As introduced, changes, from January 1 to December 1, the date by which the department of correction is required to transmit its annual report detailing the higher education opportunities available to eligible incarcerated individuals in this state t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB2224 | Intro
25% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB2351 | Intro
25% | As introduced, prohibits certain institutions of higher education from defining discriminatory practices in their antidiscrimination policies in a manner inconsistent with the definition of discriminatory practices in state law; prohibits certain ins...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB1925 | Intro
25% | As introduced, specifies that no more than 49 percent of a public institution of higher education's entering freshman class may be composed of students who are classified as out-of-state students. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB0089 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes a state university and the University of Tennessee system to coordinate with a two-year institution governed by the board of regents for the two-year institution to provide remedial or developmental courses or coursework, regar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-30
Enrolled and ready for signatures |
| TN | SB0301 | Pass | As enacted, allows adjunct faculty to participate in the Brian Byrge Act by allowing them to enroll in one course consisting of no more than four credit hours or 120 clock hours, per term at the community college or Tennessee college of applied techn...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-17
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | SB0350 | Pass | As enacted, expands the Save Tennessee Students Act to require public institutions of higher education that issue new student identification cards to students enrolled in the institution to include certain contact information for crisis and suicide p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | SB0817 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Higher Education Freedom of Expression and Transparency Act." - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7 and Title 49, Chapter 8.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | SB0834 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits a public postsecondary institution that provides internet access to students, faculty, staff, or the general public from allowing an individual to access a social media platform using the institution's network if the platform is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-18
Effective date(s) 04/13/2023 |
| TN | SB1427 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the chairs of the government operations committees of each house to review the report submitted to the general assembly by Tennessee State University of the university's progress in improving facilities and infrastructure and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-17
Re-refer to S. Cal Comm |
| TN | SB0323 | Fail | As introduced, prohibits a public institution of higher education that accepts applications for admission from inquiring about an applicant's criminal history on the application. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-29
Failed in Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB0603 | Intro
25% | As introduced, prohibits public institutions of higher education offering certain medical and health-related degree or certificate programs, and state contractors, from requiring diversity, equity, and inclusion training and education for purposes of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB0684 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases, from 15 days to 20 days, the notice a public university board must give prior to a meeting of the board to consider a proposed tuition and mandatory fee increase; extends the 15-day period for public comment to 20 days. - Am...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB0883 | Intro
25% | As introduced, extends the 25 percent discount on tuition to any state institution of higher education to children under 24 years of age whose parent is employed full time as an educational assistant in a public school in Tennessee. - Amends TCA Titl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB0861 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires Tennessee State University and Middle Tennessee State University to submit a report by February 1, 2024, in an electronic format to the chairs of the education committee of the senate and the education administration committee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB0860 | Intro
25% | As introduced, removes provisions that required Middle Tennessee State University to implement a one-year pilot program pursuant to the Student Information in Higher Education Act of 2005. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 9; Title 49; Title 63 and Title 6...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB0571 | Intro
25% | As introduced, delays the annual reporting date, from February 1 to February 15, that each governing board of a public institution of higher education must report to the office of legislative budget analysis with information regarding expenditures of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-10
Withdrawn. |
| TN | SB1272 | Intro
25% | As introduced, changes, from February 1 to January 15, the date by which each governing board must provide a report to the office of legislative budget analysis with information regarding expenditures of revenues derived from any tuition and fees inc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB1229 | Intro
25% | As introduced, changes, from December 1 to December 15, the date by which the Tennessee higher education commission is required to submit the revised higher education funding formula and any projected tuition increases for the next academic year to t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB0605 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the board of regents and each state university board to post on their respective websites the tenure policy or policies for faculty at their respective institutions. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB0330 | Intro
25% | As introduced, changes, from October 1 to March 30, the date by which the Tennessee student assistance corporation and the Tennessee higher education commission must report the findings of its research and analysis of data concerning the Tennessee Pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-25
To Senate Education Committee |
