Tennessee House Bill 344 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Failed on February 21 2023 - 100% progression
Action: 2023-02-21 - Failed in s/c K-12 Subcommittee of Education Administration
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #2) [PDF]

As introduced, requires LEAs to classify school nurses as licensed personnel for salary purposes; requires an LEA to pay a school nurse the base salary established for licensed teachers for the respective school year if the school nurse holds a valid license to practice professional nursing as a registered nurse with zero years of experience; requires an LEA to pay a school nurse more or less than the established base salary per school year if the nurse has more or less training and experience than that required for the base salary. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 68.

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49 and Title 68, relative to school nurses.

Rep. Mike Sparks [R]

Rep. Yusuf Hakeem [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2023-02-21	House	Failed in s/c K-12 Subcommittee of Education Administration
2023-02-15	House	Placed on s/c cal K-12 Subcommittee for 2/21/2023
2023-02-14	House	Action Def. in s/c K-12 Subcommittee to 2/21/2023
2023-02-08	House	Sponsor(s) Added.
2023-02-08	House	Placed on s/c cal K-12 Subcommittee for 2/14/2023
2023-01-30	House	Assigned to s/c K-12 Subcommittee
2023-01-30	House	P2C, ref. to Education Administration
2023-01-21	House	Intro., P1C.
2023-01-20	House	Filed for introduction

SB0377 (Crossfiled) 2023-01-26 - Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Education Committee

Type	Source
Summary	https://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/Billinfo/default.aspx?BillNumber=HB0344&ga=113
Text	https://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/113/Bill/HB0344.pdf
Supplement	https://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/113/Fiscal/HB0344.pdf