Tennessee House Bill 892 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 8-0)
Status: Passed on April 18 2023 - 100% progression
Action: 2023-04-18 - Comp. became Pub. Ch. 153
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [PDF]

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 of others; expands the educator's bill of rights to include the educator's right to report an offense of assault and battery or vandalism committed by a student on school property and the educator's right to receive benefits if the educator is a teacher who is absent from their assigned duties due to injuries caused by a criminal act committed against the teacher in the course of the teacher's employment activities. - Amends TCA Title 49.

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, relative to school personnel.

Rep. Jay Reedy [R]	Rep. Susan Lynn [R]	Rep. Bryan Richey [R]	Rep. Todd Warner [R]
Rep. John Ragan [R]	Rep. Dan Howell [R]	Rep. Bryan Terry [R]	Rep. Justin Lafferty [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2023-04-18		Comp. became Pub. Ch. 153
2023-03-23	House	Sponsor(s) Added.
2023-03-23	House	Comp. SB subst.
2023-03-16	House	H. Placed on Regular Calendar for 3/23/2023
2023-03-15	House	Placed on cal. Calendar & Rules Committee for 3/16/2023
2023-03-15	House	Rec. for pass; ref to Calendar & Rules Committee
2023-03-08	House	Placed on cal. Education Administration for 3/15/2023
2023-03-07	House	Rec. for pass by s/c ref. to Education Administration
2023-03-01	House	Placed on s/c cal K-12 Subcommittee for 3/7/2023
2023-02-07	House	Assigned to s/c K-12 Subcommittee
2023-02-02	House	P2C, ref. to Education Administration
2023-02-01	House	Intro., P1C.
2023-01-30	House	Filed for introduction

SB1155 (Crossfiled) 2023-04-18 - Effective date(s) 04/13/2023

Type	Source
Summary	https://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/Billinfo/default.aspx?BillNumber=HB0892&ga=113
Text	https://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/113/Bill/HB0892.pdf
Text	https://publications.tnsosfiles.com/acts/113/pub/pc0153.pdf
Supplement	https://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/113/Fiscal/HB0892.pdf