Bill Title: As enacted, prohibits the expenditure of state funds by the University of Tennessee to promote the use of gender neutral pronouns, to promote or inhibit the celebration of religious holidays, or to fund or support sex week; specifies that all funds in the budget of the office for diversity and inclusion at UT Knoxville, for fiscal year 2016-2017, be reallocated in the university's budget and used by the university solely for scholarships to be awarded through a minority engineering scholarship program; any such funds that are not used for minority engineering scholarships in fiscal year 2016-2017 will remain in the scholarship program for use in future fiscal years. - Amends TCA Title 9 and Title 49.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 31-0)

Status: (Passed) 2016-05-23 - Pub. Ch. 1066 [HB2248 Detail]

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Bill Drafts

Revision	Date	Format	Source	View
Draft (#2)	2016-02-01	PDF	Link	View (#2)
Draft (#1)	2016-01-21	PDF	Link	View (#1)

Amendments

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