| TN | SB0757 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires LEAs to publish the school lunch menu on the LEA's website. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB0827 | Intro
25% | As introduced, prohibits the state board of education from requiring a private school that provides a fully online, self-paced educational program to comply with certain class size, school calendar, vaccination, and assessment requirements in order t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB0729 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes an LEA to adopt and implement a merit-based pay structure for educators to award additional compensation to high-performing educators and to incentivize educators to meet and exceed expectations. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB0928 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the state board of education to authorize a student who is working toward completing a career and technical education elective focus to substitute up to four career and technical education course credits for the required chemi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB0719 | Intro
25% | As introduced, adds William R. Moore College of Technology as an eligible institution for receipt of the Wilder-Naifeh reconnect grant and Wilder-Naifeh technical skills grant; specifies that the amount of the scholarship for such students enrolled i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB0570 | Intro
25% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB1410 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases from 20 to 30, the maximum number of consecutive days a substitute teacher may substitute for a regular teacher on leave without having to possess a teaching license; requires the six weeks of paid parental leave for eligible...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB0901 | Intro
25% | As introduced, extends the school turnaround pilot program for priority schools administered by the department and that is scheduled to conclude at the end of the 2024-2025 school year to a permanent school turnaround program for priority schools; in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB0810 | Intro
25% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB1327 | Intro
25% | As introduced, removes a provision that required the board of regents, the University of Tennessee, and the Tennessee Independent Colleges and Universities Association to provide a report by April 1, 2009, to the Tennessee higher education commission...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB0582 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department to establish enrollment deadlines for voluntary pre-kindergarten programs so that at-risk students who will be four years old by August 15 must be enrolled by the beginning of the school year and students who ar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB0805 | Intro
25% | As introduced, changes the date, from October 15 to October 1, by which the department must notify local education agencies (LEAs) of all state and federal grants available to assist the LEA in expanding mental health services and resources in school...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB0400 | Intro
25% | As introduced, changes from May 1 to May 15, the date by which a local education agency in which one or more public charter schools operate is required to annually publish information on its website relative to the location, square footage, enrollmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB1209 | Intro
25% | As introduced, prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sex, disability, religion, or marital status against a student or an employee in a public institution of education; requires public institutions of education to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SJR0081 | Intro
25% | Designates October 2 as "School Custodian Day" in Tennessee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB0155 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "Menstrual Hygiene Products Accessibility Act," which requires, instead of authorizes, LEAs and public charter schools to provide feminine hygiene products at no charge in all women's and girls' bathrooms, in all locker room...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB0701 | Intro
25% | As introduced, prohibits libraries from banning, removing, or otherwise restricting access to a book or other material based solely on its viewpoint or the messages, ideas, or opinions it conveys, except as otherwise authorized. - Amends TCA Title 10...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB1229 | Intro
25% | As introduced, changes from January 1 to March 1, the date by which each local education agency and public charter school is required to submit documentation to the department of education evidencing its compliance with the requirement to notify an a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB0342 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires school board members to be elected at the same election beginning in 2028. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB1340 | Intro
25% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB1126 | Intro
25% | As introduced, makes various changes to the categories of individuals who are not required to use a preferred pronoun, and for whom a preferred pronoun be disregarded, if the pronoun is inconsistent with the person's biological sex; makes various cha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB0478 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires an annual training pay bonus supplement for eligible campus police officers and public safety officers in the amount of $800. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 38 and Section 49-7-118.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB1024 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department of education to evaluate the effectiveness of an innovative school district after the first school year of operation and make recommendations, which may include encouraging additional public universities to oper...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB0298 | Intro
25% | As introduced, makes various changes to the approval process and notice requirements for nonsectarian, nonreligious Bible courses; clarifies that public charter schools are authorized to provide nonsectarian, nonreligious Bible courses in the same ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB1332 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires that persons who hold positions with independent entities that teach released time courses and who have proximity to students undergo a criminal history records check conducted by the TBI; requires LEAs to notify students' par...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB0341 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department to allocate to each local education agency sufficient funds for the LEA to employ one full-time licensed professional school counselor at each high school in the LEA that enrolls at least 600 students in grades ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB1311 | Intro
25% | As introduced, makes various changes to certain teacher licensure requirements. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5 and Title 49, Chapter 6.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB0705 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires that certain employees of state special schools receive the same leave and certain other benefits as employees of LEAs and public charter schools. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 50 and Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB0910 | Intro
25% | As introduced, changes a department's reporting requirement, regarding local education agencies' and public charter schools' compliance with notice to an association that regulates interscholastic athletics of a student's placement in foster care who...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB0517 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes local education agencies and public charter schools to provide up to four days of the required 180 days of classroom instruction via hybrid learning in the event of dangerous or extreme weather conditions, or an emergency, a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB1085 | Intro
25% | As introduced, allows a private postsecondary institution that is a candidate for accreditation by a regional accrediting association and that has its primary campus domiciled in this state to serve as an institution at which a student may be enrolle...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB1188 | Intro
25% | As introduced, expands eligibility for a helping heroes grant to include veterans who have received any medal authorized by congress for the armed forces of the United States that is awarded for combat or heroism; allows eligible veterans to receive ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB0506 | Intro
25% | As introduced, exempts an LEA or public charter school from having to assign a third-grade student who is not proficient in English language arts a tutor through the Tennessee accelerating literacy and learning corps if the state does not appropriate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB0364 | Intro
25% | As introduced, repeals the "Tennessee Community Schools Act"; enacts the "Tennessee Full Service Community Schools Act." - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB0975 | Intro
25% | As introduced, deletes obsolete pilot program to improve parent-teacher engagement that terminated at the end of the 2020-2021 school year. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB0899 | Intro
25% | As introduced, changes the standard for entry-resistant window treatment for school buildings constructed or remodeled on or after July 1, 2025; requires the state-level school safety team to issue guidelines to the state fire marshal for inclusion i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB0313 | Intro
25% | As introduced, excludes materials obtained by an individual teacher that are made available in the teacher's classroom to students assigned to the teacher's class from having to be identified in a list of library collection materials posted on the sc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB0714 | Intro
25% | As introduced, changes the date, from October 31 to October 1, by which the departments of education and health must submit a report to the governor and general assembly regarding the self-administered medications and healthcare procedures for studen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB1067 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires each local education agency (LEA) to publish the character education curriculum on the LEA's website. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB0386 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "Early Behavioral Intervention and Reporting Act"; clarifies that public charter schools are required to have a threat assessment team in the same manner as required of local education agencies. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB0426 | Intro
25% | As introduced, revises the weighted allocations generated by a student for purposes of the TISA based on the number of student members of the LEA in which the student resides; establishes a $50 direct allocation for each student member of each LEA to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB0689 | Intro
25% | As introduced, changes, from February 1 to January 31, the date each year that the commissioner of education and commissioner of safety must jointly report to the governor and general assembly regarding implementation and compliance with the Schools ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB1391 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department to establish and administer a grant program to reimburse local education agencies, public charter schools, private schools, and medical first responders for the costs of anti-choking devices purchased by the loc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SJR0042 | Intro
25% | "Arts in Education Week," March 2-8, 2025
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB0699 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "Student Comfort through Alternative Restorative Environments (CARE) Act"; requires local education agencies and public charter schools to allow students of a school in the LEA or public charter school where an act of mass v...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB0834 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the commission, in consultation with the department of finance and administration, to submit a report to the general assembly of the state appropriations made to each land grant institution in this state from 1987 to 2020, on ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB1175 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department of education, by July 31 each year, to list on its website each LEA designated as a high performing school district for the upcoming school year and how long the LEA will be designated a high performing school d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB0687 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the commissioner to annually publish on the department's website the number of waivers from the average class size requirements granted to LEAs during the previous school year for the purpose of funding a grow your own program...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB0946 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires an LEA that receives credible information regarding a threat of violence or significantly disruptive behavior directed toward, or occurring on the grounds of, a public school in the LEA, and that reports the threat or disrupti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| TN | SB1324 | Intro
25% | 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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