| TN | SB2032 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes the issuance of temporary teaching permits to teach physical education classes in elementary schools. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 05/01/2024 |
| TN | SB2674 | Pass | As enacted, makes changes to the law relative to temporary teaching permits and teaching end-of-course examination classes. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Effective date(s) 05/01/2024, 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB1943 | Pass | As enacted, allows all LEA and public charter school employees, instead of only teachers, to receive their full salary, or average pay, and full benefits in the event they sustain a personal injury as the result of a physical assault or other violent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024 |
| TN | SB1325 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes a faculty or staff member of a school to carry a concealed handgun on school grounds subject to certain conditions. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13 and Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 8.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-07
Effective date(s) 04/26/2024 |
| TN | SB2652 | Pass | As enacted, requires local boards of education to include school safety training in the training requirements for substitute teachers; clarifies that LEAs are prohibited from hiring a substitute teacher whose license in another state is revoked; make...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 04/19/2024 |
| TN | SB0359 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the salaries paid to teachers and other professional personnel in a state special school on or after July 1, 2023, to equal or exceed the salaries paid to teachers and other professional personnel with comparable training and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB0556 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the department of education to establish a fund to reimburse educators in an amount equal to the cost of an assessment required for licensure if the educator receives a qualifying score on the required assessment and receives ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| TN | SB2930 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, provides a 25 percent tuition discount to a full-time certified teacher employed in a public school in this state for courses taken at a public institution of higher education in this state that are related to the person's employment a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB1656 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the department of education to allocate to each local education agency sufficient funds for the LEA to employ one full-time licensed professional school counselor position for every 250 student members of the LEA or one full-t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB2493 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires LEAs and public charter schools to strive to employ school personnel in a manner that fairly represents the racial and ethnic composition of the student body for the school to which such personnel are assigned. - Amends TCA Ti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB7016 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the department of education to allocate to each local education agency sufficient funds for the LEA to employ one full-time licensed professional school counselor position for every 250 student members of the LEA or one full-t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-23
Lay on the Table |
| TN | SB7019 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes a faculty or staff member of a school to carry a concealed handgun on school grounds subject to certain conditions, including obtaining an enhanced handgun carry permit and completing basic training in school policing. - Ame...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-23
Lay on the Table |
| TN | SB0466 | Pass | As enacted, specifies that a teacher or other employee of a public school or LEA is not required to refer to a student using the student's preferred pronoun if the pronoun is not consistent with the student's biological sex; insulates a teacher or ot...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Effective date(s) 05/17/2023 |
| TN | SB0281 | Pass | As enacted, generally increases the base salaries in the state salary schedule for teachers formulated by the commissioner of education; prohibits an LEA from deducting dues from the wages of the LEA's employees for a professional employees' organiza...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023 |
| TN | SB1458 | Pass | As enacted, requires local education agencies (LEAs) to provide licensed employees of the LEA 6 paid workweeks after a birth or stillbirth of the employee's child or employee's adoption of a newly placed minor child. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8 and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-19
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 399 |
| TN | SB1221 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes the commissioner of education to grant an individual pursuing clinical experience in an educator preparation program (EPP) who meets certain requirements a temporary permit to teach in a teaching position in which an LEA or pub...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
Effective date(s) 4/28/2023, 07/01/2023 |
| TN | SB0724 | Pass | As enacted, creates a new pathway for honorably discharged veterans to receive an occupational teaching license. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 311 |
| TN | SB0744 | Pass | As enacted, revises various provisions regarding the automatic revocation of educator licenses. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1 and Title 49, Chapter 5.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 04/28/2023 |
| TN | SB1155 | Pass | 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-18
Effective date(s) 04/13/2023 |
| TN | SB1064 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires a school official or teacher who observes or otherwise has knowledge of an assault and battery or vandalism endangering life, health, or safety committed by a student on school property to report the action immediately to the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-29
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB0703 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, deletes obsolete provision regarding the exclusion of student growth evaluation composites generated by assessments administered in the 2017-2018 school year for the 2018-2019 and 2019-2020 school years. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 2...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB0892 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, expands the exemption from an assessment to advance or renew a teaching license to include a public school teacher who, at the time of the application of an initial license, possessed an active teaching license in another state and has...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB1190 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, makes various changes to the Professional Educators Collaborative Conferencing Act of 2011. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5, Part 6.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB0706 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes the Tennessee financial literacy commission to create an incentive payment program that provides incentive payments to middle school and senior high school teachers that promotes financial literacy to students in middle scho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
To Senate Education Committee |
| TN | SB0582 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, provides that a civil cause of action exists for an intentional assault upon educational personnel by any person on school grounds or in vehicles owned, leased, or under contract by the LEA and used for transporting students or faculty...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To Senate Education Committee |
