SB 1405
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Health, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to study COVID-19 exemptions based on religion or rights of conscience in neighbor states and report findings to the health committees by January 1, 2024. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 14; Title 29; Title 36; Title 39; Title 49; Title 50; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
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Feb 01 2023 |
Assigned To General Subcommittee Of Senate Health And Welfare Committee
Mar 15 2023
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SB 1524
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Local Education Agencies - As introduced, removes retention requirements for students who did not achieve a certain performance level rating on the English language arts portion of the student's most recent Tennessee comprehensive assessment program test; authorizes an LEA or charter school to retain or promote a student who has not shown a basic understanding of the curriculum and an ability to perform the skills required in the subject of reading, as determined by the LEA or charter school; requires LEAs and charter schools to develop a retention policy for such students and to implement the policy beginning in the 2023-2024 school year. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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Feb 02 2023 |
Assigned To General Subcommittee Of Senate Education Committee
Mar 15 2023
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SB 90
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As introduced, under certain conditions, authorizes utility task vehicles and Class I and II off-highway vehicles to be operated on state highways with a posted speed limit of 45 mph or less. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 3; Title 55, Chapter 4 and Title 55, Chapter 8.
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Jan 09 2023 |
Recommended For Passage With Amendment/S, Refer To Senate Calendar Committee Ayes 9, Nays 0 Pnv 0
Mar 15 2023
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SB 951
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Education - As introduced, adds various exceptions to mandatory retention for third grade students who are not proficient in English language arts; allows an LEA to retain students in any of the grades kindergarten through two who have not shown a basic understanding of the curriculum and an ability to perform the skills required in reading; requires the department of education to provide LEAs with individual student performance level ratings from the Tennessee comprehensive assessment program tests by May 19 each year. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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Jan 31 2023 |
Assigned To General Subcommittee Of Senate Education Committee
Mar 15 2023
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SB 298
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Traffic Safety - As introduced, authorizes two-wheeled motorcycles to be operated between rows of stopped or moving vehicles in the same lane on certain limited access highways and interstate highways when the speed of traffic is 25 miles per hour or less. - Amends TCA Title 54 and Title 55.
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Jan 20 2023 |
Action Deferred In Senate Transportation And Safety Committee To First Calendar Of 2024
Mar 15 2023
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SB 1090
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Public Health - As introduced, prohibits the state or a political subdivision of the state from requiring an immunization unless exemptions are provided for persons who file signed, written statements affirming that the immunization conflicts with their religious tenets and practices; makes certain other changes related to immunizations. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 14; Title 36, Chapter 1, Part 1; Title 37; Title 49; Title 50 and Title 68.
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Jan 31 2023 |
Assigned To General Subcommittee Of Senate Education Committee
Mar 15 2023
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SB 920
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Local Education Agencies - As introduced, allows a third grade student who is not proficient in English language arts (ELA) based on the student's achieving a performance level rating of "approaching" on the ELA portion of the student's most recent Tennessee comprehensive assessment program test to be promoted to the next grade level if the student has demonstrated growth above the national norm on a universal reading screener and has demonstrated growth in standards mastery based on the student's scores on a state-adopted benchmark assessment. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1 and Title 49, Chapter 6.
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Jan 31 2023 |
Assigned To General Subcommittee Of Senate Education Committee
Mar 15 2023
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SB 1171
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Medical Occupations - As introduced, expands the scope of practice for physician assistants, subject to increased regulatory oversight by the board of physician assistants as part of such expanded practice. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 19, Part 1 and Title 68, Chapter 11.
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Jan 31 2023 |
Assigned To General Subcommittee Of Senate Health And Welfare Committee
Mar 15 2023
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SB 541
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Day Care - As introduced, increases from five to seven the minimum number of children a facility must have under its care for three or more hours per day in order to fall within the definition of a child care agency for licensing purposes. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 3.
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Jan 25 2023 |
Assigned To General Subcommittee Of Senate Health And Welfare Committee
Mar 15 2023
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SB 883
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Education, Higher - As introduced, extends the 25 percent discount on tuition to any state institution of higher education to children under 24 years of age whose parent is employed full time as an educational assistant in a public school in Tennessee. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 49, Chapter 7.
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Jan 31 2023 |
Assigned To General Subcommittee Of Senate Education Committee
Mar 15 2023
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SB 809
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Local Education Agencies - As introduced, makes various changes to the Voluntary Pre-K for Tennessee Act of 2005; requires, instead of authorizes, an LEA to provide a pre-kindergarten program that is open to any child who is four years of age on or before August 15 and who resides within the geographic area served by the LEA; removes all application requirements for pre-kindergarten programs; removes the requirement for a community pre-k advisory council; requires this state to fund 100 percent of the costs required for an LEA to provide a pre-kindergarten program. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 51 and Title 49.
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Jan 30 2023 |
Assigned To General Subcommittee Of Senate Education Committee
Mar 15 2023
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SB 381
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Public Health - As introduced, deletes the termination provision for the title addressing the COVID-19 pandemic, which would have terminated July 1, 2023. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 14; Title 29; Title 38; Title 49; Title 50; Title 63 and Title 68.
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Jan 24 2023 |
Assigned To General Subcommittee Of Senate Health And Welfare Committee
Mar 15 2023
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SB 371
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Education, Dept. of - As introduced, authorizes an LEA or public charter school to use TANF program funds to cover costs associated with programs that provide covered services to eligible students; requires the department to consult with the department of human services to determine which programs are eligible to be funded with TANF program funds; requires the department to publish a list of eligible programs on its website. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 71.
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Jan 24 2023 |
Assigned To General Subcommittee Of Senate Education Committee
Mar 15 2023
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SB 1428
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Medical Occupations - As introduced, requires a person who is licensed to practice a healing art; who was an officer in the commissioned medical corps of the army, the navy, the air force or the public health service of the United States; and who was subsequently discharged, instead of honorably discharged, to register with the appropriate board licensing that profession. - Amends TCA Title 63.
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Feb 01 2023 |
Assigned To General Subcommittee Of Senate Health And Welfare Committee
Mar 15 2023
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SB 1430
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Public Records - As introduced, requires the department of revenue to annually report on the administration of the Uniform Motor Vehicle Records Disclosure Act by February 1 of each year to the chair of the senate transportation and safety committee, the chair of the transportation committee of the house of representatives, and the legislative librarian; requires the department of safety and county clerks' offices to assist the department of revenue in compiling the report. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 25.
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Feb 01 2023 |
Assigned To General Subcommittee Of Senate Transportation And Safety Committee
Mar 15 2023
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SB 484
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Education - As introduced, establishes a school safety technology fund as a special account within the general fund to provide local education agencies with the funding necessary to purchase a technology platform designed to assist schools in performing routine checks of school building doors to ensure that the doors are locked. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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Jan 25 2023 |
Assigned To General Subcommittee Of Senate Education Committee
Mar 15 2023
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SB 557
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires an LEA to provide employees the opportunity to serve in a working group that annually collects, compiles, and submits a report of written suggestions received from the LEA's employees on how to improve the LEA to the LEA's director of schools and local board of education. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 5 and Title 49, Chapter 6.
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Jan 25 2023 |
Assigned To General Subcommittee Of Senate Education Committee
Mar 15 2023
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SB 706
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - 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 schools and senior high schools. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 17.
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Jan 26 2023 |
Assigned To General Subcommittee Of Senate Education Committee
Mar 15 2023
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SB 1368
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Local Education Agencies - As introduced, changes, from the department of education to the student's LEA, the entity responsible for determining whether a third or fourth grade student who previously tested not proficient in English language arts has shown adequate growth on an assessment administered to the student for purposes of promotion. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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Feb 01 2023 |
Assigned To General Subcommittee Of Senate Education Committee
Mar 15 2023
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SB 1216
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Tennessee Investment in Student Achievement (TISA) - As introduced, allows a local education agency (LEA) that experiences growth in its average daily membership (ADM), excluding the ADM of the LEA's virtual schools, exceeding 2 percent for each year of a two-consecutive-year period to be eligible for an infrastructure stipend for the 2023-2024 school year. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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Jan 31 2023 |
Assigned To General Subcommittee Of Senate Education Committee
Mar 15 2023
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