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 818
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Local Education Agencies - As introduced, authorizes a third-grade student who is not proficient in English language arts (ELA) to be promoted to fourth grade if at least 66 percent of the third-grade students in the student's LEA or public charter school test proficient on the ELA portion of the most recently administered Tennessee comprehensive assessment program test and if the student's parent or guardian, teacher, and school principal mutually agree and recommend in writing that the student should be promoted to fourth grade. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1 and Title 49, Chapter 6.
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Jan 30 2023 |
Assigned To General Subcommittee Of Senate Education 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 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 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 670
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Health Care - As introduced, allows the submission of applications for licenses, permits, and certificates by emergency medical services personnel, and applicable fees, before the expiration date of the license, permit, or certificate to extend the license's, permit's or certificate's period up to 65 days, instead of 60 days, to allow administrative processing. - Amends TCA Title 55 and Title 68.
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Jan 26 2023 |
Assigned To General Subcommittee Of Senate Health And Welfare Committee
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 861
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Education, Higher - As introduced, requires Tennessee State University and Middle Tennessee State University to submit a report by February 1, 2024, in an electronic format to the chairs of the education committee of the senate and the education administration committee of the house of representatives that details the research and methods developed by the universities addressing how to use materials in solid waste as raw materials to create jobs, business, and compost. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 9; Title 49; Title 63 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 1265
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Local Education Agencies - As introduced, authorizes, instead of requires, an LEA or public charter school to retain a student in the third grade if the student has not shown a basic understanding of the curriculum and an ability to perform the skills required in the subject of reading or English language arts; requires an LEA or public charter school that conducts a learning loss bridge camp to offer a third-grade student identified for retention the opportunity to attend the camp before the start of the next school year; prohibits an LEA or public charter school from requiring a student to attend a learning loss bridge camp. - 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 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 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 1363
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
TennCare - As introduced, requires the bureau to ensure that providers of adult day care services are reimbursed based upon the amount of services that are authorized on behalf of the eligible adult, and without regard for the eligible adult's attendance or absence at the time the services are scheduled to be provided. - Amends TCA 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 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 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 934
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Funeral Directors and Embalmers - As introduced, reduces from 180 days to 90 days, the amount of time in which an operator of a crematory facility must wait from the date of cremation before interring, entombing, or inurning unclaimed cremated human remains. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 5.
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Jan 31 2023 |
Assigned To General Subcommittee Of Senate Commerce And Labor Committee
Mar 14 2023
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SB 840
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Taxes - As introduced, extends, from December 31 to January 15, the date by which the transportation equity fund annual report, which includes tax revenues from fuels used for aviation, railways, and water carriers, must be submitted to the governor and members of the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 67.
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Jan 30 2023 |
Assigned To General Subcommittee Of Senate Fw&M Revenue Subcommittee
Mar 14 2023
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SB 1087
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Forfeiture of Assets - As introduced, requires a person convicted of drag racing to serve a minimum of 48 consecutive hours in confinement; increases the period of time that the department of safety is required to revoke the driver license of a person convicted of drag racing, from one to two years. - Amends TCA Title 40 and Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 5.
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Jan 31 2023 |
Assigned To General Subcommittee Of Senate Judiciary Committee
Mar 14 2023
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SB 835
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates the Class C misdemeanor of restraining a dog with a chain, cord, tether, cable, or similar device while a disaster is imminent or occurring; states that a person is not subject to prosecution for a violation unless the person has previously received a warning citation for a violation. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 44, Chapter 17.
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Jan 30 2023 |
Placed On Senate Judiciary Committee Calendar For 3/14/2023
Mar 14 2023
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SB 1067
(113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Consumer Protection - As introduced, deems it an unfair and deceptive trade practice for a government agency to hold a membership in an organization that collaborates with, or is directly or indirectly sponsored by, manufacturers of medical products for which the agency is responsible for creating or implementing state policy. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 47, Chapter 18; Title 53 and Title 68.
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Jan 31 2023 |
Assigned To General Subcommittee Of Senate Commerce And Labor Committee
Mar 14 2023
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