Tennessee Bills

sponsored by Joey Hensley

Bill Title Introduced Latest Action↓
HB 2602 (111th Regular Session (2019-2020))
Education - As introduced, requires the administrator of a recovery high school to provide the department of education and the state board of education an annual report, which includes not only the school's overall high school graduation rate but its overall graduation rate as compared to the overall graduation rate of other high schools in the state. - Amends TCA Title 49.
Feb 05 2020 Reset On Final Cal. Of Calendar & Rules Committee
Jun 04 2020
HB 1855 (111th Regular Session (2019-2020))
Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires each LEA to install technology on its computers to filter or block inappropriate websites and information otherwise accessible through the internet; requires each LEA to review its internet acceptable use policy and the technology installed on its computers to filter or block inappropriate websites and information otherwise accessible through the internet no later than January 1, 2021, and at least once every three years thereafter. - Amends TCA Title 49.
Jan 23 2020 Received From House, Passed On First Consideration
Jun 04 2020
SB 1816 (111th Regular Session (2019-2020))
Education, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to annually compile a list of courses that may be substituted for certain high school course requirements; requires the department, by April 15 of each year, to distribute the list to each LEA and public charter high school and to the Tennessee higher education commission for distribution to high school counselors and to public institutions of higher education in this state. - Amends TCA Title 49.
Jan 15 2020 Action Deferred In Senate Education Committee To 12/1/2020
Jun 03 2020
SB 2034 (111th Regular Session (2019-2020))
Health Care - As introduced, removes obsolete language describing a polysomnographic professional standards committee that met annually from 2007-2010 to allow public discussion of new developments in the practice of polysomnography. - Amends TCA Title 63.
Jan 30 2020 Action Deferred In Senate Health And Welfare Committee To 12/1/2020
Jun 03 2020
SB 1738 (111th Regular Session (2019-2020))
Education - As introduced, changes, from August 15 to June 1, the date on which a child must be five years of age to enroll in kindergarten; changes, from September 30 to July 31, the date on which a child determined by the director of schools to be sufficiently mature must be five years of age to enroll in kindergarten. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.
Jan 15 2020 Action Deferred In Senate Education Committee To 12/1/2020
Jun 03 2020
HB 614 (111th Regular Session (2019-2020))
Landlord and Tenant - As introduced, requires a landlord to provide local governmental agencies responsible for enforcing building codes the landlord's email address in addition to the landlord's name, telephone number, and physical address. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 62 and Title 66.
Feb 04 2019 Taken Off Notice For Cal. In Commerce Committee
Jun 03 2020
HB 1554 (111th Regular Session (2019-2020))
Education, Dept. of - As introduced, allows an LEA to choose to administer TCAP tests to its students in a paper format beginning with the 2020-2021 school year if the commissioner authorizes TCAP tests to be administered in a computerized format; requires the department to provide TCAP test materials in a paper format to LEAs choosing to administer TCAP tests in a paper format. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Chapter 475 of the Public Acts of 2019.
Oct 16 2019 Action Deferred In Senate Education Committee To 12/1/2020
Jun 03 2020
SB 1735 (111th Regular Session (2019-2020))
Education, State Board of - As introduced, requires the board to abolish all academic standards for science and social studies for students in kindergarten through grade two; allows the subjects of science and social studies to be incorporated into the curriculum aligned with the academic standards for English language arts for students in kindergarten through grade two. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1.
Jan 15 2020 Action Deferred In Senate Education Committee To 12/1/2020
Jun 03 2020
HB 1966 (111th Regular Session (2019-2020))
Education - As introduced, creates the rural at-risk pre-kindergarten fund to provide an additional source of funding for local education agencies operating an approved voluntary pre-kindergarten program in a distressed rural county or in an at-risk county that demonstrate a need for additional seats in the program. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 1.
Jan 28 2020 Action Deferred In Senate Education Committee To 12/1/2020
Jun 03 2020
HB 2703 (111th Regular Session (2019-2020))
Appropriations - As introduced, appropriates 10 percent of excess state tax revenues over collected in fiscal year 2020-2021 to the Tennessee rural economic development fund to be used for economic development in rural counties throughout the state; declares intent for appropriation to be extended in fiscal years 2021-2022, 2022-2023, and 2023-2024. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 7; Title 7 and Title 9.
Feb 05 2020 Taken Off Notice For Cal In S/C Finance, Ways, And Means Subcommittee Of Finance, Ways, And Means Committee
Jun 03 2020
HB 1687 (111th Regular Session (2019-2020))
Education, State Board of - As introduced, requires the board to abolish all academic standards for science and social studies for students in kindergarten through grade two; allows the subjects of science and social studies to be incorporated into the curriculum aligned with the academic standards for English language arts for students in kindergarten through grade two. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1.
Jan 15 2020 Action Deferred In Senate Education Committee To 12/1/2020
Jun 03 2020
HB 1681 (111th Regular Session (2019-2020))
Real Property - As introduced, authorizes an offeree to cancel a contract or agreement, within 30 days from the offeree signing the agreement or contract, that was entered into following an unsolicited offer to purchase the offeree's real property that was sent through the mail. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 13; Title 39; Title 47; Title 66 and Title 71.
Jan 15 2020 Action Deferred In Senate Commerce And Labor Committee To 12/1/2020
Jun 03 2020
HB 2085 (111th Regular Session (2019-2020))
Health Care - As introduced, removes obsolete language describing a polysomnographic professional standards committee that met annually from 2007-2010 to allow public discussion of new developments in the practice of polysomnography. - Amends TCA Title 63.
Jan 30 2020 Action Deferred In Senate Health And Welfare Committee To 12/1/2020
Jun 03 2020
SB 1565 (111th Regular Session (2019-2020))
Education, Dept. of - As introduced, allows an LEA to choose to administer TCAP tests to its students in a paper format beginning with the 2020-2021 school year if the commissioner authorizes TCAP tests to be administered in a computerized format; requires the department to provide TCAP test materials in a paper format to LEAs choosing to administer TCAP tests in a paper format. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Chapter 475 of the Public Acts of 2019.
Oct 16 2019 Action Deferred In Senate Education Committee To 12/1/2020
Jun 03 2020
SB 1167 (111th Regular Session (2019-2020))
Landlord and Tenant - As introduced, requires a landlord to provide local governmental agencies responsible for enforcing building codes the landlord's email address in addition to the landlord's name, telephone number, and physical address. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 62 and Title 66.
Feb 04 2019 Taken Off Notice For Cal. In Commerce Committee
Jun 03 2020
SB 1947 (111th Regular Session (2019-2020))
Education - As introduced, creates the rural at-risk pre-kindergarten fund to provide an additional source of funding for local education agencies operating an approved voluntary pre-kindergarten program in a distressed rural county or in an at-risk county that demonstrate a need for additional seats in the program. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 1.
Jan 28 2020 Action Deferred In Senate Education Committee To 12/1/2020
Jun 03 2020
SB 1811 (111th Regular Session (2019-2020))
Real Property - As introduced, authorizes an offeree to cancel a contract or agreement, within 30 days from the offeree signing the agreement or contract, that was entered into following an unsolicited offer to purchase the offeree's real property that was sent through the mail. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 13; Title 39; Title 47; Title 66 and Title 71.
Jan 15 2020 Action Deferred In Senate Commerce And Labor Committee To 12/1/2020
Jun 03 2020
HB 1691 (111th Regular Session (2019-2020))
Education - As introduced, changes, from August 15 to June 1, the date on which a child must be five years of age to enroll in kindergarten; changes, from September 30 to July 31, the date on which a child determined by the director of schools to be sufficiently mature must be five years of age to enroll in kindergarten. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.
Jan 15 2020 Action Deferred In Senate Education Committee To 12/1/2020
Jun 03 2020
SB 1739 (111th Regular Session (2019-2020))
Education, Curriculum - As introduced, deletes requirement for LEAs to provide a physical education class taught by a licensed teacher with an endorsement in physical education or by a specialist in physical education; deletes reporting requirements; requires each LEA to integrate at least two 25- minute periods of physical activity into each school day. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.
Jan 15 2020 Action Deferred In Senate Education Committee To 12/1/2020
Jun 03 2020
HB 2335 (111th Regular Session (2019-2020))
Education, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to survey all LEAs, public charter schools, and state special schools to determine whether there are enough licensed speech-language pathologists to serve the needs of public school students with speech disorders; requires the department to survey and collect information on speech pathologists' caseloads and workloads; requires the department to report its findings and recommendations to the education committees of the senate and house of representatives by January 15, 2021. - Amends TCA Title 49; Title 56 and Title 63.
Feb 04 2020 Action Deferred In Senate Education Committee To 12/1/2020
Jun 03 2020

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