K-12 Subcommittee
2/22/2022 4:30:00 PM - Regular Calendar
1.
*HB1901
by Weaver. (
SB1863
by .)
Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5 and Title 49, Chapter 6. As enacted, prohibits the granting of a temporary permit to teach a physical education class, special education course, or course for which an end-of-course examination is required; authorizes endorsement exemption to a teacher to teach any course or subject area, except a physical education class or a special education course, for the 2022-2023 and 2023-2024 school years; revises other related provisions; requires the department of education to report certain information regarding endorsement exemptions and temporary permits.
Summary exists for *HB1901
2.
*HB2154
by Lamberth. (
SB2407
by .)
Local Education Agencies - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6. As enacted, enacts the "Age-Appropriate Materials Act of 2022"; requires each public school to maintain, and post on the school's website, a list of the materials in the school's library collection; requires each local board of education and public charter school governing body to adopt a policy to establish procedures for the development and review of school library collections.
Summary exists for *HB2154
3.
*HB1648
by Griffey. (
SB2597
by .)
Local Education Agencies - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49. As introduced, authorizes an LEA or public charter school to enroll, or deny enrollment to, students who are unlawfully present in the United States; eliminates state education funding for students who are unlawfully present in the United States; requires LEAs and public charter schools that enroll students who are unlawfully present in the United States to bear sole financial responsibility for their education.
Summary exists for *HB1648
4.
*HB1939
by Hawk. (
SB2568
by .)
Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 71. As introduced, requires the department of human services to administer a grant program, using temporary assistance for needy families program funds, for LEAs to create certain positions.
Summary exists for *HB1939
5.
*HB2455
by Hicks T. (
SB2442
by .)
Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - Amends TCA Title 49. As enacted, establishes qualifications necessary to receive an occupational teaching license.
Summary exists for *HB2455
6.
*HB2062
by Mannis. (
SB2510
by .)
Education - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 19 and Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 51. As enacted, enacts the "Save Tennessee Students Act," which requires LEAs that issue new student identification cards for students in grades 6-12 to include on the identification cards certain information regarding suicide prevention resources; requires an LEA to publish the telephone number for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline and the social media handle, telephone number, or text number for at least one additional crisis resource selected by the LEA in a conspicuous place in each school of the LEA that serves students in grades 6-12 or any combination thereof.
Summary exists for *HB2062
7.
HB2564
by Hakeem. (
*SB2213
by .)
Students - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 37; Title 39; Title 41 and Title 49. As introduced, prohibits the use of corporal punishment against students; deletes various provisions relative to the use of corporal punishment.
The Abstract summarizes HB2564 as introduced.
8.
*HB1899
by Weaver. (
SB1864
by .)
Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5. As enacted, allows a teacher holding the teacher's second or third teaching permit to apply to the department of education for a limited license to continue teaching the course or subject area taught pursuant to the teacher's current temporary permit; not applicable to a limited license to teach a physical education class, a course for which an end-of-course examination is required, or a special education course; adds other related provisions.
Summary exists for *HB1899
9.
*HB2388
by Todd. (
SB2596
by .)
Local Education Agencies - Amends TCA Title 6, Chapter 31, Part 3 and Title 49. As introduced, broadens, from only Madison County to statewide, the authority to recall a local board of education member.
The Abstract summarizes HB2388 as introduced.
10.
*HB1740
by Sparks. (
SB1831
by .)
Education, Dept. of - Amends TCA Title 49. As introduced, requires the commissioner to employ three assistant commissioners to provide specialized support to local education agencies based on the rural, urban, or suburban areas served by the LEA.
Summary exists for *HB1740
11.
*HB2861
by Curcio. (
SB2778
by .)
Education - Amends TCA Section 49-3-307(a)(4) and Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 26. As introduced, revises student eligibility criteria for an education savings account; establishes the 2024-2025 fiscal year as the fiscal year in which the cost differential factor must be eliminated from the basic education program.
Summary exists for *HB2861
12.
*HB2633
by Cochran. (
SB2777
by .)
Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6. As introduced, 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 does not align with the student's biological sex; insulates a teacher or other employee of a public school or LEA from civil liability and adverse employment action for referring to a student using the pronoun aligned with the student's biological sex instead of the student's preferred pronoun.
Summary exists for *HB2633
13.
*HB2630
by Cochran. (
SB2593
by .)
Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - Amends TCA Title 49. As introduced, extends the issuances of teacher endorsement exemptions and teacher temporary permits for courses with end-of-course exams to the 2022-2023 and 2023-2024 school years; requires the state board of education to promulgate rules to create teacher licensure and endorsement exemptions in the event a public school cannot fill a vacancy with a qualified person during a state of emergency.
The Abstract summarizes HB2630 as introduced.
14.
*HB2673
by Sexton J. (
SB2684
by .)
Education - Amends TCA Title 49. As enacted, establishes certain requirements to be followed if a state governmental entity or an LEA receives a complaint from a person who alleges that antisemitism has occurred on the premises of a public school serving any of the grades K-12, or through electronic outreach from a public school serving any of the grades K-12.
Summary exists for *HB2673
15.
HB2341
by Carringer. (
*SB1670
by .)
Local Education Agencies - Amends TCA Title 49. As enacted, requires that each LEA employee who works directly with students in the LEA, instead of only teachers, be trained at least once every three years on the detection, intervention, prevention, and treatment of human trafficking in which the victim is a child.
Summary exists for HB2341
16.
*HB2138
by White. (
SB2321
by .)
Education - Amends TCA Title 49. As enacted, allows the use of results from TCAP tests administered in the 2020-2021 school year in the TVAAS and to set the annual measurable objectives for schools and LEAs for the 2021-2022 school year; allows the use of annual measurable objectives using the results of those TCAP tests to assign letter grades to schools.
Summary exists for *HB2138
17.
*HB2139
by White. (
SB2579
by .)
Local Education Agencies - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6. As introduced, prohibits a parent or guardian of a student who has accumulated five or more days of unexcused absences during the school year from withdrawing the student from school during the school year except for certain circumstances.
Summary exists for *HB2139
18.
*HB1895
by Ragan. (
SB1861
by .)
Education - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6. As enacted, requires the commissioner of education to withhold a portion of the state education finance funds that an LEA is otherwise eligible to receive if the LEA fails or refuses to determine a student's gender, for purposes of participation in school sports, by the student's sex at the time of birth; exempts an LEA that fails or refuses to determine a student's gender, for purposes of participation in school sports, by the student's sex at the time of birth if the LEA's failure or refusal to do so is required by a court or other legally binding order.
The Abstract summarizes HB1895 as introduced.
19.
*HB1759
by Ragan. (
SB2566
by .)
Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - Amends TCA Title 49. As introduced, authorizes bereavement leave for employees of an LEA for the death of an immediate family member of the employee or for the death of an employee or student of the LEA.
Summary exists for *HB1759
20.
*HB2709
by Haston. (
SB2595
by .)
Education - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 1. As enacted, specifies who is eligible to attend a voluntary pre-kindergarten program; deletes the pilot pre-kindergarten program; requires that a voluntary pre-kindergarten program be designed to comprehensively address the educational needs of children who are not otherwise eligible for similar programs or who do not have access to a pre-kindergarten program; revises and enacts other related provisions.
Summary exists for *HB2709
21.
HB1710
by Haston. (
*SB1679
by .)
Local Education Agencies - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 49. As introduced, requires county and municipal legislative bodies to fix the compensation for members of their respective school boards at a level that is no less than the level at which the members of the respective legislative body are compensated; requires the compensation for members of boards of education of special school districts to be set at a level that is no less than the level at which members of the county legislative body of the county in which the special school district lies are compensated.
Summary exists for HB1710
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