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Sen. Dolores Gresham | Tennessee 2017-2018 | TrackBill
TN - SB2606 Schools, Charter - As introduced, specifies that an LEA's failure to timely provide student information requested by a chartering authority or a public charter school may result in the department withholding an amount from the LEA's future distributions of state funds. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 13.
TN - SB2754 Hornsby - Subject to local approval, reduces board of mayor and aldermen from seven to five members; deletes all references to town marshal; reduces the number of readings to approve an ordinance from three to two; abolishes the position of treasurer and transfers responsibilities to the recorder; expands authority of the board of mayor and aldermen. - Amends Chapter 112 of the Private Acts of 1920; as amended.
TN - SR162 Memorials, Death - Lillian Pearl Roberson Buffaloe
TN - SB587 Education, Higher - As enacted, establishes certain requirements regarding records of the state university and community college system and the University of Tennessee system relative to investment programs. - Amends TCA Title 49.
TN - SB1622 Education - As introduced, requires the commissioner of education to inform LEAs before each school year if sufficient funds have been appropriated to pay the cost of the required college entrance examination for students who want to take the examination a second time. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 3 and Title 49, Chapter 6.
TN - SB2389 Education - As introduced, requires use of certain definitions of anti-Semitism and provides examples of anti-Semitism to be used in determinations of violations of K-12 or postsecondary educational policies prohibiting discrimination based on Jewish ancestry or ethnic characteristics. - Amends TCA Title 49.
TN - SB404 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, allows LEAs to choose whether to do payroll deduction of professional employees' organization dues; requires LEAs making payroll deduction of dues for one professional employees' organization to make payroll deduction of dues available to members of any professional employees' organization; requires an employee to request such deduction; allows an employee to rescind the authorization for a payroll deduction of dues at any time. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 5.
TN - SB2039 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, directs LEAs to require schools to provide each high school student in grades 9-12 with a Scholars Prep Guide upon registering for a course. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.
TN - SJR876 Memorials, Interns - Sarah Ann Noel
TN - SJR813 Memorials, Death - Nell Juanita Rogers Atkeison
TN - SR8 Memorials, Death - Paul E. Parks
TN - SJR623 Memorials, Death - John Edwin Emerson, Jr.
TN - SR57 Memorials, Death - Geneva Briley
TN - SJR514 Memorials, Death - Dr. E. Claude Gardner
TN - SJR500 Memorials, Death - Robert Jones
TN - SJR499 Memorials, Recognition - Selmer First United Methodist Church, 125th anniversary
TN - SJR46 Memorials, Recognition - University of Tennessee at Martin Parsons Center, 10th anniversary
TN - SJR420 Memorials, Death - Sadie Olene Harbin
TN - SR24 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - David Shepard, University of Tennessee Board of Trustees
TN - SR173 Memorials, Death - Margie Nell Wyatt Bishop
TN - SB865 Education, Curriculum - As introduced, requires the state board of education to review defensive driver education courses every two years, rather than every three years, for inclusion of any improvements. - Amends TCA Title 49.
TN - SB862 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires local boards of education to adopt a policy mandating attendance at an alternative school or alternative program upon suspension or expulsion from school. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.
TN - SB395 Scholarships and Financial Aid - As introduced, enacts the "Empowerment Scholarship Account Act." - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1.
TN - SB578 Education - As enacted, provides that no adverse action may be taken against any student, teacher, school, or LEA based, in whole or in part, on student achievement data generated from the 2017-2018 TNReady assessments. - Amends TCA Title 49.
TN - SB575 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, requires the department of education to provide all state board of education approved teacher training programs access to annual evaluation data for teachers and principals graduating from the programs for a minimum of five years following the completion of the program. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5.
TN - SB2607 Education, Higher - As introduced, prohibits a state institution of higher education or a governing body of a state institution of higher education from entering into, or requiring an opposing party to enter into, a non-disclosure agreement during settlement or as a prerequisite to settlement for any act of harassment, assault, or discrimination. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, Chapter 8 and Title 49, Chapter 9.
TN - SB1900 Special License Plates - As enacted, authorizes surviving spouses of deceased national guard members to apply for issuance of national guard license plate. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4, Part 2 and Title 55, Chapter 4, Part 3.
TN - SB1899 Schools, Charter - As enacted, specifies that the state board of education is the LEA for those charter schools that it authorizes; requires that the state board receive from the department of education or from the LEA in which the charter school is located, as appropriate, an amount equal to the per student state and local funds received by the department or the LEA in which the charter school is located for the students enrolled in a charter school authorized by the state board. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 13 and Title 49, Chapter 3.
TN - SB1898 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, revises provisions governing the percentage of student achievement test scores comprising a student's final grade in certain subjects; revises provisions governing situations where certain test scores are not received at least five instructional days before the end of a course. - Amends TCA Section 49-1-617.
TN - SB1894 Utilities, Utility Districts - As enacted, authorizes certain municipalities to fund chambers of commerce and economic and community organizations with revenue from a natural gas utility system owned by the municipality; prohibits rate increase to cover contributions targeted for economic development efforts. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 34.
TN - SB247 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires LEAs to survey students, within one month of the start of the 2017-2018 school year, as to the availability of internet access in their homes and report results to the department of education; the department will report the results to the governor, the education committee of the senate, and the education administration and planning committee of the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 49.
TN - SB2391 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, adds chambers of commerce that have received a determination of exemption from the internal revenue service under section 501(c)(6) of the Internal Revenue Code to the list of organizations that are exempt from paying the sales and use tax. - Amends TCA Title 67.
TN - SB2387 Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As introduced, requires the bureau to submit, within 10 business days, the results of a criminal history background check of a person seeking to become a professional bondsman to the clerks of the court responsible for regulating the activities of the professional bondsman. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 49.
TN - SB1842 Education, Higher - As enacted, transfers operation of the Tennessee Foreign Language Institute from the Institute's board to the Institute for Public Service of the University of Tennessee; renames the institute to be the Tennessee Foreign Language Center; makes other related changes, - Amends TCA Title 49.
TN - SB1839 Education, Higher - As enacted, designates the state colleges of applied technology at Chattanooga as part of the statewide system of state colleges of applied technology and authorizes the board of regents to establish additional state colleges of applied technology or to combine existing state colleges of applied technology as needed to improve operational and administrative efficiencies. - Amends TCA Title 49.
TN - SB1838 Schools, Charter - As introduced, ensures that, on appeal from a denial of a charter school application by an LEA, the state board of education makes a decision based on the same information as the LEA by removing the charter school applicant's ability to make certain limited corrections to its application. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 13.
TN - SB1837 Tennessee Higher Education Commission - As introduced, requires that nominees for student member of THEC be submitted to the governor by March 15 instead of April 15. - Amends TCA Title 49.
TN - SB2141 Workers Compensation - As enacted, allows farm and agricultural employers to accept the Workers' Compensation Law by purchasing a workers' compensation insurance policy; allows a farm or agricultural employer to withdraw acceptance of the Law at any time by canceling or not renewing the policy and providing notice to its employees. - Amends TCA Section 50-6-106.
TN - SB1627 University of Tennessee - As introduced, clarifies that the orientation training program of the University of Tennessee board of trustees is required for appointed members of the board, not the ex officio members. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49.
TN - SB1625 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to create a process to allow LEAs to submit individualized implementation plans for RTI² education. - Amends TCA Title 49.
TN - SB1619 Education - As introduced, requires the department of education to survey the LEAs as to the early postsecondary courses the LEAs are offering and report back so that partnerships to offer courses may more readily be formed. - Amends TCA Title 49.
TN - SB1617 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires local boards of education to notify the commissioner of education when a board declares itself a high performing school district; requires the commissioner to post a list of high performing school districts on the department's website. - Amends TCA Title 49.
TN - SB1616 Education - As introduced, requires THEC to analyze the success of the Tennessee middle college program and to report its findings in its annual report to the education committees of the house of representatives and senate. - Amends TCA Title 49.
TN - SB1482 Public Records - As enacted, repeals the requirement that the register of each county, once in every year, lay before the county legislative body all the records of the register's office for examination. - Repeals l TCA Section 10-7-103.
TN - SB1466 Hornsby - Subject to local approval, reduces board of mayor and aldermen from seven to five members; deletes all references to town marshal; reduces the number of readings to approve an ordinance from three to two; abolishes the position of treasurer and transfers responsibilities to the recorder; expands authority of the board of mayor and aldermen. - Amends Chapter 112 of the Private Acts of 1920; as amended.
TN - SJR786 Memorials, Death - Nancy Ivy McCraw
TN - SB573 School Vouchers - As introduced, allows students who have been diagnosed with a disability by a licensed physician or psychologist to be considered an eligible student for the Individualized Education Act. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 10, Part 14.
TN - SB984 Education, Higher - As introduced, clarifies that the Tennessee higher education commission may submit its annual report on the condition of Tennessee higher education to the governor and the general assembly in an electronic format. - Amends TCA Title 49.
TN - SB1618 Education - As enacted, removes from education laws obsolete pilot projects and reporting and similar requirements; revises and deletes certain other education-related provisions and reporting requirements. - Amends TCA Title 49.
TN - SB985 Water Authorities - As introduced, limits amount of fluoride that public water supply system operators may add to public drinking water; requires that fluoride testing results be open for public inspection; requires public notice of fluoridation. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 221, Part 7.
TN - SB2608 Education - As introduced, permits a parent to buy student workbooks and instructional materials, in addition to textbooks, with funds from the parent's student's Individualized Education Account (IEA). - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 67, Chapter 4.
TN - SB730 Education - As enacted, requires that each student in grades K-8 be given an individual Scholars Summer Guide prior to the last day of the school year. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.
TN - SB1629 Education - As enacted, adds and revises various provisions governing teacher training programs. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5, Part 56.
TN - SB577 Education - As introduced, urges the department of education to include the proper use and positioning of bicycle helmets in its pilot bicycle safety curriculum. - Amends TCA Title 49.
TN - SB570 State Universities - As enacted, removes the prohibition on a state university governing board member serving on the governing board of any institution of higher education and replaces it with a prohibition on a state university governing board member serving on the governing board of a public institution of higher education. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 8, Part 2.
TN - SR12 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Encourages Tennessee Education Association Board of Directors to seek the repeal of National Education Association Resolution I-17.
TN - SB2140 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires an LEA that unsuccessfully sues the state to pay reasonable costs and expenses, including reasonable attorney fees, attributable to the attorney general and reporter's defense of the state. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 6 and Title 49.
TN - SB729 Education - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Educators Protection Act". - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 16; Title 28; Title 29; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 49.
TN - SB403 Financial Disclosure - As introduced, exempts churches and other religious organizations from campaign finance disclosures when expending funds in favor of or in opposition to single or multiple issue measures related to public or private morality. - Amends TCA Section 2-10-101 and Section 2-10-102.
TN - SB2036 Education, Higher - As enacted, requires the governor, in appointing members to the board of regents, to strive to ensure that at least one board member is an honorably discharged military veteran; requires that in making appointments to the state university boards and UT board of regents the governor strive to ensure members are diverse in honorable military service in addition to gender, race, perspective, and experience. - Amends TCA Section 49-8-201 and Section 49-9-202.
TN - SB168 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, changes from "10 days" to "15 business days" from receipt of the audit report, the time within which an LEA must deliver a copy of the audit report on school funds of the LEA to the commissioner of education. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 3.
TN - SB1067 Education - As introduced, clarifies that the office of early learning within the department of education must provide an annual report to the governor and the general assembly on the status of pre-kindergarten programs by March 1 of each year beginning in 2018; requires the department of education to post the report on the office of early learning website by March 1 of each year. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 1.
TN - SB583 Tennessee Higher Education Commission - As enacted, returns the appointment of the executive director of the Tennessee higher education commission from the governor to the commission. - Amends TCA Section 49-7-205.
TN - SJR39 Memorials, Death - Paul Preston Pickens
TN - SB585 Education, Higher - As enacted, revises the application process for dual enrollment grants; revises provisions governing state employees taking up to four courses per academic year at any state-supported college or university, college of applied technology, or the Tennessee Foreign Language Institute without paying tuition charges, maintenance fees, student activity fees, registration fees, or online course fees for courses taken through the regents online degree programs. - Amends TCA Title 49.
TN - SJR550 Memorials, Death - Joseph Michael "Mike" Accardi
TN - SB733 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires each school safety team to conduct at least one armed intruder drill annually. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 8.
TN - SB584 Education - As enacted, revises various provisions of the Individualized Education Act. - Amends TCA Title 49.
TN - SB2610 Students - As introduced, extends eligibility for an individualized education account to any student with an individualized education program (IEP). - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 10, Part 14.
TN - SB1846 Education, Higher - As introduced, directs the governing body of each state institution of higher education to require no more than six credit hours of humanities course work and at least three credit hours of economics course work to satisfy the institution's general education requirement. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, Chapter 8 and Title 49, Chapter 9.
TN - SB1844 Education, Higher - As introduced, revises quality assurance funding to state institutions of higher education based on the institution's teacher training program outcomes. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7.
TN - SB399 Education, State Board of - As enacted, makes it the duty of the state board of education to issue professional licenses upon the work done in standard teacher-training institutions, colleges, and universities that must be approved by the state board of education after inspection as may be provided by the board. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1 and Title 49, Chapter 5.
TN - SB1621 Education - As introduced, requires the commissioner of education to include certain information in the commissioner's annual report concerning college entrance examinations. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 3 and Title 49, Chapter 6.
TN - SB1893 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, exempts from the sales and use tax the sale of platinum, gold, or silver bullion, the sale of numismatic coins that are sold for less than $10,000, and the sale of numismatic coins at a national, statewide, or multi-county trade show. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.
TN - SB2392 Education - As enacted, adds that the funds from the small and minority-owned business program that are transferred to the board of trustees of the college savings trust fund may be utilized for the administration and marketing of an incentive plan or plans. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 8.
TN - SB536 Education - As introduced, requires the office of research and education accountability to study the Response to Instruction and Intervention framework and submit a report on its implementation in elementary schools to the members of the education committee of the senate and the education administration and planning committee of the house of representatives no later than July 1, 2018. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 3; Title 49, Chapter 5 and Title 49, Chapter 6.
TN - SB2037 Handgun Permits - As introduced, reduces lifetime handgun carry permit fee from $268 to $100 for military service members who retire after 20 years of military service with honorable discharge. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1351.
TN - SB1897 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires each LEA to develop a policy that details how a student's end-of-course examination scores are weighted and incorporated into a student's final course grade; allows the LEA to not include its students' end-of-course examination scores in a student's final grade if the scores are not received at least five instructional days before the end of the course. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 6.
TN - SB402 DUI Offenses - As introduced, prohibits a person who has been convicted of a fourth or subsequent violation of driving under the influence from driving within the state, including prohibiting the issuance of a restricted driver license to such a person. - Amends TCA Title 55.
TN - SB1845 Board of Regents - As introduced, clarifies the number of members of the board of regents stated in statute to reflect that there are 19 members instead of 18 members. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7 and Title 49, Chapter 8.
TN - SB2138 Education - As introduced, requires the state board of education to make meetings of the basic education program review committee available for public viewing over the internet by streaming live and archived video accessible from the board's website. - Amends TCA Title 49.
TN - SJR501 Memorials, Death - Dr. H.K. Sorrell
TN - SJR412 Memorials, Recognition - Brentwood Middle School, National Blue Ribbon School
TN - SB1840 Education, Higher - As enacted, revises various provisions regarding financial aid for higher education. - Amends TCA Title 49.
TN - SB576 Education, Higher - As introduced, requires the disclosure concerning transferability of credits that institutions authorized to operate by THEC must make to potential students to be in 18-point type rather than 16-point type. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7 and Title 49, Chapter 8.
TN - SB582 Election Laws - As introduced, requires partisan elections in municipalities with a population 100,000 or greater and in all school board elections. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 49.
TN - SJR410 Memorials, Recognition - Bethpage Elementary School, National Blue Ribbon School
TN - SJR411 Memorials, Recognition - Jackson Elementary School, National Blue Ribbon School
TN - SB394 Education - As enacted, revises requirements in state law where an SAT score is explicitly stated to account for the change in scoring on the revised SAT exams. - Amends TCA Section 49-2-702 and Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.
TN - SJR613 Memorials, Personal Occasion - Troy and Mary Lee Frye, 70th wedding anniversary
TN - SB2038 Controlled Substances - As introduced, requires health care prescribers to issue all prescriptions for Schedule II controlled substances electronically by July 1, 2020, with some exceptions. - Amends TCA Title 53 and Title 63.
TN - SR186 Memorials, Death - Esther Smith Gurkin
TN - SJR413 Memorials, Recognition - Glendale Elementary School, National Blue Ribbon School
TN - SJR503 Memorials, Death - William Franklin Tapp
TN - SJR614 Memorials, Death - Patricia L. Maxedon
TN - SB250 Education - As enacted, requires local education agencies to use at least one alternative growth model that has been approved by the board of education for evaluation of teachers in non-tested grades and subjects; requires the department of education to develop alternative student growth models for grade levels and subjects that do not have growth models. - Amends TCA Section 49-1-302.
TN - SJR504 Memorials, Death - John Payson Matthews III
TN - SJR624 Memorials, Death - Lucion Ricks English
TN - SB1895 Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, authorizes a municipality in McNairy or Fayette County to fund chambers of commerce and economic and community organizations with revenue from a natural gas utility system owned by the municipality. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 34.
TN - SJR502 Memorials, Death - Peter Lucius “Pete” Reagan
TN - SJR659 Memorials, Retirement - B. Fielding Rolston
TN - SB1847 Education, Higher - As introduced, prohibits public institutions of higher education from requiring students to purchase meal plans. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 11; Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, Chapter 8 and Title 49, Chapter 9.
TN - SJR740 Memorials, Death - Phyllis Hopper Naylor
TN - SB2139 Education - As introduced, requires use of certain definitions of anti-Semitism and provides examples of anti-Semitism to be used in determinations of violations of K-12 or postsecondary educational policies prohibiting discrimination based on Jewish ancestry or ethnic characteristics. - Amends TCA Title 49.
TN - SJR915 Memorials, Recognition - Quintarious Bond, Boys and Girls Clubs Youth of the Year
TN - SJR606 Memorials, Recognition - Deborah Denise Oakley
TN - SB1843 Education - As introduced, requires the department of education to report annually on student placement in reading, English language arts, and mathematics classrooms with certain low performing teachers; requires the report to be made public. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 31.
TN - SR172 Memorials, Death - George Henry Moore, Jr.
TN - SB2605 Tennessee Student Assistance Corporation - As introduced, changes from March 15 to March 1 the date by which TSAC must report its research and data concerning the Tennessee Promise Scholarship to the education committee of the senate and the education administration and planning committee of the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4.
TN - SJR505 Memorials, Death - Robert William McGowan, Jr.
TN - SB2731 Decatur County - Subject to local approval, abolishes the Decatur County Democratic Party Executive Committee. - Repeals Chapter 335 of the Private Acts of 1957; as amended.
TN - SJR801 Memorials, Sports - Dale Neal, Coach of the Year
TN - SJR135 Memorials, Personal Occasion - Jack and Imogene Fitts, 70th wedding anniversary
TN - SJR45 Memorials, Public Service - Larry Raines, Mayor of Stantonville
TN - SJR863 Memorials, Death - John Herman Baker
TN - SB393 Education, Higher - As enacted, transfers rulemaking authority under the Jacob Nunley Act and under the provisions governing the Hepatitis B waiver form at institutions of higher education from THEC to the governing boards of each public institution of higher learning; requires the governing board of each public institution of higher learning, in consultation with the department of health, to promulgate rules regarding immunization requirements for students enrolled within each respective institution. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6 and Title 49, Chapter 7.
TN - SB574 Education, Curriculum - As enacted, revises provisions governing the standards recommendations committees. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 3.
TN - SJR28 Memorials, Retirement - Samuel C. McKnight
TN - SJR414 Memorials, Recognition - Walnut Grove Elementary School, National Blue Ribbon School
TN - SJR40 Memorials, Death - James H. Prewitt
TN - SJR840 Memorials, Death - Patricia Ann "Patty Ann" Alexander Hanna
TN - SJR552 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Randle Fenimore, State Textbook and Instructional Materials Quality Commission
TN - SJR123 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Mike Edwards, State Board of Education
TN - SJR800 Memorials, Sports - Freed-Hardeman University women's basketball team
TN - SB731 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, prohibits a local board of education from increasing the salary or compensation for the director of schools to an amount higher than the salary of the governor. - Amends TCA Title 49.
TN - SB1901 Education - As enacted, revises provisions governing special education and special education services associations, - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 10.
TN - SR194 Memorials, Death - Frances Lurlene Dillard Jones
TN - SR55 Memorials, Death - Leona Riff Edwards
TN - SR18 Memorials, Death - James Robert Endress
TN - SB400 Education - As introduced, creates a pilot program to provide grants to elementary and middle schools to implement the Leader in Me® pilot program. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 2.
TN - SJR42 Memorials, Death - Bobby Joe Pitts
TN - SJR929 Memorials, Retirement - Linda Kay Fulghum
TN - SB315 Comptroller, State - As enacted, requires each local government with one or more audit findings in its annual audit to submit a corrective action plan to the comptroller that addresses the actions taken or to be taken in response to each audit finding received in the annual audit. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 3, Part 4.
TN - SJR294 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Herbert H. Hilliard, Tennessee Regulatory Authority
TN - SJR556 Memorials, Death - Charles Dalton Byrd
TN - SB1896 Education - As enacted, revises the Course Access Program Act. - Amends TCA Title 49.
TN - SB2388 Motor Vehicles - As introduced, affords municipal law enforcement agency 30 days, instead of 20 days, from receipt of notice suspending municipality's authorization to enforce rules of the road, to provide proof to department of safety that agency was in compliance with rules of the department. - Amends TCA Title 55.
TN - SB569 Education - As introduced, makes various revisions to the current authorization of a school and licensure of teachers in order to allow a Montessori program to be authorized by the department of education. - Amends TCA Title 49.
TN - SB580 Election Laws - As enacted, increases from "2 percent" to "4 percent" the percentage of general assembly candidates and their committees who will be selected for an audit by the registry; specifies that the registry may only conduct the audit for the immediately preceding election cycle and may not require the production or disclosure of, or consider for purposes of the audit, any information or documents relating to any other election cycle. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 49.
TN - SB571 Education - As enacted, revises various provisions of the Tennessee Baccalaureate Education System Trust Act and the chairs of excellence; redesignates the Act as the "Tennessee College Savings Trust Act". - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29; Title 35; Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 5; Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 8; Title 55; Title 65 and Title 67.
TN - SR195 Memorials, Death - Josephine Redfearn Oliver Teague Ingle
TN - SJR214 Memorials, Death - Hazel Kathleen Bryan Yarbrough
TN - SR118 Memorials, Recognition - Hayes Family Reunion
TN - SJR124 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Gordon Ferguson, State Board of Education
TN - SB1010 Education - As introduced, changes from October 1 to November 1 the date by which the department of education must submit a report concerning lottery scholarship days and college admission workshops to the education committees of the senate and of the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4.
TN - SB986 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, provides a sales tax exemption to disabled veterans or their unmarried surviving spouses on sales of food and food ingredients under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Section 67-6-228 and Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 3.
TN - SB579 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, requires persons applying for entrance in teacher training programs to attain a minimum ACT or GED score and a minimum cumulative grade point average of 3.0 in high school or graduate with an associate degree with a cumulative high school grade point average of a 3.0 for all college coursework. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5, Part 56.
TN - SJR422 Memorials, Death - Maxwell D. Miller
TN - SB1009 Education - As introduced, requires the department of education to annually report on the availability and content of driver education and training courses in public schools to the education committees of the house of representatives and the senate. - Amends TCA Title 49.
TN - SR23 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Thomas A.H. White, Tennessee Board of Regents
TN - SR68 Memorials, Interns - Lindsay Sarah Alderman
TN - SR21 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Joey Hatch, Board of Regents
TN - SR180 Memorials, Death - Richard Lee Lusk
TN - SB2740 Grand Junction - Subject to local approval, updates description of boundaries of City of Grand Junction; revises general powers of city government; creates staggered terms for aldermen; revises vacancy provisions governing aldermen; requires ordinances to be approved by the board two times rather than three times; makes various other changes to the City Charter. - Amends Chapter 75 of the Private Acts of 1969; as amended.
TN - SB732 Education, Higher - As enacted, revises provisions governing complaint investigations and resolutions under the State Authorization Reciprocity Agreement (SARA) Act. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 15.
TN - SJR825 Memorials, Recognition - Dr. Orman Campbell
TN - SB734 Education, Higher - As introduced, requires efficiency audits to be performed for public systems of higher education and public institutions of higher education; creates the joint higher education efficiency audit committee. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 12 and Title 49.
TN - SJR339 Memorials, Recognition - Brother Jetta Forsythe
TN - SJR815 Memorials, Death - Herbert Ray Myers
TN - SJR816 Memorials, Death - Doyle Murphy
TN - SR56 Memorials, Death - Charles Clinton Crow
TN - SB572 Education - As introduced, includes teacher evaluations and the student’s performance on assessments while a student of the teacher as factors that determine a student’s assignment to a public school; requires the department of education to conduct a study relative to student placement and teacher effectiveness. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 31.
TN - SB1432 Hardeman County - Subject to local approval, requires nonpartisan elections for county office.
TN - SB2753 Silerton - Subject to local approval, rewrites town charter. - Amends Chapter 148 of the Private Acts of 1923; as amended.
TN - SJR207 Memorials, Death - Zilla Hawkins
TN - SJR41 Memorials, Death - Raymond William Naylor
TN - SJR870 Memorials, Death - Annie Clay Brown
TN - SJR869 Memorials, Death - Martha Marie Couch Coursey
TN - SB863 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, prohibits the inclusion of a student’s attendance when calculating the graduation rate of a school or LEA if the student fails to register for school 21 days after the first day of school. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 30.
TN - SJR70 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Encourages Tennessee Education Association Board of Directors to seek the repeal of National Education Association Resolution I-17.
TN - SR179 Memorials, Recognition - Ed White
TN - SJR421 Memorials, Death - Robert Wesley Wilson
TN - SB2390 Education - As introduced, prohibits school employees, directors of schools, and employees and members of a local board of education or governing body of a public charter school from assisting an employee in obtaining a job at another school for any position that involves direct contact with minors or students, if on notice, or there is reasonable cause to suspect, that the employee has committed an act of misconduct; enacts other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 49.
TN - SB586 Education, Higher - As introduced, corrects an error in the definition of "academic year" for purposes of the lottery scholarship program. - Amends TCA Title 49.
TN - SB809 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, moves up the deadline for the state board of education to release the teacher preparation training report from November 1 of each year to February 15 of each year. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5.
TN - SB1754 Education, Higher - As introduced, identifies when a member of a governing board has a conflict of interest involving a state institution of higher education governed by the board; prohibits a governing board member from accepting or soliciting anything of value in excess of $250 from an institution governed by the board; prohibits certain persons from serving as a governing board member. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, Chapter 8 and Title 49, Chapter 9.
TN - SB463 Comptroller, State - As enacted, requires the administrative head of a department, agency, or institution that has been audited by the comptroller to submit a corrective action plan within 30 days of the issuance of the audit report; empowers certain standing committees to take action in the event of noncompliance with respect to an audit by a department, agency, or institution. - Amends TCA Section 8-4-109.
TN - SB2562 State Symbols - As enacted, designates Here's the Beef Festival as official state beef festival. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3.
TN - SB1967 Employees, Employers - As enacted, specifies that a marketplace contractor of a marketplace platform is not an employee of the marketplace platform. - Amends TCA Title 50; Title 56 and Title 62.
TN - SB683 Water Pollution - As enacted, requires public water systems for which a monthly fluoride test is confirmed by quarterly laboratory analysis to exceed 1.5 mg/L to have each monthly test analyzed by a laboratory until fluoride levels are below 1.5 mg/L for three consecutive months. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 221, Part 7.
TN - SB1947 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires LEAs to report certain information to the department of education regarding use of corporal punishment. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 6.
TN - SB1338 Handgun Permits - As enacted, creates an exemption to the firing range component of the training that is required in order to obtain a handgun carry permit for applicants who submit proof to the department of safety that they have successfully passed small arms qualification training or combat pistol training in any branch of the United States armed forces. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1351.
TN - SB417 Treasurer, State - As enacted, clarifies state treasurer has authority to raise funds for the Tennessee financial literacy commission. - Amends TCA Section 49-6-1704.
TN - SB710 Libraries - As enacted, revises provisions related to the operation of local libraries and the state regional library system; specifies terms for board service. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 1; Title 10, Chapter 3; Title 10, Chapter 5; Title 10, Chapter 8; Title 10, Chapter 1 and Title 40, Chapter 39.
TN - SB1231 Education - As enacted, authorizes the development of curriculum for work-based learning in labor education alignment program. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 12.
TN - SB209 Veterans - As enacted, authorizes private employers to give hiring preference to honorably discharged veterans, spouses of veterans with service-connected disabilities, unremarried widows or widowers of veterans who died of service-connected disabilities, and unremarried widows or widowers of members of the military who died in the line of duty. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 1, Part 1.
TN - SB383 Water Authorities - As introduced, exempts LEAs from storm water user's fees. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 221.
TN - SB1232 Education, Higher - As enacted, requires state institutions of higher education to develop and implement uniform procedures for awarding academic credit through course equivalencies for military education, training, experience, and occupational specialties; provides methods for implementation. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 13.
TN - SB995 Board of Regents - As enacted, makes various technical corrections to the FOCUS Act related to the appointment of student and faculty board members. - Amends TCA Section 49-8-201.
TN - SB1013 Students - As enacted, requires a school to count a child who serves as a page for the general assembly as present for attendance purposes in the same manner as an educational field trip; prohibits giving excused or unexcused absences for a child serving as a page. - Amends TCA Section 49-6-3018.
TN - SB614 Education - As enacted, adds to and clarifies law concerning teacher training. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5, Part 56.
TN - SB2029 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires LEAs to provide written notice to a student's parents or legal guardians before the student participates in any mental health screening. - Amends TCA Title 49.
TN - SB1709 Agriculture - As enacted, authorizes the creation of a corn promotion board and an assessment of one cent per bushel sold if a majority of corn producers voting in a referendum on the question vote in favor of such measures. - Amends TCA Title 43.
TN - SB2260 Education, Higher - As enacted, enacts the University of Tennessee Focusing on Campus and University Success (FOCUS) Act; reconstitutes the board of trustees of the University of Tennessee and revises other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 49, Chapter 9.
TN - SB1665 Education, Higher - As enacted, enacts the "Tuition Transparency and Accountability Act." - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 11; Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, Chapter 8 and Title 49, Chapter 9.
TN - SB1196 Education - As enacted, revises present law concerning the use of assessment data. - Amends TCA Section 10-7-504; Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 3 and Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 6.
TN - SB1160 Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As enacted, creates "Tennessee Rural Mayors Day" to be observed on the first Monday of October each year. - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2.
TN - SB1651 Child Custody and Support - As enacted, revises provisions governing relocation of one parent. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 6, Part 1.
TN - SB1628 Tennessee Higher Education Commission - As introduced, requires THEC to provide data on statutory tuition waivers and discounts in the higher education fact book. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 50, Part 1; Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, Chapter 8; Title 49, Chapter 9 and Title 49, Chapter 4.
TN - SB1198 Education - As enacted, revises various provisions regarding student accountability measures due to the implementation of the federal law The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) including revising the way the state board of education and the department of education determine the performance level of a school. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 6 and Section 49-6-6001.
TN - SB519 Pets - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Retail Pet Store Consumer Protection Act" to provide coverage for certain veterinary expenses to persons who buy defective dogs from retail pet stores. - Amends TCA Title 44, Chapter 17.
TN - SB2563 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, allows private certified firearms instructors to train teachers in certain distressed rural counties who are allowed to carry concealed firearms on school property as well as being taught by the local law enforcement agency. - Amends TCA Section 49-6-816.
TN - SB1399 Election Laws - As enacted, requires, if the county election commission has arranged for the use of a public school or a public charter school as a polling place for a regular November election, that the LEA or the public charter school be closed for instruction on the election day; authorizes an LEA or public charter school to choose to be open or closed for instruction on election days other than days on which a regular November election occurs. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 6 and Title 49.
TN - SB117 Education, State Board of - As enacted, authorizes rules and policies permitting the administration of medications for adrenal insufficiency in schools. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 63.
TN - SB2662 Education - As enacted, provides that any voluntary association that establishes and enforces bylaws or rules for interscholastic sports competition for secondary schools in this state is subject to an annual audit by the comptroller of the treasury; enacts other provisions regarding school athletics associations. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 3 and Title 49, Chapter 6.
TN - SB2646 Economic and Community Development, Dept. of - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Rural Hospital Transformation Act of 2018." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 68 and Title 71.
TN - SJR80 Memorials, Recognition - Clarksville Association for Down Syndrome
TN - SJR31 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Confirms the appointment of persons to the state university board of Tennessee Technological University.
TN - SJR532 Memorials, Recognition - Gray's Creek Church, 175th anniversary
TN - SJR498 Memorials, Recognition - Kenneth W. Lowe
TN - SJR34 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Confirms the appointment of persons to the state university board of Austin Peay State University.