Bill Tracker
Federal and state legislation: who sponsored it, how every member voted, where it stands, and what the Constitution says about it.
201 bills on Education and school choice
- TennesseeIn committee114th General Assembly
HB 1036 · Education - As enacted, authorizes a state university board of trustees to conduct private meetings to discuss or deliberate on matters related to senior administration, personnel positions, and contracts, without taking action on such matters in a private meeting. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 14; Title 49, Chapter 4; Title 49, Chapter 50; Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, Chapter 8 and Title 49, Chapter 9.
Mar 19, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 267
- TennesseeIn committee114th General Assembly
HB 1283 · Election Laws - As enacted, requires the coordinator of elections to include, in the coordinator's minimum standards for educating election officials, training on temporary forms of identification issued to non-United States citizens that may not be used as evidence of identification on an application for ballot. - Amends TCA Title 2.
Mar 19, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 394
- TennesseeIn committee114th General Assembly
HB 408 · Education - As enacted, requires the Tennessee higher education commission (THEC), to serve as the governing board of directors for the Tennessee student assistance corporation; requires THEC's review committee to aid in the development or revision of state financial aid; terminates the Tennessee teaching scholars program; terminates the minority teaching fellows program. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49.
Mar 19, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 234
- TennesseeIn committee114th General Assembly
HB 39 · Local Education Agencies - As introduced, enacts the "Menstrual Hygiene Products Accessibility Act," which requires, instead of authorizes, LEAs and public charter schools to provide feminine hygiene products at no charge in all women's and girls' bathrooms, in all locker rooms, and with school nurses at each public senior high school for student use only. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 49 and Title 67.
Mar 12, 2025: Placed on s/c cal Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee for 4/14/2025
- TennesseeIn committee114th General Assembly
HB 522 · Education - As introduced, enacts the "Early Behavioral Intervention and Reporting Act"; clarifies that public charter schools are required to have a threat assessment team in the same manner as required of local education agencies. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 37 and Title 49.
Mar 12, 2025: Placed on s/c cal Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee for 4/14/2025
- TennesseeIn committee114th General Assembly
HB 663 · Education - As introduced, deletes a pilot program, which was established to improve parent-teacher engagement in any grade from kindergarten through grade two in public schools, that expired in 2021. - Amends TCA Title 49.
Mar 12, 2025: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Higher Education Subcommittee of Education Committee
- TennesseeIn committee114th General Assembly
HB 81 · Students - As enacted, requires local education agencies to transfer a student's record, including the student's disciplinary record, to the school to which the student is transferring within five business days of the date on which the student's records request was received by the LEA. - Amends TCA Title 49.
Mar 4, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 156
- TennesseeIn committee114th General Assembly
HB 1193 · Education, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to conduct a landscape analysis of teacher evaluation practices in this state and other states; requires the department to convene a teacher evaluation advisory committee to review and evaluate current teacher evaluation practices in this state; requires the department and the state board to provide the education committee of the senate and committee of the house of representatives having jurisdiction over teacher evaluations a final report on the landscape analysis, teacher evaluation advisory committee's recommendations, and any department or state board recommendations by January 31, 2026. - Amends TCA Title 49.
Feb 18, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 325
- TennesseeIn committee114th General Assembly
HB 1121 · Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, expands eligibility for a dual enrollment grant to include students who are sophomores in high school and admitted to an eligible postsecondary institution as a dual enrollment student. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4.
Feb 12, 2025: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Higher Education Subcommittee of Education Committee
- TennesseeIn committee114th General Assembly
HB 1197 · Education, Curriculum - As enacted, makes various changes to the approval process and notice requirements for nonsectarian, nonreligious Bible courses; clarifies that public charter schools are authorized to provide nonsectarian, nonreligious Bible courses in the same manner as local education agencies. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.
Feb 12, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 314
- TennesseeIn committee114th General Assembly
HB 1281 · Education - As enacted, prohibits excusing a student from school to attend a released time course in religious moral instruction during the school year unless certain criteria are met. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 5 and Title 49, Chapter 6.
Feb 12, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 401
- TennesseeIn committee114th General Assembly
SB 1073 · Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires LEAs to notify parents or guardians of a student at least 10 days before the student's individualized education program (IEP) meeting; requires LEAs to provide a copy of all evaluations and assessments of a student conducted for purposes of the student's IEP and, if created, a copy of a student's draft IEP, unless previously declined, to the student's parent or guardian at least 48 hours prior to a scheduled IEP team meeting. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 10 and Title 49, Chapter 6.
Feb 12, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 199
- TennesseeIn committee114th General Assembly
SB 1387 · Scholarships and Financial Aid - As introduced, adds Western Governors University as a postsecondary institution at which Tennessee resident students may be enrolled for purposes of receiving a Senator Ben Atchley opportunity grant. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 8.
Feb 12, 2025: Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/21/2026
- TennesseeIn committee114th General Assembly
SB 476 · Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires, beginning August 1, 2027, each LEA and public charter school to prohibit food or beverage items that contain Allura Red AC, which is Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 25956-17-6 and also known as Red 40, to be sold, offered for sale, or provided to students on school property through the school nutrition program provided by the LEA, public charter school, or a third party expressly authorized by the LEA or public charter school. - Amends TCA Title 49.
Feb 12, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 476
- TennesseeSigned into law114th General Assembly
SB 6001 · Education - As enacted, enacts the "Education Freedom Scholarship Act."
Feb 12, 2025: [HB 6004] Pub. Ch. 7
- TennesseeIn committee114th General Assembly
SB 682 · Scholarships and Financial Aid - As enacted, makes various changes to the "Tennessee Future Teacher Scholarship Act of 2023." - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 7.
Feb 12, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 488
- TennesseeIn committee114th General Assembly
SB 803 · Scholarships and Financial Aid - As introduced, adds an institution accredited by the National Accrediting Commission of Career Arts and Sciences (NACCAS) that has its primary campus domiciled in this state as an eligible postsecondary institution in which a student may be enrolled for purposes of receiving a Tennessee Promise scholarship; conditions the availability of the scholarship at such an institution on there being no available enrollment slots in a Tennessee college of applied technology in the student's county of residence for the student's desired program of study. - Amends TCA Title 49.
Feb 12, 2025: Failed in Senate Education Committee
- TennesseeIn committee114th General Assembly
SB 817 · Drugs, Prescription - As enacted, authorizes a healthcare practitioner to prescribe and a pharmacist to dispense a prescribed, bronchodilator rescue inhaler to an authorized entity to be administered to a person believed to be experiencing asthma symptoms or respiratory distress in an emergency situation, under a standing protocol from the healthcare practitioner; encourages schools in LEAs and public charter schools to keep bronchodilator rescue inhalers to be administered to students believed to be having asthma symptoms or in respiratory distress in an emergency situation. - Amends TCA Title 49; Title 53; Title 63 and Title 68.
Feb 12, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 346
- TennesseeIn committee114th General Assembly
SB 989 · Education - As introduced, corrects the name of the Cumberland Museum and Science Center to the Adventure Science Center for purposes of receipt of appropriations of state funds made for educational grants-in-aid under allotments of the commissioner of finance and administration. - Amends TCA Title 49.
Feb 12, 2025: Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/21/2026
- TennesseeIn committee114th General Assembly
HB 84 · Driver Licenses - As introduced, lowers the minimum age, from 25 to 21, that is necessary to receive an initial school bus endorsement. - Amends TCA Section 5-8-102; Title 49 and Title 55.
Jan 28, 2025: Sponsor(s) Added.
Bill data comes from official sources: Congress.gov and govinfo, the House Clerk, and each state legislature's own records (some gathered through Open States). Each bill page links to its official record.