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
- TennesseeSigned into law114th General Assembly
SB 1019 · Education, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to allocate the state share of the Tennessee investment in student achievement formula funds generated by student members of a public charter school in the prior school year directly to the public charter school instead of allocating such funds to the local education agency in which the public charter school is located. - Amends Chapter __ of the Public Acts of 2025 (1st Ex. Sess. – SB 6001 / HB 6004); and TCA Title 49, Chapter 13 and Title 49, Chapter 3.
May 9, 2025: Pub. Ch. 456
- TennesseeSigned into law114th General Assembly
SB 644 · Nurses, Nursing - As enacted, requires the board of nursing to permit a student to enroll in a practical nursing program offered by a public institution of higher education governed by the Tennessee board of regents if the student meets the qualifications for a high school diploma or its equivalent and meets other requirements; requires the board of nursing to permit a student enrolled in a practical nursing program to sit for the national council licensure exam for practical nurses (NCLEX-PN) upon completion of a practical nursing program. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 63.
May 9, 2025: Pub. Ch. 435
- TennesseeSigned into law114th General Assembly
SB 933 · Boards and Commissions - As enacted, makes various revisions to the governing boards of public higher education institutions. -
May 9, 2025: Pub. Ch. 452
- TennesseeSigned into law114th General Assembly
SB 1003 · Education - As enacted, requires, if an approved universal reading screener is administered to pre-k students at an LEA or public charter school, the LEA or public charter school to allow the pre-k teacher whose students were administered the screener to use the results as an approved alternative student growth model or the pre-k/kindergarten portfolio growth model to generate individual growth scores for teachers pursuant to the evaluation guidelines developed by the department of education. - Amends TCA Title 49.
May 5, 2025: Pub. Ch. 385
- TennesseeSigned into law114th General Assembly
SB 1423 · Education - As enacted, requires each local board of education and public charter school governing body to develop and implement a policy to provide, with each K-8 student's report card, the student's score on the universal reading screener if administered to the student in the current school year, and the results of the dyslexia screener most recently administered to the student, if applicable. - Amends TCA Title 49.
May 2, 2025: Pub. Ch. 330
- TennesseeSigned into law114th General Assembly
HB 1188 · Education - As enacted, prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sex, or religion against a student or an employee in a public institution of education; requires public institutions of education to treat harassment or discrimination against students or employees, or resulting from institutional policies or programs on their campuses, motivated by or including antisemitic intent in an identical manner to discrimination motivated by race; requires Title VI coordinators to be designated to monitor antisemitic discrimination and harassment at K-12 schools and institutions of higher education. - Amends TCA Title 49.
Apr 24, 2025: Pub. Ch. 293
- TennesseeSigned into law114th General Assembly
SB 290 · Search & Seizure - As enacted, specifies that certain physical searches of students and searches of lockers, vehicles, and other property must be conducted by a school resource officer. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.
Apr 24, 2025: Pub. Ch. 244
- TennesseeIn committee114th General Assembly
HB 919 · Boards and Commissions - As enacted, makes various revisions to the governing boards of public higher education institutions. -
Apr 16, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 452
- TennesseeSigned into law114th General Assembly
SB 946 · Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires an LEA that receives credible information regarding a threat of violence or significantly disruptive behavior directed toward, or occurring on the grounds of, a public school in the LEA, and that reports the threat or disruptive behavior to a state or local law enforcement agency, to notify the parents and guardians of students enrolled in the public school of the same threat or disruptive behavior within 48 hours of the LEA making its report to law enforcement. - Amends TCA Title 49.
Apr 15, 2025: Pub. Ch. 215
- TennesseeSigned into law114th General Assembly
SB 124 · 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.
Apr 11, 2025: Pub. Ch. 156
- TennesseeSigned into law114th General Assembly
SB 380 · Utilities, Utility Districts - As enacted, creates a process by which a utility district commissioner who becomes ineligible to serve for failing to meet training and continuing education requirements may be reinstated; reduces the number of hours of training and continuing education for utility district commissioners from 12 hours to six hours in each continuing education period following the initial 12 hours of initial training and continuing education. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 34 and Title 7, Chapter 82.
Apr 11, 2025: Pub. Ch. 166
- TennesseeIn committee114th General Assembly
HB 138 · Education - As introduced, creates a special fund to provide grants to local education agencies and public charter schools for the acquisition, retention, or expansion of digital career and technical education curricula through platforms containing comprehensive courses with lesson plans, media rich content and activities, and interactive assessments. - Amends TCA Title 9 and Title 49.
Apr 8, 2025: Placed behind the budget
- TennesseeIn committee114th General Assembly
HB 401 · Tennessee Investment in Student Achievement (TISA) - As introduced, adds pre-kindergarten students with special education needs and their peer models to the categories of students who generate education funding through the TISA. - Amends TCA Title 49.
Apr 8, 2025: Placed behind the budget
- TennesseeIn committee114th General Assembly
HB 958 · Education - As enacted, creates a federal education deregulation cooperation task force to prepare Tennessee for the potential of deregulation of federal laws, regulations, requirements, and guidance for K-12 education. - Amends TCA Title 49.
Apr 8, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 454
- TennesseeSigned into law114th General Assembly
HB 64 · Education - As enacted, requires all residential educational programs in this state that allow minors to participate or to access residential facilities, including staying overnight in such facilities, to segregate certain restrooms, changing areas, and showers by immutable biological sex. - Amends TCA Title 49.
Apr 3, 2025: Pub. Ch. 134
- TennesseeIn committee114th General Assembly
HB 1147 · Education, Higher - As introduced, requires the Tennessee student assistance corporation to submit an annual report, by July 31 each year, to legislative committees having jurisdiction over postsecondary education detailing, for each of the five immediately preceding academic years for which the corporation awarded scholarships, the amount appropriated by the general assembly for the scholarship program, the total number of scholarship applications received by the corporation, the total number of scholarship recipients, and the average scholarship award amount. - Amends TCA Title 49.
Apr 2, 2025: Placed behind the budget
- TennesseeIn committee114th General Assembly
HB 1199 · Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires each board of education for an LEA that operates at least one high school to adopt and implement a policy to authorize a high school student to serve as an advisory, nonvoting representative on the board during meetings that are open to the public. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 2.
Apr 2, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 359
- TennesseeIn committee114th General Assembly
HB 348 · Education - As introduced, requires, if a local government adopts a budget that includes the required maintenance of effort for education funding but fails to appropriate or allocate the full amount budgeted to the LEA, the local government, in the following fiscal year, to appropriate and allocate the unfunded portion to the LEA; specifies that the maintenance of local funding effort required for a fiscal year following a fiscal year in which the local government failed to appropriate or allocate the full amount budgeted to the LEA must be determined based on the amount budgeted to the LEA for the previous fiscal year instead of the amount actually appropriated or allocated to the LEA by the local government. - Amends TCA Section 49-3-314.
Apr 2, 2025: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee
- TennesseeIn committee114th General Assembly
HB 7 · Education, Higher - As introduced, establishes the hunger-free campus grant program; provides grants to higher education institutions to address student hunger. - Amends TCA Title 49.
Mar 26, 2025: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee
- TennesseeIn committee114th General Assembly
HB 1003 · Schools, Private - As enacted, prohibits the state board of education from requiring a private school that provides a fully online, self-paced educational program to comply with certain class size, school calendar, vaccination, and assessment requirements in order to operate in this state as an approved Category III nonpublic school. - Amends TCA Title 49.
Mar 25, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 380
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.