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Memorials, Death
Gretchen Qualls Sadler
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Memorials, Sports
Hardin County High School, girls' bowling state champions
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Memorials, Sports
Libby Bromley, girls' bowling state finalist
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Memorials, Academic Achievement
Aubrey Garton, Valedictorian, Hardin County High School
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Memorials, Academic Achievement
Cooper Townley, Salutatorian, Hardin County High School
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Memorials, Sports
Lobelville Middle School Hornets boys' basketball team, 2025 James C. Haile State Tournament Class A champion
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Chester County
Subject to local approval, implements new motor vehicle privilege tax. - Amends amend Chapter 234 of the Private Acts of 1972; as amended.
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Education
As introduced, creates the division of early child care and education within the department of education. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49.
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Tennessee Investment in Student Achievement (TISA)
As introduced, creates a 3 percent weighted allocation for a student who resides in a school district with a membership between 1,001 and 1,250, both inclusive. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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Local Education Agencies
As introduced, repeals the "Tennessee Community Schools Act"; enacts the "Tennessee Full Service Community Schools Act." - Amends TCA Title 49.
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Local Education Agencies
As introduced, enacts the "School District Capital Improvements Investment Trust Act." - Amends TCA Title 49.
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Sardis
Subject to local approval, removes archaic references to debtor's prisons, city marshal, the original members of the board of mayor and aldermen, and city recorder authority; sets salaries of board members by ordinance rather than by charter; authorizes the board to set meeting dates by ordinance rather than by charter, increases terms of the mayor and aldermen from two to …
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Education
As introduced, creates the task force for educational leadership to publish a comprehensive plan for the state to assume full responsibility for education programs currently administered by the United States department of education; requires the department of education to conduct an inventory of all existing federal education programs and grants administered by the state; requires the attorney general and reporter …
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Planning, Public
As introduced, requires an establishment resolution adopted by the governing body of a municipality to form an infrastructure development district to include an itemization of the funded costs for infrastructure related to each utility service that will serve the development district. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13; Title 65 and Title 66.
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Regional Authorities and Special Districts
As introduced, authorizes the board of directors of the Tennessee Duck River Development Agency to file annual reports electronically. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 14; Title 4, Chapter 31; Title 7; Title 13; Title 64; Title 66; Title 67 and Chapter 68 of the Private Acts of 2024.
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Education
As introduced, changes the definition of economically disadvantaged for purposes of the weighted allocations generated for such students in the Tennessee investment in student achievement formula; requires the department of education to allocate additional funds to an LEA that experiences a reduction in the LEA's TISA allocation in certain circumstances; requires the department to seek an amendment to this state's …
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Local Education Agencies
As introduced, adds sixth grade to the grade levels for which a local board of education is required to establish an alternative school for students who have been suspended or expelled from the regular school program; requires a student in sixth grade who has been suspended for more than 10 days or expelled from the regular school program to attend …
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Local Education Agencies
As introduced, requires each LEA to submit a report to the department of education by July 31 each year that includes, for the immediately preceding school year, the number of students the LEA provided with information on the career and technical education opportunities offered by the LEA after the students were administered a career aptitude assessment in grade seven or …
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Correction, Dept. of
As introduced, prohibits the department from removing a state inmate from a local jail facility for the purpose of relocating the inmate to a state facility if the inmate is participating in a work release or re-entry program unless the inmate has failed to meet the work release or in-house duty requirements, or the inmate's disciplinary records warrant the inmate's …
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Education
As introduced, requires local education agencies and public charter schools to provide all high school students, instead of only high school seniors, the opportunity to take a nationally recognized career readiness assessment; requires the board of regents to establish a framework for institutions governed by the board to provide transcribable credit to students who earned a credential on a nationally …
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Education, Higher
As introduced, requires the commission to review and update the outcomes-based funding formula model at least once every five years to provide incentives for institutions that offer programs leading to job placement in high-demand fields in this state. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 49 and Title 62.
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Children
As introduced, reduces the time in which the department of children's services has to determine whether a temporary childcare licensee has complied with all regulations to receive a permanent childcare license from 90 days from the date the temporary license was issued to 80 days. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 13; …
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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.
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Education
As introduced, requires the state board of education to authorize a student who is working toward completing a career and technical education elective focus to substitute up to four career and technical education course credits for the required chemistry course credit, computer science course credit, world language course credit, and Algebra II course credit necessary to earn a full diploma …
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Hospitals and Health Care Facilities
As enacted, declares Perry County Community Hospital in Linden and Decatur County General Hospital in Parsons to be necessary providers for the purpose of critical access hospital designation eligibility in accordance with Section 1820 of the Social Security Act. - Amends TCA Title 68.
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Lottery, Scholarships and Programs
As introduced, establishes the promising futures early learning scholarship program and a fund to provide scholarships for high-quality early learning programs from excess lottery revenues. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 51; Title 37, Chapter 5, Part 5; Title 49 and Title 71, Chapter 3.
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Pensions and Retirement Benefits
As enacted, establishes that certain public officials, including members of the general assembly, who take office on or after July 1, 2025, have mandatory membership in the Tennessee consolidated retirement system (TCRS); allows a retiree to reannuitize retirement benefits in favor of a new spouse beneficiary following cancellation of a former spouse beneficiary due to divorce; makes other revisions to …
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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.
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Education, Dept. of
As introduced, requires the department to submit a request to the United States department of education to amend this state's Every Student Succeeds Act plan to remove all end-of-course assessment requirements for students in grades nine through 12 and to allow the ACT, SAT, or another postsecondary readiness assessment approved by the commissioner to be annually administered to students in …
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Education, Dept. of
As introduced, requires the department to use student performance on career readiness assessments administered to high school seniors as part of the school grading system if the department uses student performance on postsecondary readiness assessments for such purpose; directs the department to only consider student performance on the assessment type for which the student achieved the highest score for school …