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failed · Tennessee · House Mar 29, 2022

HB 1004: Election Laws - As introduced, requires county election commissions to conduct a supplemental registration at public and private high schools once each fall and spring semester; requires county election commissions to designate teachers as deputies for the purposes of in-person registration at supplemental registrations. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 49.

Taken off notice for cal. in Local Government Committee

failed · Tennessee · House Mar 29, 2022

HB 2121: Election Laws - As introduced, revises provisions relating to voter registration; provides mechanisms by which to verify a voter's eligibility to vote; grants general assembly standing in cases involving violation of election laws. - Amends TCA Title 2.

Taken off notice for cal. in Local Government Committee

failed · Tennessee · Senate Mar 29, 2022

SB 2922: Lewisburg - Subject to local approval, grants the City of Lewisburg the power to make various changes regarding public utility systems, telecommunications systems, public infrastructure, and impose fees from new land developments by ordinance. - Amends Chapter 36 of the Private Acts of 1961; as amended.

Failed in Local Government Committee

died · Tennessee · Senate Mar 29, 2022

SB 2808: Search & Seizure - As introduced, requires law enforcement, district attorneys, and the attorney general to obtain a warrant for disclosure of stored wire or electronic communications and related transactional records; removes a subpoena or other lawful process except a warrant as a process for obtaining disclosure of stored wire or electronic communications and transactional records. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 6.

Taken off notice for cal in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Criminal Justice Committee

failed · Tennessee · Senate Mar 29, 2022

SB 2267: Election Laws - As introduced, revises provisions relating to voter registration; provides mechanisms by which to verify a voter's eligibility to vote; grants general assembly standing in cases involving violation of election laws. - Amends TCA Title 2.

Taken off notice for cal. in Local Government Committee

failed · Tennessee · Senate Mar 29, 2022

SB 1900: Children's Services, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to maintain staffing levels of case managers so that each region has enough case managers to allow caseloads not to exceed an average of 12 active cases relating to initial assessments, 12 children monitored and supervised in active cases relating to ongoing in-home services, or 13 children in active cases in which the children are in out-of-home placements relating to ongoing services. - Amends TCA Title 37.

Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee

failed · Tennessee · House Mar 29, 2022

HB 1648: Local Education Agencies - 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. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49.

No Action Taken

died · Tennessee · House Mar 29, 2022

HB 591: Education, Dept. of - As introduced, changes from October 1 to October 15, the date by which an LEA operating a charter school is required to catalog all underutilized or vacant properties owned or operated by the LEA or within an educational facility owned or operated by the LEA each year, and submit a comprehensive listing to the department and the comptroller of the treasury. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Education Committee

died · Tennessee · Senate Mar 29, 2022

SB 1134: Education, Dept. of - As introduced, changes from October 1 to October 15, the date by which an LEA operating a charter school is required to catalog all underutilized or vacant properties owned or operated by the LEA or within an educational facility owned or operated by the LEA each year, and submit a comprehensive listing to the department and the comptroller of the treasury. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Taken off notice for cal in s/c K-12 Subcommittee of Education Administration

failed · Tennessee · House Mar 29, 2022

HB 1974: Children's Services, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to maintain staffing levels of case managers so that each region has enough case managers to allow caseloads not to exceed an average of 12 active cases relating to initial assessments, 12 children monitored and supervised in active cases relating to ongoing in-home services, or 13 children in active cases in which the children are in out-of-home placements relating to ongoing services. - Amends TCA Title 37.

Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee

failed · Tennessee · Senate Mar 29, 2022

SB 2597: Local Education Agencies - 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. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49.

No Action Taken

failed · Tennessee · Senate Mar 29, 2022

SB 1834: Education - As introduced, requires TCAP tests to be administered in a paper format for students in grades three through eight; allows the commissioner of education to determine whether end-of-course assessments must be administered in a computerized, online, or paper format; allows an LEA or public charter school to administer end-of-course assessments in a paper format if it objects to administering end-of-course assessments in a computerized or online format. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 60.

Failed in Senate Education Committee / no second