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8,952
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Attendance
92%
693 missed
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99%
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Higher than 77% of chamber peers
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Lower than 83% of chamber peers
Sponsored
560
bills & resolutions
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8,952 roll-call votes
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8,885
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57
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Absent
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Bill
Description
Vote
Result
Tally
Date
SB 583
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.
Yea
Passed
6–0
Apr 5, 2017
SB 562
Education, Higher - As enacted, creates the Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). - Amends TCA Section 4-3-733 and Title 49, Chapter 7.
Yea
Passed
9–0
Apr 5, 2017
SB 635
Education, Higher - As introduced, authorizes the governing body of each public institution of higher education to determine the qualifications that students must possess to be eligible for payment of in-state tuition. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, Chapter 8 and Title 49, Chapter 9.
Yea
Passed
5–1
Apr 5, 2017
SB 584
Education - As enacted, revises various provisions of the Individualized Education Act. - Amends TCA Title 49.
Yea
Passed
8–0
Apr 5, 2017
SB 987
Education - As introduced, removes requirement that an eligible student be previously enrolled in a public school for two semesters prior to receiving an individualized education account, attend a Tennessee school for the first time, or receive an account in the previous school year in order to be considered eligible to receive an individualized education account. - Amends TCA Title 49.
Yea
Passed
6–2
Apr 5, 2017
SB 401
Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, revises provisions governing the money teachers receive for classroom instruction materials. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 3.
Yea
Passed
8–0
Apr 5, 2017
SB 404
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.
Yea
Passed
5–0
Apr 5, 2017
SB 571
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.
Yea
Passed
9–0
Apr 5, 2017
HB 1057
Public Property - As introduced, clarifies that government records unlawfully removed from a government records office be returned to their office of origin within two business days of the time safeguards are established to prevent further recurrence of unlawful removal. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 10; Title 12, Chapter 6 and Title 39, Chapter 16.
Yea
Passed
9–0
Apr 5, 2017
SB 570
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.
Yea
Passed
7–1
Apr 5, 2017
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