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Latest Action: 06/12/2007 - Held on desk. Bill TextBasic Education Program (BEP) - Provides that BEP and other state funding to ensure or promote classroom Internet connectivity and/or technology access shall be paid by the state directly to the respective LEAs. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 3. Fiscal Summary for *HB2067 / SB2078Increase State Expenditures - Not Significant
Latest Action: 03/16/2007 - Assigned to Gen. Sub of Senate Ed. Comm. Bill TextBasic Education Program (BEP) - Provides that BEP and other state funding to ensure or promote classroom Internet connectivity and/or technology access shall be paid by the state directly to the respective LEAs. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 3. Fiscal Summary for SB2078 / *HB2067Increase State Expenditures - Not Significant
Latest Action: 05/01/2007 - Action Deferred in Subcommittee K-12 of Education to summer study Bill TextCompanion Bill SB1089. Education - Establishes a matching fund program for LEAs in which every privately donated dollar may be matched by two state dollars for use for educational purposes. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 3. Fiscal Summary for HB1229 / *SB1089Increase State Expenditures - $6,625,000 Increase Local Govt. Revenues - $6,625,000 Bill Summary for HB1229 / *SB1089 This bill authorizes any LEA to raise private funds by means of donations. The donations would be kept in a separate account by the LEA and the LEA would be required to annually certify the amount of private donations raised by the LEA. This bill requires the department of education to remit state matching funds to each LEA at a ratio of one state dollar for every two private dollars donated. This bill authorizes LEAs to expend the privately donated and matching [...] show full description
Latest Action: 03/05/2008 - Failed In Subcommittee Public Health and Family Assistance of HHouse Resolution of Health & Human Resources Committee Bill TextCompanion Bill SB1959. Education - Places restrictions on universal mental health testing, or psychiatric or socioemotional screening of juveniles; requires certain consent by a juvenile's parent, guardian, legal custodian, or caregiver before such testing can occur. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 4 and Title 49, Chapter 2, Part 1. Fiscal Summary for *HB1419 / SB1959Increase State Expenditures - Not Significant Increase Local Govt. Expenditures - Not Significant Bill Summary for *HB1419 / SB1959 This bill specifies that universal mental health, psychiatric or socioemotional screening of juveniles is prohibited in this state, unless: (1) A juvenile's parent, guardian, legal custodian, or caregiver has provided consent, which consent may be withdrawn at any time; (2) A court requires screening; or (3) Emergency testing [...] show full description
Latest Action: 06/20/2008 - Companion became Public Chapter 1096 Bill TextCompanion Bill SB2008. Education - Requires the state board of education to develop policies for operation of virtual education programs; authorizes LEAs to use BEP funds to implement and operate virtual education programs. - Amends TCA Title 49. Fiscal Summary for *HB1872 / SB2008 Increase State Expenditures - $17,400,000 Increase Local Govt. Expenditures - $17,400,000/Permissive Bill Summary for *HB1872 / SB2008 This bill authorizes the department of education to establish and an LEA or charter school governing body to sponsor a virtual school. "Virtual school" is defined as an independent public school in which the school uses technology in order to deliver a significant portion of instruction to its students via the Internet in a virtual or remote setting. The department of education could also establish a virtual school. A virtual school [...] show full description
Latest Action: 05/15/2007 - Public Chapter 99 Bill TextEducation - Requires each LEA to annually report to the commissioner of education the employment standards the LEA has adopted for school resource officers. - Amends TCA Section 49-6-4217. Fiscal Summary for *HB1942 / SB2153 Increase Local Govt. Expenditures - Not Significant
Latest Action: 03/16/2007 - Assigned to Gen. Sub of Senate Ed. Comm. Bill TextCompanion Bill HB1229. Education - Establishes a matching fund program for LEAs in which every privately donated dollar may be matched by two state dollars for use for educational purposes. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 3. Fiscal Summary for *SB1089 / HB1229Increase State Expenditures - $6,625,000 Increase Local Govt. Revenues - $6,625,000 Bill Summary for *SB1089 / HB1229 This bill authorizes any LEA to raise private funds by means of donations. The donations would be kept in a separate account by the LEA and the LEA would be required to annually certify the amount of private donations raised by the LEA. This bill requires the department of education to remit state matching funds to each LEA at a ratio of one state dollar for every two private dollars donated. This bill authorizes LEAs to expend the privately donated and matching [...] show full description
Latest Action: 05/09/2007 - Received from Senate, held on House desk. Bill TextCompanion Bill HB1419. Education - Places restrictions on universal mental health testing, or psychiatric or socioemotional screening of juveniles; requires certain consent by a juvenile's parent, guardian, legal custodian, or caregiver before such testing can occur. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 4 and Title 49, Chapter 2, Part 1. Fiscal Summary for SB1959 / *HB1419Increase State Expenditures - Not Significant Increase Local Govt. Expenditures - Not Significant Bill Summary for SB1959 / *HB1419 This bill specifies that universal mental health, psychiatric or socioemotional screening of juveniles is prohibited in this state, unless: (1) A juvenile's parent, guardian, legal custodian, or caregiver has provided consent, which consent may be withdrawn at any time; (2) A court requires screening; or (3) Emergency testing [...] show full description
Latest Action: 06/20/2008 - Public Chapter 1096 Bill TextCompanion Bill HB1872. Education - Requires the state board of education to develop policies for operation of virtual education programs; authorizes LEAs to use BEP funds to implement and operate virtual education programs. - Amends TCA Title 49. Fiscal Summary for SB2008 / *HB1872 Increase State Expenditures - $17,400,000 Increase Local Govt. Expenditures - $17,400,000/Permissive Bill Summary for SB2008 / *HB1872 This bill authorizes the department of education to establish and an LEA or charter school governing body to sponsor a virtual school. "Virtual school" is defined as an independent public school in which the school uses technology in order to deliver a significant portion of instruction to its students via the Internet in a virtual or remote setting. The department of education could also establish a virtual school. A virtual school [...] show full description
Latest Action: 05/15/2007 - Companion became Public Chapter 99 Bill TextEducation - Requires each LEA to annually report to the commissioner of education the employment standards the LEA has adopted for school resource officers. - Amends TCA Section 49-6-4217. Fiscal Summary for SB2153 / *HB1942 Increase Local Govt. Expenditures - Not Significant
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Latest Action: 04/30/2008 - Taken Off Notice For Calendar in Subcommittee K-12 of Education of Education Committee Bill TextCompanion Bill SB4086. Education - Provides a right of appeal to the local chartering authority by an employee of a public charter school in certain circumstances who is not given at least a two weeks' notice prior to suspension or discharge from employment. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 13, Part 1. Fiscal Summary for HB4059 / *SB4086Increase Local Expenditures - Not Significant Bill Summary for HB4059 / *SB4086 This bill authorizes any employee of a charter school where the professional employees have not organized under the Education Professional Negotiations Act, and any nonprofessional employee of a charter school where the professional employees have organized under the Act, to appeal any suspension or discharge from employment to the school's chartering authority if the employee did not receive at least two weeks' notice with pay and [...] show full description
Latest Action: 02/04/2008 - Passed second consideration, Referred to Senate Ed. Comm. Bill TextCompanion Bill HB4059. Education - Provides a right of appeal to the local chartering authority by an employee of a public charter school in certain circumstances who is not given at least a two weeks' notice prior to suspension or discharge from employment. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 13, Part 1. Fiscal Summary for *SB4086 / HB4059Increase Local Expenditures - Not Significant Bill Summary for *SB4086 / HB4059 This bill authorizes any employee of a charter school where the professional employees have not organized under the Education Professional Negotiations Act, and any nonprofessional employee of a charter school where the professional employees have organized under the Act, to appeal any suspension or discharge from employment to the school's chartering authority if the employee did not receive at least two weeks' notice with pay and [...] show full description
Latest Action: 02/04/2008 - Passed second consideration, Referred to Senate Ed. Comm. Bill TextEducation, Curriculum - Directs state board of education to require that all secondary public schools offer mandatory course in driver education. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1 and Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 12. Fiscal Summary for SB4024 / *HB3253Increase State Expenditures - $31,160,700 Decrease Local Expenditures - Exceeds $1,000,000
Latest Action: 05/08/2008 - Companion became Public Chapter 772 Bill TextCompanion Bill SB3899. Election Laws - Permits revision of election cycles of certain municipal boards of education to bring such cycles into compliance with general law. - Amends TCA Section 49-2-201. Fiscal Summary for *HB3745 / SB3899Increase Local Expenditures - Not Significant Bill Summary for *HB3745 / SB3899 PRESENT LAW Present law provides the following in regard to boards of education: (1) Except in counties with a county charter or metropolitan government charter, the board must consist of no more members than the number of members authorized by general law or private act for boards of education in existence on January 1, 1992, or the number of members actually serving on a board on January 1, 1993, except during transition periods following district reapportionment; (2) In addition to the membership existing [...] show full description
Latest Action: 05/08/2008 - Public Chapter 772 Bill TextCompanion Bill HB3745. Election Laws - Permits revision of election cycles of certain municipal boards of education to bring such cycles into compliance with general law. - Amends TCA Section 49-2-201. Fiscal Summary for SB3899 / *HB3745Increase Local Expenditures - Not Significant Bill Summary for SB3899 / *HB3745 PRESENT LAW Present law provides the following in regard to boards of education: (1) Except in counties with a county charter or metropolitan government charter, the board must consist of no more members than the number of members authorized by general law or private act for boards of education in existence on January 1, 1992, or the number of members actually serving on a board on January 1, 1993, except during transition periods following district reapportionment; (2) In addition to the membership existing [...] show full description
Latest Action: 03/25/2008 - Taken Off Notice For Calendar in Subcommittee K-12 of Education of Education Committee Bill TextCompanion Bill SB2792. Local Education Agency - Prohibits LEAs from submitting budget to local governing body that uses state funds to lower county school property tax rate, limit growth, or otherwise lower appropriations from the operations budget. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 2, Part 2. Fiscal Summary for HB3739 / *SB2792MINIMAL Bill Summary for HB3739 / *SB2792 Under present law, it is the duty of every local school board to require the director of schools and chair of the local board to prepare a budget and, when the budget has been approved by the local board, to submit it to the appropriate local legislative body. Present law prohibits an LEA from submitting a budget to the local legislative body that directly or indirectly supplants or proposes to use state funds to supplant any local current operation funds, excluding capital [...] show full description
Latest Action: 05/14/2008 - Placed on Subcommittee Calendar Budget of Finance, Ways and Means for 05/15/2008 Bill TextLocal Education Agency - Requires the local education insurance committee to approve an optional long-term care insurance plan that provides local education employees with the same coverage offered to state employees. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 27. Fiscal Summary for HB3487 / *SB3314Increase State Expenditures - Exceeds $200,000/One-Time Increase Local Expenditures - Exceeds $100,000/Permissive
Latest Action: 02/12/2008 - Taken Off Notice For Calendar in Subcommittee K-12 of Education of Education Committee Bill TextCompanion Bill SB3424. Schools, Home - Authorizes home schooled students to participate in extracurricular athletic activities of public school in which they are eligible to attend. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 30. Fiscal Summary for HB3413 / *SB3424Increase State Expenditures - Not Significant Increase Local Expenditures - Not Significant Bill Summary for HB3413 / *SB3424 This bill specifies that home-schooled students may participate in extracurricular athletic activities that are sponsored or engaged in by public schools, in certain circumstances. Under this bill, a home-schooled student would be permitted to participate in an extracurricular activity of a public school to which the affected student would be zoned if the student was not home-schooled, provided the following conditions are met: (1) The home-schooled [...] show full description
Latest Action: 03/12/2008 - Taken Off Notice For Calendar in Subcommittee Special Initiatives of Education of Education Committee Bill TextLocal Education Agency - Specifies that parents are entitled to a child's official school records unless the interest of the child otherwise requires. - Amends TCA Title 49. Fiscal Summary for HB3396 / *SB3787MINIMAL
Latest Action: 04/08/2008 - Failed In Subcommittee K-12 of Education of Education Committee Bill TextEducation - Requires the public school year to commence no earlier than the Tuesday after Labor Day, except in those schools operated on a year-round basis. - Amends TCA Section 49-6-3004. Fiscal Summary for HB3125 / *SB3133Increase Local Expenditures - Not Significant
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