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SB2396
HB2439
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Adds residential or home addresses of public employees to the list of personal information which is confidential when in the possession of a governmental entity in its capacity as an employer. Specifies such information is not open for inspection by members of the public. (S: Black; H: Maggart)
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SB2550
HB3399
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Requires law enforcement agencies to increase patrols within a 1.5-mile radius around any high school where students are determined to be at risk of exposure to criminal activity before or after school. LEAs and law enforcement must review crime reports from the area for the past 12 months to determine if students are at risk prior to each school year. (S: Tate; H: Coley)
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SB2553
HB3605
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Increases the school zone from within 1,000 feet to within five miles of any school, with regard to enhanced punishments for drug offenses committed there. Requires a person convicted of a prostitution offense committed within five miles of a school, library or park to serve the minimum sentence imposed by the court or 60 calendar days, whichever is greater. (S: Tate; H: Todd)
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SB2554
HB3418
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Authorizes LEAs to refuse to enroll or to continue the enrollment of a student 18 years of age or older who is a known gang member. Requires a school board to allow law enforcement to investigate gang membership if a student denies involvement, and requires an opportunity be given for the student to be heard. Allows the board to assign such a student to an alternative school, and prohibits the use of this legislation against those eligible for or receiving special education. (S: Tate; H: Shaw)
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SB2561
HB2894
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Requires an LEA revising its policy prohibiting harassment, intimidation, or bullying, to transmit a copy of the policy to the commissioner of education with the changes to the policy clearly highlighted. (S: Woodson; H: Winningham)
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SB2562
HB2756
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Requires the office of education accountability to update its statutorily required comprehensive study of Tennessee charter schools biennially. (S: Woodson; H: Gresham)
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SB2583
HB2584
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Authorizes LEAs to use revenues from gifts, grants and state and local appropriations to provide hearing examinations for children who are unable to pay for such hearing testing. (S: Marrero; H: Coley)
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SB2595
HB3171
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Prohibits a district attorney general from entering into a plea agreement in criminal cases where the defendant is a teacher and the victim is a student. Allows the district attorney general to submit the proposed plea agreement to the attorney general and reporter for review. Requires the attorney general to review the proposed plea agreement and decide whether it is in the best interest of the state and victim to enter into the agreement. (S: Burchett; H: Buck)
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SB2609
HB2471
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Gives special education services associations the power to develop and provide training on the appropriate use of restraints and seclusion on special education students. (S: Black; H: Jones S.)
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SB2612
HB2482
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Permits school board to lease or sell buildings and properties to any entity provided the action is in the best interest of the school system and community. Removes prohibition against leasing or selling property interests to for-profit entities. (S: Black; H: McDonald)
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SB2613
HB3416
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Requires each school to have in place an automatic external defibrillator in case of emergency, subject to appropriations by the general assembly. (S: Black; H: Lollar)
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SB2629
HB2545
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Changes the entity determining preferred reemployment for terminated teachers from the school board to the director of schools. (S: McNally; H: Brooks, Harry)
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SB2653
HB2858
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Authorizes the use of random drug testing on students participating in voluntary extracurricular activities. (S: Tracy; H: Winningham)
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SB2655
HB2546
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Increases number of modular building units that an LEA's vocational-technical students may construct without complying with the Modular Building Act from one to five per school year. Removes limitation that such modular building units be residential. (S: Tracy; H: Brooks, Harry)
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SB2660
HB2619
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Designates juvenile detention facilities and community residential programs as special school districts for the purpose of requiring children detained in such facilities to continue receiving educational services. Requires the commissioner of children's services to file an annual report with the speakers of the house and senate on the effectiveness of educational services provided through these facilities designated as special school districts. (S: Burks; H: Gilmore)
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SB2672
HB2421
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Requires home telephone numbers and addresses of any public employees to be confidential. (S: Jackson; H: Moore)
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SB2691
HB2829
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Exempts from the open records law the home address and date of birth of public employees. (S: Jackson; H: Shepard)
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SB2704
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Modifies the circumstances under which a retired member of TCRS may return to service in any year-round position and continue to draw his or her retirement allowance. Includes specific conditions regarding state and local government service positions; specifically states that such service subsequent to retirement shall not effect an increase in the member's retirement allowance. (S: Finney R.)
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SB2712
HB2454
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Authorizes charitable entities whose primary function involves fundraising in support of a public or private elementary school, middle school, junior high school or high school to sell personal property up to four times per calendar year rather than two without being subject to business sales tax laws. (S: Kurita; H: Swafford)
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SB2739
HB2830
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Exempts home address and date of birth of public employees from open records law. (S: Jackson; H: Shepard)
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SB2759
HB2534
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Improves retirement benefits for certain active and retired state members, including the following: teachers and general employees (excluding general assembly members); state police officers, wildlife officers, game and fish officers so classified prior to April 1, 1974, firefighters and police officers; members of the superseded state retirement system; members of the superseded state teachers' retirement system; all state employees who were employed by the state prior to July 1, 1947, for at least eight years and are 65 and not otherwise covered by any other retirement system administered by the state. (S: Kyle; H: Fitzhugh)
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SB2761
HB2614
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Clarifies that candidates and appointees to local public office are not required to file documents electronically with the TN Ethics Commission. (S: Burks; H: Fincher)
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SB2764
HB2720
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Expands the requirement that parents must notify schools when a student is found delinquent involving certain crimes and details the procedure school officials must follow in response. (S: Burks; H: Fincher)
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SB2765
HB2719
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Adds aggravated sexual battery and aggravated sexual battery of a child to the crimes of which a child's school must be notified when the child has been adjudicated delinquent involving such offenses. (S: Burks; H: Fincher)
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SB2766
HB3703
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Exempts from the requirements of the School Support Organization Financial Accountability Act school support organizations intending to raise or anticipating raising on average $30,000 or less in any period of two school years. (S: Bunch; H: Brooks, Kevin)
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SB2792
HB3739
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Prohibits LEAs from submitting budget to local legislative body that uses state funds to lower county school property tax rate or remove normal growth of local option sales taxes. Also prohibits LEAs from submitting budget to local governing body that uses state or county funds to lower appropriations from the operations budget, excluding debt service and capital outlay. (S: Tracy; H: Winningham)
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SB2798
HB3268
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Allows volunteer school personnel who have been properly trained by a registered nurse to administer anti-seizure medications, including diazepam gel, to a student in an emergency situation in accordance with the student's individual health plan. (S: Woodson; H: Maddox)
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SB2799
HB2859
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Prohibits any county or municipality from using state BEP funds to reduce local operating funds or to reduce sales tax, property tax, or privilege tax. (S: Woodson; H: Winningham)
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SB2804
HB2897
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Allows the department of education, subject to appropriations, to establish a program of grants to LEAs for the development and implementation of differentiated pay plans to aid in staffing hard to staff subject areas and schools and in hiring and retaining highly qualified teachers. Specifies distribution of grants. (S: Woodson; H: Winningham)
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SB2806
HB2625
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Replaces the current law on drug-free school zones with the "Crime-Free School Zone Act of 2008". Provides increased criminal penalties for specified offenses occurring on school grounds or within 1000 feet of a school, public library, recreational center or park. Offenses include drug and sexual offenses, felonies involving deadly weapons and carjacking. (S: Woodson; H: Hardaway)
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SB2816
HB2499
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Exempts certain information regarding public employees from the open records law including employee's phone number, home address, and date of birth. (S: Roller; H: Gilmore)
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SB2828
HB2775
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Encourages LEAs to place automatic external defibrillators in schools. Specifies that LEAs are to fund the placement of such devices with existing resources or with the donation of non-governmental funds. (S: Bunch; H: Brooks, Harry)
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SB2843
HB2971
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Specifies that teachers lose benefits of sick leave bank by submitting false medical information to sick leave bank trustees. (S: Burks; H: Winningham)
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SB2875
HB2943
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Requires department of education to develop and implement a college scholarship program to promote civic learning and good citizenship. (S: Kurita; H: McCormick) Senate Education amendment 1 reduces the amount of individual scholarships from $1000 to $750.
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SB2876
HB2942
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Requires department of education to implement the "General Assembly civic education scholarship", funded from net lottery proceeds, to reward one high school student in each Senate district and in each House district for an exemplary civics essay or a project that demonstrates exemplary community and governmental participation. Specifies that award shall be $1,000 for full-time attendance at an eligible post-secondary institution for 2009-2010. (S: Kurita; H: McCormick)
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SB2890
HB2525
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Prohibits any local board of education from constructing a high school with a student capacity of greater than 1,200 students. (S: Haynes; H: Turner M.)
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SB2891
HB2524
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Requires the board of education to allow a student to attend the public school closest to the student's residence if the student wishes to do so. Also lists other factors that the board may consider in determining which school a student will be assigned to attend. (S: Haynes; H: Turner M.)
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SB2919
HB2789
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Directs the board of education to develop mandatory guidelines for each LEA to require physical education courses in all elementary and secondary schools, instead of requiring each LEA to integrate 90 minutes of activity per week into the school day. (S: Marrero; H: Cooper B.)
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SB2920
HB2779
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Requires LEAs to include art and music education in all K-12 public schools, in conformity with an appropriate curriculum provided by the department of education. (S: Marrero; H: Cooper B.)
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SB2921
HB2790
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Requires all public schools to provide instruction on nonviolence as means of conflict resolution as part of character education curriculum. (S: Marrero; H: Cooper B.)
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SB2931
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Requires LEAs to report to the board of education each fiscal year, beginning with fiscal year 2009-2009, the percentage of expenditures made on classroom expenditures district-wide and by school; requires classroom expenditures to be at least 70 percent of the total operating expenditures both district-wide and by school by fiscal year 2012-2013 and to reach at least 90 percent by fiscal year 2016-2017. (S: Berke)
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SB2933
HB2748
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Allows LEAs to implement random drug testing policy for all students voluntarily participating in extracurricular activities. Requires the local board of education in each LEA to establish policies, procedures and guidelines prior to implementation of random drug testing program. Also requires the state board of education to prepare a model policy, procedure and guidelines which may be adopted by local boards of education. (S: Stanley; H: Lundberg)
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SB2941
HB2516
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Requires all schools to provide and maintain on-site at least one automatic external defibrillator. (S: Haynes; H: Moore)
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SB2962
HB2903
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Requires that the general appropriations act first fund K-12 education and then fund remaining functions of state government. (S: Ketron; H: Gresham)
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SB2965
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Requires a separate course in civics that emphasizes the responsibilities and privileges of citizenship to be taught in at least one grade of grades nine through 12. (S: Ketron)
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SB2976
HB2685
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Encourages the department of education to require each LEA to offer a driver education course in each high school or available to all high school students eligible for licensing as a driver by 2012-2013 school year. (S: Southerland; H: Hawk)
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SB2977
HB2686
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Requires each LEA to provide a course of instruction in driver education. Also requires the state board of education to establish curriculum standards and guidelines for such courses. (S: Southerland; H: Hawk)
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SB2980
HB3252
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Directs the board to develop guidelines for LEAs to use to foster foreign language fluency for all students in grades 7-12. (S: Norris; H: Coley)
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SB3000
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Expands prohibitions on smoking on school grounds. Requires schools to notify parents and guardians of the smoking restrictions by displaying the information in the school's handbook or other policy guidebook that is distributed annually. (S: Herron)
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SB3023
HB3301
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Establishes the Tennessee advanced placement and international baccalaureate diploma incentive program, in order to provide access to advanced educational courses and corresponding tests in preparation for admission to and success in a postsecondary educational environment. (S: Tracy; H: Vaughn)
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SB3024
HB2544
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Specifies that all county, municipal and special school districts in the state are to be considered separate governmental entities and are to be governed by ethical standards established by their respective boards of education. Under current law, county and municipal school districts are governed by the ethical standards established by the county or municipal governing body. (S: Tracy; H: Brooks, Harry)
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SB3025
HB2770
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Prohibits human research involving K-12 students from being conducted or authorized by the Tennessee department of education or any LEA at any public school of the state, including field service offices or centers, unless the student and the student's parent or legally authorized representative give their consent. (S: Tracy; H: Hood)
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SB3033
HB2847
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Prohibits registered sexual offenders from being on school property or school buses when minors are present. Creates an exception for a sexual offender who is the parent or guardian of a student. (S: Beavers; H: DuBois)
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SB3078
HB2652
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Requires LEAs to place automated external defibrillator (AED) devices in each high school; to provide training in the use of AEDs; and to review their efficacy annually to ensure they are placed in optimal locations and that all necessary training has been conducted. Authorizes LEAs to receive grants and donations from public and nongovernmental sources in order to obtain and place AEDs. Subjects to disciplinary action the misuse or abuse of any AED device on school property by a student. (S: McNally; H: Hackworth)
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SB3081
HB2556
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State transportation funds shall be provided for a student's school transportation needs when special hazard zones, as identified on the basis of a documented engineering and traffic investigation, are within one and one-half miles of the nearest accessible route from the school in which a student is enrolled. (S: McNally; H: Hackworth)
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SB3086
HB2750
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Authorizes a governing body to allow electronic communication such as instant messaging between members under certain conditions. Directs governing body to make internet site where communications are occurring available for public access. Requires archiving of such communications for a period of one year so that the public may access them. Exempts qualifying communication from open meetings law. (S: McNally; H: Dunn)
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SB3089
HB2777
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Adds random drug testing for all teachers, principals and teacher's aides at pre-K-12 public schools to the governing policies required to be adopted by the school board. (S: Bunch; H: Baird)
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SB3110
HB2910
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Expands list of offenses for which a child has been adjudicated delinquent that require the parents of child to notify the appropriate principal when enrolling child in an LEA to include the offense of rape of a child. (S: Haynes; H: Jones S.)
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SB3133
HB3125
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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. Applies to the 2008-2009 school year and thereafter. (S: Burchett; H: Montgomery)
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SB3183
HB3210
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Changes from September 30 to December 31 the date by which students must reach five years of age in order to enter public school. (S: Harper; H: Gilmore)
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SB3186
HB2755
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Prohibits anyone from teaching in grades K-3 in TN public schools unless the person is licensed with a valid TN license with an endorsement to teach in such grades. (S: Harper; H: Pruitt)
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SB3217
HB3327
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Disqualifies an elected public official, who is removed or resigns from office because he or she does not meet residency requirements, from qualifying for or holding that office for a period of 10 years following such removal or resignation. (S: Marrero; H: Brown)
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SB3218
HB3097
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Removes the provision whereby the principal of a school must be notified of any offense committed by a child within five days of that child returning to school so that it only has to be before the actual date of return. (S: Marrero; H: Curtiss)
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SB3230
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Requires the state board of education to promulgate rules and regulations with respect to the administration of the Tennessee Public Charter Schools Act. Amends Chapter 850 of the Public Acts of 2002. (S: Woodson)
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SB3232
HB2610
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Prohibits a teacher employed by an LEA from being discriminated against or terminated for refusing to participate in or refusing to be silent about illegal activities. (S: Woodson; H: Hardaway)
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SB3233
HB2891
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Requires the state board for career and technical education to develop policies and guidelines for cooperative career and technical training programs that provide school-supervised and school-administered work experience and career exploration for students. Permits LEAs and public charter schools to operate such programs for students who are 14 years old or older upon approval of the state board for career and technical education. (S: Burchett; H: Brooks, Harry)
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SB3250
HB2440
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Requires the state department of education to establish a pilot program to encourage student academic achievement through monetary awards by August 1, 2008. Also requires the pilot program to be established in the three school systems having the largest numbers of students eligible for free and reduced price lunch. Specifies that the amount of award per student per semester is $100 and that such student's parent or guardian will also receive a $50 award. (S: Bunch; H: Kelsey)
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SB3260
HB3073
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Authorizes LEAs to waive the duty of integrating into its elementary and secondary curriculum a minimum of 90 minutes of physical (S: Williams Mike R.; H: McCord)
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SB3264
HB2919
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Specifies hearing and appeal process for Davidson County school personnel other than teachers who are subject to an employment contract, tenure, or other such agreement and have received notice of dismissal. (S: Harper; H: West)
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SB3275
HB3636
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Revises the Open Meeting Laws. Clarifies that communicating factual information between individual members of a governing body for educational purposes is not prohibited. Authorizes the courts to award reasonable attorneys' fees to a plaintiff in a case where a governing body is found to be in violation of these laws. Requires MTAS, CTAS, the Tennessee School Board Association, the utility management review board, and the state emergency communications board to develop a program for educating their respective parties about changes to the law. Allows executive sessions to be held pursuant to this part as long as all actions are fully disclosed to the public. Remove the provision by which the Tennessee performing arts center management corporation is the entity to manage public records. Requires all custodians of public record to make any public record available for inspection during business hours and with all reasonable effort. Allows any person to inspect the records rather than just Tennessee citizens. Allows petitions under this part to be filed with the circuit court rather than just the chancery court. Creates the office of the ombudsperson to answer questions and provide information to public officials and the public regarding public records. Creates an advisory committee to oversee the administration of the office of the ombudsperson. (S: McNally; H: McDaniel)
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SB3280
HB3637
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Revises the Open Meetings Laws. Clarifies that communicating factual information between individual members of a governing body for educational purposes is not prohibited. Authorizes the courts to award reasonable attorneys' fees to a plaintiff in a case where a governing body is found to be in violation of these laws. Requires MTAS, CTAS, the Tennessee School Board Association, the utility management review board, and the state emergency communications board to develop a program for educating their respective parties about changes to the law. Allows executive sessions to be held pursuant to this part as long as all actions are fully disclosed to the public. Remove the provision by which the Tennessee performing arts center management corporation is the entity to manage public records. Requires all custodians of public record to make any public record available for inspection during business hours and with all reasonable effort. Allows any person to inspect the records rather than just Tennessee citizens. Allows petitions under this part to be filed with the circuit court rather than just the chancery court. Creates the office of the ombudsperson to answer questions and provide information to public officials and the public regarding public records. Creates an advisory committee to oversee the administration of the office of the ombudsperson. (S: McNally; H: McDaniel)
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SB3282
HB2976
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Allows funds generated by the career and technical education components of the state funding formula to be used to match funds appropriated and paid over by the federal government for the same purpose. Requires that any additional funds appropriated for career and technical education beyond the funds available through the Tennessee BEP for career and technical education be used to provide a system of grants to improve and enhance career and technical education to be monitored by the department of education. Requires the three grant programs to be structured in the following manner: annual grants to each LEA that provides a program of career and technical education, competitive grants awarded by the department to LEAs to provide funding for the implementation and enhancement of such programs, and grants awarded by the department to public four year institutions of higher education for research in career and technical education. Requires the commissioner of education to report annually to the speakers of both houses and education committees. (S: Tracy; H: Winningham)
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SB3283
HB2956
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Narrows prohibition on entities that may sponsor public charter schools, thereby allowing sponsorship by private high schools. (S: Tracy; H: Harwell)
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SB3286
HB3612
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Requires any K-12 education funding appropriated outside the BEP for technology, Internet, Internet connectivity, or e-learning to be distributed according to a formula adopted by the state board of education. (S: Tracy; H: Maddox)
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SB3301
HB3315
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Requires the department of education and the Tennessee higher education commission to report on the effectiveness of the pilot after school programs. (S: Burks; H: Brown)
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SB3302
HB3316
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Requires the Tennessee higher education commission to report on specific aspects of teachers applying for and receiving the Tennessee HOPE scholarship for teachers in an effort evaluate the program's overall effectiveness. (S: Burks; H: Brown)
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SB3314
HB3487
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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. (S: Burks; H: Winningham)
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SB3330
HB2642
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Requires teachers to report to the principal any student misconduct on school property constituting a felony or misdemeanor involving violence or injury. Requires a principal receiving such report to notify the appropriate law enforcement agency. Specifies penalties for not reporting such offenses. Mandates that in-service training shall include instruction and examples of the type of conduct that requires a report. (S: Tate; H: Hardaway)
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SB3332
HB3120
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Creates "Tennessee lottery funds for education projects loan account". Deems accumulated funds in special reserve subaccount of lottery for education account excess. Transfers funds to Tennessee lottery funds for education projects loan account to be used in support of educational capital outlay projects. Authorizes the general assembly to appropriate excess funds from net lottery proceeds to the project loan account. Broadly captioned. (S: Williams Mike R.; H: Overbey)
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SB3364
HB3943
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Adds visitation of a spouse, child or parent deployed for military duty to the list of acceptable reasons a licensed teacher may be granted leave without forfeiture of accumulated leave credits, tenure status or other fringe benefits. (S: Beavers; H: Lynn)
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SB3366
HB3942
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Requires school principles to grant students excused absences for up to ten days for purposes of visiting a parent or legal guardian who is stationed outside of the country and is granted rest recuperation leave by the U.S. military. (S: Beavers; H: Lynn)
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SB3372
HB3373
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Adds to conditions for which reemployment may be permitted for a retired TCRS member still drawing retirement allowance. States that such person may return to service in a TCRS year-round position if service begins over 60 days after retirement date, if accrual of retirement benefits are waived and if such person and the employer make TCRS contributions due in absence of the required waiver. (S: Jackson; H: Shepard)
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SB3389
HB2968
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Enhances mandatory minimum sentences for offenses committed in crime free zones, which are considered to be grounds or facilities within 1000 feet of real property that comprises any public or private school, child care agency, public library, recreational center or park. Defendants sentenced for a violation of this act shall serve at least the minimum sentence for the appropriate range of the sentence and will not be eligible for early release status or parole. (S: Tate; H: Hardaway)
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SB3390
HB2767
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Requires student or student's parent or guardian to submit proof of health insurance prior to the beginning of classroom instruction beginning in academic year 2009-2010. Broadly captioned. (S: Tate; H: Hardaway)
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SB3397
HB2422
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Requires TSAC to establish and implement an ASPIRE work-study program to provide additional financial assistance from net lottery proceeds to recipients of the TN HOPE scholarship who also receive ASPIRE awards. Specifies that ASPIRE students are to be employed to tutor or mentor or otherwise assist elementary and secondary students in improving academic performance. Also specifies that students employed in the program are to be paid no less than $10.00 per hour and work no more than ten hours per week. Sets eligibility requirements for ASPIRE work-study program. (S: Tate; H: Hardaway)
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SB3400
HB2927
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Requires summer school for students testing two or more grade levels below expected academic growth in a subject area as measured by the TCAP. (S: Tate; H: Kelsey)
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SB3401
HB4002
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Requires the office of education accountability to study and evaluate fiscal and administrative compliance issues with regard to reporting and documentation that charter schools must furnish school districts in which they operate. Further requires findings of such study and recommendations to be submitted to the general assembly by February 1, 2009. (S: Tate; H: Jones U.)
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SB3402
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Allows public charter school teachers to participate in the state group insurance plan. (S: Tate)
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SB3403
HB4003
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Delays the implementation of laws governing any school employees' or board members' ability to contract with a school support organization. Subsequently delays requirement that the director of schools publish a list of these organizations. Requires the select committee on education oversight to study the potential impact on school districts, schools and school support organizations of the implementation of this part and report its findings and recommendations to the education committees of the senate and the house of representatives by January 15, 2009. (S: Tate; H: Jones U.)
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SB3408
HB3606
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Authorizes TBI investigators to conduct surveillance operations for the purpose of detecting criminal activity on the grounds of a public K-12 school or within five miles of such grounds. Authorizes an investigator witnessing a criminal act while in the process of surveillance to effectuate an arrest at that time if there appear to be an imminent threat of serious bodily injury or death to another. (S: Tate; H: Todd)
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SB3409
HB2972
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Directs commissioner to require each LEA's director of schools to submit an annual personnel report to the department which shall include all non-certified personnel, part-time or full-time, employed by the school system. (S: Tate; H: Winningham)
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SB3412
HB2795
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Extends public school testing requirements to students in non-public high schools. (S: Tate; H: Hardaway)
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SB3415
HB3074
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Requires each LEA to add a cost-of-living adjustment to its local salary schedule. Ties the cost-of-living adjustment to increases in the consumer price index. (S: Johnson J.; H: McCord)
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SB3424
HB3413
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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. (S: Burchett; H: Harwell)
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SB3436
HB3631
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Requires all non-profit organizations receiving more than $100,000 in state funds to have a member on the board appointed by the governor. Requires such member to serve for a term of at least four years. (S: Burchett; H: Kernell)
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SB3446
HB3501
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Permits private schools to use public school facilities with the approval of the local director of schools. (S: Southerland; H: Hawk)
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SB3448
HB3480
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Permits high school students to use dual enrollment grants for any course for which they meet the enrollment requirements of the eligible postsecondary institution. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9. (S: Southerland; H: Hawk)
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SB3469
HB3321
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Requires the disciplinary authority over the suspension, expulsion, or referral of students to juvenile court to file a justification report with the LEA providing the circumstances and rationale for the action taken. Requires each LEA to forward the reports to the department of education who will be required to publish an annual report. 49. (S: Burks; H: Brown)
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SB3470
HB3313
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Creates a special legislative committee to study the New Wisconsin Promise program and make recommendations for public policy designed to improve the knowledge of Tennessee children. Outlines guidelines to determine membership and requires the committee to report its findings by February 1, 2009. (S: Burks; H: Brown)
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SB3480
HB3251
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Requires an LEA, upon the determination to close a school, to employ or contract with a professional archivist to review all personal property contained in the school buildings for historic significance. Requires all personal property deemed historically significant to be preserved and available for display at any public institution in the discretion of the LEA. (S: Watson B.; H: Coley)
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SB3485
HB2925
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States that a child's failure to attend school for two full days in one month is grounds for reduction of temporary assistance. Sanction against parent or caregiver shall be a reduction of assistance equal to one month for each month that attendance requirement is not met. Reduction will remain in effect until child completes one month of school without two unexcused absences. (S: Finney R.; H: Kelsey)
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SB3498
HB3799
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Establishes a K-12 capital outlay project grant fund to provide grants to LEAs for capital projects that supplement, not supplant, non-lottery educational resources for K-12 capital outlay projects. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 51 and Title 49. (S: Bunch; H: Harwell)
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SB3504
HB3454
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Requires the department of education and directors of schools to disseminate innovative educational practices in civic learning, including any interactive electronic civic education presentations that are available. (S: Kurita; H: McCormick)
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SB3509
HB3458
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Funds raised by fundraisers involving students who are under the supervision of a school employee but conducted by a school support organization shall be school support organization funds. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 2, Part 6. (S: Southerland; H: Litz)
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SB3522
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Penalizes student athletes for use of anabolic steroids. Creates new offense of knowingly procuring, selling, or administering anabolic steroids with intent to compromise student athletic competitions. Requires LEAs to establish curriculum for grades 7-12 for prevention of use of anabolic steroids. (S: Herron)
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SB3530
HB3278
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Repeals the "School Support Organization Financial Accountability Act." (S: Herron; H: Maddox)
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SB3556
HB3269
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Exempts school support organizations from sales and use tax under certain circumstances. (S: Finney L.; H: Maddox)
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SB3559
HB3280
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Prohibits any contract for employment of a director of schools from extending beyond 30 days following the first general school board election subsequent to the execution of the contract, except for contract to fill a vacancy in the office of the director of schools that occurs during the period from 45 days prior to a general school board election until 30 days following such election. Prohibits any contract for employment of a director of schools from containing an option to renew that would extend, if exercised, the contract beyond 30 days following the first general school board election subsequent to the execution of the original contract. (S: Finney L.; H: Maddox)
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SB3560
HB3247
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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. (S: Finney L.; H: Montgomery)
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SB3579
HB3187
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Divides lottery scholarship ASPIRE award into a grant and a required work-study program; establishes provisions for work study program for which ASPIRE students can be eligible. (S: Tate; H: Hardaway)
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SB3581
HB3189
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Permits charter schools to enroll any students, in addition to those presently eligible for enrollment, to the extent such students do not exceed ten percent of the charter school's student capacity. (S: Tate; H: Hardaway)
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SB3593
HB3945
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Clarifies the public policy of the state relating to open meetings. States that openness in government supports and enhances public confidence, discourages abuse, and allows citizens to participate equally in decisions affecting their lives. States that state law may provide exceptions from the open meetings' requirement. Excludes from the definition of "meeting": on-site inspections of any project or program; the mere communication of factual information from one member to another where the purpose is to educate a member on a specific issue; and two or more members attending the same community event, education workshop, seminar or meeting of a statewide or regional organization of government officials. Authorizes attorney's fees to be awarded against a governing body where the plaintiff substantially prevails or where the court finds evasive devices were used to deprive the public of information. Requires programs to be developed to educate public officials about open meetings laws and compliance. Allows certain closed executive meetings to be held. Provides criteria for holding closed meetings as excepted by law. Provides specific notice requirements to adequately inform the public of special meetings. Requires proof of notice to be maintained for one year and be open for public inspection and copying. (S: Burchett; H: Lynn)
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SB3596
HB3752
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