Tennessee 114th General Assembly Status: Passed Senate 1 R cosponsors

SB 0506 — AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, relative to remedial education.

Last action — Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Education Committee

  1. ✓
    Introduced
  2. ✓
    In Committee
  3. 3
    Passed Senate
  4. 4
    Passed House
  5. 5
    To Executive
  6. 6
    Enacted

This bill has passed the Senate. Introduced January 29, 2025. It now moves to the second chamber.

Next likely step: consideration and a floor vote in the House.

Prognosis

Stalled 28% · moderate confidence

Where this bill stands today.

Odds of enactment

Moderate

How often bills like it became law.

  • Passed Senate

    Current position in the legislative process.

  • 1 sponsor

    1 primary, 0 co-sponsors signed on.

  • Single-party support

    Sponsorship is currently within one party (1 R).

Prognosis reads this bill's own signals — stage, sponsorship breadth, committee status, recorded votes and cross-state momentum. Odds come from a model trained on which bills have become law.

Summary

Local Education Agencies - As introduced, exempts an LEA or public charter school from having to assign a third-grade student who is not proficient in English language arts a tutor through the Tennessee accelerating literacy and learning corps if the state does not appropriate sufficient funds to allow each LEA and public charter school to provide the required tutoring; conditions the requirement that LEAs participate in the learning loss remediation and student acceleration program on the availability of state appropriations for the program. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Bill Text

Action History

  1. Intro., P1C.

  2. P2C, ref. to Education Committee

  3. Assigned to s/c K-12 Subcommittee

  4. Placed on s/c cal K-12 Subcommittee for 3/4/2025

  5. Action Def. in s/c K-12 Subcommittee to 3/11/2025

  6. Placed on s/c cal K-12 Subcommittee for 3/11/2025

  7. Taken off notice for cal in s/c K-12 Subcommittee of Education Committee

  8. Placed on s/c cal K-12 Subcommittee for 3/3/2026

  9. Def. to Special Calendar to be Published with Final Calendar in K-12 Subcommittee

  10. Placed on s/c cal K-12 Subcommittee for 3/10/2026

  11. Action Def. in s/c K-12 Subcommittee to 3/17/2026

  12. Filed for introduction

  13. Introduced, Passed on First Consideration

  14. Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Education Committee

  15. Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Education Committee

Sponsors

Sponsorship breakdown

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1 sponsors · 0 co-sponsors · 132 not signed on

Sponsors (1)

Co-sponsors (0)

None.

Not signed on (132)

132 members have not signed on to this bill.

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Subjects

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Frequently asked questions

What does SB 0506 do?
Local Education Agencies - As introduced, exempts an LEA or public charter school from having to assign a third-grade student who is not proficient in English language arts a tutor through the Tennessee accelerating literacy and learning corps if the state does not appropriate sufficient funds to allow each LEA and public charter school to provide the required tutoring; conditions the requirement that LEAs participate in the learning loss remediation and student acceleration program on the availability of state appropriations for the program. - Amends TCA Title 49.
Who sponsors SB 0506?
SB 0506 is sponsored by Powers, Bill (Republican).
What is the current status of SB 0506?
This bill has passed the Senate. Introduced January 29, 2025. It now moves to the second chamber.
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