---
type: "Bill"
title: "Education - As enacted, establishes a deaf mentor and parent advisor program to assist families in implementing bilingual and bicultural home-based programming for young children who are deaf, hard of hearing, or deaf-blind at the Tennessee Schools for the Deaf and the West Tennessee School for the Deaf. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 50, Part 10."
description: "Education - As enacted, establishes a deaf mentor and parent advisor program to assist families in implementing bilingual and bicultural home-based programming for young children who are deaf, hard of hearing, or deaf-blind at the Tennessee Schools for the Deaf and the West Tennessee School for the Deaf. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 50, Part 10."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tn"
legislature: "Tennessee General Assembly"
session: "113"
identifier: "SB 4"
citation: "Tennessee SB 4 (113)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Massey"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 27
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2022-11-09"
last_action: "2023-05-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d71a96f5-1c9e-41ba-ba08-983ad0b3f694"
source_url: "http://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/BillInfo/default.aspx?BillNumber=SB0004&GA=113"
source_hash: "8b8af61f67445c227cbfc82eb9175c700ca0b846eb313c883d677b3c74c932f9"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-tn"]
---

# Tennessee SB 4 (113) — Education - As enacted, establishes a deaf mentor and parent advisor program to assist families in implementing bilingual and bicultural home-based programming for young children who are deaf, hard of hearing, or deaf-blind at the Tennessee Schools for the Deaf and the West Tennessee School for the Deaf. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 50, Part 10.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Current Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/113/Bill/SB0004.pdf)

## Votes

- SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE: Recommended for passage, refer to Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee 2/8/2023 Passed — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- SENATE FINANCE, WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE: Recommended for passage, refer to Senate Calendar Committee 4/11/2023 Passed — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- FLOOR VOTE: Motion to Adopt 4/17/2023 Passed — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Massey — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2022-11-09** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2023-01-10** Introduced, Passed on First Consideration `introduction`
- **2023-01-11** Passed on Second Consideration, held on desk pending committee appointments `passage`
- **2023-01-13** Sponsor(s) Added. `sponsorship`
- **2023-01-20** Refer to Senate Education Committee
- **2023-02-01** Placed on Senate Education Committee calendar for 2/8/2023
- **2023-02-08** Sponsor(s) Added. `sponsorship`
- **2023-02-08** Recommended for passage, refer to Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee
- **2023-02-15** Sponsor(s) Added. `sponsorship`
- **2023-03-06** Sponsor(s) Added. `sponsorship`
- **2023-04-04** Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/11/2023
- **2023-04-11** Sponsor(s) Added. `sponsorship`
- **2023-04-11** Recommended for passage, refer to Senate Calendar Committee
- **2023-04-13** Placed on Senate Consent Calendar 2 for 4/17/2023
- **2023-04-17** Sponsor(s) Added. `sponsorship`
- **2023-04-17** Passed Senate, Ayes 33, Nays 0 `passage`
- **2023-04-18** Engrossed; ready for transmission to House `receipt`
- **2023-04-19** Passed H., Ayes 96, Nays 0, PNV 0 `passage`
- **2023-04-19** Subst. for comp. HB. `substitution`
- **2023-04-19** Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk.
- **2023-04-20** Enrolled and ready for signatures `enrolled`
- **2023-04-21** Signed by Senate Speaker `passage`
- **2023-04-25** Signed by H. Speaker `passage`
- **2023-04-26** Transmitted to Governor for action. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-05** Signed by Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-17** Effective date(s) 07/01/2023
- **2023-05-17** Pub. Ch. 327

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d71a96f5-1c9e-41ba-ba08-983ad0b3f694`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Tennessee legislature records).