---
type: "Bill"
title: "Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, requires the department of education to provide all state board of education approved teacher training programs access to annual evaluation data for teachers and principals graduating from the programs for a minimum of five years following the completion of the program. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5."
description: "Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, requires the department of education to provide all state board of education approved teacher training programs access to annual evaluation data for teachers and principals graduating from the programs for a minimum of five years following the completion of the program. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tn"
legislature: "Tennessee General Assembly"
session: "110"
identifier: "HB 626"
citation: "Tennessee HB 626 (110)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Teachers", "Principals and School Personnel"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gresham", "Kumar"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 35
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2017-02-07"
last_action: "2017-04-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5bdaa7e0-43c0-4101-a48f-833a02662c31"
source_url: "http://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/BillInfo/default.aspx?BillNumber=HB0626&GA=110"
source_hash: "4bffdf17d3468cd23a4eb64176bd0eda75377b464af54325276e7ffb264db269"
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 HB 626 (110) — Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, requires the department of education to provide all state board of education approved teacher training programs access to annual evaluation data for teachers and principals graduating from the programs for a minimum of five years following the completion of the program. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5.

## Version chain

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

1. **Current Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/110/Bill/HB0626.pdf)

## Votes

- CALENDAR & RULES COMMITTEE: H. Placed on Regular Calendar for 4/6/2017 3/30/2017 (1) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- EDUCATION INSTRUCTION & PROGRAMS SUBCOMMITTEE: Rec for pass if am by s/c ref. to Education Instruction & Programs 3/22/2017 Passed (2) — **0–0** (pass) · lower
- EDUCATION INSTRUCTION & PROGRAMS: Rec. for pass. if am., ref. to Calendar & Rules Committee 3/28/2017 — **0–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Gresham — primary (person)
- Kumar — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-07** Filed for intro. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2017-02-07** Filed for introduction `introduction, reading-1`
- **2017-02-08** Intro., P1C. `introduction`
- **2017-02-08** Introduced, Passed on First Consideration `introduction`
- **2017-02-09** P2C, ref. to Education Instruction & Programs `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-09** Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Education Committee
- **2017-02-14** Assigned to s/c Education Instruction & Programs Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-22** Recommended for passage with amendment/s, refer to Senate Calendar Committee Ayes 7, Nays 0 PNV 0
- **2017-02-22** Placed on Senate Education Committee calendar for 2/22/2017
- **2017-02-24** Placed on Senate Regular Calendar calendar for 2/27/2017
- **2017-02-27** Engrossed; ready for transmission to House
- **2017-02-27** Passed Senate as amended, Ayes 33, Nays 0 `passage`
- **2017-02-27** Senate adopted Amendment (Amendment 1 - SA0035)
- **2017-03-02** Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk.
- **2017-03-08** Placed on s/c cal Education Instruction & Programs Subcommittee for 3/15/2017
- **2017-03-15** Placed on s/c cal Education Instruction & Programs Subcommittee for 3/21/2017
- **2017-03-15** Meeting Cancelled. Action Def. in s/c Education Instruction & Programs Subcommittee to 3/22/17
- **2017-03-21** Rec for pass if am by s/c ref. to Education Instruction & Programs `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-22** Placed on cal. Education Instruction & Programs for 3/28/2017
- **2017-03-28** Rec. for pass. if am., ref. to Calendar & Rules Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-29** Placed on cal. Calendar & Rules Committee for 3/30/2017
- **2017-03-30** H. Placed on Regular Calendar for 4/6/2017
- **2017-04-06** Sponsor(s) Added.
- **2017-04-06** Comp. SB subst.
- **2017-04-06** Passed H., Ayes 93, Nays 0, PNV 0 `passage`
- **2017-04-06** Am. withdrawn. (Amendment 1 - HA0176) `amendment-withdrawal`
- **2017-04-06** Subst. for comp. HB.
- **2017-04-07** Enrolled and ready for signatures
- **2017-04-10** Signed by H. Speaker
- **2017-04-10** Signed by Senate Speaker
- **2017-04-11** Transmitted to Governor for action.
- **2017-04-17** Signed by Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2017-04-19** Comp. became Pub. Ch. 143
- **2017-04-19** Pub. Ch. 143
- **2017-04-19** Effective date(s) 04/17/2017

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5bdaa7e0-43c0-4101-a48f-833a02662c31`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Tennessee legislature records).