republic-os/legislation/us/states/tn/111/sb-2620.md

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Bill	Local Education Agencies - As enacted, authorizes a director of schools, or the director's designee, to report truant student absences to the appropriate judge if any tier of a progressive truancy intervention plan is unsuccessful, and before subsequent tiers are implemented, if the school can document that the student's parent or guardian is unwilling to cooperate in the truancy intervention plan. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.	Local Education Agencies - As enacted, authorizes a director of schools, or the director's designee, to report truant student absences to the appropriate judge if any tier of a progressive truancy intervention plan is unsuccessful, and before subsequent tiers are implemented, if the school can document that the student's parent or guardian is unwilling to cooperate in the truancy intervention plan. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.	us/states/tn	Tennessee General Assembly	111	SB 2620	Tennessee SB 2620 (111)	bill	Local Education Agencies	enacted	Farmer Swann	2	43	7	2020-02-05	2020-07-02	openstates	ocd-bill/add7d189-0fea-4e94-a333-7da54567961a	http://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/BillInfo/default.aspx?BillNumber=SB2620&GA=111	7c56607ceeb7a83d1e37005dd670c068fadaeadc400add5fa63f53a3003b0f5a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-tn

Tennessee SB 2620 (111) — Local Education Agencies - As enacted, authorizes a director of schools, or the director's designee, to report truant student absences to the appropriate judge if any tier of a progressive truancy intervention plan is unsuccessful, and before subsequent tiers are implemented, if the school can document that the student's parent or guardian is unwilling to cooperate in the truancy intervention plan. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

Version chain

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

1. Amendment HA0757 (committee substitute) — source
2. Current Version (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• FLOOR VOTE: Concur in House Amend# 1 6/11/2020 Passed (1) — 29–0 (pass) · upper
• HOUSE EDUCATION COMMITTEE: Rec. for pass; ref to Calendar & Rules Committee 3/4/2020 — 0–0 (pass) · lower
• HOUSE K-12 SUBCOMMITTEE: Rec. for pass by s/c ref. to Education Committee 2/25/2020 (3) — 0–0 (pass) · lower
• HOUSE CALENDAR & RULES COMMITTEE: H. Placed on Regular Calendar for 3/19/2020 3/12/2020 (2) — 0–0 (fail) · lower
• SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE: Recommended for passage, refer to Senate Calendar Committee 3/4/2020 Passed (3) — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• FLOOR VOTE: REGULAR CALENDAR AS AMENDED PASSAGE ON THIRD CONSIDERATION 6/2/2020 Passed (1) — 95–0 (pass) · lower
• FLOOR VOTE: Motion to Adopt 3/9/2020 Passed (2) — 31–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Farmer — primary (person)
• Swann — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-02-05 Filed for introduction reading-1, introduction
• 2020-02-05 Intro. introduction
• 2020-02-05 Filed for introduction reading-1, introduction
• 2020-02-06 Introduced, Passed on First Consideration introduction
• 2020-02-06 P1C.
• 2020-02-10 Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Education Committee
• 2020-02-10 P2C, ref. to Education referral-committee
• 2020-02-11 Assigned to s/c K-12 Subcommittee referral-committee
• 2020-02-19 Placed on s/c cal K-12 Subcommittee for 2/25/2020
• 2020-02-25 Rec. for pass by s/c ref. to Education Committee committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-02-26 Placed on Senate Education Committee calendar for 3/4/2020
• 2020-02-26 Placed on cal. Education Committee for 3/4/2020
• 2020-03-04 Recommended for passage, refer to Senate Calendar Committee
• 2020-03-04 Placed on cal. Calendar & Rules Committee for 3/5/2020
• 2020-03-04 Rec. for pass; ref to Calendar & Rules Committee committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-03-05 Placed on Senate Consent Calendar 2 for 3/9/2020
• 2020-03-05 Action def. in Calendar & Rules Committee to 3/12/2020
• 2020-03-09 Passed Senate, Ayes 31, Nays 0 passage
• 2020-03-10 Engrossed; ready for transmission to House
• 2020-03-11 Placed on cal. Calendar & Rules Committee for 3/12/2020
• 2020-03-12 Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk.
• 2020-03-12 H. Placed on Regular Calendar for 3/19/2020
• 2020-03-18 Reset on Regular Cal. for 3-20-19
• 2020-03-20 Reset on Regular Cal. for 6-1-20
• 2020-05-05 H. Placed on Regular Calendar for 6/1/2020
• 2020-06-02 Passed H., as am., Ayes 95, Nays 0, PNV 0 passage
• 2020-06-02 H. adopted am. (Amendment 1 - HA0757) amendment-passage
• 2020-06-02 Subst. for comp. HB.
• 2020-06-02 Comp. SB subst.
• 2020-06-05 Placed on Senate Message Calendar for 6/8/2020
• 2020-06-08 Senate Reset on calendar for 6/10/2020
• 2020-06-09 Placed on Senate Message Calendar for 6/10/2020
• 2020-06-10 Placed on Senate Message Calendar for 6/11/2020
• 2020-06-10 Senate Reset on calendar for 6/11/2020
• 2020-06-11 Concurred, Ayes 29, Nays 0 (Amendment 1 - HA0757) passage
• 2020-06-12 Enrolled and ready for signatures
• 2020-06-17 Signed by H. Speaker
• 2020-06-17 Signed by Senate Speaker
• 2020-06-18 Transmitted to Governor for action.
• 2020-06-22 Signed by Governor. executive-signature
• 2020-07-02 Pub. Ch. 748
• 2020-07-02 Effective date(s) 08/01/2020
• 2020-07-02 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 748

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/add7d189-0fea-4e94-a333-7da54567961a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Tennessee legislature records).