republic-os/legislation/us/states/tn/113/sb-1979.md

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Bill	Schools, Home - As enacted, requires, if a public school offers students the opportunity to participate in interscholastic athletic competition without the school being a member of an organization or an association that regulates interscholastic athletic competition, the LEA to permit participation in interscholastic athletics at such school by certain home school students who are zoned to attend the school. - Amends TCA Title 49.	Schools, Home - As enacted, requires, if a public school offers students the opportunity to participate in interscholastic athletic competition without the school being a member of an organization or an association that regulates interscholastic athletic competition, the LEA to permit participation in interscholastic athletics at such school by certain home school students who are zoned to attend the school. - Amends TCA Title 49.	us/states/tn	Tennessee General Assembly	113	SB 1979	Tennessee SB 1979 (113)	bill	Home Schools	enacted	Niceley	3	22	6	2024-01-24	2024-04-17	openstates	ocd-bill/c7b3bcd6-ea79-4f45-be96-dd66d07007d0	http://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/BillInfo/default.aspx?BillNumber=SB1979&GA=113	ab9b570c58bb88a31157550452acc7c9916e925c0d47e6fb3fca37c6bd0d3445	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-tn

Tennessee SB 1979 (113) — Schools, Home - As enacted, requires, if a public school offers students the opportunity to participate in interscholastic athletic competition without the school being a member of an organization or an association that regulates interscholastic athletic competition, the LEA to permit participation in interscholastic athletics at such school by certain home school students who are zoned to attend the school. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Version chain

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

1. Amendment HA0719 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment HA0779 (committee substitute) — source
3. Current Version (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• FLOOR VOTE: Motion to Adopt 3/11/2024 Passed (2) — 32–0 (pass) · upper
• FLOOR VOTE: Concur in House Amend# 1 3/28/2024 Passed (1) — 28–0 (pass) · upper
• SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE: Recommended for passage, refer to Senate Calendar Committee 3/6/2024 Passed — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• FLOOR VOTE: REGULAR CALENDAR AS AMENDED PASSAGE ON THIRD CONSIDERATION 3/21/2024 Passed (1) — 76–12 (pass) · lower
• FLOOR VOTE: REGULAR CALENDAR MOTION TO CONSIDER AMENDMENT # 2 BY PEARSON AS AMENDED PASSAGE ON THIRD CONSIDERATION 3/21/2024 Failed — 20–69 (fail) · lower
• SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE: Recommended for passage, refer to Senate Calendar Committee 3/6/2024 Passed (3) — 9–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Niceley — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-24 Filed for introduction filing
• 2024-01-25 Introduced, Passed on First Consideration introduction
• 2024-01-29 Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Education Committee passage
• 2024-02-28 Placed on Senate Education Committee calendar for 3/6/2024
• 2024-03-06 Recommended for passage, refer to Senate Calendar Committee
• 2024-03-08 Placed on Senate Consent Calendar 2 for 3/11/2024
• 2024-03-11 Engrossed; ready for transmission to House receipt
• 2024-03-11 Passed Senate, Ayes 32, Nays 0 passage
• 2024-03-14 Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk.
• 2024-03-21 Passed H., as am., Ayes 76, Nays 12, PNV 2 passage
• 2024-03-21 H. adopted am. (Amendment 1 - HA0719) amendment-passage
• 2024-03-21 Subst. for comp. HB. substitution
• 2024-03-26 Placed on Senate Message Calendar for 3/28/2024
• 2024-03-28 Sponsor(s) Added. sponsorship
• 2024-03-28 Senate concurred in House amendment 1
• 2024-04-01 Signed by Senate Speaker passage
• 2024-04-01 Enrolled and ready for signatures enrolled
• 2024-04-02 Transmitted to Governor for action. executive-receipt
• 2024-04-02 Signed by H. Speaker passage
• 2024-04-09 Signed by Governor. executive-signature
• 2024-04-17 Effective date(s) 04/09/2024
• 2024-04-17 Pub. Ch. 658

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c7b3bcd6-ea79-4f45-be96-dd66d07007d0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Tennessee legislature records).