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type: "Bill"
title: "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."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tn"
legislature: "Tennessee General Assembly"
session: "113"
identifier: "SB 1979"
citation: "Tennessee SB 1979 (113)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Home", "Schools"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Niceley"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 22
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-01-24"
last_action: "2024-04-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c7b3bcd6-ea79-4f45-be96-dd66d07007d0"
source_url: "http://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/BillInfo/default.aspx?BillNumber=SB1979&GA=113"
source_hash: "ab9b570c58bb88a31157550452acc7c9916e925c0d47e6fb3fca37c6bd0d3445"
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 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](https://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/113/Amend/HA0719.pdf)
2. **Amendment HA0779** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/113/Amend/HA0779.pdf)
3. **Current Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/113/Bill/SB1979.pdf)
## Votes
- FLOOR VOTE: Motion to Adopt 3/11/2024 Passed (2) — **320** (pass) · upper
- FLOOR VOTE: Concur in House Amend# 1 3/28/2024 Passed (1) — **280** (pass) · upper
- SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE: Recommended for passage, refer to Senate Calendar Committee 3/6/2024 Passed — **90** (pass) · upper
- FLOOR VOTE: REGULAR CALENDAR AS AMENDED PASSAGE ON THIRD CONSIDERATION 3/21/2024 Passed (1) — **7612** (pass) · lower
- FLOOR VOTE: REGULAR CALENDAR MOTION TO CONSIDER AMENDMENT # 2 BY PEARSON AS AMENDED PASSAGE ON THIRD CONSIDERATION 3/21/2024 Failed — **2069** (fail) · lower
- SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE: Recommended for passage, refer to Senate Calendar Committee 3/6/2024 Passed (3) — **90** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c7b3bcd6-ea79-4f45-be96-dd66d07007d0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Tennessee legislature records).