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Bill Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires a director of schools to refer to juvenile court certain students who were formerly enrolled in the LEA, who were receiving certain truancy interventions, who withdrew from the LEA, and who did not transfer to another LEA; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 1, Part 1; Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 6. Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires a director of schools to refer to juvenile court certain students who were formerly enrolled in the LEA, who were receiving certain truancy interventions, who withdrew from the LEA, and who did not transfer to another LEA; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 1, Part 1; Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 6. us/states/tn Tennessee General Assembly 114 SB 1968 Tennessee SB 1968 (114)
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4 21 4 2026-01-22 2026-05-05 openstates ocd-bill/d5fe7176-7df5-4d00-83af-0e1fd9fc42fc https://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/BillInfo/Default?BillNumber=SB1968&ga=114 7b2f439483ee158e748b957b707e161e241c67f133c1cb97e9c821165f764b99 2026-07-01 https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump 2026-07-06 reported
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Tennessee SB 1968 (114) — Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires a director of schools to refer to juvenile court certain students who were formerly enrolled in the LEA, who were receiving certain truancy interventions, who withdrew from the LEA, and who did not transfer to another LEA; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 1, Part 1; Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

Version chain

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

  1. Amendment HA1024 (committee substitute) — source
  2. Amendment HA1129 (committee substitute) — source
  3. Amendment SA0542 (committee substitute) — source
  4. Current Version (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE: Recommended for passage with amendment/s, refer to Senate Calendar Committee Ayes 9, Nays 0 PNV 0 2/25/2026 Passed (2) — 90 (pass) · upper
  • FLOOR VOTE: REGULAR CALENDAR PASSAGE ON THIRD CONSIDERATION 4/15/2026 Passed (1) — 6624 (pass) · lower
  • FLOOR VOTE: as Amended Third Consideration 3/2/2026 Passed (1) — 300 (pass) · upper
  • FLOOR VOTE: REGULAR CALENDAR MOTION TO ADOPT AMENDMENT # 2 BY JOHNSON PASSAGE ON THIRD CONSIDERATION 4/15/2026 Failed — 2469 (fail) · lower

Sponsors

  • Lowe — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2026-01-22 Filed for introduction filing
  • 2026-02-02 Introduced, Passed on First Consideration introduction
  • 2026-02-05 Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Education Committee referral-committee
  • 2026-02-18 Placed on Senate Education Committee calendar for 2/25/2026
  • 2026-02-25 Recommended for passage with amendment/s, refer to Senate Calendar Committee Ayes 9, Nays 0 PNV 0
  • 2026-02-27 Placed on Senate Regular Calendar for 3/2/2026
  • 2026-03-02 Engrossed; ready for transmission to House receipt
  • 2026-03-02 Passed Senate as amended, Ayes 30, Nays 0 passage
  • 2026-03-02 Senate adopted Amendment (Amendment 1 - SA0542)
  • 2026-03-05 Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk.
  • 2026-04-15 Enrolled and ready for signatures enrolled
  • 2026-04-15 Passed H., Ayes 66, Nays 24, PNV 5 passage
  • 2026-04-15 Failed to adopt am (Amendment 2 - HA1129), Ayes 24, Nays 69, PNV 0
  • 2026-04-15 Am. withdrawn. (Amendment 1 - HA1024) amendment-withdrawal
  • 2026-04-15 Subst. for comp. HB. substitution
  • 2026-04-16 Signed by H. Speaker passage
  • 2026-04-16 Signed by Senate Speaker passage
  • 2026-04-17 Transmitted to Governor for action. executive-receipt
  • 2026-04-27 Signed by Governor. executive-signature
  • 2026-05-05 Effective date(s) 07/01/2026
  • 2026-05-05 Pub. Ch. 844

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d5fe7176-7df5-4d00-83af-0e1fd9fc42fc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Tennessee legislature records).