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Bill Criminal Offenses - As enacted, clarifies that a school employee does not commit the criminal offense of falsifying educational and academic documents for altering, creating, or duplicating the grade of a student in an educational or academic document if the alteration, creation, or duplication is due to the student obtaining the grade through a program that allows students to retake a failed course, exam, or assignment and earn credit. - Amends TCA Section 39-14-136 and Title 49. Criminal Offenses - As enacted, clarifies that a school employee does not commit the criminal offense of falsifying educational and academic documents for altering, creating, or duplicating the grade of a student in an educational or academic document if the alteration, creation, or duplication is due to the student obtaining the grade through a program that allows students to retake a failed course, exam, or assignment and earn credit. - Amends TCA Section 39-14-136 and Title 49. us/states/tn Tennessee General Assembly 114 SB 273 Tennessee SB 273 (114)
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2 21 4 2025-01-23 2026-04-06 openstates ocd-bill/88f857f1-849b-4aec-bd69-b2da49c16394 https://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/BillInfo/Default?BillNumber=SB0273&ga=114 a7c88f90fc4a0cc6b9a02f8d17e22105ee4058f551999a51b9a72458930b6fbb 2026-07-01 https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump 2026-07-06 reported
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Tennessee SB 273 (114) — Criminal Offenses - As enacted, clarifies that a school employee does not commit the criminal offense of falsifying educational and academic documents for altering, creating, or duplicating the grade of a student in an educational or academic document if the alteration, creation, or duplication is due to the student obtaining the grade through a program that allows students to retake a failed course, exam, or assignment and earn credit. - Amends TCA Section 39-14-136 and Title 49.

Version chain

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

  1. Amendment HA0596 (committee substitute) — source
  2. Current Version (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • FLOOR VOTE: Motion to Concur House Amendment # 1 3/19/2026 Passed — 260 (pass) · upper
  • FLOOR VOTE: REGULAR CALENDAR AS AMENDED PASSAGE ON THIRD CONSIDERATION 3/16/2026 Passed — 930 (pass) · lower
  • SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE: Recommended for passage, refer to Senate Calendar Committee 3/11/2025 Passed — 90 (pass) · upper
  • FLOOR VOTE: Motion to Adopt 3/17/2025 Passed (1) — 320 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Taylor — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2025-01-23 Filed for introduction filing
  • 2025-01-27 Introduced, Passed on First Consideration introduction
  • 2025-02-10 Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee referral-committee
  • 2025-03-05 Placed on Senate Judiciary Committee calendar for 3/11/2025
  • 2025-03-11 Recommended for passage, refer to Senate Calendar Committee
  • 2025-03-14 Placed on Senate Consent Calendar 2 for 3/17/2025
  • 2025-03-17 Engrossed; ready for transmission to House receipt
  • 2025-03-17 Passed Senate, Ayes 32, Nays 0 passage
  • 2025-03-20 Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk.
  • 2026-03-16 Passed H., as am., Ayes 93, Nays 0, PNV 0 passage
  • 2026-03-16 H. adopted am. (Amendment 1 - HA0596) amendment-passage
  • 2026-03-16 Subst. for comp. HB. substitution
  • 2026-03-17 Placed on Senate Message Calendar for 3/19/2026
  • 2026-03-19 Enrolled and ready for signatures enrolled
  • 2026-03-19 Concurred, Ayes 26, Nays 0 (Amendment 1 - HA0596) passage
  • 2026-03-23 Signed by Senate Speaker passage
  • 2026-03-24 Transmitted to Governor for action. executive-receipt
  • 2026-03-24 Signed by H. Speaker passage
  • 2026-04-01 Signed by Governor. executive-signature
  • 2026-04-06 Effective date(s) 07/01/2026
  • 2026-04-06 Pub. Ch. 632

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/88f857f1-849b-4aec-bd69-b2da49c16394. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Tennessee legislature records).