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type: "Bill"
title: "Scholarships and Financial Aid - As enacted, removes the requirement that a home school student must be enrolled as a home school student for a full year to be eligible for certain state lottery scholarships; adds those who complete six credit hours of dual enrollment courses to be eligible for the Tennessee HOPE scholarship. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4."
description: "Scholarships and Financial Aid - As enacted, removes the requirement that a home school student must be enrolled as a home school student for a full year to be eligible for certain state lottery scholarships; adds those who complete six credit hours of dual enrollment courses to be eligible for the Tennessee HOPE scholarship. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tn"
legislature: "Tennessee General Assembly"
session: "112"
identifier: "HB 646"
citation: "Tennessee HB 646 (112)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Scholarships and Financial Aid"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bell", "Faison"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 47
vote_count: 10
first_action: "2021-02-08"
last_action: "2021-05-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8bffd601-a746-4837-b8cd-cc2414e160a8"
source_url: "http://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/BillInfo/default.aspx?BillNumber=HB0646&GA=112"
source_hash: "9bb24d9bc04911c10826ef63d247c961c8fe15a1c91471b3dcb7f3cd14f37d7f"
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 HB 646 (112) — Scholarships and Financial Aid - As enacted, removes the requirement that a home school student must be enrolled as a home school student for a full year to be eligible for certain state lottery scholarships; adds those who complete six credit hours of dual enrollment courses to be eligible for the Tennessee HOPE scholarship. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Current Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/112/Bill/HB0646.pdf)
## Votes
- FLOOR VOTE: CONSENT CALENDAR PASSAGE ON THIRD CONSIDERATION 5/3/2021 Passed (2) — **86–0** (pass) · lower
- FLOOR VOTE: CONSENT CALENDAR PASSAGE ON THIRD CONSIDERATION 5/3/2021 Passed (1) — **86–0** (pass) · lower
- SENATE FINANCE, WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE: Recommended for passage, refer to Senate Calendar Committee 4/27/2021 Passed (2) — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE: Recommended for passage, refer to Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee 3/3/2021 Passed (3) — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- HOUSE HIGHER EDUCATION SUBCOMMITTEE: Rec. for pass by s/c ref. to Education Administration 3/23/2021 (7) — **0–0** (pass) · lower
- HOUSE FINANCE, WAYS, AND MEANS COMMITTEE: Rec. for pass; ref to Calendar & Rules Committee 4/20/2021 (4) — **0–0** (pass) · lower
- HOUSE EDUCATION ADMINISTRATION COMMITTEE: Rec. for pass. if am., ref. to Finance, Ways, and Means Committee 3/31/2021 (6) — **0–0** (pass) · lower
- FLOOR VOTE: Motion to Adopt 5/3/2021 Passed (1) — **30–0** (pass) · upper
- HOUSE CALENDAR & RULES COMMITTEE: H. Placed on Consent Calendar for 4/26/2021 4/26/2021 (3) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- HOUSE FINANCE, WAYS, AND MEANS SUBCOMMITTEE: Rec. for pass by s/c ref. to Finance, Ways, and Means Committee 4/14/2021 (5) — **0–0** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Bell — primary (person)
- Faison — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-02-08** Filed for introduction `introduction, reading-1`
- **2021-02-08** Filed for introduction `introduction, reading-1`
- **2021-02-10** Intro., P1C. `introduction`
- **2021-02-10** Introduced, Passed on First Consideration `introduction`
- **2021-02-11** P2C, ref. to Education Administration `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-11** Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Education Committee
- **2021-02-20** Assigned to s/c Higher Education Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-24** Placed on Senate Education Committee calendar for 3/3/2021
- **2021-03-03** Placed on s/c cal Higher Education Subcommittee for 3/9/2021
- **2021-03-03** Recommended for passage, refer to Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee
- **2021-03-09** Action Def. in s/c Higher Education Subcommittee to Lottery Calendar
- **2021-03-17** Placed on s/c cal Higher Education Subcommittee for 3/23/2021
- **2021-03-23** Rec. for pass by s/c ref. to Education Administration `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-24** Placed on cal. Education Administration for 3/31/2021
- **2021-03-31** Assigned to s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-31** Rec. for pass., ref. to Finance, Ways, and Means Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-07** Placed on s/c cal Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee for 4/14/2021
- **2021-04-14** Placed on cal. Finance, Ways, and Means Committee for 4/20/2021
- **2021-04-14** Rec. for pass by s/c ref. to Finance, Ways, and Means Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-19** Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/20/2021
- **2021-04-19** Rule #83(8) Suspended, to be heard in S. FW&M Comm. 4/20/21
- **2021-04-20** Rec. for pass; ref to Calendar & Rules Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-20** Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/21/2021
- **2021-04-20** Action deferred in Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee to 4/21/2021
- **2021-04-21** Placed on cal. Calendar & Rules Committee for 4/22/2021
- **2021-04-21** Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/27/2021
- **2021-04-21** Action deferred in Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee to 4/27/2021
- **2021-04-22** Action def. in Calendar & Rules Committee to 4/26/2021
- **2021-04-26** H. Placed on Consent Calendar for 5/3/2021
- **2021-04-26** Placed on cal. Calendar & Rules Committee for 4/26/2021
- **2021-04-27** Recommended for passage, refer to Senate Calendar Committee
- **2021-04-29** Sponsor(s) Added.
- **2021-04-29** Placed on Senate Consent Calendar for 5/3/2021
- **2021-05-03** Comp. SB subst.
- **2021-05-03** Sponsor(s) Added.
- **2021-05-03** Passed H., Ayes 86, Nays 0, PNV 1 `passage`
- **2021-05-03** Subst. for comp. HB.
- **2021-05-03** Engrossed; ready for transmission to House
- **2021-05-03** Passed Senate, Ayes 30, Nays 0 `passage`
- **2021-05-05** Signed by Senate Speaker
- **2021-05-05** Enrolled and ready for signatures
- **2021-05-07** Signed by H. Speaker
- **2021-05-11** Transmitted to Governor for action.
- **2021-05-18** Signed by Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2021-05-21** Comp. became Pub. Ch. 467
- **2021-05-21** Effective date(s) 07/01/2021
- **2021-05-21** Pub. Ch. 467
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8bffd601-a746-4837-b8cd-cc2414e160a8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Tennessee legislature records).
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