Tennessee 2025 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB0997 Draft / Bill

Filed 02/05/2025

                     
SENATE BILL 1018 
 By White 
 
HOUSE BILL 997 
By Stevens 
 
 
HB0997 
001818 
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, 
Chapter 13 and Title 49, Chapter 6, relative to 
public charter schools. 
 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE: 
 SECTION 1.  Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 49-13-106(e), is amended by 
deleting the language "§ 49-13-113(b)" and substituting instead the language "§ 49-13-113" and 
by adding the following as a new subdivision: 
 (3)  Subdivision (e)(1) does not allow a public charter school authorized in its 
charter agreement to locate in a county LEA to charge a student who resides in the 
county any registration fees, enrollment fees, or tuition if the student transfers to the 
public charter school from another LEA located in the same county. 
 SECTION 2.  Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 49-13-113(c)(3), is amended by 
adding the following language at the end of the subdivision: 
This subdivision (c)(3) does not allow a public charter school authorized in its 
charter agreement to locate in a county LEA to charge a student who resides in 
the county any registration fees, enrollment fees, or tuition if the student transfers 
to the public charter school from another LEA located in the same county. 
 SECTION 3.  This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.