Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee House Bill HB1221 Latest Draft

Bill / Draft Version Filed 02/06/2025

                             
SENATE BILL 1121 
 By Lamar 
 
HOUSE BILL 1221 
By Johnson 
 
 
HB1221 
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AN ACT to amend Chapter __ of the Public Acts of 2025 
(1st Ex. Sess. – SB 6001 / HB 6004); and 
Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 8 and Title 49, 
relative to education. 
 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE: 
 SECTION 1.  Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 49-13-104(4), is amended by 
deleting subdivision (B). 
 SECTION 2.  Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 49-13-110(d), is amended by 
deleting the subsection and substituting: 
 (d)  The governing body of the public charter school may petition the authorizer 
to amend the original charter agreement.  Beginning July 1, 2021, the commission shall 
determine the timelines for approval and the appeal process.  If the authorizer is the 
commission, then an appeal shall not be made of the commission's decision to deny a 
petition to amend the charter agreement.  The governing body of a public charter school 
may petition the authorizer for voluntary termination of the charter agreement before the 
charter agreement expires. 
 SECTION 3.  Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 49-13-142, is amended by deleting 
subsections (a)-(g) and (i). 
 SECTION 4.  This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.