Tennessee 2025 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee Senate Bill SB0342 Draft / Bill

Filed 01/28/2025

                     
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SENATE BILL 342 
By Lowe 
 
 
SB0342 
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, 
relative to school boards. 
 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE: 
 SECTION 1.  Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 49-2-201(a), is amended by adding 
the following as a new subdivision: 
(8)  Beginning with the election for board of education members held in 2028, all 
members of the board of education must be elected at the same election.  In order to 
align the terms of the members, the members elected in the first election occurring on or 
after January 1, 2026, are elected to two-year terms.   
 SECTION 2.  This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.