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2		-	HOUSE BILL 1163
3		-	By Stevens
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5	4		SENATE BILL 1019
6	5		By White
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9	8		SB1019
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13	12		AN ACT to amend Chapter __ of the Public Acts of 2025
14	13		(1st Ex. Sess. – SB 6001 / HB 6004); and
15	14		Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, Chapter 13
16	15		and Title 49, Chapter 3, relative to education
17	16		funding for public charter schools.
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19	18		BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:
20	19		SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 49-3-103(d)(3), is amended by
21	20		adding the language "or public charter school" after the language "Explain how an LEA".
22	21		SECTION 2. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 49-3-105, is amended by deleting
23	22		subsection (d) and substituting instead the following:
24	23		(d)
25	24		(1) The funding that a student generates pursuant to this section must be
26	25		administered and allocated by the department to the LEA in which the student is
27	26		a member for the duration of the student's membership in the LEA, except that:
28	27		(A) The funding a student generates pursuant to subdivision
29	28		(c)(3) must not be allocated to the LEA, but must be maintained by the
30	29		department; and
31	30		(B) The state share of the funding a public charter school student
32	31		generates for an LEA pursuant to this section must not be allocated to the
33	32		LEA, but must be allocated directly to the public charter school.
34	33		(2) A student's membership in an LEA begins on the first day of the
35	34		student's membership and ends on the last day of the student's membership in
36	35		the LEA, except that the membership of a student who graduates early is
37	36		extended to the student's expected graduation date for funding purposes.
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42	41		SECTION 3. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 49-3-316, is amended by adding the
43	42		language "or public charter school" after the language "LEA" wherever it appears in subsection
44	43		(c) and by adding the following as a new subsection:
45	44		(f)
46	45		(1) The commissioner, in consultation with the comptroller of the
47	46		treasury, shall develop, revise as necessary, and prescribe a standardized
48	47		system of financial accounting and reporting for all public charter schools,
49	48		including appropriate forms or other documentation. This system must be
50	49		designed to facilitate year-to-year and agency-to-agency comparison, as well as
51	50		adequately indicating the sources and uses of all funds received by each public
52	51		charter school. The commissioner shall review the fiscal public school records in
53	52		all public charter schools to the end that the expenditure of funds, whether for
54	53		current operation and maintenance purposes, capital outlay purposes, and other
55	54		school purposes, are properly accounted for and safeguarded.
56	55		(2) The commissioner may require public charter schools that receive
57	56		allocations of state education funding pursuant to part 1 of this chapter or
58	57		otherwise to comply with one (1) or more of the requirements established for
59	58		LEAs in this section, as the commissioner deems appropriate or applicable.
60	59		SECTION 4. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 49-13-112, is amended by deleting
61	60		subsection (a) and substituting instead the following:
62	61		(a)
63	62		(1) A local board of education shall allocate to the public charter school
64	63		an amount equal to:
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69	68		(A) The local student-generated funds for member students in the
70	69		public charter school for the prior year in alignment with the TISA
71	70		pursuant to chapter 3, part 1 of this title;
72	71		(B) The average per pupil state and local funds received by the
73	72		district in the current school year above those required by the TISA for
74	73		each member student in the public charter school in the prior year;
75	74		(C) The per student state and local funds received by the LEA for
76	75		member students in the public charter school in the current school year
77	76		beyond the prior year's membership; and
78	77		(D) All appropriate allocations under federal law or regulation,
79	78		including, but not limited to, IDEA and ESEA funds.
80	79		(2) The department of education shall allocate directly to the public
81	80		charter school an amount equal to the state student-generated funds for member
82	81		students in the public charter school for the prior year in alignment with the TISA
83	82		pursuant to chapter 3, part 1 of this title.
84	83		(3) Federal funds received by the LEA must be disbursed to public
85	84		charter schools authorized by the LEA by either joint agreement on shared
86	85		services by individual public charter schools or sub-grants to a public charter
87	86		school for the public charter school's equitable share of the federal grant based
88	87		on eligible students. The allocation must be made in accordance with the
89	88		policies and procedures developed by the department of education.
90	89		(4) Each LEA shall include as part of its budget submitted pursuant to §
91	90		49-2-203, the per pupil amount of local money it will pass through to public
92	91		charter schools during the upcoming school year, including all calculations listed
93	92		in this section. Allocations to public charter schools during that year must be
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98	97		based on the calculated amounts. The LEA shall distribute the portion of local
99	98		funds it expects to receive in no fewer than nine (9) equal installments to public
100	99		charter schools in the same manner as state funds are distributed pursuant to
101	100		chapter 3 of this title. An LEA shall adjust local payments to public charter
102	101		schools, at a minimum, in October, February, and June, based on changes in
103	102		revenue, student membership, or student services. All funds received by a public
104	103		charter school must be spent according to the budget submitted or as otherwise
105	104		revised by the public charter school governing body, subject to the requirements
106	105		of state and federal law.
107	106		SECTION 5. Sections 1 and 3 of this act take effect upon becoming a law, the public
108	107		welfare requiring it. For rulemaking purposes, Sections 2 and 4 of this act take effect upon
109	108		becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it. For all other purposes, Sections 2 and 4 of this
110	109		act take effect July 1, 2025, the public welfare requiring it.