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| 2 | 2 | | HOUSE BILL 30 |
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| 3 | 3 | | By Clemmons |
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| 5 | 5 | | SENATE BILL 1213 |
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| 6 | 6 | | By Oliver |
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| 9 | 9 | | SB1213 |
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| 10 | 10 | | 000531 |
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| 11 | 11 | | - 1 - |
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| 13 | 13 | | AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, |
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| 14 | 14 | | relative to language assistance for students. |
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| 16 | 16 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE: |
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| 17 | 17 | | SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 49-6-6001(j), is amended by |
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| 18 | 18 | | designating the existing language as subdivision (1) and adding the following new subdivision: |
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| 19 | 19 | | (2) |
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| 20 | 20 | | (A) A student who is an English language learner (ELL) and who |
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| 21 | 21 | | received language assistance services in the classroom during the school year |
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| 22 | 22 | | must be allowed to receive the same language assistance services while taking a |
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| 23 | 23 | | TCAP test or an end-of-course assessment, required by the state board of |
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| 24 | 24 | | education under subsection (a), as long as the receipt of language assistance |
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| 25 | 25 | | services does not invalidate the assessment. |
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| 26 | 26 | | (B) As used in this subdivision (j)(2), "language assistance services" |
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| 27 | 27 | | means services: |
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| 28 | 28 | | (i) Designed for speakers of languages other than English that |
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| 29 | 29 | | are provided pursuant to an individual learning plan (ILP) by a teacher |
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| 30 | 30 | | with an English as a second language endorsement to ELL students; or |
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| 31 | 31 | | (ii) That provide linguistically and academically appropriate |
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| 32 | 32 | | accommodations and scaffolding pursuant to an ELL student's ILP that |
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| 33 | 33 | | are provided by a general education teacher in the general education |
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| 34 | 34 | | classroom to ELL students whose parent or guardian has waived the |
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| 35 | 35 | | student's receipt of the services described in subdivision (j)(2)(B)(i). |
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| 38 | 38 | | - 2 - 000531 |
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| 40 | 40 | | SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it, |
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| 41 | 41 | | and applies to the administration of the TCAP test in the 2025-2026 school year and each |
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| 42 | 42 | | school year thereafter. |
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