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PUBLIC CHAPTER NO. 315
SENATE BILL NO. 346
By Powers
Substituted for: House Bill No. 453
By Hurt, Glynn, White
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 68, Chapter 102, relative to fire drills in schools.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:
SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 68-102-137, is amended by deleting
subsection (b) and substituting:
(b)(1 )(A)(i) Except as provided in subdivision (b)(1 )(A)(ii), fire drills requiring full
evacuation in educational occupancies where such occupancies constitute the major
occupancy of a building must be conducted no more than once every thirty (30) school
days.
(ii) Two (2) fire drills requiring full evacuation in educational
occupancies where such occupancies constitute the major occupancy
of a building must be conducted during the first thirty (30) full school
days of the school year. No more than two (2) fire drills requiring full
evacuation may be conducted during the first thirty (30) full school days
of the school year.
(B) In addition to fire drills requiring full evacuation, four (4) fire safety
educational announcements must be conducted throughout the school year.
The LEA shall develop the content of the announcements.
(C) A local government shall not adopt or enforce any ordinance,
resolution, policy, code, or regulation that establishes a schedule for fire drills
in educational occupancies that conflicts with subdivision (b)(1)(A).
(2) Fire drills requiring full evacuation must be held at least once every two (2)
months in institutional occupancies where such occupancies constitute the major
occupancy of a building.
(3) A record of all fire drills, including the time and date each drill was conducted,
must be kept in the respective school or institutional offices and must be made available
upon request to the state fire marshal or the state fire marshal's deputies or assistants
for inspection and review.
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.
SENATE BILL NO. 346
PASSED: Apri I 15, 2025
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