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PUBLIC CHAPTER NO. 215

SENATE BILL NO. 946

                             By Powers

Substituted for: House Bill No. 1088

By Mr. Speaker Sexton, Scarbrough, Hardaway, Terry, McCalmon

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, relative to parental notification of safety
          concerns at public schools.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:

          SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 27, is amended by adding
the following as a new section:

          (a) An LEA that receives, from a threat assessment team or any other source, credible
information regarding a threat of violence or significantly disruptive behavior directed toward,
or occurring on the grounds of, a public school in the LEA, and that reports the threat or
disruptive behavior to a state or local law enforcement agency, must also notify the parents
and guardians of students enrolled in the public school of the same threat or disruptive
behavior the LEA reported to law enforcement.

          (b) The LEA shall notify parents and guardians within forty-eight (48) hours of the LEA's
report to a state or local law enforcement agency, and may be made using existing
communication methods for providing information to parents and guardians.

          (c) For purposes of this section, a report made to a school resource officer, as defined
in § 49-6-4202, or an off-duty law enforcement officer who is serving as an armed school
security officer pursuant to § 49-6-809, is not a report to a state or local law enforcement
agency. If the school resource officer or armed school security officer subsequently reports the
threat of violence or significantly disruptive behavior to the law enforcement agency that
employs the school resource officer or armed school security officer or another law
enforcement agency with jurisdiction over the school for further investigation or for additional
assistance in deescalating a situation occurring on the grounds of the public school or LEA,
then the LEA or public charter school shall notify parents and guardians in accordance with
subsection (b).

(d) Each local board of education shall report at each quarterly meeting:

(1) The total number of incidents reported to a state and local law enforcement

agency requiring notice to parents and guardians in accordance with subsection (b) for

the respective quarter; and                           -      -

          (2) The total number of incidents reported to a state and local law enforcement
agency requiring notice to parents and guardians in accordance with subsection (b) for
the year to date.

SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.
         SENATE BILL NO. 946

PASSED:  Apri I 3, 2025

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