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                        $tate of \lCennessee

                          PUBLIC CHAPTER NO. 296

                                                  HOUSE BILL NO. 1253

                                             By Representative Alexander

                                       Substituted for: Senate Bill No. 1410

                                       By Senators Hensley, Bowling, Lowe

         AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 8-50-814; Title 49, Chapter 6
and Title 49, Chapter 3, Part 3, relative to public schools.

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

          SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 49-3-312(a), is amended by deleting
the language "twenty (20)" and substituting instead the language "thirty (30)".

          SECTION 2. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 8-50-814(d)(2), is amended by
deleting the subdivision and substituting instead:

                    (2) Each local board of education and public charter governing body shall adopt a
          policy that requires the six (6) work weeks of paid leave granted pursuant to this section
          to be:

                              (A)

                                        (i) Taken consecutively, except in extenuating circumstances, as
                              determined and approved by the director of schools or the director of the
                              public charter school, as applicable; or

                                        (ii) Taken non-consecutively, but in increments of no less than one
                              (1) week; and

                              (8) Used within twelve (12) months of the birth or stillbirth of the
                    employee's child or the employee's adoption of a newly placed minor child.

          SECTION 3. This act takes effect July 1, 2025, the public welfare requiring it.
         HOUSE BILL NO. 1253

PASSED:  April 7. 2025

                                  CAMERON--sEXTON,SPEAKER
                                  HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

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l\p{I APPROVED this auij_ day of      2025

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BILL LEE, GOVERNOR