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PUBLIC CHAPTER NO. 330
SENATE BILL NO. 1423
By Akbari, Bowling
Substituted for: House Bill No. 1377
By Harris, Hawk, Hardaway, Cepicky, Reneau, Love
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, relative to reporting student-reading levels.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:
SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 9, is amended by adding
the following as a new section:
(a) Each local board of education and public charter school governing body shall
develop and implement a policy to provide on or with the report card of a student who is
enrolled in any of the grades kindergarten through eight (K-8), the student's score on the
universal reading screener most recently administered to the student pursuant to the
Tennessee Literacy Success Act, compiled in chapter 1, part 9, of this title, if a universal
reading screener was administered to the student in the current school year, and the results
of the dyslexia screener most recently administered to the student pursuant to§ 49-1-229, if
applicable.
(b) The requirement established in subsection (a) is supplemental to the home literacy
report required in§ 49-1-905(e) and the notice requirement established in§ 49-1-229(c).
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it, and
applies to the 2025-2026 school year and subsequent school years.
SENATE BILL NO. 1423
PASSED: Apri I 15, 2025
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