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                             PUBLIC CHAPTER NO. 867

                                                    SENATE BILL NO. 2371

                                                             By Hensley

                                            Substituted for: House Bill No. 2148

                                                    By Renea Jones, White

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, relative to teachers.

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

          SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 49-5-501(10), is amended by deleting the
subdivision and substituting:

                    (10) "Teacher":

                              (A) Includes teachers, supervisors, principals, director of schools, and all other
                    certificated personnel employed by any local board of education, for service in public
                    elementary and secondary schools in this state, supported in whole or in part by state
                    or federal funds; and

                              (8) Does not include an individual who holds a temporary academic permit or
                    temporary clinical permit pursuant to § 49-5-106;

          SECTION 2. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 49-2-301 (b)(1 )(EE), is amended by
adding the following as a new subdivision:

                    (viii) This subdivision (b)(1)(EE) does not apply to individuals who hold a temporary
          academic permit or temporary clinical permit pursuant to § 49-5-106;

          SECTION 3. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.
         SENATE BILL NO. 2371

PASSED:  April 7, 2026

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                                                RANDY MclALLY
                                   SPEAKER OF THE Sd/JA TE

                        CAMERO'N""'SEXTON,SPEAKER
                        HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

J. APPROVED this 7-+L. day of ~•/          2026

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                       BILL LEE, GOVERNOR