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                             PUBLIC CHAPTER NO. 655

                                                    SENATE BILL NO. 1891

                                                         By Bowling, Seal

                                           Substituted for: House Bill No. 1927

                                                      By Bricken, Sherrell

AN ACT to amend Chapter 7 of the Public Acts of the First Extraordinary Session of 2025, relative to
          the Education Freedom Act of 2025.

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

          SECTION 1. Section 4 of Chapter 7 of the Public Acts of the First Extraordinary Session of
2025, is amended by deleting subsection (f) and substituting instead the following:

                    (f) Subject to appropriation, if, on the effective date of this act, a local board of
          education or public charter school governing body has not received funding from the
          department for purposes of this section and the local board or governing body adopts the
          resolution required in subsection (b) and submits the resolution to the department no later
          than twenty-one (21) calendar days from the effective date of this act, then the department
          shall award a one-time bonus in an amount that is no less than two thousand dollars ($2,000)
          to each teacher employed by the LEA or public charter school who was employed by the
          LEA or public charter school in the 2024-2025 school year.

                    (g) For purposes of this section, "teacher" has the same meaning as "existing
          educator," as that term is defined in § 49-3-104.

          SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.
         SENATE BILL NO. 1891

PASSED:  March 19, 2026

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                                    SPEAKER OF THE SENATE

                         CAMERON SEXTON, SPEAKER
                         HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

APPROVED this 1-s-# day of /\>r.~\        2026

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         BILL LEE, GOVERNOR