Tennessee Senate bill in Session 114.
Status: enacted. Latest action: April 28, 2025.
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.
ON MARCH 24, 2025, THE HOUSE ADOPTED AMENDMENT #1 AND PASSED HOUSE BILL 1253, AS AMENDED. AMENDMENT #1 revises the provisions in the bill relative to the six work weeks of paid leave to, instead, require e ach local board of education and public charter governing body to adopt a policy that requires the six work weeks of paid leave be used within 12 months of the birth or stillbirth of the employee's child or the employee's adoption of a newly placed minor child and be either: 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 Taken non-consecutively, but in increments of no less than one week .
| Date | Event | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-02-06 | Introduced | Bill introduced |
| 2025-04-24 | Status | enacted |
| 2025-04-28 | Latest Action | Effective date(s) 07/01/2025 |