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TN HB0348

TN HB0348
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 49-3-314, relative to education finance.


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Introduced
01/23/2025
In Committee
04/02/2025
Crossed Over
Passed
Dead
04/24/2026

Introduced Session

Potential new amendment
114th General Assembly

Bill Summary

As introduced, requires, if a local government adopts a budget that includes the required maintenance of effort for education funding but fails to appropriate or allocate the full amount budgeted to the LEA, the local government, in the following fiscal year, to appropriate and allocate the unfunded portion to the LEA; specifies that the maintenance of local funding effort required for a fiscal year following a fiscal year in which the local government failed to appropriate or allocate the full amount budgeted to the LEA must be determined based on the amount budgeted to the LEA for the previous fiscal year instead of the amount actually appropriated or allocated to the LEA by the local government. - Amends TCA Section 49-3-314.

AI Summary

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Committee Categories

Budget and Finance, Education

Sponsors (1)

Last Action

Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee (on 04/15/2026)

Bill Topics

Education
  • ‐ Elementary and Secondary Education

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Document Type Source Location Created
State Bill Page https://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/Billinfo/default.aspx?BillNumber=HB0348&ga=114 01/23/2025
Amendment 1-0 to HB0348 https://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/114/Amend/HA0268.pdf 04/02/2025
Fiscal Memo for HA0268 (5087) https://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/114/Fiscal/FM0569.pdf 04/02/2025
Fiscal Note - HB0348 https://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/114/Fiscal/HB0348.pdf 03/10/2025
BillText https://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/114/Bill/HB0348.pdf 01/23/2025
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