Tennessee · 114

SB 614

Education - 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.

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SB 614 amends TCA Section 49-3-314 to require that if a Tennessee local government fails to appropriate the full amount budgeted for education funding, it must allocate the unfunded portion in the following fiscal year. The bill further specifies that the required maintenance of local funding effort for the subsequent year must be calculated based on the amount originally budgeted rather than the amount actually appropriated.

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QuestionChamberResultYeaNayOtherDateSource
FLOOR VOTE: as Amended Third Consideration 4/14/2025 Passed (1) upper pass 0 0 2 Apr 14, 2025 Open States bulk CSV (bills/votes) CC0-1.0
SENATE FINANCE, WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE: Recommended for passage, refer to… upper pass 0 0 0 Apr 8, 2025 Open States bulk CSV (bills/votes) CC0-1.0
SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE: Recommended for passage with amendment/s, refer to… upper pass 0 0 0 Mar 26, 2025 Open States bulk CSV (bills/votes) CC0-1.0