Tennessee · 114th Regular Session (2025-2026) · Bill

SB 714: Education - As enacted, requires an educational oversight board to be created for an LEA that meets certain criteria and is established to annually conduct a comprehensive needs assessment of the LEA to determine the factors that may be contributing to the LEA meeting such criteria; requires the oversight board to develop a transformation plan that identifies performance and operational goals for the LEA and benchmarks for assessing the LEA's progress toward meeting such goals; makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 49.

Enacted Last action May 27, 2026: Pub. Ch. 1057

Plain-language summary

SB 714 is a bill introduced in the Tennessee Senate on February 3, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Education - As enacted, requires an educational oversight board to be created for an LEA that meets certain criteria and is established to annually conduct a comprehensive needs assessment of the LEA to determine the factors that may be contributing to the LEA meeting such criteria; requires the oversight board to develop a transformation plan that identifies performance and operational goals for the LEA and benchmarks for assessing the LEA's progress toward meeting such goals; makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 49. Primary sponsor: Brent Taylor (Republican). Most recent recorded action (May 27, 2026): Pub. Ch. 1057.

Sponsors

Primary sponsor: Brent Taylor (Republican).