TN HB1065

District-wide and building-level school safety teams must include in their safety plans a process for notifying parents and legal guardians of emergencies, incidents of violence, and credible threats of violence on school grounds, regardless of whether their child was directly involved.

Safety plans must specify the manner of communication and general timeline for parental notification, with the intent that parents be notified as early as possible without interfering with disciplinary, investigatory, or prosecutorial functions.

Threat assessment teams must document all behaviors and incidents posing a risk to school safety and report them to the LEA or public charter school, which must notify parents if the incident meets the threshold for notification under the safety plan.

All disclosures must comply with FERPA, Tennessee's public records law (§ 10-7-504), the Data Accessibility, Transparency and Accountability Act, and other relevant state and federal privacy laws.

The threat assessment team provisions take effect immediately upon becoming law; all other sections take effect January 1, 2026.