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SB0892 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, Chapter 5, relative to educator licensure.
Raumesh A. Akbari
Last updated over 1 year ago
1 Co-Sponsor
As introduced, expands the exemption from an assessment to advance or renew a teaching license to include a public school teacher who, at the time of the application of an initial license, possessed an active teaching license in another state and has taught for more than 10 years. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5.
STATUS
Introduced
SJR0239 - A RESOLUTION to honor Fisk Radio WFSK 88.1 FM upon its fiftieth anniversary.
Charlane Oliver, Raumesh A. Akbari, Jeff Yarbro
Last updated over 1 year ago
3 Co-Sponsors
Fisk Radio, 50th anniversary
STATUS
Passed
SB1078 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, Chapter 6, relative to K-12 education.
Jeff Yarbro, Raumesh A. Akbari
Last updated over 1 year ago
2 Co-Sponsors
As introduced, excludes materials obtained by an individual teacher, which are made available in the teacher's classroom to students assigned to the teacher's class or classes, from having to be identified in a list posted on the school's website, and from being subject to the development, review, and feedback process established by the school's local board of education or public charter school governing body for materials in the school's library collection. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.
STATUS
Engrossed
SB0903 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, relative to financial literacy.
Raumesh A. Akbari
Last updated over 1 year ago
1 Co-Sponsor
As introduced, requires the Tennessee financial literacy commission to host a financial literacy webinar for students in each of the grades six through eight that is age and grade appropriate and designed to educate students on budgeting, saving, spending, credit, debit, insurance, investment, and other topics and concepts associated with personal financial responsibility; requires public school students in any of the grades six through eight to participate in the financial literacy webinar. - Amends TCA Title 49.
STATUS
Introduced
SB1076 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 37, relative to department of children's services data.
Jeff Yarbro, Raumesh A. Akbari, Heidi Campbell
Last updated over 1 year ago
3 Co-Sponsors
As introduced, requires the department to collect, maintain, and transmit to the children’s bureau within the United States department of health and human services data required or requested pursuant to federal law for programs focused on children’s welfare; requires the department to aggregate and publish the data on the department’s website. - Amends TCA Title 37.
STATUS
Engrossed
SJR0124 - A RESOLUTION to honor the memory of Tyre D. Nichols of Memphis.
London P. Lamar, Raumesh A. Akbari, Sara Kyle
Last updated over 1 year ago
33 Co-Sponsors
Tyre D. Nichols
STATUS
Passed
SB0750 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4, Chapter 49; Title 37, Chapter 5, Part 5; Title 49 and Title 71, Chapter 3, relative to early learning.
Becky Duncan Massey, Ferrell Haile, Charlane Oliver
Last updated over 1 year ago
10 Co-Sponsors
As introduced, requires the department to create and implement a promising futures program to provide scholarships to children who are not school age to assist them in developing early language and literacy skills in a high-quality early care and learning program; redirects, from the lottery for education account to an account administered by the department to provide funding for the promising futures scholarship program, a certain percentage of the privilege tax collected from sports wagering licensees for certain fiscal years. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 49; Title 37, Chapter 5, Part 5; Title 49 and Title 71, Chapter 3.
STATUS
Introduced
SB0890 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, Chapter 4, relative to financial aid.
Raumesh A. Akbari
Last updated over 1 year ago
1 Co-Sponsor
As introduced, removes the interest rate for scholarship loans evidenced by notes made payable to the Tennessee student assistance corporation for fellowship awards received by an aspiring teacher through the minority teaching fellows program. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4.
STATUS
Introduced
SB1253 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 54, relative to a new bridge project crossing the Mississippi River.
Raumesh A. Akbari
Last updated over 1 year ago
1 Co-Sponsor
As introduced, requires the department of transportation to proceed to initiate the development of a new bridge crossing the Mississippi River and connecting to Arkansas. - Amends TCA Title 54.
STATUS
Introduced
SB0728 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 54 and Title 55, relative to highway safety.
Heidi Campbell, Jeff Yarbro, Raumesh A. Akbari
Last updated over 1 year ago
3 Co-Sponsors
As enacted, requires the department to identify locations of state and local government roads in this state where injuries to bicyclists and pedestrians are elevated in comparison to the statewide average. - Amends TCA Title 54 and Title 55.
STATUS
Passed
BIOGRAPHY
INCUMBENT
Senator from Tennessee district SD-029
COMMITTEES
Tennessee Senate
BIRTH
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Raumesh A. Akbari was born in India and immigrated to the United States with his family when he was three years old. They settled in Tennessee, where Akbari graduated from White Station High School and went on to earn his B.S. in political science from the University of Memphis and his law degree from Washington University School of Law. Akbari served as a law clerk for U.S. District Court Judge Bernice Donald before practicing law at Potter Anderson & Corroon and Burr & Forman. He was also an Assistant District Attorney and advisor to the Shelby County Board of Commissioners and Memphis City Council.read less
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