Tennessee

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Laurie Fleming
Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities
Vanderbilt University
10 Magnolia Cir
Nashville, TN 37203
P: 615.936.8852
laurie.fleming@vumc.org

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Policy & Legislation

Policy and Legislation > State Legislation

Tennessee SB 516 & HB 586: An Act to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, Chapter 7, relative to higher education for students with intellectual disabilities.

Two identical bills introduced in January 2019, these would prohibit postsecondary institutions from denying a student residential housing on campus or an affiliated location solely because the...Read more

Policy and Legislation > State Legislation

Tennessee HB 1983: TN Scholarships and Financial Aid

This Tennessee act, signed in 2016, enables recipients of the STEP UP state scholarship to apply its funds to enrollment in two and four-year postsecondary programs for students with intellectual...Read more