Environmental & Healthcare Legislative Watch50 States · D.C. · U.S. Congress
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Fiscal Summary OTHER FISCAL IMPACT Implementation costs depend on existing vendor contracts and renewal cycles. Some LEAs and public charter schools may need to renegotiate contract terms, purchase additional services or licenses, or change vendors to meet the revised requirements, either for new contracts upon the effective date of the legislation or when current contracts expire. The proposed legislation requires an annual compliance audit and publication of audit results, and although a qualifying e-rate audit may be used, it is unknown whether LEAs and public charter schools currently undergo a qualifying audit or will need to procure additional third-party audit services; therefore, any mandatory increase to local expenditures is indeterminate. Article II, Section 24 of the Tennessee Constitution provides that: no law of general application shall impose increased expenditure requirements on cities or counties unless the General Assembly shall provide that the state share in the cost. Bill Summary Present law requires each LEA to adopt an internet acceptable use policy that includes provisions that: (1) Are designed to prohibit certain inappropriate use by school district employees and students of the school district's computers via the internet; (2) Seek to prevent access by students to material that the school district deems to be harmful to juveniles; (3) Select technology for the LEA's computers having internet access that prevent access to pornography, obscenity, and materials that are harmful to minors; (4) Establish appropriate measures to be taken against persons who violate the policy; (5) Include a component on internet safety for students that is integrated in a school district's instructional program; (6) Encourage communications with parents that raise awareness about internet safety
