Amends TCA Title 49.

This bill requires LEAs and the department of education to provide any testing material, proposed testing material, or record relative to assessments that is in the LEA's or department's possession to a member of the general assembly upon the member's request to inspect and review the material. This bill specifies that such disclosure must comply with all relevant privacy laws. This bill allows a member of the general assembly who reviews material pursuant to this bill to share information obtained from the material with other members of the general assembly, third-party experts, and public school leaders for the purpose of improving education. The member will be prohibited from sharing the information with a parent of a student enrolled in an LEA or a student enrolled in an LEA. This bill declares it an abuse of a general assembly member's official position to intentionally share information obtained from material reviewed pursuant to this bill with a parent of a student enrolled in an LEA or a student enrolled in an LEA. This bill requires that the department of education's assessment contractual agreements executed on or after July 1, 2022, must allow for testing material developed pursuant to the assessment contract to be released to members of the general assembly in accordance with this bill. ON MARCH 28, 2022, THE SENATE ADOPTED AMENDMENT #1 AND PASSED SENATE BILL 2299, AS AMENDED. AMENDMENT #1 removes "records relative to assessments" from this bill; removes the provisions for members of the general assembly to share the materials with others; and removes the requirement that the department of education's assessment contractual agreements executed on or after July 1, 2022, allow for testing material developed pursuant to the assessment contract to be released to members of the general assembly in accordance with this bill. This amendment adds that the release of assessment information pursuant to this bill as amended must not include: (1) Items required by the department to validate future administrations of the assessments; (2) Items that are being field tested for future administrations of the assessments; (3) Passages, content, or related items if the release would be in violation of copyright infringement laws; or (4) Items that would impact the validity, reliability, or cost of administering the assessment or proposed assessment.