Tennessee · HB 0843
Age-Appropriate Materials Act Amendment (HB 843)
As enacted, revises various provisions of present law pertaining to the "Age-Appropriate Materials Act of 2022" and the state textbook and instructional materials quality commission. - Amends TCA Title 49.
Passed
Apr 17, 2023
Effective
May 1, 2024
Sponsors (13)
- Susan Lynn
- Jody Barrett
- Jake McCalmon
- Larry Miller
- Dennis Powers
- Scott Cepicky
- Monty Fritts
- Mary Littleton
- Ed Butler
- Robert Stevens
- Chris Hurt
- Tim Rudd
- Chris Todd
Organizations Involved
Groups connected to this legislation based on public records and documented activities.
M4L Tennessee chapters (Williamson, Knox, Hamilton, Shelby counties) actively supported and used the Age-Appropriate Materials Act to file book challenges. Knox County M4L chapter created a list of books to pull from schools, most with LGBTQ+ themes.
Jurisdictions
Which districts, counties, or other jurisdictions are subject to this law — and which have confirmed book removals on record.
“Confirmed” means we have at least one documented book removal in our database citing this law. “Awaiting confirmation” means the jurisdiction is under the law’s authority but we don’t yet have specific removal records. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence — many districts may be enforcing this law quietly.
Confirmed removals (1)
Legislative Timeline
Filed for introduction
Intro., P1C.
P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
Ref. to Education Administration
Assigned to s/c K-12 Subcommittee
Placed on s/c cal K-12 Subcommittee for 3/21/2023
Rec for pass if am by s/c ref. to Education Administration
Placed on cal. Education Administration for 3/29/2023
Rec. for pass. if am., ref. to Calendar & Rules Committee
Placed on cal. Calendar & Rules Committee for 3/30/2023
H. Placed on Regular Calendar for 4/6/2023
Reset on next avail. cal.
Sponsor(s) Added.
H. Placed on Regular Calendar for 4/17/2023
H. adopted am. (Amendment 1 - HA0318)
Sponsor(s) Added.
Passed H., as am., Ayes 71, Nays 22, PNV 0
Engrossed; ready for transmission to Sen.
Received from House, Passed on First Consideration
Senate substituted House Bill for companion Senate Bill.
Senate adopted Amendment (Amendment 1 - SA0586)
Passed Senate as amended, Ayes 24, Nays 4, PNV 1
H. Placed on Message Calendar for 3/14/2024
Reset on cal. for Next Available Message Calendar
H. Placed on Message Calendar for 3/21/2024
Reset on cal. for Next Available Message Calendar
H. Placed on Message Calendar for 3/25/2024
Senate Recalled from House
H. returned to Senate
Placed on Senate Message Calendar for 3/28/2024
Motion to lift from the table adopted
Motion to reconsider adopted.
Adopted as amended, Ayes 24, Nays 5
Senate adopted Amendment (Amendment 2 - SA0736)
H. Placed on Message Calendar for 4/4/2024
H. concurred in S. am. no. 1 & 2 Ayes 76, Nays 18 PNV 0 HB0843
Sponsor(s) Added.
Enrolled; ready for sig. of H. Speaker.
Signed by H. Speaker
Signed by Senate Speaker
Transmitted to Governor for his action.
Signed by Governor.
Pub. Ch. 782
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
394 book(s) affected: '13 Minutes', '19 Love Songs', 'The 5th Wave', 'A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl', 'A Scatter of Light (Telegraph companion)', 'Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian', 'Abundance of Katherines', 'The Accidental Bad Girl', 'After', 'After', 'After Ever Happy', 'After the Fire', 'After We Collided', 'After We Fell', 'Age of Bronze Series', 'AirGear', 'Akira', 'Alice 19th', 'Alice the Fairy', 'All Boys Aren't Blue', 'All of Us with Wings', 'All the Bad Apples', 'All the Invisible Things', 'Allegedly', 'Anna Dressed in Blood', 'Another Brooklyn', 'Another Day (Every Day, Book 2)', 'Antipodes', 'Any Second', 'Arrow to the moon', 'As She Fades', 'Ask the Passengers', 'Assassins Blade', 'Attack on Titan. (All Volumes & Subseries)', 'The Attack', 'Audacious', 'Away We Go', 'The Awesome', 'Baptism of Fire/ Witcher bk 6', 'Beck', 'Before', 'The Best Laid Plans', 'Beyond the Black Door', 'Black Butler (Manga Series)', 'Blazed', 'Bleach- 9, 34, 42', 'Blood of Elves/ Witcher bk 4', 'Blood of My Blood', 'Bloom Into You', 'Blue Exorcist', 'Bluest Eye', 'Boelyn Inheritance', 'Book of Unknown Americans', 'Born a Crime : stories', 'Brazen', 'Breathless', 'Bungo Stray Dogs', 'Burned', 'The Burnouts (Quarantine Series)', 'Camp', 'Capricious', 'Carnival at Bray', 'Case Closed (Manga series)', 'Castle of Lies', 'Cherry', 'A Child Called It & Sequel', 'Chilling Adventures of Sabrina trilogy', 'Chlorine Sky', 'Circe', 'A Clash of Kings', 'Clockwork Orange', 'Cold Day in the Sun', 'Color of Earth', 'Color of Heaven', 'Color of Water', 'The Complete Persepolis', 'Concrete Rose', 'Coping with Date Rape & Acquaintance Rape', 'Copper Sun', 'Copper Sun', 'A Court of Frost and Starlight', 'A Court of Mist and Fury', 'A Court of Silver Flames', 'A Court of Thorns and Roses', 'A Court of Wings and Ruin', 'Crank series (Crank, Glass, Fallout)', 'Crash into You', 'Crazy Rich Asians', 'Crown of Midnight', 'Cut Both Ways', 'A Dance with Dragons', 'Dare You To', 'Darius the Great is Not Okay', 'Darius the Great is Not Okay', 'Daughters Unto Devils', 'Degenerates', 'Deogratias: A Tale of Rwanda', 'Descender Graphic Novels', 'Dig', 'Dime', 'Discovery of Witches', 'Doctor Sleep', 'Dogchild', 'Dragonfly in Amber', 'Durarara !! Vol. 2', 'Eleanor & Park', 'Elysium Girls', 'Emergency Contact', 'Empire of Storms', 'Every Day', 'Every Young Man's Battle', 'Everything I Never Told You', 'Everything, Everything', 'Everything's Fine', 'The Exact Opposite of Okay', 'Falling Hard : 100 Love Poems by teenagers', 'Fangirl', 'Fans of the Impossible Life', 'Far From the Tree: How Children and their Parents Learn to Accept One Another', 'Fault in Our Stars', 'The Fault in our Stars', 'A Feast for Crows', 'Felix Ever After', 'The Female of the Species', 'Feral Youth', 'Fight Club', 'Fire Keepers Daughter', 'The First Part Last', 'Fist of the North Star', 'Five Stages of Andrew Brawley', 'Flowers in the Attic Series', 'Forever', 'Forever for a Year', 'Foul is Fair', 'Freedom Writers Diary', 'Full Dark, No Stars', 'Full Disclosure', 'Furyborn', 'Game', 'A Game of Thrones', 'Gentleman', 'Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit', 'Girl on the Train Series', 'Girl Unframed', 'Girls of Paper and Fire', 'Girls of Storm and Shadow', 'Go Ask Alice', 'Gone Girl', 'Grasshopper Jungle', 'Grown', 'Guantanamo Voices', 'The Guy, the Girl, the Artist, and his Ex', 'H.G. Wells the Invisible Man', 'H.G. Wells the Time Machine', 'The Handmaid's Tale', 'The Handsome Girl and Her Beautiful Boy', 'The Hate U Give', 'The Haters', 'Have a Little Faith in Me', 'Hearts, Strings, and other Breakable Things', 'Heir of Fire', 'Help for the Haunted', 'Heroine', 'History of Wolves', 'Home Field Advantage', 'House of Earth and Blood', 'Hunter X Hunter', 'I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter', 'I am Nujood, Divorced at 10', 'I Hate Everyone but You', 'I Hunt Killers', 'I Kill Giants', 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings', 'I Never', 'I See London, I See France', 'I Was the Cat', 'I'll give you the sun', 'I'm Glad My Mom Died', 'Identical', 'If You're Out There', 'Impulse', 'Infinite Moment of Us', 'Infinite Sea, the (5th Wave series)', 'Into the River', 'The Invisible Life of Ivan lsaenko', 'It', 'It's Christmas David', 'Jojo's Bizarre Adventure', 'Jujutsu Kaisen. Manga (Entire Series)', 'Juliet Takes a Breath', 'Just a Girl', 'Kaleidoscope Song', 'Kingdom of Ash', 'Kingdom of the Wicked', 'Kingdom of the Cursed', 'Kingdom of the Feared', 'Kingsbane', 'Kissing Lessons', 'Lady of the Lake, the / Witcher bk 8', 'LaRose', 'Last Duel', 'Last Night at the Telegraph Club', 'Last Star, the (5th Wave series)', 'Last Wish, the / Witcher bk 1', 'Lawn Boy: a novel', 'Let's Talk About Love', 'Lies, Knives and Girls in Red Dresses', 'Lightlark', 'Like A Love Story', 'Little Peach', 'Living Dead Girl', 'lnuYasha', 'Loners, the (Quarantine series)', 'A Long Stretch of Bad Days', 'Long Way Home', 'Look', 'Looking for Alaska', 'Losing the Field', 'Lovely Bones', 'Lying in the Deep', 'Machete Squad', 'Making a Play', 'Manga Man', 'Marbles : Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, + Me', 'Me and Earl and the Dying Girl', 'Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac', 'Middlegame', 'Milk and Honey', 'Monday's Not Coming', 'Monument 14', 'Monument 14: Savage Drift', 'Monument 14: Sky on Fire', 'Muted', 'My Hero Academia: Vigilantes 1 & 3', 'My Life Next Door', 'The Nerdy and the Dirty', 'The Nickel Boys', 'Nightbane', 'Nineteen Minutes', 'Ninth House', 'No, David', 'Not Even Bones', 'Notes from my Captivity', 'Nowhere but Here', 'Nowhere Girls', 'One of us is Lying', 'One of Us is Lying', 'One of Us is Next', 'One of us is Next/ bk. 2', 'Only a Breath Apart', 'Only Ashes Remain', 'Other Boelyn Girl', 'Our Chemical Hearts (Chemical Hearts)', 'Out of Darkness', 'Out of Darkness', 'Outlander', 'Pain Eater', 'Paper Girls', 'Paper Palace', 'Paper Towns', 'Parachutes', 'Parasyte 1-8', 'People Kill People', 'Perfect (Impulse Book 2)', 'Permanent Record', 'Pinkalicious', 'Plague Land', 'Plague Land Reborn', 'Plague Land: No Escape', 'Postcards from no Man's Land', 'Private Lessons', 'Promised Neverland Manga Series', 'Pushing the Limits', 'Queen of Shadows', 'Rani Patel in Full Effect', 'Raven Summer', 'Ready Player One', 'Ready Player Two', 'Reality Boy', 'Recipe for Hate', 'Red at the Bone', 'Red Hood', 'Red Ink', 'Red, White & Royal Blue', 'Replica, Lyra Replica, Gemma', 'Right Where You Left Me', 'Ringer, Lyra Ringer, Gemma', 'Rising Gold', 'Rosario+ Vampire', 'Rose Madder', 'Runaway girl : escaping life on the streets', 'Saints, the (Quarantine series)', 'Say You'll Remember Me', 'Season of Storms / Witcher bk 3', 'Send Pies', 'Seven Deadly Sins', 'Seven Endless Forests', 'Ship of Smoke and Steel', 'Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" Graphic Novel', 'Shout', 'Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda', 'Six of Crows', 'Skeleton Crew', 'Skin and Bones', 'Slaughterhouse Five', 'Sleeping Beauties', 'Small Great Things', 'Smoke', 'Snow, Glass, Apples', 'Social Intercourse', 'Sold', 'Some Day', 'Someone I Used to Know', 'Soul Eater 1-25', 'Spontaneous', 'The Stan', 'The Stand-in', 'Station Eleven', 'Still Life with Tornado', 'Stitches: A Memoir', 'Storm and Fury', 'A Storm of Swords', 'Strange Truth', 'The Sun and Her Flowers', 'The Sun is Also a Star', 'Sword of destiny/ Witcher bk 2', 'Take Me On', 'Ten Things We Did (and probably shouldn't have)', 'The Testaments', 'The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian', 'The Body: A Guide for Occupants', 'The Color Purple', 'The Dark Tower series', 'The Fixer', 'The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest', 'The Girl who Played with Fire', 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo', 'The Green Mile', 'The House of Night (series 12 books)', 'The Last Field Party', 'The Low, Low Woods', 'The Odyssey', 'The Poet X', 'The Tempest Manga Shakespeare', 'The Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Suite (Graphic Novel, volume 1)', 'The Umbrella Academy: Dallas (Graphic Novel, volume 2)', 'The Umbrella Academy: Hotel Oblivion (Graphic Novel, volume 3)', 'The You I've Never Known', 'They Went Left', 'They Wish They Were Us', 'Thirteen Reasons Why', 'This Boy', 'This is Kind of an Epic Love Story', 'This One Summer', 'Thorn', 'Three Truths and a Lie', 'Throne of Glass', 'Tilt', 'Time of Contempt, the/ Witcher bk 5', 'Tokyo Ghoul Manga (Entire Series)', 'Tower of Dawn', 'Tower of Swallows, the/ Witcher bk 7', 'Traffick', 'Trench Dogs', 'Tripping Back Blue', 'Truth About Alice', 'Truth of Right Now', 'Twisted', 'Unravel Me', 'Upside of Unrequited', 'User', 'Vampire Knight. (Entire Series)', 'Voyager', 'Wacky Wednesday', 'The Waiting Tree', 'Wake Trilogy (Wake, Fade, Gone)', 'Walk the Edge', 'Walking Dead', 'Wash Day Diaries', 'Water for Elephants', 'We Stand on Guard', 'What Girls Are Made Of', 'Whatever', 'When Dimple Met Rishi', 'When Villians Rise', 'Where the Crawdads Sing', 'Where Things Come Back', 'Where We Go From Here', 'Wilder', 'Will Grayson, Will Grayson', 'A Work of Art', 'Yolo', 'You Against Me', 'Zombies vs. Unicorns'
7 book(s) removed from Wilson County, TN school libraries: 'The Bluest Eye', 'The Handmaid's Tale', 'The Hate U Give', 'Wacky Wednesday', 'The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian', 'I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter', 'The Complete Persepolis'
Sources
- LegiScan
- NewsChalkbeat TennesseeNov 16, 2024archived
October 2024 Wilson County Director of Schools report listing every title pulled from district libraries to comply with HB 843. Full list of 394 books.
- NewsNashville SceneOct 24, 2024archived
HB 843 enforcement in Wilson County, TN: Approximately 390 books removed from Wilson County school libraries to comply with HB 843. Director of Schools released the list publicly.
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