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Resolution asks governor to form task force to prepare Tennessee for federal role changes
Summary
SJR 650 includes a request that the governor create a task force to plan how Tennessee would assume education responsibilities and funding if the federal Department of Education were dismantled; sponsor cited Tennessee's Medicaid block-grant experience as precedent.
The resolution before the committee urges the governor to establish a task force to prepare Tennessee to assume functions currently overseen by the federal Department of Education if federal oversight were reduced or eliminated. Leader Zachary said the task force would identify reporting burdens, programmatic "strings," and administrative requirements a state would need to manage independently.
Zachary pointed to Tennessee's Medicaid arrangement as a model for state control and efficiency, saying the state had generated "roughly $330,000,000 in shared savings" under its block-grant approach. The resolution does not specify membership or a timeline for the task force; committee members said further details would need to be developed if the measure proceeds through the calendar process.
