Tennessee Code Title 49. Education § 49-2-901

(a) A middle school student or high school student who transfers from one (1) member school to another is immediately eligible to participate in interscholastic athletics at the member school to which the student transfers if:

(b) To maintain academics as the primary purpose of secondary education, to prevent the exploitation of children for interscholastic athletic purposes, and to preserve stability in the interscholastic athletic programs of member schools, the immediate eligibility provided in subsection (a) does not apply to a transfer that occurs during the school year or to a second or subsequent transfer at the middle or high school level.

(c) This section does not prohibit an interscholastic athletic association that establishes eligibility rules for interscholastic competition among member schools from determining the content, scope, and requirements of any rule or policy adopted by the association for purposes of implementing subsection (a).

(d) This section does not supplant the authority of a school or an association of schools to establish standards, requirements, and procedures for determining a student's eligibility to participate in interscholastic athletics.  This section only establishes that a transfer described in subsection (a), alone, does not render a student ineligible.  The immediate eligibility provided in subsection (a) does not apply if the transfer student is ineligible to participate in interscholastic athletics by virtue of another rule or policy of the school or of the interscholastic athletic association with which the school is a member or otherwise affiliated that establishes eligibility rules for athletic activities.

(e) Notwithstanding another law to the contrary, if an association that regulates interscholastic athletic competition among member schools maintains its principal office in this state, then any civil action challenging an eligibility decision made by that association must be initiated in the circuit or chancery court of the county in which the association's principal office is located.  This subsection (e) only establishes the venue for such actions;  it does not establish jurisdiction or alter any existing law affecting jurisdiction for any civil action challenging an eligibility decision made by an association.

(f) This section does not create a private right of action against an association that establishes eligibility rules for interscholastic athletic competition.

(g) As used in this section: