Funds for the payment of the allowances provided by this part shall not be taken from the funds of the teachers' retirement system now in effect in this state, but there is appropriated a sufficient sum from the general fund to carry out this part.
Funding
Tenn. Code Ann. § 8-39-104, under State Employees and Teachers Not Covered by Any Retirement System.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 8-39-104