Title 9, Public Finances

(a) No state funds shall be expended to pay the public indebtedness of any municipality; provided, however, that this subsection (a) does not preclude any municipality from utilizing its allocation of state-shared taxes for the purpose of paying its public indebtedness. (b) As us…

(a) State funds shall not be expended by the University of Tennessee to promote the use of gender neutral pronouns, to promote or inhibit the celebration of religious holidays, or to fund or support sex week. (b) All funds in the budget of the office for diversity and inclusion a…

(1) When the state treasurer determines that a default or insolvency has occurred, the state treasurer shall provide notice as required in § 9-4-513 and implement the following procedures:(1) The state treasurer, in cooperation with the commissioner of financial institutions, the…

(a) Within thirty (30) days after the date of default or insolvency of a qualified public depository, the state treasurer shall publish or cause to be published notice of such default or insolvency once a week for two (2) consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in…

(a) In order to facilitate the administration of this part, there is created the “public deposit security trust fund,” hereafter in this section designated the “fund.” The fund must be composed of eligible collateral pledged from any defaulting institution, proceeds from the sale…

(a) In the event a qualified public depository not in default is merged into, acquired by, or consolidated with a bank or savings institution that is not a qualified public depository, the resulting institution shall become a qualified public depository, and the contingent liabil…

(a) A qualified public depository may withdraw from the collateral pool by giving written notice to the state treasurer and to the public depositors having public deposits at the qualified public depository. (b) Notice of withdrawal shall be mailed or delivered in sufficient time…

(a) A qualified public depository is required to withdraw upon a majority vote of the board. The board may vote to require a qualified public depository to withdraw upon a default by the qualified public depository, or upon the failure of the qualified public depository to meet t…

(a) Within fifteen (15) days after the end of each calendar month, or when requested by the state treasurer, each qualified public depository shall submit to the state treasurer a written report, under oath, indicating the average daily balance of all secured public deposits held…

(a) Public depositors shall comply with the following requirements:(1) A public depositor shall ensure that the name of the public depositor is on the account or certificate provided to the public depositor by the qualified public depository in a manner sufficient to disclose the…

Under no circumstance is the state, or any state agency, or public depositor, liable for all or any portion of any loss resulting from the default or insolvency of a qualified public depository except as provided in § 9-4-519(b).

(a) The estimated rate of growth of the state's economy shall be based upon the projected change in Tennessee personal income. (b) Tennessee personal income shall consist of those sources of income included in the United States department of commerce's definition of “personal inc…

(a) At least once each year, and whenever requested to do so by the commissioner of finance and administration or by the joint request of the chairs of the finance, ways and means committees of the senate and house of representatives, the state funding board shall secure from the…

(a) The budget document presented by the governor to the general assembly shall include a statement or showing projecting Tennessee personal income as provided in § 9-4-5201, for the ensuing fiscal year, for the calendar year in progress, for the fiscal year in progress, for the …

Any fees collected under this part shall be paid into the treasury of the state, and the same are hereby appropriated exclusively to the department of the treasury to be used in carrying out this part.

(a) At such time as a public depository joins the collateral pool, the state treasurer is empowered to assume responsibility as successor pledgee of any and all collateral pledged on or after July 1, 1992, to individual public depositors by that public depository. The state treas…

(1) Funds apportioned as state-shared taxes to county and municipal governments for any fiscal year under authority of the following statutes shall provide the base apportionment for the purpose of determining the availability of additional state revenues to meet the requirement …

(a) Beginning with fiscal year 1980-1981, the budget document submitted by the governor to the general assembly shall indicate the amount of increase in the apportionment of the funds specified in § 9-4-5301 to incorporated municipalities and to county governments above apportion…

(a) Prior to approval of the general appropriation act by committees on finance, ways and means of the senate and the house of representatives, the commissioner of finance and administration shall certify in writing to the chairs of those committees a listing of all laws of gener…

(1) For any bill requiring increased expenditures by cities and counties in an amount exceeding that level established in § 9-4-5302, the general assembly shall follow the procedure established in this section in meeting the requirement that the state share in the cost of such bi…

Nothing in this part shall be construed to reduce the apportionment to local governments of the total amounts due under the statutes cited in § 9-4-5301.

(a) Notwithstanding any law to the contrary,IF, after July 1, 1998, a locality is deemed by the state to be a municipality for purposes of distributing grants or state-shared taxes; ANDIF, thereafter the locality, acting in good faith and under color of law and for municipal purp…

This part shall be known and may be cited as the “Block Grant Review Act of 1996.”

The purpose of this part is to require state agencies to act with deliberate planning and with maximum feasible input of concerned citizens, religious congregations, nonprofit agencies and service providers and their clients/customers and board members and local government offici…

(1) To the greatest extent practicable and as permitted by law, each state agency shall make block grant and federal devolution decisions based on the following principles:(1) Minimizing harmful impacts on current programs, current and potential recipients of assistance, local go…

Each state agency responsible for making or recommending decisions on block grants and related topics shall issue a written report by February 1 each year to the finance, ways and means committee of the senate; and the finance, ways and means committee of the house of representat…

The head of each state agency shall be responsible for ensuring compliance with this part, with the financial costs of compliance being assumed by each state agency.

This part shall be known and may be cited as the “Tennessee Governmental Accountability Act of 2013.”

The general assembly finds and declares that accountability in program performance is vital to effective and efficient delivery of governmental services, and to maintain public confidence and trust in government. To maximize accountability, a system of strategic planning, program…

The strategic planning, program performance measures, and performance review requirements of this part shall apply to all agencies unless exempted in this part or exempted by the commissioner of finance and administration.

(1) As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) “Agency” or “state agency” means any unit organization of the executive department, including any official, department, board, commission, division, bureau, section, district, office, authority, committee, or cou…

(a) It is the legislative intent that the requirements of this part constitute a new approach to measuring the strategic functions and operations of each department in order for the state government to operate more efficiently and effectively. (b) The comptroller of the treasury …

(a) The commissioner of finance and administration shall annually issue instructions for the strategic plans and for the development of performance measures and standards for each program. (b) By August 15 of each year, each state agency subject to this part is required to submit…

(a) The commissioner of finance and administration shall evaluate at least annually each state agency's strategic plan and program performance measures. When necessary the commissioner of finance and administration shall update each state agency's strategic plan and program perfo…

(a) (1) Beginning August 15, 2013, and each year thereafter, each state agency subject to this part, shall submit a draft strategic plan and the agency's programs chosen for the program performance measures to the department of finance and administration for review, modification,…

(a) Each state agency shall be subject to a performance review of its activities by the comptroller of the treasury. (b) The performance review shall include such matters as the comptroller of the treasury deems appropriate related to the manner in which the entity is delivering …

(a) Notwithstanding subsection (c), to achieve full and candid participation in the planning and audit process, no strategic plan or performance review, or any information generated solely for or by any such plan or review, shall be admissible in any judicial proceeding or admini…

The director of the office of legislative administration shall develop and submit to the joint legislative services committee proposed instructions for the development of performance measures for the legislative department. The joint legislative services committee shall review su…

(a) (1) No money shall be drawn from the state treasury except in accordance with appropriations duly authorized by law. Every disbursement from the state treasury, except as hereinafter provided, shall be upon the authorization of the commissioner of finance and administration, …

(a) (1) (A) It is the policy of the state of Tennessee that all funds in the state treasury shall be invested by the state treasurer to the extent practicable.(B) (i) Investments shall be made in accordance with policy guidelines approved by resolution of the state funding board,…

(a) There is hereby established the “pooled investment fund” for the purpose of receiving and investing any money in the custody of any officer or officers of the state unless prohibited by statute to be invested. (b) Participants in the fund under this section shall be deemed to…

No person shall draw any money from the public treasury until all debts, dues, and demands owing by such person to the state are first liquidated and paid off. The commissioner of finance and administration shall not issue any warrant upon the treasury in favor of a person in def…

The commissioner of finance and administration may issue a duplicate warrant to any person to whom an original warrant was issued and which was lost, mislaid, or destroyed, in accordance with procedures established by the commissioner and approved by the state treasurer and compt…

(a) The commissioner of finance and administration is authorized to require the preparation and submission of work programs, financial reports and any other fiscal information the commissioner deems necessary before releasing any appropriations or grant to any agency, association…

With respect to any revenues or receipts collected by any department or agency with the exception of those collected by the department of revenue, other law to the contrary notwithstanding, such amounts as are determined to have been erroneously paid may be refunded by such proce…

(a) The state funding board shall determine whether a need exists for a longer-term investment fund for funds in the custody of the state treasurer. Upon determining that such a need exists, the state funding board may, by resolution duly adopted, create an intermediate-term inve…