Title 8, Public Officers And Employees

It is the policy of the state to give positive emphasis to the recruitment, evaluation, and employment of disabled persons in the public service. The department of human resources shall develop methods and programs to assist and encourage the departments, agencies and institution…

No person shall be hired for a position as counselor in any educational or correctional institution in this state unless that person possesses adequate training and competence in the field of counseling.

No person shall hold a position as social worker in any mental health institution in this state unless that person possesses adequate training and competence in the field of social work.

(a) Notwithstanding any public law, private act, or municipal charter to the contrary, no person currently under employment with any municipality, county, or metropolitan form of government, shall be dismissed or penalized solely on the basis of nonresidence in such local governm…

Notwithstanding any other provisions of this title to the contrary, any state employee, regardless of position or classification, shall be entitled to have access at any reasonable time to such employee's personnel files. The employee may request copies of any material contained …

(a) The chief elected officer of any employee association which has qualified for payroll deductions for association dues in accordance with § 8-23-204, shall, upon application to the employee's department head, be allowed up to two (2) years leave of absence without pay to perfo…

(a) Subject to the limitations hereinafter established, an officer or an employee who belongs to any employee association which is qualified for payroll deduction for association dues as set forth in § 8-23-204 shall be entitled to use two (2) days of their accrued annual leave p…

(1) As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) “Olympic competition” means the official Olympic games, sanctioned by the United States Olympic Committee, in which the United States competes as a national body;(2) “Pan-American competition” means the official …

(a) Eligibility for leave under this part shall be limited to those public employees who qualify as members of a United States team for athletic competition, on the world, Pan-American or Olympic level in a sport contested in either Pan-American or Olympic competitions. (b) The g…

Leave shall be available only for the purpose of preparing for and engaging in the competitions set forth herein, and in no event shall the total of all such leave exceed the period of the official training camp and competition combined plus a reasonable amount of travel time or …

A public employee who has been granted leave pursuant to this part, who thereafter is for any reason unable to further participate in the training period or competition covered by such leave, shall be required to immediately notify that employee's public employer of such inabilit…

A public employee granted leave pursuant to this part may be paid at the discretion of the employer.

This part shall not be construed to authorize or require extension of any employment beyond the time at which it would otherwise terminate by operation of law, rule, or regulation.

(a) Whenever an employee of the state of Tennessee is injured in the line of duty as a result of the commission of an assault upon the employee, and whenever such injury disables the employee from performing the employee's regular duties, whether such disability is temporary or p…

(a) If an employer announces a position for employment that is a covered position, the announcement shall include the following statement: NOTICE This position requires a criminal background check. Therefore, you may be required to provide information about your criminal history …

(a) The officers and employees of the various agencies, boards, and departments of state government shall be granted three (3) days paid leave in the event of death of such officers' or employees' spouse, children, stepchildren, parents, siblings, grandparents, grandchildren, ste…

(a) (1) Full-time employees of the state are eligible for enrollment in up to four (4) courses per academic year at any state-supported college or university, college of applied technology, or the Tennessee Foreign Language Institute without paying tuition charges, maintenance fe…

(a) (1) Every child in Tennessee under twenty-four (24) years of age whose parent is a full-time employee of the state or whose parent died while employed full-time or was killed on the job or in the line of duty while a full-time employee of the state shall receive a twenty-five…

(a) (1) It is the intent of the general assembly that state employees shall be encouraged to report verbally or in writing to their supervisor, department head, or other appropriate authority or entity, evidence of activity by a state agency or state employee or state contractor …

The department of human resources shall establish job classifications for marital and family therapists licensed pursuant to title 63, chapter 22, part 1, consistent with their scope of practice.

The state shall allow an employee upon retirement to keep such employee's employee photo identification card issued by the state. A sticker or other designation shall be placed on the employee photo identification card to indicate that the employee is retired.

(a) This section shall be known and may be cited as the “Tennessee Public Safety Behavioral Health Act.” (b) As used in this section:(1) “Mental health service provider” means a person who:(A) (i) Is licensed as: (a) A professional counselor designated as a mental health service …

(a) An official or employee of this state or any political subdivision of this state shall not accept an identification document issued or created by any person, organization, county, city, or other local authority to determine a person's citizenship, immigration status, or resid…

This part shall be known and may be cited as the “Other Post-Employment Benefit Investment Trust Act of 2006.”

(1) As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) “Other post-employment benefits” or “post-employment benefits” means nonpension benefits paid on behalf of former employees or the former employees' beneficiaries after separation from service. The benefits may i…

(1) A political subdivision may, by resolution legally adopted and approved by its chief governing body, establish an investment trust for the purpose of pre-funding other post-employment benefits accrued by employees of the political subdivision, to be paid as they come due in a…

(a) Any trust created under this part shall be irrevocable, and the assets thereof shall be preserved, invested and expended solely pursuant to and for the purposes of this part and shall not be loaned or otherwise transferred or used for any other purpose. The assets of the trus…

(1) In addition to the powers granted by any other provisions of this part, the chief governing body of a political subdivision that establishes an investment trust under this part shall have the powers necessary or convenient to carry out the purposes and provisions of this part…

The annual report, including financial statements, all books, accounts and financial records of any trust created under this part shall be subject to audit by the comptroller of the treasury. Any political subdivision maintaining a trust under this part may, with the prior approv…

Nothing in this part shall be construed to define or otherwise grant any rights or privileges to other post-employment benefits. The rights and privileges, if any, shall be governed by the terms of the political subdivisions' respective post-employment benefit plans.

(a) The general assembly finds that:(1) State employees and contractors of the state do not shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech and expression while at work;(2) Protecting the rights to free speech and expression for state employees and contractors of the state …

(a) An individual holding an elected office of a local government shall not hold another elected office in this state at the same time. (b) Notwithstanding subsection (a), individuals holding an elected office of a local government and another elected office in this state on Janu…

(a) A state agency may contract with a provider of child care services to offer child care services as an option for the agency's officers and employees. If a state agency offers child care services, then the child care provider must be licensed by the department of human service…

The state of Tennessee recognizes that intergovernmental cooperation is an essential factor in resolving problems affecting this state, and that the interchange of personnel between and among governmental agencies at the same or different levels of government is a significant fac…

(1) As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) “Receiving agency” means any department or agency of the federal government or a state government which receives an employee of another government under this part; and(2) “Sending agency” means any department or …

(a) Any department, agency, or instrumentality of the state is authorized to participate in a program of interchange of employees with departments, agencies, or instrumentalities of the federal government, or another state, as a sending or receiving agency. (b) Details relating t…

(a) Employees of a sending agency participating in an exchange of personnel as authorized in § 8-50-403 shall be considered during such participation to be on detail to regular work assignments of the sending agency. (b) Employees who are on detail shall be entitled to the same s…

A sending agency in this state may, in accordance with the travel regulations of the state, pay the travel expenses of employees assigned to a receiving agency, but shall not pay the travel expenses of such employees incurred in connection with their work assignments at the recei…

(a) When any unit of government of this state acts as a receiving agency, employees of the sending agency who are assigned under authority of this part may be considered to be on detail to the receiving agency. (b) Appointments of persons so assigned may be made without regard to…

A receiving agency in this state may, in accordance with the travel regulations of the state, pay travel expenses of persons assigned thereto under this part during the period of such assignments on the same basis as if they were regular employees of the receiving agency.

(a) Disclosure of the interests named in § 8-50-502 shall be made to the Tennessee ethics commission by candidates for and appointees to the following offices:(1) Each member of the general assembly;(2) The secretary of state, comptroller of the treasury, state treasurer and each…

(1) Disclosure shall be made of:(1) The major source or sources of private income of more than one thousand dollars ($1,000), including, but not limited to, offices, directorships, and salaried employments of the person making disclosure, the spouse, or minor children residing wi…

Any disclosure statement shall be amended from time to time as conditions change because of the termination or acquisition of interests as to which disclosure is required.

As long as any person required by this part to file a disclosure statement retains office or employment, such person shall file an amended statement with the Tennessee ethics commission or notify the Tennessee ethics commission in writing that such person has had no change of con…

(a) The ethics commission has the jurisdiction to administer and enforce the provisions of this part concerning disclosure statements of conflicts of interest. This enforcement power includes the full range of powers and penalties and procedures established in title 3, chapter 6.…

(a) No employee in the preferred service under chapter 30 of this title, shall be required by the appointing authority to submit a disclosure statement or any financial disclosure statement, unless such employee or a member of the employee's immediate family has a financial inter…