State Employees

Plain English Breakdown

The bill has been withdrawn, so its current status is uncertain.

Changes to State Employee Rules

This bill changes which state employees are covered by certain rules and expands bereavement leave for some categories of state officers and employees.

What This Bill Does

• Adds the Tennessee sports wagering council, full-time board members of the parole board, and full-time board members of the inmate disciplinary oversight board to a list of entities not subject to laws about state service.
• Expands bereavement leave for state employees when certain family members die. For siblings, grandparents, grandchildren, foster parents, or parents-in-law, it grants three days of paid leave.
• For parents and stepparents, it provides five days of paid leave.
• For spouses, children, or stepchildren, it offers ten days of paid leave.

Who It Names or Affects

• State employees who work for the Tennessee sports wagering council, full-time board members of the parole board, and full-time board members of the inmate disciplinary oversight board.
• State officers and employees covered by the expanded bereavement leave rules.

Terms To Know

Bereavement Leave

Paid time off given to state employees when a family member dies.

Accumulated Leave Accounts

Accounts where paid leave, like vacation or sick days, are stored for state employees.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill was withdrawn and its status is unclear.
• It does not specify how the expanded bereavement leave will be funded.

Official Summary Text

Under present law, there are several offices and entities that are not applicable to the laws regarding state service. These offices and entities include, but are not limited to, the legislative branch of state government, the judicial branch of state go
v
ernment, the office of the secretary of state, and the office of the state treasury. This bill adds to such list (i) the Tennessee sports wagering council and its employees, (ii) full-time board members of the board of parole, and (iii) full-time board m
e
mbers of the inmate disciplinary oversight board.

BEREAVEMENT LEAVE

Present law requires the officers and employees
of the various agencies, boards, and departments of state government
to
be granted three days paid leave in the event of death of such o
fficers' or employees' spouse, children, stepchildren, parents, siblings, grandparents, grandchildren, stepparents, foster parents, or parents-in-law without charge to the affected officers' or employees' accumulated leave accounts.

This bill expands t
he leave granted above by granting (i) three days
paid leave in the event of death of such officers' or employees' siblings, grandparents, grandchildren, foster parents, or parents-in-law
, (ii) five days
paid leave in the event of death of such officers' o
r employees' parents or stepparents
, and (iii) 10 days
paid leave in the event of death of such officers' or employees' spouse, children, or stepchildren.

Current Bill Text

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HOUSE BILL 112
By Lamberth

HB0112
000807
- 1 -

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 8-
30-102 and Title 8, Chapter 50, Part 1, relative to
state employees.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:
SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 8-30-102(b), is amended by inserting
the following new subdivisions:
(14) The Tennessee sports wagering council and its employees;
(15) Full-time board members of the board of parole; and
(16) Full-time board members of the inmate disciplinary oversight board.
SECTION 2. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 8-50-113, is amended by adding the
following as a new subsection (b) and redesignating the existing subsections accordingly:
(b) Notwithstanding subsection (a), bereavement leave granted in accordance
with subsection (a) for the officers and employees of the various agencies, boards, and
departments of state government identified in §§ 8-30-102(a), 8-30-102(b)(2)-(11), and
8-30-102(b)(13)-(16) must be granted without charge to the officers' or employees'
accumulated leave accounts as follows:
(1) Three (3) days paid leave in the event of death of such officers' or
employees' siblings, grandparents, grandchildren, foster parents, or parents-in-
law;
(2) Five (5) days paid leave in the event of death of such officers' or
employees' parents or stepparents; and
(3) Ten (10) days paid leave in the event of death of such officers' or
employees' spouse, children, or stepchildren.

- 2 - 000807

SECTION 3. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.