Public Employees

Plain English Breakdown

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Grace Period for Public Employees' Expense Reports

This bill changes Tennessee law to provide a five-day grace period for assistant district attorneys general and criminal investigators to submit their expense reports after the end of the month.

What This Bill Does

• Removes the penalty for not submitting an expense report on time if it is submitted within five days after the deadline.
• Requires that any late submission must include an explanation for why it was delayed.

Who It Names or Affects

• Assistant district attorneys general
• Criminal investigators

Terms To Know

Expense account

A record of money spent by an employee for work-related expenses that needs to be submitted and approved.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill only affects assistant district attorneys general and criminal investigators.
• It does not change the rules for other public employees who submit expense reports.

Official Summary Text

Abstract summarizes the bill.

Current Bill Text

HOUSE BILL 497
By Atchley

SENATE BILL 724
By Lowe

SB0724
000389
- 1 -

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 8,
Chapter 7, relative to compensation of public
employees.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:
SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 8-7-202(b), is amended by deleting
the following language:
If any person fails to comply with this section, this expense account shall be
disallowed and the same shall not be paid.
and substituting instead:
If a person fails to comply with this subsection (b), the expense account must not
be paid, unless the assistant district attorney general or criminal investigator,
within five (5) days of the end of the month, submits the expense account with an
explanation for late submission.
SECTION 2. This act takes effect June 30, 2025, the public welfare requiring it.