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Legislative Update Week Ending 4-22-2022
Legislative Update Late last week, the Tennessee Legislature passed the FY22/23 state budget, which invests heavily in state employees. TSEA is grateful to the members of the General Assembly and Governor Lee for proposing
Read More »Legislative Update Week Ending 4-8-2022
TSEA members gathered this week in Nashville for our 2022 Lobby Day. This event concluded our 2022 Legislative Events which consisted of our regional legislative dinners, legislative breakfasts, TEAM PAC Day on the Hill,
Read More »Legislative Update Week Ending 4-1-2022
TSEA continues to watch to ensure the items important to state employees, higher ed, and retirees are safe. Some of those items include: 4% salary pool for pay for performance 4% salary pool for
Read More »Legislative Update Week Ending 3-25-2022
TSEA continues to watch to ensure the items important to state employees, higher ed, and retirees are safe. Some of those items include: 4% salary pool for pay for performance 4% salary pool for
Read More »Legislative Update Week Ending 3-18-2022
Legislative session continues along with only another week of department budget hearings. TSEA has been carefully watching to make sure the items important to state employees, higher ed, and retirees are continuing to be
Read More »Legislative Update Week Ending 3-11-2022
Things are in high gear at the legislature. See below for updated bill statuses. A few notes on this week: DCS Budget amendmentThe Senate Health and Welfare Committee Wednesday amended the DCS budget adding
Read More »Legislative Update Week Ending 3-4-2022
Activity is moving fast in this year’s Legislative session as sub committee’s in the House of Representatives begin to close in the coming week. The Burden Of Proof bill, HB2172/SB2422 passed both the TN
Read More »Burden of Proof passes House and Senate
The Burden Of Proof bill, HB2172/SB2422 passed both the TN House and Senate unanimously on Monday, February 28, 2022. This bill, which we’ve worked to advance for several years, is one of the more significant pieces
Read More »Legislative Update Week Ending 2-25-2022
This week, years of hard work by TSEA and our sponsors of the Burden of Proof bill over several general assemblies finally have realized the result of passage through all standing committees. The bill now faces
Read More »Legislative Update Week Ending 2-18-2022
Tuesday our TEAM PAC leadership during their Day on the Hill had very productive meetings with all four caucus chairman in the House and Senate. Senate Chairman Ken Yager (Kingston) and Ramesh Akbari(Memphis), as
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