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State revenues for November 2018
The state has announced overall November state revenues were $1.0 billion, which is 8.98 percent more than November 2017 and $45.9 million more than the budgeted estimate. The FY18 year-to-date [&hellip
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Pay For Performance Rewards Announced
Yesterday, the state announced state employee Pay-for-Performance “rewards” for the 2017-2018 performance cycle. Employees with performance ratings of valued, advanced, or outstanding will receive a 3.5 percentage increase in their [&hellip
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State Revenues for October 2018
The state has announced overall revenues for October were $1.0 billion, which is $29.5 million more than October of last year and $3.2 million more than the budgeted estimate. The FY18 [&hellip
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Statement on the passing of Charles Sargent
Charles Sargent had a distinguished career as a legislator. I was blessed to work with Charles in a number of different capacities. He was a legislative colleague back in the [&hellip
Read More »State Revenues for August 2018
The state has announced overall revenues for August 2018 were $1.05 billion, which is $71.5 million more than August 2017, and $34.4 million more than the budgeted estimates. Tennessee revenues [&hellip
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State Employees endorse Harwell and Fitzhugh
NASHVILLE – The Tennessee Employees Action Movement (TEAM-PAC) the official PAC of TSEA, today voted to endorse Beth Harwell in the Republican Primary and Craig Fitzhugh in the Democratic Primary [&hellip
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Gov. Haslam signs bill extending Maternity and Paternity leave for State Employees
Yesterday (5-3-18) Governor Haslam signed into law legislation which allows state and higher education employees to use their sick leave and annual leave for maternity or paternity leave for a [&hellip
Read More »Gov. Haslam signs bill to provide employees with evidence prior to disciplinary hearings
Governor Haslam yesterday (5/3/18) signed into law legislation which deals with the handling of evidence for hearings, representation at Step I hearings, and time calculations. This legislation took effect immediately [&hellip
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Gov. Haslam Vetoes proton therapy cancer treatment option for state employees
Governor Haslam has vetoed legislation which would have provided state employees coverage under the state group insurance plan for physician prescribed hypofractionated proton therapy for cancer treatment as an alternative [&hellip
Read More »Pay For Performance Raises included in state budget
TSEA has verified that the 2018-2019 state budget, passed last week by the House and Senate, includes funding for pay-for-performance raises of 2.5 percent for state employees with evaluation scores [&hellip
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