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Legislative Update – Week Ending 2-8-19
TSEA representatives at the State Capitol before this week’s bill filing deadline successfully secured legislative sponsors for all our proposed bills. Below is a list of bill numbers and sponsors [&hellip
Read More »Legislative Update – Week Ending 2-1-19
TSEA has spent the first few weeks of the 111th General Assembly speaking with many top officials including the Speaker of the House Glen Casada, the new Commissioner of Human [&hellip
Read More »TSEA Lobby Day 2019
TSEA’s 2019 Lobby Day will be held on Tuesday, March 26 in Nashville. TSEA members will meet in the State House Chamber, Cordell Hull Building and other locations for Lobby [&hellip
Read More »State Revenues for December 2018
The state has announced that revenues for December were $17.2 million higher than the $1.3 billion estimate for the month, but were 3.0% less than December 2017. Year-to-date revenues for [&hellip
Read More »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
Read More »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
Read More »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
Read More »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
Read More »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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