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Legislative Update Week Ending 3-25-2022

Legislative Update Week Ending 3-25-2022

TSEA March 25, 2022 Comments Off on 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 [&hellip

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Legislative Update Week Ending 3-18-2022

Legislative Update Week Ending 3-18-2022

TSEA March 18, 2022 Comments Off on 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 [&hellip

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Legislative Update Week Ending 2-25-2022

Legislative Update Week Ending 2-25-2022

TSEA February 25, 2022 Comments Off on 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. [&hellip

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Legislative Update Week Ending 2-18-2022

Legislative Update Week Ending 2-18-2022

TSEA February 21, 2022 Comments Off on 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) [&hellip

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Legislative Update Week Ending 2-11-2022

Legislative Update Week Ending 2-11-2022

TSEA February 11, 2022 Comments Off on Legislative Update Week Ending 2-11-2022

TSEA had a productive week on the hill. We ended the week Thursday evening with the Shelby County and Memphis Higher Education Chapter Legislative Dinner. We are very grateful to [&hellip

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Legislative Update Week Ending 2-4-2022

Legislative Update Week Ending 2-4-2022

TSEA February 4, 2022 Comments Off on Legislative Update Week Ending 2-4-2022

Gov. Bill Lee this week presented his 4th State of the State address. While he didn’t outright mention state employees in his speech, he also released his FY2022/2023 Budget Proposal, which proposes [&hellip

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Legislative Update Week Ending 1-28-2022

Legislative Update Week Ending 1-28-2022

TSEA January 28, 2022 Comments Off on Legislative Update Week Ending 1-28-2022

As the pace picks up in the halls of the Cordell Hull building, TSEA continues to hold productive meetings with your legislators as we work to secure sponsors for legislation [&hellip

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Legislative Update Week Ending 1-21-2022

Legislative Update Week Ending 1-21-2022

TSEA January 21, 2022 Comments Off on Legislative Update Week Ending 1-21-2022

The 112th Tennessee General Assembly reconvened on Tuesday, January 11, 2022. Livestreams and videos of legislative meetings and activities are accessible on the legislative calendar page at this link: https://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/schedule/ [&hellip

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Legislative Update: Week Ending 4-30-2021

Legislative Update: Week Ending 4-30-2021

TSEA April 30, 2021 Comments Off on Legislative Update: Week Ending 4-30-2021

Yesterday, the Tennessee General Assembly passed the FY2021/2022 state budget, including funding for state employee performance raises, bonuses, benefit increases, and various salary adjustments. They will return for a few [&hellip

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Legislative Update: Week Ending 4-23-2021

Legislative Update: Week Ending 4-23-2021

TSEA April 23, 2021 Comments Off on Legislative Update: Week Ending 4-23-2021

Senator Thelma Harper  The TSEA family is saddened by the news of the passing of former State Senator Thelma Harper, who died unexpectedly on Thursday. Thelma Harper is a historic [&hellip

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