(a) The general assembly shall make appropriations sufficient to provide:

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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 8-37-402

  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • board: means the board provided for in part 3 of this chapter. See Tennessee Code 8-34-101
  • Commissioner: means any person in office as a member of the public service commission, as prescribed by title 65, chapter 1, prior to June 30, 1996. See Tennessee Code 8-34-101
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • State: means the state of Tennessee. See Tennessee Code 8-34-101
  • Student: means any person enrolled in a course of study in a school or in a post-secondary educational institution who as a condition of such enrollment is employed in a full-time position. See Tennessee Code 8-34-101
(1) The amounts of normal contribution and accrued liability contribution so ascertained to be required on account of state employees, other than teachers, shall be included in the general appropriations act for the various departments, institutions, commissions, boards and agencies of the state;
(2) The amounts of normal contribution and accrued liability contribution so ascertained to be required on account of teachers shall be included by the commissioner of education in the commissioner’s estimate submitted to the general assembly of the funds necessary for the operation of the school system. Effective July 1, 1992, each local education agency shall provide for any increased amounts needed for its teachers, above the amount funded by the state for fiscal year 1991-1992, from funds appropriated for the Tennessee investment in student achievement formula (TISA); and
(3) The amounts of normal contribution and accrued liability contribution so ascertained to be required on account of members in Group 3 not employed by the state shall be provided by a separate appropriation for this purpose.
(b) The state treasurer shall make such funds available to the board.
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