(a) Notwithstanding any other provision to the contrary, a sick leave bank may be established in any local school system.
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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 49-5-803

  • bank: means a local system accounting of voluntarily pooled and irrevocably donated accumulated personal sick leave that is collected for the purpose of providing sick leave to members of the program who have suffered an unplanned personal illness, injury, disability or quarantine and whose personal sick leave is exhausted. See Tennessee Code 49-5-802
  • Sick leave: means a designated amount of compensation leave accumulated pursuant to §. See Tennessee Code 49-5-802
  • system: means any local public school system, as defined in §. See Tennessee Code 49-5-802
(b) Sick leave accumulated under § 49-5-710 may be donated to the bank.
(c) Only one (1) bank shall be allowed per system.
(d) To form a sick leave bank in a local school system, a minimum of twenty (20) teachers from that system must petition the local board of education for permission to establish a sick leave bank in accordance with this part. If the local board of education grants permission to establish a sick leave bank, then the local board shall adopt operating guidelines for the sick leave bank consistent with this title. Effective August 1 following the local board’s adoption of operating guidelines, the sick leave bank may begin operating within the system.
(e) To form a sick leave bank in a local school system in any county having a population of not less than forty-four thousand five hundred (44,500) nor more than forty-five thousand (45,000) or not less than six thousand seven hundred (6,700) nor more than six thousand nine hundred fifty (6,950), according to the 1990 federal census or any subsequent federal census, a minimum of ten (10) teachers from that system must petition the local board of education for permission to establish a sick leave bank in accordance with this part. If the local board of education grants permission to establish a sick leave bank, then the local board shall adopt operating guidelines for the sick leave bank consistent with this title. Effective August 1 following the local board’s adoption of operating guidelines, the sick leave bank may begin operating within the system.
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