HOUSE BILL 306
By Gillespie
SENATE BILL 275
By Taylor
SB0275
001627
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 5,
relative to constitutional officer budgets.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:
SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 5-1-202, is amended by adding the
following as a new subsection:
(d) The offices of sheriff, register, county clerk, assessor of property, and trustee
in a county that has adopted a charter form of government shall independently develop
the budget for such office and submit the budget directly to the county legislative body.
These offices shall adhere to the budget as finally approved by the county legislative
body, both in total and in line item detail, except that the offices may approve transfers
between line items within the total amount of each category of personnel and
operational-maintenance as set forth in the approved budget for any such office. These
offices shall submit budget amendments from line items in personnel categories to
operational-maintenance categories, and vice versa, to the county legislative body. The
county legislative body shall not implement any kind of personnel restrictions or
operational maintenance restrictions on these offices.
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.