Tennessee 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee Senate Bill SB0938 Compare Versions

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2	2	HOUSE BILL 957
3	3	By Slater
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5	5	SENATE BILL 938
6	6	By Rose
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9	9	SB0938
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13	13	AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 8,
14	14	Chapter 50, Part 8, relative to leave for state
15	15	employees.
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17	17	BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:
18	18	SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 8-50-813(a), is amended by deleting
19	19	the subsection and substituting:
20	20	(a)
21	21	(1) In addition to leave granted under §§ 8-50-801, 8-50-802, and 8-50-
22	22	806, an eligible employee must be granted absence from work with pay for a
23	23	period of time equal to six (6) workweeks because of the birth of the employee's
24	24	child, because of the placement of a child with the employee for adoption, or
25	25	because the employee becomes the foster parent of a minor child, and upon the
26	26	employee giving thirty-days' notice to the appropriate appointing authority. If the
27	27	eligible employee learns of the birth, adoption, or foster placement less than thirty
28	28	(30) days in advance, the employee shall give the notice as soon as reasonably
29	29	possible. For the purpose of calculating service anniversary dates, this absence
30	30	from work is considered full-time employment.
31	31	(2) An employee who becomes the foster parent of a minor child must
32	32	not continue to utilize leave granted under this subsection (a) once the minor
33	33	child is no longer placed in the foster parent's home or custody.
34	34	SECTION 2. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 8-50-813, is amended by deleting
35	35	subsections (d) and (e) and substituting:
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40	40	(d) An eligible employee must not be granted more than six (6) workweeks of
41	41	paid leave under subsection (a) during a twelve-month period, but the workweeks do not
42	42	need to be taken consecutively. An eligible employee may receive no more than six (6)
43	43	workweeks of paid leave during a twelve-month period, even if there is more than one
44	44	(1) qualifying birth, adoption, or foster placement under subsection (a). If an eligible
45	45	employee uses only a fraction of the leave granted under subsection (a), then the
46	46	eligible employee may use the remaining balance of leave for any qualifying birth,
47	47	adoption, or foster placement that occurs within the same twelve-month period. Leave
48	48	granted pursuant to this section must be used within twelve (12) months of the qualifying
49	49	birth, adoption, or initial foster placement.
50	50	(e) As used in this section:
51	51	(1) "Eligible employee" means:
52	52	(A) An employee who has been employed full-time with the state
53	53	for at least twelve (12) consecutive months with an entity described in §§
54	54	8-30-102(a), 8-30-102(b)(2), 8-30-102(b)(6)-(7), and 8-30-102(b)(10)-(13);
55	55	or
56	56	(B) An employee who has been employed full-time with the state
57	57	for at least twelve (12) consecutive months with an entity described in §
58	58	8-30-102(b)(9), except for an employee of any administrative board or
59	59	commission that is attached to an entity described in § 8-30-102(b)(1) or
60	60	§ 8-30-102(b)(3)-(5); and
61	61	(2) "Foster parent" has the same meaning as defined in § 37-2-414
62	62	(a)(2).
63	63	SECTION 3. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.