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TN Code § 9-4-5113 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 9 - Public Finances|Chapter 4 - State Funds, State Budget and Appropriations|Part 51 - State Budget and Appropriations|§ 9-4-5113. Certification of Funds to Meet Obligations

  No department or officer under such department shall enter into any contract, agreement, or obligation, involving the expenditure of money, unless the commissioner of finance and administration shall first certify that there is a balance in the appropriation from which such obligation is required to be paid, that is not otherwise encumbered to pay obligations previously incurred.   Subsection (a) shall not apply to the general assembly, state court system, attorney general and reporter, district attorneys general, district public defenders, office of the post-conviction defender, secretary of state, comptroller of the treasury, and the state treasurer; provided, however, that the chief administrative officer for each of these agencies shall ensure, before entering into any contract, agreement, or obligation involving the expenditure of money, that there is a balance in the appropriation from which such obligation is required to be paid that is not otherwise encumbered to pay obligations previously incurred.   All funds appropriated to the secretary of state, comptroller of the treasury, and state treasurer shall be administered in a ministerial capacity by the department of finance and administration in accordance with budgets and any revisions thereto of the respective entities for which such appropriations are made.
TN Code § 9-4-5114 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 9 - Public Finances|Chapter 4 - State Funds, State Budget and Appropriations|Part 51 - State Budget and Appropriations|§ 9-4-5114. Obligations After Fiscal Year Prohibited — Allotments Required

 No appropriation shall confer authority to incur an obligation after the termination of the fiscal year to which it relates. No appropriation to any state department, institution, office, or agency, excepting the general assembly, shall become available for expenditure until allotted upon the basis of a work program, duly approved by the governor, as provided in §§ 9-4-5110 — 9-4-5112.
TN Code § 9-4-5115 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 9 - Public Finances|Chapter 4 - State Funds, State Budget and Appropriations|Part 51 - State Budget and Appropriations|§ 9-4-5115. State Funds Received by Local Government Unit Not to Be Expended for Costs of Lawsuit Against State in Which Local Government Unit Is Plaintiff

  No state funds received by a local government unit shall be expended to pay attorney's fees, court costs, or other expenses attributable to a lawsuit filed against the state, a state agency, or a state official in which the local government unit is named as a plaintiff. If the state, agency, or official prevails in the lawsuit, then the department of finance and administration shall deduct from the local government unit's allocation of state-shared taxes, in the case of a city or county, or allocation of funds based on the Basic Education Program (BEP) formula, in the case of an LEA, such sum or part of such sum to recover attorney's fees, court costs, and other expenses attributable to defending the state in the lawsuit.   As used in this section, “local government unit” means a county, municipality, or local education agency (LEA) as defined in § 49-1-103.
TN Code § 9-4-5116 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 9 - Public Finances|Chapter 4 - State Funds, State Budget and Appropriations|Part 51 - State Budget and Appropriations|§ 9-4-5116. Abortion Funding

 No state funds shall be expended to perform abortions. The limitations established in this section shall not apply to an abortion if:   The pregnancy is the result of an act of rape or incest; or   In the case where a woman suffers from a physical disorder, physical injury, or physical illness, including a life-endangering physical condition caused by or arising from the pregnancy itself, that would, as certified by a physician, place the woman in danger of death unless the abortion is performed.
TN Code § 9-4-5117 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 9 - Public Finances|Chapter 4 - State Funds, State Budget and Appropriations|Part 51 - State Budget and Appropriations|§ 9-4-5117. Certification of Board Fees — Regulatory Fees

  Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, upon receiving from the commissioner of finance and administration the approved work program, as provided in § 9-4-5110, for the department of commerce and insurance, division of regulatory boards, and department of health, division of health-related boards, the commissioners of those departments shall certify by October 31 to the commissioner of finance and administration and, as applicable, to the director of the division of regulatory boards, as defined in § 4-3-1304, and to the director of the division of health-related boards, as defined in § 63-1-131, the total amount of board fee revenue required by each board for the current fiscal year, based on the approved work program. The commissioners of commerce and insurance and of health shall include the direct costs allocated to each board for the then-current fiscal year and shall reduce the certified amount by the amount of any excess fees from the immediately preceding two-year period, it being the legislative intent that fees and expenditures should be equal over a two-year period for each board, as provided in § 4-29-121. Such certification shall not preclude the retention of any board fee revenue estimated to be required for support of each board's operation for the then-current two-year period.    The fee established pursuant to the amounts certified as set forth in subsection (a) shall be designated as the board fee.   In addition to the board fee, each regulatory board shall also assess a state regulatory fee in such amount as is set each year in the general appropriations act. The state regulatory fee shall be in lieu of any allocation of indirect costs that would otherwise be allocated to such boards.      Within sixty (60) days after receiving the certification of the amount of fees required by each board, the director of the division of regulatory boards and the director of the division of health-related boards shall provide the commissioner of finance and administration with an official estimate of fees to be collected by each board for the fiscal year.   To the extent the estimate of fees for an individual board is less than the certified amount, the appropriation for that board shall be reduced in the amount of the deficiency, and the commissioner of finance and administration is directed to reduce the budget of the board accordingly.   The general assembly may supplement any board's appropriation from fee revenue by an appropriation of tax revenue by making a specific appropriation of such tax revenue in the general appropriations act.
TN Code § 9-4-5118 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 9 - Public Finances|Chapter 4 - State Funds, State Budget and Appropriations|Part 51 - State Budget and Appropriations|§ 9-4-5118. State Funds Not to Be Expended to Pay Municipality’s Public Indebtedness

  No state funds shall be expended to pay the public indebtedness of any municipality; provided, however, that this subsection (a) does not preclude any municipality from utilizing its allocation of state-shared taxes for the purpose of paying its public indebtedness.   As used in this section, unless the context otherwise requires:  “Public indebtedness” means the bonds, notes or other evidence of indebtedness lawfully issued or assumed;   “State departmental revenues” means:  Earnings or charges for goods or services; or   Donations, contributions or participation by political subdivisions, foundations, corporations, firms or persons;     “State funds” means state departmental revenues or state revenues;   “State revenues” means the proceeds collected from taxes, licenses, fees, fines, forfeitures or other imposts laid specifically by law for state government; and   “State-shared taxes” means taxes imposed and collected by the state pursuant to law and allocated by law among units of local government.     This section shall not be construed as limiting the authority provided in chapter 13, part 2 of this title or chapter 21, part 7 of this title.
TN Code § 9-4-5119 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 9 - Public Finances|Chapter 4 - State Funds, State Budget and Appropriations|Part 51 - State Budget and Appropriations|§ 9-4-5119. Prohibited Use of State Funds by University of Tennessee — Use of Funds in Budget of Office of Diversity and Inclusion

  State funds shall not be expended by the University of Tennessee to promote the use of gender neutral pronouns, to promote or inhibit the celebration of religious holidays, or to fund or support sex week.(b)  All funds in the budget of the office for diversity and inclusion at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, for fiscal year 2016-2017, shall be reallocated in the university's budget and used by the university solely for scholarships to be awarded through a minority engineering scholarship program. Any funds from the budget of the office for diversity and inclusion that are not used for minority engineering scholarships in fiscal year 2016-2017 shall remain in the scholarship program for use in future fiscal years.
TN Code § 9-4-5201 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 9 - Public Finances|Chapter 4 - State Funds, State Budget and Appropriations|Part 52 - Estimated Rate of Growth of Economy; Limitation on Appropriations|§ 9-4-5201. Basis for Estimated Rate of Growth of Economy

  The estimated rate of growth of the state's economy shall be based upon the projected change in Tennessee personal income.   Tennessee personal income shall consist of those sources of income included in the United States department of commerce's definition of “personal income.”
TN Code § 9-4-5301 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 9 - Public Finances|Chapter 4 - State Funds, State Budget and Appropriations|Part 53 - State Sharing|§ 9-4-5301. Statutes Providing Base Apportionment for Determining Additional State Revenues

 Funds apportioned as state-shared taxes to county and municipal governments for any fiscal year under authority of the following statutes shall provide the base apportionment for the purpose of determining the availability of additional state revenues to meet the requirement of the Constitution of Tennessee, Article II, § 24 that the state share in the cost of any law of general application imposing increased expenditure requirements on cities and counties:   Retailers' sales tax, as authorized by title 67, chapter 6, and apportioned by § 67-6-103;   Gross receipts taxes, such portions as are authorized as payments to the state from the Tennessee Valley authority under § 13 of the act of congress creating the authority, as amended, and apportioned under §§ 67-9-101(a)(2) and 67-9-102(a);   Income tax on dividends and interest, as authorized by title 67, chapter 2, and apportioned by § 67-2-119;   Special privilege tax on beer, as authorized by title 57, chapter 5, and apportioned by § 57-5-205;   Gross receipts tax on alcoholic beverages consumed on premises, as authorized by title 57, chapter 4, and apportioned by § 57-4-306; and   Tax on sale or distribution of wine and spirits, as authorized by title 57, chapter 3, and apportioned by § 57-3-306.
TN Code § 9-4-5302 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 9 - Public Finances|Chapter 4 - State Funds, State Budget and Appropriations|Part 53 - State Sharing|§ 9-4-5302. Governor's Budget to Show Increase in Apportionment — Amount of Increase Available to Local Governments

  Beginning with fiscal year 1980-1981, the budget document submitted by the governor to the general assembly shall indicate the amount of increase in the apportionment of the funds specified in § 9-4-5301 to incorporated municipalities and to county governments above apportionments for the previous year.   An amount of one million dollars ($1,000,000) of such increase shall be available for allocation to incorporated municipalities and to county governments as needed, to provide the state's share of any contribution required to fund any law of general application which requires, without local discretion, that incorporated municipalities or county governments increase expenditures as a direct consequence of the passage of any general law; provided, that when the cost of any such law is estimated to exceed fifty thousand dollars ($50,000), the source and amount of funding from state funds shall be set forth in such law.   In the event the source and amount of funding from state funds is not set forth in such law, such sources and amounts shall be set forth in the general appropriations act enacted during the same session as such general law.
TN Code § 9-4-5303 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 9 - Public Finances|Chapter 4 - State Funds, State Budget and Appropriations|Part 53 - State Sharing|§ 9-4-5303. List of Laws Requiring Increased Local Government Expenditures — Report of Allocations Required to Provide Funding

  Prior to approval of the general appropriation act by committees on finance, ways and means of the senate and the house of representatives, the commissioner of finance and administration shall certify in writing to the chairs of those committees a listing of all laws of general application which have been adopted and signed by the governor, whose passage will require increased incorporated municipality expenditures or county government expenditures within the meaning of the fourth paragraph of the Constitution of Tennessee, Article II, § 24.   Such certification shall, to the extent possible, cite the specific costs attributed to each law by the fiscal notes prepared by the fiscal review committee, with such adjustments as are necessary to reflect the effect of any amendments or other changing circumstances.   Following receipt of such certification from the commissioner, the committees shall report in writing to the speakers of the house of representatives and the senate, with copy to the commissioner and the comptroller of the treasury, the extent of allocations from the increases in the funds identified in § 9-4-5301 required to provide the state's share of the funding of any such incorporated municipality expenditure increase or county government expenditure increase.   Any law of general application requiring increased incorporated municipality expenditures or increased county government expenditures which passes and is signed following the certification required by this section shall be identified in like manner in a supplemental certification to the committees, which shall file with the speakers, with copy to the commissioner and the comptroller of the treasury, a cumulative report indicating total assessments against such increases identified in § 9-4-5302.
TN Code § 9-4-5304 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 9 - Public Finances|Chapter 4 - State Funds, State Budget and Appropriations|Part 53 - State Sharing|§ 9-4-5304. Procedure for Meeting Requirement That State Share Increased Expenditures

 For any bill requiring increased expenditures by cities and counties in an amount exceeding that level established in § 9-4-5302, the general assembly shall follow the procedure established in this section in meeting the requirement that the state share in the cost of such bill:   A fiscal note prepared by the fiscal review committee shall be furnished indicating the fiscal effect of such bill and whether or not such legislation imposes an increased expenditure requirement on cities and counties;   If the legislation imposes an increased expenditure requirement on cities or counties, then such legislation shall be amended in committee to indicate the state share of such expenditure;   The sponsor of such legislation shall cause an amendment to the general appropriations act to be prepared to fund the state share and shall present such amendment to the standing committee to which such legislation is referred and to the finance, ways and means committees or on the floor of the senate or the house of representatives when the general appropriations act is being considered; and   Such amendment to the general appropriations act shall state the amount appropriated to fund the state share.
TN Code § 9-4-5305 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 9 - Public Finances|Chapter 4 - State Funds, State Budget and Appropriations|Part 53 - State Sharing|§ 9-4-5305. Construction of This Part

 Nothing in this part shall be construed to reduce the apportionment to local governments of the total amounts due under the statutes cited in § 9-4-5301.
TN Code § 9-4-5306 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 9 - Public Finances|Chapter 4 - State Funds, State Budget and Appropriations|Part 53 - State Sharing|§ 9-4-5306. Locality Does Not Meet Municipality Requirements

  Notwithstanding any law to the contrary,  IF, after July 1, 1998, a locality is deemed by the state to be a municipality for purposes of distributing grants or state-shared taxes; AND   IF, thereafter the locality, acting in good faith and under color of law and for municipal purposes, receives and expends or obligates grants or state-shared taxes; AND   IF, thereafter it is judicially determined that the locality was not incorporated in accordance with the requirements of law and, therefore, is not a municipality; THEN   Neither the locality nor any person who acted on behalf of the locality is required to return or repay such grants or state-shared taxes; however, subject to § 67-5-104(c), any portion of such grants or state-shared taxes, that remains unexpended and unobligated, shall become assets of the county.    As used in subsection (a), “the locality, acting in good faith and under color of law and for municipal purposes, … expends” includes, but is not limited to, reimbursement paid from grants or state-shared taxes for documented, reasonable expenses of municipal incorporation that were paid out-of-pocket by one (1) or more residents acting on behalf of the locality and its incorporation.
TN Code § 9-4-5401 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 9 - Public Finances|Chapter 4 - State Funds, State Budget and Appropriations|Part 54 - Block Grant Review Act of 1996|§ 9-4-5401. Short Title

 This part shall be known and may be cited as the “Block Grant Review Act of 1996.”
TN Code § 9-4-5402 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 9 - Public Finances|Chapter 4 - State Funds, State Budget and Appropriations|Part 54 - Block Grant Review Act of 1996|§ 9-4-5402. Purpose

 The purpose of this part is to require state agencies to act with deliberate planning and with maximum feasible input of concerned citizens, religious congregations, nonprofit agencies and service providers and their clients/customers and board members and local government officials, in implementing reorganizations and new priority decisions related to receipt of federal block grants or other state decisions related to the devolution of policy and funding decisions from the federal government to the state.
TN Code § 9-4-5403 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 9 - Public Finances|Chapter 4 - State Funds, State Budget and Appropriations|Part 54 - Block Grant Review Act of 1996|§ 9-4-5403. Considerations in Block Grants and Federal Devolution

 To the greatest extent practicable and as permitted by law, each state agency shall make block grant and federal devolution decisions based on the following principles:   Minimizing harmful impacts on current programs, current and potential recipients of assistance, local governments, nonprofit agencies and the state economy;   Ensuring formal and informal participation of concerned citizens, regulated industry or other entities, environmental groups, religious organizations, nonprofit agencies and service providers and their clients/customers and board members and local government officials in proposed reorganizations and new priority decisions, so that their experience may be used creatively by state decision makers; and   Providing the above-referenced groups and categories of citizens with full and prompt access to information on new policy and funding and program organization related to block grants and federal devolution of authority.
TN Code § 9-4-5404 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 9 - Public Finances|Chapter 4 - State Funds, State Budget and Appropriations|Part 54 - Block Grant Review Act of 1996|§ 9-4-5404. Reporting Requirements

 Each state agency responsible for making or recommending decisions on block grants and related topics shall issue a written report by February 1 each year to the finance, ways and means committee of the senate; and the finance, ways and means committee of the house of representatives; the health and welfare committee of the senate; the health committee of the house of representatives; the energy, agriculture and natural resources committee of the senate; the agriculture and natural resources committee of the house of representatives; the legislative office of budget analysis; and the governor. This report shall detail block grant and federal devolution decisions made or recommended by the agency and how those decisions made or recommended implement or fail to implement the principles outlined in § 9-4-5403. Each agency that submits this report shall include in the report an executive summary of the major priority decisions and reorganizations related to receipt of the federal block grants or federal devolution decisions.
TN Code § 9-4-5405 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 9 - Public Finances|Chapter 4 - State Funds, State Budget and Appropriations|Part 54 - Block Grant Review Act of 1996|§ 9-4-5405. Compliance — Financial Costs

 The head of each state agency shall be responsible for ensuring compliance with this part, with the financial costs of compliance being assumed by each state agency.
TN Code § 9-4-5601 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 9 - Public Finances|Chapter 4 - State Funds, State Budget and Appropriations|Part 56 - Tennessee Governmental Accountability Act of 2013|§ 9-4-5601. Short Title

 This part shall be known and may be cited as the “Tennessee Governmental Accountability Act of 2013.”
TN Code § 9-4-5602 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 9 - Public Finances|Chapter 4 - State Funds, State Budget and Appropriations|Part 56 - Tennessee Governmental Accountability Act of 2013|§ 9-4-5602. Implementation of System of Strategic Planning, Performance Measures, and Performance Review

 The general assembly finds and declares that accountability in program performance is vital to effective and efficient delivery of governmental services, and to maintain public confidence and trust in government. To maximize accountability, a system of strategic planning, program performance measures, and performance audits should be implemented to measure the effectiveness and efficiency of governmental services. It is of paramount public importance that this system encourages full and candid participation by all agencies of state government. This system will generate information necessary to inform the public fully and for the general assembly to make meaningful decisions about the allocation of scarce resources in meeting vital needs.
TN Code § 9-4-5603 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 9 - Public Finances|Chapter 4 - State Funds, State Budget and Appropriations|Part 56 - Tennessee Governmental Accountability Act of 2013|§ 9-4-5603. Application

 The strategic planning, program performance measures, and performance review requirements of this part shall apply to all agencies unless exempted in this part or exempted by the commissioner of finance and administration.