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TN Code § 3-7-106 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 3 - Legislature|Chapter 7 - Fiscal Review Committee|§ 3-7-106. Subpoenas — Oaths

 In carrying out its work, the committee is authorized to issue subpoenas, including subpoenas duces tecum, to enforce the attendance of witnesses and the production of records, documents, papers, or other items of evidence, and to administer oaths to persons testifying before the committee.
TN Code § 3-7-107 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 3 - Legislature|Chapter 7 - Fiscal Review Committee|§ 3-7-107. Executive Director and Other Personnel

  Beginning July 1, 2020, the speaker of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives shall jointly appoint an executive director of the fiscal review committee. The executive director serves at the pleasure of the speakers; provided, however, in order to remove an executive director after July 1, 2020, both speakers must agree to the removal.   The executive director must be chosen without reference to party affiliation but solely on the basis of fitness to perform the duties of the office. The executive director must be a graduate of an accredited college or university and have five (5) or more years of experience in the field of professional financial management, administrative services management or related professional managerial experience, or governmental experience in relation to the fiscal or budget process. The speaker of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives will determine the compensation of the executive director.   Personnel shall be employed on recommendation of the executive director with the approval of the fiscal review committee. Personnel must be chosen without reference to party affiliation but solely on the basis of fitness to perform the duties of the office. The compensation of fiscal review personnel will be determined by the speaker of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives, upon recommendation of the executive director.   The office of legislative administration shall assist the fiscal review committee with personnel, payroll, and other administrative functions.
TN Code § 3-7-108 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 3 - Legislature|Chapter 7 - Fiscal Review Committee|§ 3-7-108. Provisions Supplemental

 This chapter is supplementary to chapter 3 of this title, title 8, chapter 4, and title 9, chapter 6.
TN Code § 3-7-109 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 3 - Legislature|Chapter 7 - Fiscal Review Committee|§ 3-7-109. Determination of Fiscal Impact of Compromise and Settlement of Civil Litigation

  The director of the fiscal review committee shall review all reports submitted to it by the attorney general and reporter pursuant to § 8-6-109(b)(11), and shall notify the speaker of each house of the general assembly and the attorney general and reporter of any pending lawsuit in which the director concludes there is a substantial likelihood that adjudication will result in a significant increase in state expenditures.   The fiscal review committee shall at least biennially establish the monetary minimum amounts that shall be the significant increase in state expenditures which are used for the purposes of §§ 8-6-109(d) and 20-13-103. From April 8, 1986, and until such monetary minimum amount or amounts are established by the fiscal review committee, the monetary minimum amount for the purposes of §§ 8-6-109(d) and 20-13-103 shall be two million dollars ($2,000,000). The comptroller of the treasury shall determine the lawsuits to which the state is a party and in which a decision may affect the bond rating of the state for the purposes of §§ 8-6-109(d) and 20-13-103. The director of the fiscal review committee shall review all reports submitted by the attorney general and reporter pursuant to § 8-6-109(d), and advise the speaker of the senate, the speaker of the house of representatives, or the director of the office of legal services or the director's designee on such reports when requested.
TN Code § 3-7-110 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 3 - Legislature|Chapter 7 - Fiscal Review Committee|§ 3-7-110. Programs With Reduced Federal Funds

  Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, prior to March 1 of each year, the fiscal review staff shall provide the finance, ways and means committees of the senate and the house of representatives and the fiscal review committee with information regarding the creation of state programs that have suffered significant reductions of federal financial support during the preceding year, including the terms of the initial agreement for the federal funding, time frames, and other pertinent requirements. As used in this section, “significant reductions” means reductions of ten percent (10%) or more in any given year.   There is established a federal grants monitoring and information management responsibility within the staffs of the fiscal review committee and the office of legislative budget analysis. The monitoring and information management responsibility shall be administered by one (1) staff person in the office of legislative budget analysis and one (1) staff person from the staff of the fiscal review committee. The staff of the fiscal review committee and the office of legislative budget analysis shall jointly monitor, analyze, and manage information concerning federal grants programs, including, but not limited to, social services grant funds, in order to inform members of the general assembly concerning such grants. The directors of the staff of the fiscal review committee and of the office of legislative budget analysis shall jointly make such reports as are appropriate to the speakers of the house of representatives and of the senate and to the fiscal review committee.
TN Code § 3-7-112 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 3 - Legislature|Chapter 7 - Fiscal Review Committee|§ 3-7-112. Contract Services Subcommittee

  Within the fiscal review committee there is created a contract services subcommittee, the members of which shall be appointed by the chair of the fiscal review committee. The chair of the fiscal review committee shall determine the number of members of the subcommittee and shall appoint the chair of the subcommittee. For purposes of determining a quorum to conduct business, other members of the fiscal review committee may serve as pro tempore members of the subcommittee.   The purpose of the subcommittee is to become knowledgeable about the state's use of contract services and to impart this knowledge to the members of the general assembly. This function is one of continuing review.   The contract services subcommittee shall review the state's fee-for-service type contracts. These contracts include:  Fee-for-service contracts;   Direct purchase authority contracts;   Interdepartmental contracts; and   Government contracts other than the state.     The contract services subcommittee may also review the state's contracts involving:  Grants;   Grants to governments;   Departmental grant authority;   No cost contracts;   Revenue contracts; and   Memoranda of agreement.     During the course of its review the subcommittee shall make inquiry of each appropriate state governmental entity concerning:  The number of contracts outstanding;   The amount of money involved;   The length of the contracts;   The criteria for the use of contract services;   The savings realized by the use of contract services; and   Such other information as the subcommittee may require.     The subcommittee shall utilize the existing staff of the committee.   The subcommittee shall report annually on the state's use of contract services to the general assembly. In addition to its annual report, the subcommittee may make such special reports to the general assembly or a standing committee thereof as the subcommittee finds appropriate.   The contract services subcommittee shall not infringe upon any matter presently within the scope of the study of the information systems council.
TN Code § 3-7-113 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 3 - Legislature|Chapter 7 - Fiscal Review Committee|§ 3-7-113. Review and Discussion of Any Audit

 The fiscal review committee shall review and discuss any audit of a department, agency or institution of this state prepared by the comptroller of the treasury, pursuant to § 8-4-109, subject to the following:   The fiscal review staff shall first review all audits of state departments, agencies or institutions prepared by the comptroller, pursuant to § 8-4-109, in conjunction with the chair or chairs of the fiscal review committee or the chairs' selected designees, for analysis and selection of such audits as deemed necessary for formal review by the fiscal review committee;   Effective January 1, 2007, the fiscal review staff shall forward to the chair or chairs of the fiscal review committee any above mentioned audit that contains a finding, or substantially similar finding, that has been repeated in three (3) or more consecutive audit reports;   Except in extraordinary circumstances, all audit reviews by the staff and committee pursuant to this section shall be conducted while the general assembly is not in session; and   This section does not limit the jurisdiction of the committee to review matters contained in other audits performed by the comptroller.
TN Code § 3-7-114 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 3 - Legislature|Chapter 7 - Fiscal Review Committee|§ 3-7-114. Identification and Listing of Acts Null and Void for Lack of First Year's Funding by General Assembly Appropriation

 Within forty-five (45) days following the conclusion of each fiscal year, the fiscal review committee shall identify and list each law enacted during the fiscal year that is null and void for lack of a timely appropriation providing the estimated first year's funding for the law, as required by Article II, § 24 of the Constitution of Tennessee. The list shall be promptly delivered to the speaker of the senate, the speaker of the house of representatives, and the executive secretary of the Tennessee code commission.
TN Code § 3-10-101 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 3 - Legislature|Chapter 10 - Joint Legislative Services Committee|§ 3-10-101. Creation — Composition

  There is created a joint legislative services committee, hereinafter referred to as the committee, which shall constitute a special committee of the general assembly.   The committee shall be composed of ten (10) members. The speaker of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives shall be members and shall serve as co-chairs of the committee. The speaker of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives shall each appoint two (2) members of the majority party and two (2) members of the minority party from the respective houses.
TN Code § 3-10-102 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 3 - Legislature|Chapter 10 - Joint Legislative Services Committee|§ 3-10-102. Appointment — Terms — Vacancies

  Appointment of members of the committee shall be made at the same time as standing committee appointments are made. Members shall serve until the end of their terms of office or until the next regular November general election, whichever occurs first.   In the event of a vacancy on the committee, the vacancy shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointment was made.
TN Code § 3-10-103 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 3 - Legislature|Chapter 10 - Joint Legislative Services Committee|§ 3-10-103. Meetings

 The first meeting of the committee shall be held at the call of the co-chairs within fifteen (15) days after the appointment of the members. Thereafter, the committee shall meet at least one (1) time during each regular or adjourned session of the general assembly. Other meetings may be called during or between sessions by the co-chairs at their pleasure or by a majority of the members of the committee. Members of the committee from the senate only or the house of representatives only may meet at the call of the appropriate speaker to consider matters concerning only the senate or the house of representatives, respectively.
TN Code § 3-10-104 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 3 - Legislature|Chapter 10 - Joint Legislative Services Committee|§ 3-10-104. Recommendations on Management, Policy and Procedure

 The committee shall make recommendations on management, policies, and procedures to be employed in providing services to the general assembly or either house thereof. Recommendations which concern only one (1) house shall be approved by a majority of the committee members from the appropriate house and the speaker of that house. Recommendations which concern the general assembly as a whole shall be approved by a majority of the committee and by both speakers.
TN Code § 3-10-105 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 3 - Legislature|Chapter 10 - Joint Legislative Services Committee|§ 3-10-105. Cooperation of State Departments, Institutions and Agencies

  The office of legal services, the office of legislative administration, office of legislative budget analysis and the office of legislative information systems established by §§ 3-12-101, 3-13-101, 3-14-201 and 3-16-101, respectively, may call upon the state library, state universities and colleges, the comptroller of the treasury, the state planning office, the attorney general and reporter, and all other state departments and agencies for assistance and advice.   It is the duty of the attorney general and reporter to render opinions and give counsel to the office of legal services, the office of legislative administration, and the offices of legislative information systems upon request of the directors of the respective offices.
TN Code § 3-10-107 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 3 - Legislature|Chapter 10 - Joint Legislative Services Committee|§ 3-10-107. Legislative Information Systems — Select Advisory Council — Staff User Group

   A select advisory council on legislative information systems may be appointed by the speaker of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives. Such council shall be composed of an equal number of members of the senate and the house of representatives as the speakers shall determine, and the clerks shall serve as ex officio nonvoting members of the advisory council. The legislative members shall be appointed in the same manner as the members of the joint legislative services committee.   The select advisory council shall advise the speakers and the joint legislative services committee on policies and procedures relative to the electronic data processing system and services provided by the legislative information systems.     There is created a staff user group which shall be composed of ten (10) members. The chief clerk of the senate and the chief clerk of the house of representatives shall be members and shall serve as co-chairs of the group. The other members of the staff user group shall be the director of the office of legislative administration, office of legislative budget analysis, the director of the office of legal services, the director of the office of management information services, the executive director of the fiscal review committee, and one (1) secretary from a standing committee of each house to be appointed by the respective speakers. The staff user group may advise the speakers, the joint legislative services committee, and the select advisory council on policies and procedures relative to the electronic data processing system.
TN Code § 3-10-108 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 3 - Legislature|Chapter 10 - Joint Legislative Services Committee|§ 3-10-108. Access to Legislative Computer System — Reproduction of Tennessee Code Annotated

  The joint legislative services committee shall consider each application for direct access to the legislative computer system in which confidential information is stored or processed, or that is connected to another computer in which confidential information is stored or processed, and solely shall determine whether or not to permit direct access by the applicant.   Direct access to such a computer may not be permitted unless protection of any confidential information is ensured.   The provisions of § 10-7-503 shall not apply to records or information otherwise available in printed form or to information or records otherwise exempt from the provisions of § 10-7-503.   If public information is stored in a computer-readable form, the committee has exclusive authority to determine the form in which the information will be reproduced for the requestor of the information; provided, that the reproduction, publication, and sale of Tennessee Code Annotated in any form, in whole or in part, shall be pursuant to the provisions of title 1, chapter 1. If access to such public information is also available in printed form, it need not be provided in an electronic readable form.   The committee shall designate the terminals, if any, at which public access is given to public information. The data processing equipment located in the offices of members of the general assembly and legislative staff need not provide such access if not so designated by the committee.
TN Code § 3-10-109 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 3 - Legislature|Chapter 10 - Joint Legislative Services Committee|§ 3-10-109. Legislative Computer Access and Information — Violations — Penalties

  It is unlawful for any person to intentionally or knowingly gain access to information stored or maintained in a computer under the control of the joint legislative services committee if it is not lawful for such person to have access and such person is also not authorized by such committee to have access to that information.   It is unlawful for a person to intentionally, knowingly or recklessly damage, destroy, delete, alter, or impair access to or use of information stored or maintained in a computer under the control of the joint legislative services committee if such person is not authorized by such committee to do so.   A violation of this section is a Class C misdemeanor.
TN Code § 3-10-110 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 3 - Legislature|Chapter 10 - Joint Legislative Services Committee|§ 3-10-110. Actions to Increase Public Access

 The house of representatives shall take action to improve, enhance, and expand its audio-visual, Internet, graphics, captioning, wireless and broadcast capabilities so that public access to its proceedings will increase.
TN Code § 3-12-101 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 3 - Legislature|Chapter 12 - Office of Legal Services|§ 3-12-101. Creation — Duties

 There is created the office of legal services, which has the duty to:   Provide summaries and abstracts of proposed legislation;   Prepare and assist in the preparation of proposed legislation and amendments;   Give legal opinions upon request of members of the general assembly;   Inform the speaker of the senate, the speaker of the house of representatives, and appropriate committees of either house of developments which have affected or may affect state law or which may require legislative action, together with appropriate recommendations;   Review all proposed legislation as to form and style, prior to its introduction;   Conduct a continuing review of the Tennessee Code Annotated and uncodified public chapters and advise the general assembly as to legislation deemed necessary to remove defective or anachronistic laws in light of the common law and judicial decisions;   Advise the general assembly of proposals for the reform or betterment of the law recommended by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, the National Conference of State Legislatures, the Council of State Governments, the American Law Institute, any bar association or other learned body;   Receive and consider suggestions from legislators, judges, public officials, lawyers, and the public as to defects and anachronisms in the law and, if deemed appropriate, prepare legislation to remove such defects or anachronisms;   Inform the general assembly of all provisions of the Tennessee Code Annotated which have been repealed by implication or which have been held unconstitutional by the Tennessee Supreme Court or by the United States Supreme Court; and   Provide other legal services requested by the committee, the speakers, or the general assembly.
TN Code § 3-12-102 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 3 - Legislature|Chapter 12 - Office of Legal Services|§ 3-12-102. Director — Staff

 The joint legislative services committee shall appoint, subject to the approval of the speaker of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives, a director of legal services who shall be a graduate of an accredited law school, shall be licensed to practice law in the state of Tennessee, shall have five (5) or more years of experience in the field of legislative law, and shall have such training or practical experience in government as may be deemed necessary to perform the duties of the office. The director of legal services and other personnel shall be chosen without reference to party affiliation but solely on the basis of fitness to perform the duties of the office. The director shall serve at the pleasure of the committee. The committee shall determine the compensation of the director, while the compensation of other personnel shall be determined by the committee upon recommendation of the director. Personnel shall be employed on recommendation of the director with the approval of the speakers.
TN Code § 3-12-103 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 3 - Legislature|Chapter 12 - Office of Legal Services|§ 3-12-103. Office Space — Facilities

 Suitable office space and facilities shall be provided in Nashville convenient to the general assembly.
TN Code § 3-12-104 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 3 - Legislature|Chapter 12 - Office of Legal Services|§ 3-12-104. Suggested Revisions of Laws

  Suggested revisions to the Tennessee Code Annotated, to the uncodified public acts, and to other general laws of the state shall be prepared by the office of legal services. Such revisions may be initiated by the office of legal services, may be recommended by individual lawyers, legislators, judges, or other public officials, or may be directed by resolution of either or both houses of the general assembly.   Suggested revisions initiated by the office of legal services shall be transmitted with appropriate explanatory information to the standing committees by which such legislation would be reviewed.   Suggested revisions recommended by individual lawyers, legislators, judges, or other public officials shall be transmitted to the appropriate standing committees with a copy to the recommending party.   Suggested revisions directed by either house of the general assembly shall be conducted under the supervision of special committees composed of legislators and other persons knowledgeable in the particular field of inquiry. Such committees shall be appointed by the speaker of the senate or the speaker of the house of representatives, or both in the case of joint resolutions. The resolution shall specify the size of the special committee, the areas of representation desired, and a time for reporting. Upon completion of any suggested revision, the supervising committee shall transmit its report and recommendations to the house directing the suggested revision or to the general assembly; and that committee shall be disbanded. In preparing suggested revisions directed by resolution, the office of legal services shall have the authority to contract for assistance with any public or private agency or educational institution or to contract for any necessary assistance from individuals.
TN Code § 3-12-105 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 3 - Legislature|Chapter 12 - Office of Legal Services|§ 3-12-105. Records Are Public — Exceptions

  All books, papers, records, and correspondence of the office of legal services pertaining to its work shall be kept in the office of legal services and all such materials are public records except:  Intraoffice memoranda made by the director of the office of legal services or the director's staff; and   Work papers and correspondence, including correspondence by electronic mail, with any person receiving service from the office of legal services.     Such papers and correspondence may become public records whenever the director of the office of legal services or the general assembly shall so order.