(a) If any statute creating a state board, commission or committee specifies or authorizes a teacher or other certificated employee of an LEA to serve as a member, then any teacher or other certificated employee shall be eligible to serve on the state board, commission or committee without the loss of compensation, personal or professional leave, sick leave, compensatory time or any other benefit accorded to the teacher or employee as part of the teacher’s or employee’s employment as a teacher by the respective LEA.
Terms Used In Tennessee Code 49-5-206
State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
(b) This section applies to, but is not limited to, §§ 8-27-301, 8-34-302, 49-1-301, and 49-6-2201.(c) Any additional costs incurred by LEAs as a result of the implementation of subsection (a) shall be reimbursed from the funds apportioned as state-shared taxes to county and municipal governments, as set out in § 9-4-5301.
