(a) The board of trustees shall determine the number of days of sick leave to be deducted from the sick leave balance of state employees who elect to participate in the bank. Any state employee who elects to participate in the bank shall initially have a minimum of three (3) days of sick leave deducted from that employee’s personal accumulation and donated to the sick leave bank.

Terms Used In Tennessee Code 8-50-906

  • bank: means a system of accounting for voluntarily pooled and irrevocably donated accumulated personal sick leave which is collected for the purpose of providing sick leave to members of the program who have suffered a personal illness, surgery, disability or quarantine and whose sick leave is exhausted. See Tennessee Code 8-50-901
  • board: means the board provided for in part 3 of this chapter. See Tennessee Code 8-34-101
  • Member: means any person included in the membership of the retirement system, as provided in chapter 35, part 1 of this title. See Tennessee Code 8-34-101
  • Sick leave: means a designated amount of compensated leave accumulated pursuant to part 8 of this chapter that is granted to a member who through personal illness, injury, disability or quarantine, is unable to perform the duties of the member's state position. See Tennessee Code 8-50-901
  • State: means the state of Tennessee. See Tennessee Code 8-34-101
  • State employee: means all employees in state service, legislative branch, and constitutional officers who accrue sick leave pursuant to part 8 of this chapter and all employees and teachers of all state special schools. See Tennessee Code 8-50-901
  • trustees: means those persons appointed to govern the activities of the sick leave bank as provided by §. See Tennessee Code 8-50-901
(b) Donations to the sick leave bank are nonrefundable and nontransferable.
(c) At any time the number of days in the sick leave bank is less than one hundred (100), or one (1) per member if there are more than one hundred (100) members, or at any time deemed advisable, the trustees shall assess each member one (1) or more days of accumulated sick leave. If a member has no accumulated sick leave at the time of assessment, the first earned days shall be donated as they are accrued by the employee.
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