Tenn. Code Ann. § 3-9-102: Powers and duties

(a) The council is authorized to establish its own rules, regulations and procedures and directed to: (1) Develop, establish and recommend pension standards and a coherent state policy on pensions, grounded in progressive and fundamental principles; (2) Continuously survey pension developments in other governments, in industry and business and periodically reappraise the state's policy and standards in view of such developments and changing economic and social conditions; (3) Continuously maintain a critical analysis of the federal social security program and evaluate its objectives and accomplishments; (4) Appraise pension provisions in force in Tennessee from time to time, along with those in other states and recommend such changes as considered necessary or advisable in the state's laws; (5) Review proposals from other sources for changes in the state's laws and transmit recommendations concerning them to the general assembly and the governor; (6) Submit suggested legislation or amendments to the general assembly and governor for the purpose of carrying out its recommendations; and (7) Adopt committee amendments as appropriate in regard to any proposed change in the state's law. (b) [Deleted by 2022 amendment.] Amended by 2022 Tenn. Acts, ch. 776, Secs.s4, s5 eff. 4/8/2022. Acts 1971, ch. 11, § 2; 1975, ch. 39, § 2; T.C.A., § 3-902; Acts 1980, ch. 501, § 3; 1989, ch. 179, §§ 5, 6.

(a) The council is authorized to establish its own rules, regulations and procedures and directed to: (1) Develop, establish and recommend pension standards and a coherent state policy on pensions, grounded in progressive and fundamental principles; (2) Continuously survey pension developments in other governments, in industry and business and periodically reappraise the state's policy and standards in view of such developments and changing economic and social conditions; (3) Continuously maintain a critical analysis of the federal social security program and evaluate its objectives and accomplishments; (4) Appraise pension provisions in force in Tennessee from time to time, along with those in other states and recommend such changes as considered necessary or advisable in the state's laws; (5) Review proposals from other sources for changes in the state's laws and transmit recommendations concerning them to the general assembly and the governor; (6) Submit suggested legislation or amendments to the general assembly and governor for the purpose of carrying out its recommendations; and (7) Adopt committee amendments as appropriate in regard to any proposed change in the state's law.

(1) Develop, establish and recommend pension standards and a coherent state policy on pensions, grounded in progressive and fundamental principles;

(2) Continuously survey pension developments in other governments, in industry and business and periodically reappraise the state's policy and standards in view of such developments and changing economic and social conditions;

(3) Continuously maintain a critical analysis of the federal social security program and evaluate its objectives and accomplishments;

(4) Appraise pension provisions in force in Tennessee from time to time, along with those in other states and recommend such changes as considered necessary or advisable in the state's laws;

(5) Review proposals from other sources for changes in the state's laws and transmit recommendations concerning them to the general assembly and the governor;

(6) Submit suggested legislation or amendments to the general assembly and governor for the purpose of carrying out its recommendations; and

(7) Adopt committee amendments as appropriate in regard to any proposed change in the state's law.

(b) [Deleted by 2022 amendment.]