SB1197 amends Tennessee law to allow counties experiencing economic distress to forgo increases in compensation for county officials.
SB1197 amends Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 8, Chapter 24, to allow counties experiencing economic distress to forgo increases in compensation for county officials. This applies if the Department of Economic and Community Development determines that the county faced substantial characteristics of economic distress during the previous fiscal year. These characteristics include major loss of employment, high unemployment rates, low family incomes, high poverty levels, and high concentrations of employment in declining industries.
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