8-27-101 - State insurance committee created Members.
8-27-101. State insurance committee created Members.
(a) There is hereby created a state insurance committee, to be composed of the commissioner of personnel, the state treasurer, the commissioner of commerce and insurance, the comptroller of the treasury, the commissioner of finance and administration, a member to be appointed by the board of directors of the Tennessee state employees association, and three (3) state employees.
(b) (1) Two (2) state employees shall be selected in accordance with a procedure adopted by the state insurance committee, which is similar to that used to select the state employee trustees of the consolidated retirement system pursuant to § 8-34-302; provided, that the chair of the state insurance committee and the chair of the consolidated retirement system board of trustees may develop a procedure whereby the process for selection of state employee members to each entity is coordinated.
(2) One (1) state employee shall be an employee of either the University of Tennessee or the state university and community college system selected under a procedure developed by the Tennessee higher education commission and approved by the state insurance committee.
(3) In the event of the death or resignation of a state employee committee member, a state employee selected in accordance with subdivision (b)(1) shall be replaced by the state employee receiving the next highest number of votes in the election process established pursuant to subdivision (b)(1) and the higher education employee shall be replaced under the provisions of subdivision (b)(2).
(c) The commissioner of personnel, the state treasurer, the commissioner of commerce and insurance, the comptroller of the treasury, and the commissioner of finance and administration are authorized to designate an alternate representative to attend, participate and vote at meetings of the committee when that respective member is unable to attend. Such designation must be made in writing to the chair of the committee.
[Acts 1976, ch. 804, § 1; 1978, ch. 857, § 1; T.C.A., § 8-4501; Acts 1982, ch. 810, § 4; 1983, ch. 419, § 1; 1984, ch. 565, §§ 1, 2; 1985, ch. 455, § 7; 1989, ch. 343, § 1; 1990, ch. 776, § 1; 1997, ch. 513, § 6.]