8-34-302 - Membership.
8-34-302. Membership.
(a) The board shall consist of twenty (20) members as follows:
(1) The state treasurer, ex officio;
(2) The director of the division of retirement, ex officio;
(3) The commissioner of finance and administration, ex officio;
(4) The comptroller of the treasury, ex officio;
(5) The administrative director of the courts, ex officio;
(6) The commissioner of personnel, ex officio;
(7) The secretary of state, ex officio;
(8) The chair and vice chair of the council on pensions and insurance, ex officio; but whose membership is qualified as follows:
(A) Such members shall not be voting members of the board of trustees; and
(B) Such members shall be entitled to receive expenses and mileage allowance at the same rate as provided by § 3-1-106 for each meeting of the board of trustees;
(9) Three (3) members of the retirement system who are teachers:
(A) The three (3) teacher trustees shall be elected by the representative assembly of the Tennessee Education Association, and shall not be from the same grand division of the state;
(B) Beginning July 1, 1974, the teacher member elected from east, middle and west Tennessee shall serve a three (3), two (2), and one (1) year term, respectively; thereafter, terms shall be for three (3) years;
(10) Two (2) members of the retirement system who are state employees, not from the same department, commission, board, agency or institution, or any department represented by an ex officio member, at least one (1) of whom shall be a general employee, who shall serve for a term of three (3) years. The two (2) state employee trustees shall be elected by state employee members of the retirement system in accordance with rules and procedures as the board of trustees shall prescribe;
(11) One (1) vested member of the retirement system who shall be appointed by the board of directors of the Tennessee County Services Association to serve for a period of two (2) years;
(12) One (1) vested member of the retirement system who shall be appointed by the board of directors of the Tennessee Municipal League to serve for a period of two (2) years;
(13) One (1) vested member of the retirement system who shall be appointed by the board of directors of the County Officials Association of Tennessee to serve for a period of two (2) years;
(14) One (1) retired state or higher education employee member of the retirement system who shall be appointed by the governor to serve for a period of two (2) years;
(15) One (1) retired teacher, who is a vested member of the Tennessee consolidated retirement system, to be elected at large by the representative assembly of the Tennessee retired teachers association to serve for a one (1) year term commencing on July 1, 2004. Beginning July 1, 2007, the term of the retired teacher trustee shall be for three (3) years; and
(16) One (1) police officer who shall serve a term of three (3) years commencing on July 1, 2007, and who, upon completion of that member's term, shall be replaced by a firefighter. Thereafter, the appointment of the board member shall alternate between a firefighter and a police officer for each successive three-year term. The board member shall be appointed as follows:
(A) The police officer representative shall be appointed by the governor from a list of at least two (2), but no more than three (3) nominees submitted jointly by the professional organizations that represent police officers in this state; and
(B) The firefighter representative shall be appointed by the governor from a list of at least two (2), but no more than three (3) nominees submitted by the Tennessee professional firefighters association.
(b) Except for ex officio members, all persons shall be fully vested members of the retirement system in order to qualify to serve on the board of trustees.
(c) [Deleted by 2006 amendment.]
[Acts 1972, ch. 814, § 6; 1973, ch. 213, § 1; 1974, ch. 788, § 3; 1977, ch. 400, § 6; T.C.A., § 8-3925; modified; Acts 1980, ch. 654, § 12; 1981, ch. 387, § 3; 1985, ch. 244, §§ 1, 2; 1992, ch. 920, §§ 1, 2; 1993, ch. 66, § 8; 1999, ch. 79, § 1; 2001, ch. 58, § 5; 2004, ch. 905, §§ 1-6; 2005, ch. 204, § 26; 2006, ch. 870, §§ 8, 9; 2007, ch. 508, §§ 1, 2; 2008, ch. 670, § 1; 2009, ch. 375, § 1.]