---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Employees - As enacted, permits employees of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of state government to complete Tennessee foster parent training and in-service training during the course of their employment without having to use paid sick, annual, or compensatory time up to a certain amount of time. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 37 and Title 71."
description: "State Employees - As enacted, permits employees of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of state government to complete Tennessee foster parent training and in-service training during the course of their employment without having to use paid sick, annual, or compensatory time up to a certain amount of time. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 37 and Title 71."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tn"
legislature: "Tennessee General Assembly"
session: "113"
identifier: "SB 1941"
citation: "Tennessee SB 1941 (113)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State Employees"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Haile"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-24"
last_action: "2024-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/360434f1-eddd-4182-8bff-27bf76c3230b"
source_url: "http://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/BillInfo/default.aspx?BillNumber=SB1941&GA=113"
source_hash: "8aa730d12d356df9d06ded8312b0c759115f1d5ea54a64308f783b3e42e23f29"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-tn"]
---

# Tennessee SB 1941 (113) — State Employees - As enacted, permits employees of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of state government to complete Tennessee foster parent training and in-service training during the course of their employment without having to use paid sick, annual, or compensatory time up to a certain amount of time. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 37 and Title 71.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Current Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/113/Bill/SB1941.pdf)

## Votes

- FLOOR VOTE: Motion to Adopt 2/22/2024 Passed (1) — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- SENATE STATE & LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE: Recommended for passage, refer to Senate Calendar Committee 2/13/2024 Passed (2) — **9–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Haile — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2024-01-24** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2024-01-25** Introduced, Passed on First Consideration `introduction`
- **2024-01-29** Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee `passage`
- **2024-02-06** Placed on Senate State and Local Government Committee calendar for 2/13/2024
- **2024-02-13** Recommended for passage, refer to Senate Calendar Committee
- **2024-02-20** Placed on Senate Consent Calendar 2 for 2/22/2024
- **2024-02-22** Sponsor(s) Added. `sponsorship`
- **2024-02-22** Engrossed; ready for transmission to House `receipt`
- **2024-02-22** Passed Senate, Ayes 33, Nays 0 `passage`
- **2024-02-26** Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk.
- **2024-03-18** Passed H., Ayes 94, Nays 0, PNV 0 `passage`
- **2024-03-18** Subst. for comp. HB. `substitution`
- **2024-03-20** Signed by Senate Speaker `passage`
- **2024-03-20** Enrolled and ready for signatures `enrolled`
- **2024-03-26** Transmitted to Governor for action. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-26** Signed by H. Speaker `passage`
- **2024-04-04** Signed by Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-08** Effective date(s) 04/04/2024
- **2024-04-08** Pub. Ch. 642

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/360434f1-eddd-4182-8bff-27bf76c3230b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Tennessee legislature records).