Tennessee Code Title 8. Public Officers and Employees § 8-50-814

(a) As used in this section:

(b) Except as otherwise provided in this section, an eligible employee must be granted absence from work with pay for a period of time equal to six (6) work weeks after the birth or stillbirth of the employee's child or the employee's adoption of a newly placed minor child upon the employee giving thirty-days' notice to the employee's LEA; provided, however, that if an employee learns of the birth, stillbirth, or adoption of the employee's child less than thirty (30) days in advance of the birth, stillbirth, or adoption, then the employee must give notice of the birth, stillbirth, or adoption to the employee's LEA as soon as reasonably possible to be eligible to receive pay granted pursuant to this subsection (b).

(c) An eligible employee who is granted leave pursuant to this section shall not be required to use the employee's sick, annual, or other leave for the leave taken pursuant to this section. The leave granted pursuant to this section counts toward the employee's use of leave required to be given by this state as an employer under the federal Family and Medical Leave Act (29 U.S.C. § 2601, et seq.) and § 4-21-408.

(e) Each LEA shall establish policies for implementing this section.

(f) Paid leave under this section must be paid at one hundred percent (100%) of the employee's salary. For the purpose of calculating employment anniversary dates, absence from work pursuant to this section is considered full-time employment.

(g) The state shall reimburse an LEA that provides paid leave pursuant to this section in an amount equal to the leave paid by the LEA pursuant to this section.