Tennessee Code Title 9. Public Finances § 9-4-5110

(a) Not later than June 1 of each year, the governor shall require the head of each department, office, and agency of the state government to submit to the commissioner of finance and administration a work program for the ensuing fiscal year, such program to include all appropriations made by the general assembly to such department, office, or agency for its operation and maintenance and for capital projects, and to show the requested allotments of the appropriations by quarters for the entire fiscal year. The governor, with the assistance of the commissioner, shall review the requested allotments with respect to the work program of each department, office, or agency, and shall, if the governor deems it necessary, revise, alter, or change such allotments before approving them. The aggregate of such allotments shall not exceed the total appropriations made by the general assembly to the department, office, or agency for the fiscal year in question. The commissioner shall transmit a copy of the allotments as approved by the governor to the head of each department, office, or agency concerned. The commissioner shall thereupon authorize all expenditures to be made from the appropriations on the basis of such allotments and not otherwise.

(b) Notwithstanding subsection (a), the speakers of the senate and the house of representatives or, by joint delegation, their director of legislative administration; the chief justice or, by delegation, the administrative director of the courts; the attorney general and reporter; the secretary of state; the comptroller of the treasury; and state treasurer are authorized to revise their respective budgets and personnel authorizations within the appropriations made in the appropriations act and to submit those revised summaries to the commissioner of finance and administration, who shall approve the work program of those agencies, if within the amounts appropriated.