§ 9-4-5107 — Direct and continuing appropriations

Tennessee § 9-4-5107

• Jurisdiction: Tennessee
• Title: 9

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(a) By authorizing the issuance of debt that is not a liability of the state and the payment of debt service thereon by the state school bond authority in title 49, by the local development authority in title 4, by the housing development agency in title 13, and by the state veterans' homes board in title 58, the general assembly intends that such authorizations constitute: (1) With respect to each debt issuer listed above, a direct and continuing appropriation to that debt issuer of its earnings, revenues or other assets for expenditures authorized by or pursuant to the respective enabling legislation and the authority to expend those funds in accordance with or pursuant to such legislation; and (2) With respect to any public higher education entity whose contracts or agreements with the state school bond authority support the payment of such debt issuer's debt service, a direct and continuing appropriation to that entity of its earnings, revenues or other assets pledged or governed by such contracts or agreements and the authority to expend those funds in accordance with or pursuant to the respective contracts or agreements. (b) Such funds are hereby appropriated on a direct and continuing basis to each debt issuer listed in subsection (a) and to each public higher education entity described in subsection (a) for such purposes. (c) For purposes of this section, the term "revenues" includes amounts allowable, without regard to any offset, to any such debt issuers from the federal government with respect to qualified bonds.

Legislative History

Acts 2001, ch. 264, § 2; 2010, ch. 1117, § 6.