Tennessee Code Annotated
Tenn. Code Ann. § 49-50-1403 (2026)
Part definitions
✓ current as of May 2026
As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:
- (1) "Disciplinary action" means any direct or indirect form of discipline or penalty, including, but not limited to, dismissal, demotion, transfer, reassignment, suspension, reprimand, admonishment, reduction in force, withholding of work, unsatisfactory or below standard performance evaluation or the threat of such discipline or penalty;
- (2) "Disclosure of information" means the written provision of evidence to any person, the department of education, a legislator or individual employee of the department or general assembly, or testimony before any committee of the general assembly, regarding any action, policy, regulation, practice or procedure, including, but not limited to, the waste of public education funds, mismanagement, falsification of state required reports, inaccurate compilation of statistical data or reports or abuse of authority by locally employed, elected or appointed officials or employees of an LEA; and
- (3) "Person" or "persons" includes members of the local board of education, the director of the school system, supervisors, principals and other individual school system employees.
Acts 1989, ch. 444, § 3.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2
cases, 1999–2013 · leading case: Mosley v. Kelly, 65 F. Supp. 2d 725 (E.D. Tenn. 1999).
Mosley v. Kelly, 65 F. Supp. 2d 725 (E.D. Tenn. 1999). “§ 49-50-1403(1). Mosley received a below standard performance evaluation.”
Fonda Blair v. Rutherford Cnty. Bd. of Educ. (Tenn. Ct. App. 2013). “In support of their motion, Defendants filed the depositions of Vicky Smith and 5 Tenn. Code Ann. § 49-50-1403 (3) defines “person” for the purposes of ETREPA as including “members of the local board of education, the director of the school system, supervisors, principals and…”
Tenn. Code Ann. § 49-50-1403(1): 1 case
Mosley v. Kelly, 65 F. Supp. 2d 725 (E.D. Tenn. 1999). “§ 49-50-1403(1). Mosley received a below standard performance evaluation.”
Tenn. Code Ann. § 49-50-1403(2): 1 case
Mosley v. Kelly, 65 F. Supp. 2d 725 (E.D. Tenn. 1999). “§ 49-50-1403(1). Mosley received a below standard performance evaluation.”
Tenn. Code Ann. § 49-50-1403(3): 1 case
Mosley v. Kelly, 65 F. Supp. 2d 725 (E.D. Tenn. 1999). “§ 49-50-1403(1). Mosley received a below standard performance evaluation.”
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