2018 Tennessee Code
Title 4 - State Government
Chapter 3 - Creation, Organization and Powers of Administrative Departments and Divisions
Part 10 - Department of Finance and Administration
§ 4-3-1015. EFFECTs position in state government to establish accountability process.
(a) The commissioner of finance and administration shall establish a position within state government whose focus shall be to establish an accountability process within state government to ensure that state government is efficient, forward-looking, focused, energetic, competent and transparent, hereafter referred to as the "EFFECTs" person or position.
(b) No new position shall be created for such EFFECTs position, but a knowledgeable person currently employed by the state shall be designated as the EFFECTs person. Any staff that may be assigned to aid such EFFECTs person shall likewise be moved from existing positions.
(c) The EFFECTs person shall seek to do the following:
(1) Utilize precise measures to determine the effectiveness of programs;
(2) Work with the commissioner of finance and administration to ensure the productive use of the workforce;
(3) Obtain timely and accurate information about the effects of personnel policies and the ways in which policies can be altered or enforced to improve morale and increase state services performance;
(4) Examine methods to improve the rapid deployment of services; and
(5) Work to expand follow-up and the assessment of state constituent services.
