Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 50.

This bill requires an employer to allow an employee who is a local elected official to leave work in order to perform the duties of the elected office during the employee's regular hours of employment without loss of pay, vacation time, sick leave, or earned overtime accumulation. If the employee is entitled to paid leave and the employee elects to use paid leave during the period of the employee's absence to perform duties as a local elected official, then the employer must permit the employee to use the paid leave for that purpose. This bill authorizes the employer to require the employee to submit a written statement from a local elections official verifying that the employee is a local elected official. This bill defines "local elected official" as a person elected to a public office within a municipal, county, or metropolitan government, or a governmental entity that exercises authority on behalf of that government.