Tenn. Code Ann. § 4-11-110

For carrying out the purposes and objects of this chapter, the sum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000), or so much thereof as shall be needed, over and above all the funds derived from the sale of the publications and all of the fees collected under § 4-11-109, is annually or continuously appropriated, and, upon order of the chair of the commission, the commissioner of finance and administration is empowered and directed to draw the commissioner's warrant for the sum from the state treasury.