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Votes at a glance: committee advances multiple bills to full committee, several fail

March 05, 2025 | Public Service, House of Representatives, Committees, Legislative, Tennessee


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Votes at a glance: committee advances multiple bills to full committee, several fail
The committee considered more than a dozen bills and advanced most to full committee. Several measures passed with unanimous or near-unanimous support; a handful failed on recorded or voice votes.

Below are the items the committee acted on and the outcomes recorded in the transcript. Where the clerk recorded a numerical tally, it is shown; where the transcript did not list individual votes the article notes "not specified." These summaries reflect committee action only and do not constitute final passage by the full legislature.

Votes at a glance

- Item 1, House Bill 1312 (Representative Kiesling): Advanced to full committee. Clerk recorded 6 ayes, 0 nos.
- Item 2, House Bill 333 (sponsor: Speaker Pro Tem Marsh / legislative summary): Advanced to full committee. Clerk recorded 6 ayes, 0 nos.
- Item 3, House Bill 132 (Deputy Speaker Zachary): Advanced to full committee; clerk recorded 5 ayes and 1 present-not-voting. (See separate article on emergency-powers debate.)
- Item 6, House Bill 731 (Representative Halsey; amendment added to require public access to 'One Health' committee meetings): Advanced to full committee. Clerk recorded 5 ayes and 1 no.
- Item 7, House Bill 535 (Representative Haston; TCRS housekeeping and employer/benefit changes; amendment added regarding part-time opt-out): Advanced to full committee. Clerk recorded 6 ayes, 0 nos.
- Item 9, House Bill 802 (Representative Grills; liability protections for conservation district employees using federal surplus vehicles): Advanced to full committee. Clerk recorded 6 ayes, 0 nos.
- Item 10, House Bill 66 (Representative Sparks; parity for municipal employee records): Advanced to full committee. Clerk recorded 6 ayes, 0 nos.
- Item 11, House Bill 20 (Representative Reedy; State Guard budget line item): Advanced to full committee. Clerk recorded 5 ayes, 0 nos.
- Item 13, House Bill 1071 (Representative Wright; amendment to Tennessee Heritage Act to add 'seal' to protected items): Advanced to full committee. Clerk recorded 4 ayes, 1 no in roll call summary.
- Item 14, House Bill 89 (Representative Hakim; off-duty officer insignia/distinction): Failed on committee vote (roll call results recorded in transcript show a majority no; clerk stated "I'm sorry, but your bill fails").
- Item 15, House Bill 564 (Representative Hemmer; travel and disclosure parity for governor and cabinet): Failed on committee vote (clerk reported 2 ayes and 3 nos).
- Item 17, House Bill 37 (Representative Davis; Medicaid/TennCare non-opioid parity from prior session): Advanced to full committee. Clerk recorded 5 ayes, 0 nos.
- Item 18, House Bill 324 (Representative Grills; restriction on governor's office infringing constitutional rights in emergency): Advanced to full committee. Clerk recorded 5 ayes, 0 nos.

A number of other items were acted on in the session; recorded tallies for the bills above were taken from the committee transcript. Where the clerk gave a roll-call summary it has been reported; where the transcript used voice vote or did not list individual tallies the outcome is reported as recorded in committee.

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