The Tennessee House of Representatives approved the consent calendar on third and final consideration and recorded numerous motions to withdraw individual house bills from committee or from the House record. Members also moved introduction of batches of bills on first and second consideration and set the chamber’s next recess.
Chair Lee Moody moved passage of the consent calendar on third and final consideration under House rule 50. Clerk/sergeant at arms reported no objections filed to the consent calendar. The recorded voice/roll count on the consent calendar vote showed “Ayes, 90; no nays,” and the chair declared the consent calendar passed.
On introduction and first-consideration motions, Representative Lambeth moved that house bills 945 through 1,119 be introduced and passed on first consideration. Separately, a member moved that house bills 637 through 944 be passed on second consideration and held on the desk or referred as appropriate.
During unfinished business, a series of members moved to withdraw specific house bills from committee or from the House. Those motions — which the transcript records as either granted “without objection” or “with objection” depending on the item — included the following withdraw motions as announced on the floor:
- Representative Alexander: withdraw House Bill 419 from committee in the House.
- Representative Vitale: withdraw House Bill 903 from committee in the House.
- Deputy Speaker Zachary: withdraw House Bills 815, 31, and 1070 from committee in the House.
- Representative White: withdraw House Bill 877 from committee in the House.
- Representative Miller: withdraw House Bill 837 from committee and from the House.
- Representative Hale: withdraw House Bill 367 from committee in the House.
- Representative Hicks (of Washington): withdraw House Bill 1007 from committee in the House.
- Representative Glenn: withdraw House Bill 451 from committee in the House.
- Representative Renaud: withdraw House Bill 844 from committee in the House.
- Representative Reeves: withdraw House Bill 467 from committee and the House.
- Representative Lafferty: withdraw House Bills 287 and 289 from committee and the House.
- Representative Picky: withdraw House Bills 709 and 710 and House Joint Resolution 65 from committee in the House.
- Representative Howe: withdraw House Bill 41 from committee in the House.
- Representative McKenzie: withdraw House Bill 1055 from committee in the House.
The transcript records that some of those withdrawal motions carried without objection while others were recorded “with objection”; the floor record does not provide further detail about the reasons for each withdrawal or the subsequent disposition of the withdrawn measures.
The House also received scheduling announcements: the bill-filing deadline was stated as 4:30 p.m. the same day, and the House was recessed until 4 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 10, 2025, by unanimous voice action as noted on the floor.
The transcript does not record debate on the content of the withdrawn bills, nor does it list sponsors or summaries for all items in the consent calendar. The passage of the consent calendar and the multiple withdrawals were procedural floor actions recorded in a single session.