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Votes at a glance: key actions by the Senate Transportation and Safety Committee
Summary
A roundup of committee actions on multiple bills heard during the session, including referrals, calendar placements and items taken off notice.
The Tennessee Senate Transportation and Safety Committee considered numerous measures at its recent meeting. This roundup lists formal actions and outcomes recorded during the hearing.
Passed or advanced (committee action): - Senate Bill 876 (County clerk fee indexing): Passed and sent to Finance, Ways and Means. Vote: unanimous (9-0). Sponsor: Chairman Raefes. - Senate Bill 660 (County clerk mutual-aid): Passed unanimously and placed on the calendar (9-0). Sponsor: Senator Hensley. - Senate Bill 498 (Juvenile driving-privilege restoration): Passed and goes to calendar (9-0). Sponsor: Senator Kyle. - Senate Bill 876 also referenced changes to allow clerks to adjust fees tied to U.S. Postal Service rates; committee discussion noted variations in USPS rates made indexing difficult without a standard. (Sponsor testimony recorded.) - Senate Bill 620 (antique emergency vehicle regulation): Passed and goes to calendar (unanimous). Sponsor: Senator Harshbarger. - Senate Bill 147 (family-restroom signage at rest areas): Passed and goes to calendar (9-0). Sponsor: Senator Lowe. - Senate Bill 780 (veteran designation on driver’s license for National Guard honorable discharge): Passed and goes to calendar (9-0). Sponsor: Senator Lowe. - Senate Bill 915 (borrow pits for hurricane recovery): Passed and goes to calendar (9-0). Sponsor: Senator Bailey. - Senate Bill 203 (specialty license plates): Passed and sent to Finance, Ways and Means (9-0). Sponsor: Chairlady Massey.
Bills referred, taken off notice, or failed: - Senate Bill 596 (logging truck safety): Committee voted to send the matter to a summer study at Somerset for stakeholder engagement; voice vote recorded as unanimous for study referral. Sponsor: Chairman Gardiner. - Senate Bill 483 (airport security/taking off notice): Sponsor took the bill off notice for further conversation next year. Sponsor: Senator Bolling. - Senate Bill 492 (CDL English proficiency): Failed in committee (6-3). See separate article for full debate. - Senate Bill 1042 (lowering school bus driver minimum age to 23): Failed in committee (4-5). See separate article for full debate.
The committee also adopted omnibus lists for annual highway and license-plate items and approved a package of highway-related projects to move to the calendar. Several measures were rolled to Finance, Ways and Means for fiscal review when penalty reclassification or budget impacts were identified. Where a bill was described in the hearing as amended, that amendment text was included before the committee took the roll call.
Clerk and committee minutes record the roll-call votes for each contested item; this roundup reflects the outcomes announced by the clerk during the hearing.
