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Votes at a glance: key measures the Tennessee Senate approved on the floor
Summary
A roundup of major floor votes recorded during the session, with outcomes and brief descriptions.
The Tennessee Senate recorded final‑action votes on a number of bills and resolutions during the floor session. Below are the principal measures the chamber disposed of on the floor that day and the floor vote outcomes where recorded.
- Senate Bill 7 14 (education intervention framework for challenged districts): PASSED (final recorded vote on the floor: 26–6). Authorizes staged interventions, oversight board, expanded ESA eligibility for designated districts.
- House Bill 13 14 (criminal threats of mass violence; doxing): PASSED (final action recorded; floor vote: Ayes 29, Nays 3). Creates a new class E felony for knowingly making threats of mass violence and a class B misdemeanor for unlawful posting of home addresses with intent to cause harm; enhanced penalties for targeting schools or other protected locations.
- Senate Bill 4 38 (Solid Waste Task Force, concur with House amendment): CONCURRED (unanimous). Adopted the House amendment with clarifying language on co‑chair replacements.
- Senate Bill 6 44 (concurrence on House amendment): CONCURRED (unanimous). Allowed rules promulgation per amendment.
- Senate Bill 11 15 (private prisons; death rate adjustments): CONCURRED (unanimous). House amendment added a 90‑day compliance timeframe; Senate concurred.
- House Bill 7 83 (local authority to regulate sober living homes — Hamilton County permissive authority): PASSED (Ayes 32). Permissive local regulation; compliance with Fair Housing and ADA noted in text.
- House Joint Resolution 51 (month of prayer and fasting, July): PASSED (27–3). Nonbinding resolution establishing a month of prayer for interested citizens.
- House Bill 9 69 (recurring transportation revenue from sales tax on tires to highway fund): PASSED (unanimous recorded vote). Earmarks sales/use tax from new and used tire sales to the highway fund, subject to annual caps in near term.
- House Joint Resolution 1 47 (kratom regulation advocacy): PASSED (unanimous recorded vote). Urges regulation or ban of kratom sales in state; memorializing resolution.
- House Bill 5 77 (stipend increases for local jails certified as Tier 1/2): PASSED (unanimous recorded vote). Doubled stipend levels to incentivize accreditation and reentry programming.
- Other bills and consent calendars: Multiple consent‑calendar bills and local bill calendars were adopted by unanimous votes during the session; several committee amendments were withdrawn or folded into adopted language during floor consideration.
Votes were recorded on the floor for final consideration; where specific roll‑call tallies were announced on the record those counts are shown above. Measures passed on final consideration will proceed through enrollment and transmission for the governor’s consideration or other next steps as provided by law.
