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Finance, Ways and Means advances 18 bills to calendar and rules; vote tallies and key amendments
Summary
The committee voted through a broad set of bills on April 2025, including the Budget Implementation Act, bond authorizations and policy measures. This roundup lists each measure, any amendments adopted in committee, and the committee vote tallies.
The Finance, Ways and Means Committee met in April 2025 and moved a package of bills to calendar and rules after adopting several amendments. Below are the bills considered, brief descriptions or amendment notes where applicable, and the committee vote tallies recorded in the transcript.
Votes at a glance
- House Bill 14-08 (Budget Implementation Act, BIMP). Committee adopted chairman-filed amendments. Outcome: moved to calendar and rules. Tally: 27 ayes, 0 nays.
- House Bill 14-07 (Bond bill). Amendment added $25 million of authorization for MTSU Murphy Center; outcome: moved to calendar and rules. Tally: 26 ayes, 0 nays.
- House Bill 6-20 (Hamblin County, convenient voting centers pilot). Outcome: moved to calendar and rules. Tally: 23 ayes, 0 nays.
- House Bill 3-81 (premier resort/bus bill). Outcome: moved to calendar and rules. Tally: 17 ayes, 3 nays, 5 present not voting.
- House Bill 11-25 (teacher protections and estate leave reimbursement; amended). Committee adopted a rewrite amendment and moved the bill. Tally: 26 ayes, 0 nays.
- House Bill 11-28 (post certification for constables). Outcome: moved to calendar and rules. Tally: 26 ayes, 0 nays.
- House Bill 4-87 (county clerk $2 fee for court security/training). Outcome: moved to calendar and rules. Tally: 26 ayes, 0 nays.
- House Bill 4-91 (opioid abatement settlement fund acceptance). Outcome: moved to calendar and rules. Tally: 26 ayes, 0 nays.
- House Bill 12-04 (DUI, oral swabs and suspension adjustments). Outcome: moved to calendar and rules. Tally: 22 ayes, 0 nays, 4 present not voting.
- House Bill 13-73 (school turnaround pilot expansion). Outcome: moved to calendar and rules. Tally: 23 ayes, 2 nays, 1 present not voting.
- House Bill 6-36 (clarify county collection of taxes for cities; added commercial development permissive authority). Outcome: moved to calendar and rules. Tally: 25 ayes, 0 nays.
- House Bill 9-77 (public safety retirement/bridge benefits permissive expansion). Outcome: moved to calendar and rules. Tally: 25 ayes, 0 nays.
- House Bill 13-25 (Tennessee Farmland Preservation Fund, voluntary/permissive). Outcome: moved to calendar and rules. Tally: 23 ayes, 1 nay.
- House Bill 9-23 (prohibits offices/divisions that promote or require discriminatory preferences). Committee rejected an untimely amendment (tabled the amendment) and then moved the bill. Outcome: moved to calendar and rules. Tally: 20 ayes, 7 nays.
- House Bill 7-83 (sober living home local pilot and guardrails). Outcome: moved to calendar and rules. Tally: 25 ayes, 0 nays.
- House Bill 8-16 (reduce point assessment on driving records to 4 points for certain offenses). Outcome: moved to calendar and rules. Tally: 24 ayes, 0 nays, 1 present not voting.
- House Bill 152 (permissive electronic participation for local legislative bodies). Outcome: moved to calendar and rules. Tally: 24 ayes, 0 nays.
- House Bill 6-27 (tourism definitions and lodging/short‑term rental grandfathering). Outcome: moved to calendar and rules. Tally: 26 ayes, 0 nays.
Committee action notes
Several bills were considered with committee-filed amendments. The committee routinely used voice votes to put amendments on bills before final recorded votes. Where recorded tallies show "present not voting" that was captured in the clerk's announcement for the floor report.
What's next
All measures above were reported out of committee and now appear on the committee's calendar and rules list for further floor action. Members were reminded that additional amendments may be offered on the floor.
