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Votes at a Glance: Key actions taken by the Tennessee Senate Judiciary Committee
Summary
A roundup of bills the committee voted on during the March 1 hearing, with outcomes and short descriptions for each item recorded by the clerk.
The Tennessee Senate Judiciary Committee recorded votes on multiple bills at its March 1 hearing. Below are recorded outcomes and brief descriptions of each measure as reported by the committee clerk during the session.
- Senate Bill 12-02 (amended by drafting code 4,524): Exoneration procedure for professional bondsmen; requires open-court petitions to release bondsmen from obligations where they show good-faith efforts to locate defendants. Committee recorded nine ayes; SB 12-02 goes to calendar.
- Senate Bill 3-96: Enhances penalty for knowingly inflicting injury on a child from a misdemeanor to a felony and preserves an enhanced penalty for injuries to very young children. Committee recorded nine ayes; SB 3-96 goes to finance for further consideration.
- Senate Bill 10-70: Extends certain criminal and civil statutes of limitation for crimes against minors (survivors’ prosecution window extended to 30 years for offenses on or after July 1, 2025). Committee recorded eight ayes and one present not voting; SB 10-70 goes to calendar.
- Senate Bill 10-89: Raises a $1 municipal court training fee to $2 to restore funding for training municipal judges and clerks; committee recorded nine ayes; SB 10-89 goes to finance.
- Senate Bill 12-33 (as amended): Establishes mandatory minimum sentences in some fentanyl-possession cases, expands recovery-court alternatives, tightens citation-in-lieu rules for fentanyl, and adds stalking victim protections; the committee adopted amendments and recorded nine ayes; SB 12-33 goes to finance.
- Senate Bill 4-33: Removes the ambiguous word "unreasonably" from the state’s animal-abandonment statute to help prosecutors issue warrants in abandonment cases; committee recorded a unanimous vote in favor; SB 4-33 goes to calendar.
- Senate Bill 7-27 (as amended): Alters publication requirements for foreclosure notices by reducing print notices while adding web posting requirements and a third‑party posting list maintained by the Secretary of State; committee recorded five ayes and four noes on the final bill and reported it to calendar.
- Senate Bill 9-20 (as amended): Clarifies that minors may access medical sexual-assault evidence collection exams without parental consent and extends reporting requirements for kit processing; committee recorded eight ayes; SB 9-20 goes to calendar.
A number of bills were rolled or held for additional work, including SB 30 (public-order and proximity provisions) and SB 349 (reserve deputy / security guard licensing), which the committee deferred for additional drafting and stakeholder input.
All vote tallies and recorded summaries are taken from the committee transcript and the roll-call as announced by the clerk during the March 1 hearing.
