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Votes at a glance: key outcomes from the State and Local Government Committee
Summary
A roundup of committee actions and recorded votes from the April hearing, listing the bills the committee moved forward, those that failed, and next steps.
The State and Local Government Committee conducted a full calendar and recorded votes on multiple bills. Below are the bills with formal committee actions and outcomes as recorded in the hearing.
Votes and outcomes (committee action and recorded tally):
- House Bill 13 38 (heightened‑risk debt/comptroller approval): moved to Calendar and Rules — 22 ayes, 0 nays. - House Bill 9 30 (Home Buyers Revitalization Fund / reopen loan product for affordable housing): moved to Finance, Ways and Means — 21 ayes, 1 nay, 1 present not voting. - House Bill 10 73 (campaign coordination — door‑knocking; amendment adopted): moved to Calendar and Rules — 20 ayes, 3 nays. - House Bill 6 53 (registration fee for political campaign committees; allocation to Bureau of Ethics): moved to Finance, Ways and Means — 22 ayes, 1 nay. - House Bill 14 06 (Fayette County wheel tax funding for hospital infrastructure): moved to Calendar and Rules — 19 ayes, 2 nays. - House Bill 5 81 (online donation vendor registration and restrictions): moved to Government Operations — 16 ayes, 7 nays. - House Bill 4 54 (legislative ombudsman for TDOC): moved to Finance, Ways and Means — 23 ayes, 0 nays. - House Bill 3 51 (electronic monitoring cost deductions for work release): moved to Calendar and Rules — 20 ayes, 1 nay, 1 present not voting. - House Bill 5 62 (prohibiting designating lawful occupations as nonessential, private right of action): moved to Calendar and Rules (procedural action) — recorded 5 ayes, 5 nays, 5 present not voting (committee advanced the measure per procedure). - House Bill 3 06 (Shelby County budget/salary process change): FAILED in committee — 8 ayes, 10 nays, 3 present not voting. - House Bill 3 07 (restoring terminology/authorities for Shelby County constitutional officers): moved to Calendar and Rules — 22 ayes, 0 nays. - House Bill 3 08 (Shelby County jail funding by 1% sales tax option): ROLLED to calendar/hill for further work (committee voted to roll and correct amendments prior to further consideration). - House Bill 83 (study of ambulance services and reimbursement): moved to Finance, Ways and Means — 20 ayes, 0 nays. - House Bill 14 26 (developer fee authority for Loudon city): sent to summer study — 19 ayes, 0 nays. - House Bill 12 78 (Hurricane Helene recovery grant funds): moved to Government Operations — 20 ayes, 0 nays. - House Bill 12 83 (training for election officials on temporary IDs): moved to Calendar and Rules — 18 ayes, 2 nays. - House Bill 4 34 (restriction on naming public facilities after sitting local officials): FAILED — 8 ayes, 9 nays, 1 present not voting.
Several bills carried amendments adopted in committee; amendments and drafting codes were recorded in the hearing transcript. For bills that advanced, committee clerks recorded the destination committee (for example, Finance, Ways and Means, Government Operations, Calendar and Rules) and vote tallies listed above.
Committee chairs and members indicated several bills will return to committee calendars next week; some measures were rolled to allow sponsors time to correct drafting and to gather additional documents (resolutions or fiscal notes) when needed.
