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Votes at a glance: committee advances multiple bills on agriculture, water and outdoor recreation
Summary
The House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee passed a number of bills during the session; the summary below lists each bill, a one-line description, the committee's recorded vote, and next committee stop where specified.
The House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee considered multiple items and voted to advance them to the next committee listed. The items below record the committee action, the roll-call tally where recorded in the transcript, and the committee destination.
- House Bill 0124 — Amend air pollution fees and coal-ash cleanup language. Vote: 15 ayes, 0 nays. Outcome: Passed; sent to Finance.
- House Bill 0940 — Raise minimum age to operate personal watercraft from 12 to 16; amended to change age. Vote: 9 ayes, 6 nays. Outcome: Passed; sent to Finance, Ways and Means.
- House Bill 0667 — Advisory task force on solid waste. Vote: 15 ayes, 0 nays. Outcome: Passed; sent to Finance, Ways and Means.
- House Bill 1137 — Require TDEC to act on septic permit applications for systems under 750 gallons within 10 business days (as amended). Vote: 13 ayes, 0 nays, 1 present not voting. Outcome: Passed; sent to Calendar and Rules.
- House Bill 1139 — Clarify monitoring for an apartment complex water-softening system and avoid jeopardizing federal funding; amendment removed fiscal risk. Vote: 15 ayes, 0 nays. Outcome: Passed; sent to Calendar and Rules.
- House Bill 024 — Increase penalties for hunting trespass and related game/fish violations. Vote: 14 ayes, 0 nays. Outcome: Passed; sent to Finance, Ways and Means.
- House Bill 0130 — Expand food-cottage/home-made-food sales to include poultry and dairy under specified labeling and safety rules (as amended). Vote: 15 ayes, 0 nays. Outcome: Passed; sent to Finance, Ways and Means.
- House Bill 0543 — Utility-services board and protections for customers served by utilities outside jurisdictional boundaries (as amended). Vote: 14 ayes, 1 nay, 1 present not voting. Outcome: Passed; sent to Finance, Ways and Means.
- House Bill 0612 — Apply general-permit credit concept to stream mitigation for small stream alterations; example cited involving Arlington. Vote: 14 ayes, 1 nay, 1 present not voting. Outcome: Passed; sent to Calendar and Rules.
- House Bill 0882 — Exempt certain small farm activities (topsoil, pond building under 3 acres) on green-belt property from TDEC regulation. Vote: 12 ayes, 1 nay, 1 present not voting. Outcome: Passed; sent to Finance, Ways and Means.
- House Bill 0175 — Allow Commission rulemaking to permit drone use to recover wounded deer on private land (recovery-only carveout). Vote: 15 ayes, 0 nays. Outcome: Passed; sent to Government Operations.
- House Bill 0799 — Reelfoot Lake blind licensing: confirm arrangement and allow commercial licenses where blind ownership reverts to state on death. Vote: 15 ayes, 0 nays. Outcome: Passed; sent to Government Operations.
- House Bill 0804 — Create department permit and labeling requirements for cell-cultured protein (lab-grown meat) and prohibit sale labeled as meat without permit; record: 13 ayes, 0 nays, 1 present not voting. Outcome: Passed; sent to Government Operations.
- House Bill 0894 — Reconstitute a groundwater-management board and add a sunset; vote recorded as 14 ayes, 0 nays, 1 present not voting. Outcome: Passed; sent to Government Operations.
- House Bill 0896 — Sound-Science and Regulation Act: require state rules affecting water and waste to be based on specified "best available science" standards. Vote: 13 ayes, 2 nays (recorded in roll call). Outcome: Passed; sent to Calendar and Rules.
- House Bill 0747 — Energy-policy and related provisions (as amended); committee vote recorded 11 ayes, 2 nays. Outcome: Passed; sent to Finance, Ways and Means.
Where the committee used roll-call, tallies above are from the committee clerk's roll recorded in the transcript. Several bills were amended on the floor before final committee votes; the amended language is noted where applicable. The committee referred most bills to Finance, Ways and Means or Calendar and Rules per the clerk's announcements.
