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Votes at a glance: Tennessee House adopts multiple bills and resolutions on March floor
Summary
On the March 13 floor, the Tennessee House adopted a series of bills and resolutions spanning health care, juvenile justice, corrections, energy, and other areas. Below are short summaries and the chamber’s recorded actions as announced on the floor.
On March 13 the Tennessee House considered and adopted a number of bills and resolutions across policy areas. The items below summarize each measure that received a formal vote on the floor and reproduce the vote outcome as announced in the chamber.
Votes at a glance
- Senate Bill 174 (substituted for House Bill 186) — surgical assistant credentialing: House passed the bill to add the American Board of Surgical Assistants to the list of approved credentialing bodies. Clerk announcement recorded voting results in the chamber; the bill was declared passed.
- House Joint Resolution 304 — honoring disabled victims of filicide: Representative Alexander read the resolution listing named victims. The resolution was read and presented; members were invited to join for a photo. (Read on the floor; formal adoption was presented.)
- Senate Bill 1292 (substitute for House Bill 115) — disclosure of tax information (technical fix): Sponsor said the bill corrected a prior drafting error removing a criminal penalty for publishing specified rebate recipient names; the House passed the bill as announced by the clerk.
- House Bill 1320 — Transportation Modernization Act amendments: See separate coverage. House passed the bill (clerk announced: "Aye, 71, 16 nays").
- Senate Bill 371 (substitute for House Bill 341) — collection of biological specimens for DNA analysis from death-row inmates: Sponsor said the bill requires DNA collection from currently incarcerated death-row inmates so potential matches can be made against untested kits; floor roll-call announced the result as "Aye: 86; Nays: 3; Present: recorded in chamber" and the chair declared the measure passed.
- House Bill 501 — juvenile justice review commission: Creates a juvenile-justice review body modeled on the Second Look Commission; sponsor said the panel will be multidisciplinary. Clerk announced "Ayes 88, no nays, 2 present, not voting," and the chair declared passage.
- Senate Bill 569 (substitute for House Bill 693) — pharmacy authority and consultation fee: The bill extends pharmacist prescribing/dispensing provisions and permits a pharmacist to charge a consultation fee (expected to be reimbursed by insurance). The clerk announced the vote as "Ayes 84, 4 nays," and the bill passed.
- House Bill 1133 — adds nuclear energy production facilities to certified green energy definition in code: The bill was passed (clerk announcement: "Ayes 87, 2 nays, 1 present, not voting").
- House Bill 1143 — consolidates clean/renewable energy definitions: Sponsor said the bill merged existing definitions and added the word "green;" the clerk announced the result as recorded on the floor and declared passage.
- Senate Bill 669 (substitute for House Bill 1226) — remove references to World Health Organization in code: Sponsor moved passage to remove references to WHO from Tennessee code. The clerk announced "Aye, 70, 19 nays," and the chair declared the bill passed.
- House bill concurrence and other calendar items: The chamber also concurred in a senate amendment to House Bill 932 and adopted several resolutions honoring individuals and memorials as read on the floor. The clerk recorded each adoption on the record.
What the votes mean
Most items above were passed on third and final consideration and were noncontroversial or technical in nature; a few—particularly the Transportation Modernization Act changes and the pharmacy consultation fee—generated substantive floor questions. Where the transcript contained explicit numeric tallies as announced by the clerk, those tallies are reported verbatim in this summary. If the clerk’s spoken tally in the transcript was unclear, this summary reproduces the chamber’s announced phrasing rather than reconstructing alternate counts.
A full record of each bill’s final enrolled text, amendments, and the official roll-call will be available in the House journal and on the legislature’s website.
