Votes at a glance: Senate Commerce and Labor Committee moves multiple bills to calendar or referral

The Senate Commerce and Labor Committee recorded the following formal actions during its session. This list summarizes motions, amendment actions, and vote tallies as shown in the committee transcript.

- Senate Bill 5-22: Authorizes TennCare to provide coverage and benefits for enrollees diagnosed with Kleefstra syndrome (as amended to change "shall" to "may"). Committee vote: 6 ayes, 3 nos. Outcome: moves to Senate calendar. (Sponsor: Senator Roberts)

- Senate Bill 4-40: Clean bill regarding supplemental or expected-benefit insurance (does not alter major medical insurance). Committee vote: 8 ayes, 1 pass. Outcome: moves to Senate calendar. (Sponsor: Senator Wally — Aflac described as bringing the bill)

- Senate Bill 7-76: Encourages use of state-certified construction apprentices on state projects over $1 million. Committee vote: 9 ayes. Outcome: moves to Senate calendar. (Sponsor: Senator Wally)

- Senate Bill 9-39: Requests a task or study on economic impact related to barbering/cosmetology professions. Committee vote: 9 ayes. Outcome: moves to Senate calendar. (Sponsor: Chairman Briggs)

- Senate Bill 12-30: Changes electronic filing/recording procedures to address property fraud concerns; supported by County Officials Association and Register of Deeds. Committee vote: 9 ayes. Outcome: moves to Senate calendar. (Sponsor: Chairman Briggs)

- Senate Bill 5-22 (Kleefstra syndrome) adoption of amendment and passage noted above.

- Senate Bill 2-10 (Save the Rural Ambulance Act): Rolled one week for reconciliation with other ambulance reimbursement proposals (no committee final vote recorded).

- Senate Bill 11-94: Amendment adopted to adjust application of the 2021 International Energy Conservation Code so commonly used commercial roofing materials remain permitted. Committee vote on final bill: ayes recorded; outcome: moves to Senate calendar. (Sponsor: Chairman Jackson; witness: Ellen Thorpe)

- Senate Bill 8-16: Adds a prohibition against falsely claiming a consumer is party to an active lawsuit (pay-stub/consumer-protection context). Committee vote: 8 ayes. Outcome: moves to Senate calendar. (Sponsor: Senator Lowe)

- Senate Bill 1-90 (pregnancy health-insurance continuation): Failed for lack of a second (no committee vote on merits).

- Senate Bill 12-57: Rolled one week at sponsor's request.

- Senate Bill 7-07: Raises age-verification standard for tobacco/related products to require ID for buyers who appear under 50 (increase from 30); Committee vote: 8 ayes. Outcome: moves to Senate calendar. (Sponsor: Chair Lady Massey)

- Senate Bill 8-98: Establishes a TennCare remote patient monitoring pilot for maternal hypertension and diabetes; committee asked sponsor to add an end date and consider changing the participant language to "up to 300." Committee vote: 7 ayes, 1 no, 1 pass. Outcome: referred to finance. (Sponsor: Chair Lady Massey)

- Senate Bill 7-49: Changes the index used to calculate certain long-term subordinate loan interest rates (non-depository mortgage lenders). Committee vote: 7 ayes, 1 pass. Outcome: moves to calendar. (Sponsor: Chairman Yeager)

- Senate Bill 2-31: As amended, TASER study on stuttering and insurance coverage. Committee vote: 9 ayes. Outcome: moves to calendar. (Sponsor: Leader Akbari)

- Senate Bill 2-88: Expands the list of cancers covered under firefighter presumptions (adds prostate, breast, pancreatic). Committee vote: recorded ayes; outcome: moves to calendar. (Sponsor: Chairman Bailey)

- Senate Bill 13-77: Portable benefits framework; amendment adopted creating voluntary portable benefit accounts. Committee vote: 8 ayes, 1 no. Outcome: moves to calendar. (Sponsor: Chairman Watson)

- Senate Bill 4-28: Requires insurers offering group plans to ensure FDA-approved non-opiate treatments are not disadvantaged compared with opiates; committee action: referred to finance. (Sponsor: Chairman Reeves)

- Senate Bill 4-37: Creates statutory coverage/reimbursement support for psychiatric collaborative care models; amendment adopted. Vote recorded: 5 ayes, 2 noes, 1 pass. Outcome: moves to calendar. (Sponsor: Chairman Reeves)

- Senate Bill 9-80: Requires property descriptions in deeds not previously recorded to be prepared by a registered land surveyor; committee vote: 8 ayes. Outcome: moves to calendar. (Sponsor: Senator Sutherland)

- Senate Bill 2-25 (chiropractic billing codes): Amendment adopted to make the bill; sponsor later requested the item be rolled to the final calendar.

This roundup reflects motions, amendment adoptions, votes and clerk tallies as recorded in the committee transcript. If a bill was rolled, tabled, or lacked a second, the transcript notes that result; items that recorded a passage were sent to the Senate calendar or to the indicated referral committee.