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Votes at a glance: House advances multiple bills including agriculture initiative, courthouse revitalization and legal-tender measure
Summary
On April 22 the Tennessee House passed a series of bills and conference committee reports, adopting amendments and approving measures ranging from an agriculture initiative to a bill making gold and silver legal tender; several items were adopted with objections noted on the record.
The Tennessee House conducted an extended calendar on April 22, taking up amendments, conference committee reports and final votes on a broad set of bills. Several measures were adopted after debate; others were rolled or referred to committees for later consideration.
Key floor outcomes included:
- HB 15-36 (Tennessee Agricultural Innovation and Education Initiative): Sponsor Representative Shaw moved substitution and passage; the bill was adopted on third reading. The Clerk recorded the vote as 85 yeas and 8 nays.
- HB 3-88 (Courthouse Square Revitalization): Representative Butler said the bill extends the sunset on courthouse revitalization by 10 years. The House adopted the committee amendment and passed the bill on third reading (Clerk recorded a constitutional majority; no roll-call breakdown beyond the Clerk’s announcement was provided in the transcript excerpt).
- HB 21-56 (Community investment tax credit): Chair Baum explained the bill would change how certain community investment tax credits are measured and allow insurance companies to qualify; the House adopted committee amendments and passed the bill.
- HB 25-39 (Boards and commissions consolidation/overhaul): Leader Lambert presented floor amendments (including Amendment 8) that substantially rewrote the bill to strip many of the original consolidation provisions and retain primarily housekeeping changes; the amendment and the bill as amended were adopted.
- HB 20-38 (Gold and silver legal tender): Chairman Holes introduced an amendment renaming the act and explained the bill would make gold and silver legal tender in Tennessee; the bill was adopted and the floor included tributes to the chairman as he prepared to leave office.
- Multiple conference committee reports and concurrence motions (including HB 16-73, HB 17-72, and others) were adopted after sponsors described specific amendments and the Clerk reported constitutionally required majorities.
Votes and procedural notes: the Clerk recorded recorded votes and declared several items adopted 'with objection' on the record; when precise roll-call tallies were explicitly read on the floor those figures are reported above (HB 15-36: 85-8; HB 19-79: 73-8). Other items were recorded as adopted with the Clerk stating a constitutional majority but without a full roll-call table printed in the transcript excerpt.
What came next: leaders announced committee meetings for the afternoon and recessed the House until 3:30 p.m.; several bills were set for committee consideration later that day.
