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Committee approves consent calendar, advances more than a dozen bills to calendar
Summary
The Commerce and Labor committee approved two PUC appointments on the consent calendar and moved multiple bills — including measures on foreign ownership thresholds, E-Verify thresholds, workers' compensation fee awards, recovery housing study, and the Shield Act — to the committee calendar. Several measures were rolled or failed for lack of a second.
The Commerce and Labor committee opened, confirmed a quorum and approved a consent calendar that included SJR0833 and SJR0834, appointments to the Tennessee Public Utilities Commission. The chair announced the consent calendar passed after the clerk recorded the votes: "Chairman, you have 8 ayes," the chair said as the calendar carried.
Throughout a multi-hour meeting, the committee moved numerous bills to the committee calendar. Notable outcomes: SB 24 24 (foreign-party real property restrictions) moved to the calendar after an adopted amendment; SB 23 36 (fire-protection background checks) passed with 9 ayes; SB 09 90 (E-Verify threshold reduced from six to one) passed out of committee with recorded tallies of 6 ayes, 2 noes and 1 pass; SB 18 03 (recovery housing/insurance study) and SB 20 70 (Shield Act) were both moved to the calendar after witness testimony and amendment votes. A few bills were rolled to the hill for further work or failed for lack of a second.
