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Committee advances multiple bills; key votes include development timelines and election amendment defeat
Summary
The Tennessee Senate State and Local Government Committee advanced several administration and policy bills to the calendar or to other committees, including votes on development-permit timelines, megasite bonds, workforce housing pilot and an election amendment that failed after testimony from the coordinator of elections.
The State and Local Government Committee met and moved a package of bills onward to the calendar and to other committees. Chairman Briggs opened the session, members adopted a consent calendar, and a series of bills were debated and voted on over the course of the hearing.
Among the outcomes: SB 22-26 (authorizing the Megasite Authority of West Tennessee to issue bonds for water and wastewater serving a megasite) passed the committee; SB 22-37 (establishing 30/60 business‑day review windows and a bond‑release inspection process for development applications) passed and will move to calendar; SB 24-10 (a Tennessee Housing Development Agency workforce-housing pilot) moved to finance. By contrast, an election amendment in SB 10-28 that would have prohibited QR codes and similar automatic identification technologies for ballot tabulation failed in committee.
Committee members recorded roll-call votes for each bill. On the Save Transformers Act (SB 25-65), after expert testimony the committee voted to send the measure to summer study (6 ayes, 3 no). On SB 10-28 the clerk recorded 1 aye, 7 noes and 1 pass and the bill failed. The day ended with several bills—among them bills on homelessness relocation rules and a prohibition on live-streaming evictions—passing and being sent to the calendar or finance.
