105th General Assembly
Tennessee Senate Standing Committees

Calendar Finance, Ways and Means
Commerce, Labor & Agriculture General Welfare, Health & Human Resources
Delayed Bills Government Operations
Education Judiciary
Environment, Conservation & Tourism Rules
Ethics State & Local Government
  Transportation

Calendar

This committee is responsible for scheduling bills and resolutions for consideration by the Senate.


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Commerce, Labor and Agriculture
Mae Beavers, Dewayne Bunch, Tim Burchett, Jack Johnson, Reginald Tate, John Wilder

Carolyn Newman ,
Committee Secretary
Loudene Gee,
Research Analyst, 316 WMB
This committee is responsible for legislation concerning commerce, insurance, and agriculture. The Committee also has jurisdiction over legislation concerning banking and lending institutions; communications; regulation and licensing of occupations; protections of trade and commerce against unlawful restraints and monopolies; corporations; labor and industrial relations; consumer affairs and consumer protection; and unemployment compensation.
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Education
Charlotte Burks, Rusty Crowe, Joe Haynes, Bill Ketron , Randy McNally and Jim Tracy

Pat Farmer,
Committee Secretary
Lee Harrell,
Research Analyst
This committee is responsible for legislation concerning schools and secondary education; school employees, administrators, teachers and bus drivers; school employees' and teachers' pay and retirement, except where an appropriation of state funds is required; colleges and universities; employees of colleges and universities, including pay and retirement, except where an appropriation of state funds is required; vocational technical education; employees of vocational education -- schools, including pay and retirement, except where an appropriation of state funds is required; college or university agricultural extension service; school lunch program; education and schools for exceptional children; cultural affairs; museums; and state and public libraries.

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Environment, Conservation and Tourism


Raymond Finney, Roy Herron, Bill Ketron, Steve Roller, Steve Southerland and Mike Williams


Nadine Korby,
Committee Secretary
Jeremy Davis,
Research Analyst
 This committee is responsible for legislation concerning energy; forestry; natural resources; conservation, game and fish, mines and minerals. Additionally, the Committee is also responsible for legislation regarding matters relating to pollution of air, water and land; parks and recreations; state parks and recreational districts; mineral resources of public lands; public and geological surveys, accretion, alluvium, and dereliction of public and private lands; watershed districts; soil conservation; soil conservation districts; flood and drainage projects; construction, improvement and maintenance of waterways, lakes and streams; registering and licensing of vessels and small boats; tourism; military parks and battlefields; and environment.

 

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Finance, Ways and Means

Diane Black, Raymond Finney, Joe Haynes, Rosalind Kurita, Jim Kyle, Mark Norris, Bo Watson and John Wilder


Debbie Martin ,
Committee Secretary

Rick Nicholson, Research Analyst

 This committee is responsible for all measures relating to taxes and the raising of revenue; all measures relating to bonds and the bonding of revenue; all measures relating to the issuance, payment or retirement of bonds; all measures related to the evidences of indebtedness; all measures dealing with the appropriation of state funds; the general appropriations bill; the deposit of public monies; Congressional relations; and assessment and collection of property taxes.

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General Welfare, Health and Human Resources
Diane Black, Ophelia Ford, Douglas Henry, Roy Herron, Jack Johnson and Randy McNally

Wilma Carney,
Committee Secretary
Logan Grant, Research Analyst
This committee is responsible for public or private hospitals; health offices and their administration; institutions and services for the mentally retarded; mental health institutions and facilities; geriatric hospitals; nursing homes; vocational rehabilitation including vocation rehabilitation homes; alcoholic rehabilitation; Department of Health; tuberculosis sanatoriums; nurses training programs; public welfare; old age assistance; private and local institutions of public welfare; and research training and rehabilitation in the field of public welfare.

 

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Government Operations


Dewayne Bunch, Rusty Crowe,, Jack Johnson, Paul Stanley, Bo Watson and Mike Williams


Khabra Bryant, Committee Secretary
Denise Ragland, Research Analyst

This committee is responsible for legislation concerning the creation of new departments, commissions, boards, agencies or councils of state government; the reauthorization of existing departments, commissions, boards, agencies or councils of state government; licensing and/or certification of occupational and/or professional groups; and review of regulations promulgated by Tennessee departments, commissions, boards or agencies

 

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Judiciary

Diane Black, Jim Kyle, Beverly Marrero, Mark Norris, Paul Stanley and John Wilder

Patti Saliba ,
Committee Secretary

Michelle Consiglio, 
Research Analyst 

This committee is responsible for civil laws; criminal laws; judicial proceedings; apportionment of elected officials and governing bodies; executors, administrators, wills and divorce and other family matters; all matters relating to the courts, matters of court jurisdiction, and matters relating to judges, including retirement, compensation, expenses, personnel, facilities, etc.; municipal and juvenile courts and justices of the peace; clerks of court, and sheriffs and law enforcement officers; and all other matters not covered by any other standing committee.

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State and Local Government

Tim Burchett, Thelma Harper, Joe Haynes, Mark Norris, Steve Roller and Jim Tracy


Sandra Smith, Committee Secretary
Micki Coode,
Research Analyst
This committee is responsible for forms of local government; utility districts; assistance to local and municipal governments; matters dealing with revenue and taxation levied by local governments; matters dealing with employees of local governments; matters dealing with expenditure by local governments; matters dealing with local ordinances; state and local government boundary lines; veterans affairs; penal and correctional institutions; public lands; preservation of historical landmarks and objects; holidays and celebrations; regulation of sale of intoxicating liquors; Adjutant General and National Guard; election laws; and state government in general.

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Transportation


Andy Berke, Mae Beavers, Doug Jackson, Steve Southerland, Mike Williams and Jamie Woodson

Christina Barber,
Committee Secretary
Clint Hall,
Research Analyst
This committee is responsible for highways, roads and bridges; railroads; air, bus and vehicular transportation; rules and regulations for highway, railroad, and air use; common carriers, except by water; pipelines; motor vehicle regulations; public works; facilities in connection with and navigation of waterways, lakes and streams; and the Department of Safety.

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Ethics

Diane Black and Mark Norris

Jan Markum,
Committee Secretary
 This committee is responsible for enforcement of the Senate Code of Ethics and recommends modification of the Code of Ethics to the Senate Rules Committee.

 

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Rules


Rosalind Kurita and James Kyle


Chuck Grimes ,
Committee Secretary

 This committee is responsible for recommending modification of the Senate Rules to the Senate.

 

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Delayed Bills

This committee is responsible for initial consideration of resolutions calling for joint conventions and study committees and late filed bills and resolutions.


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