---
type: "Bill"
title: "Veterans - As enacted, authorizes private employers to give hiring preference to honorably discharged veterans, spouses of veterans with service-connected disabilities, unremarried widows or widowers of veterans who died of service-connected disabilities, and unremarried widows or widowers of members of the military who died in the line of duty. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 1, Part 1."
description: "Veterans - As enacted, authorizes private employers to give hiring preference to honorably discharged veterans, spouses of veterans with service-connected disabilities, unremarried widows or widowers of veterans who died of service-connected disabilities, and unremarried widows or widowers of members of the military who died in the line of duty. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 1, Part 1."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tn"
legislature: "Tennessee General Assembly"
session: "110"
identifier: "SB 209"
citation: "Tennessee SB 209 (110)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Veterans"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Green", "Pitts"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 46
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2017-01-30"
last_action: "2017-04-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7a3911c8-3056-4f61-8264-bf70b6a876c2"
source_url: "http://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/BillInfo/default.aspx?BillNumber=SB0209&GA=110"
source_hash: "6e569633a61d8dc20239e76744301a0a08f882fd947903ba86aafa27292622b4"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-tn"]
---

# Tennessee SB 209 (110) — Veterans - As enacted, authorizes private employers to give hiring preference to honorably discharged veterans, spouses of veterans with service-connected disabilities, unremarried widows or widowers of veterans who died of service-connected disabilities, and unremarried widows or widowers of members of the military who died in the line of duty. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 1, Part 1.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Current Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/110/Bill/SB0209.pdf)

## Votes

- SENATE COMMERCE AND LABOR COMMITTEE: Recommended for passage with amendment/s, refer to Senate Calendar Committee Ayes 9, Nays 0 PNV 0 3/7/2017 Passed — **9–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Green — primary (person)
- Pitts — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-01-30** Filed for introduction `introduction, reading-1`
- **2017-01-30** Filed for intro. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2017-02-01** Introduced, Passed on First Consideration `introduction`
- **2017-02-01** Intro., P1C. `introduction`
- **2017-02-02** Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
- **2017-02-02** P2C, ref. to Consumer and Human Resources Committee `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-03** Assigned to s/c Consumer and Human Resources Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-08** Placed on Senate Commerce and Labor Committee calendar for 2/14/2017
- **2017-02-08** Sponsor(s) Added.
- **2017-02-13** Sponsor(s) Added.
- **2017-02-14** Action deferred in Senate Commerce and Labor Committee to 2/28/2017
- **2017-02-14** Sponsor(s) Added.
- **2017-02-15** Placed on s/c cal Consumer and Human Resources Subcommittee for 2/22/2017
- **2017-02-15** Sponsor(s) Added.
- **2017-02-22** Placed on Senate Commerce and Labor Committee calendar for 2/28/2017
- **2017-02-22** Placed on cal. Consumer and Human Resources Committee for 3/1/2017
- **2017-02-22** Rec for pass if am by s/c ref. to Consumer and Human Resources Committee `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-23** Sponsor(s) Added.
- **2017-02-28** Action deferred in Senate Commerce and Labor Committee to 3/7/2017
- **2017-02-28** Sponsor(s) Added.
- **2017-03-01** Placed on Senate Commerce and Labor Committee calendar for 3/7/2017
- **2017-03-01** Placed on cal. Calendar & Rules Committee for 3/2/2017
- **2017-03-01** Rec. for pass. if am., ref. to Calendar & Rules Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-02** Sponsor(s) Added.
- **2017-03-02** H. Placed on Regular Calendar for 3/9/2017
- **2017-03-06** Sponsor(s) Added.
- **2017-03-07** Recommended for passage with amendment/s, refer to Senate Calendar Committee Ayes 9, Nays 0 PNV 0
- **2017-03-09** Placed on Senate Regular Calendar calendar for 3/13/2017
- **2017-03-09** Engrossed; ready for transmission to Sen.
- **2017-03-09** Passed H., as am., Ayes 96, Nays 0, PNV 0 `passage`
- **2017-03-09** H. adopted am. (Amendment 1 - HA0026) `amendment-passage`
- **2017-03-09** Sponsor(s) Added.
- **2017-03-13** Sponsor(s) Added.
- **2017-03-13** Companion House Bill substituted
- **2017-03-13** Passed Senate, Ayes 33, Nays 0 `passage`
- **2017-03-13** Amendment withdrawn. (Amendment 1 - SA0083)
- **2017-03-13** Senate substituted House Bill for companion Senate Bill.
- **2017-03-13** Received from House, Passed on First Consideration `introduction`
- **2017-03-14** Enrolled; ready for sig. of H. Speaker.
- **2017-03-16** Signed by H. Speaker
- **2017-03-20** Transmitted to Governor for his action. `executive-receipt`
- **2017-03-20** Signed by Senate Speaker
- **2017-03-22** Signed by Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2017-04-04** Comp. became Pub. Ch. 9
- **2017-04-04** Pub. Ch. 9
- **2017-04-04** Effective date(s) 03/22/2017

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7a3911c8-3056-4f61-8264-bf70b6a876c2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Tennessee legislature records).