---
type: "Bill"
title: "General Assembly, Joint Conventions - Calls joint convention on April 12, 2021, to confirm appointment of Jill Bartee Ayers to Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals, Middle Section, and to honor former U.S. Senator and former Tennessee Governor Lamar Alexander. -"
description: "General Assembly, Joint Conventions - Calls joint convention on April 12, 2021, to confirm appointment of Jill Bartee Ayers to Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals, Middle Section, and to honor former U.S. Senator and former Tennessee Governor Lamar Alexander. -"
jurisdiction: "us/states/tn"
legislature: "Tennessee General Assembly"
session: "112"
identifier: "SJR 497"
citation: "Tennessee SJR 497 (112)"
classification: ["joint resolution"]
subjects: ["General Assembly", "Joint Conventions"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Yager"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 10
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-04-08"
last_action: "2021-04-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f47b0970-c9b9-4e7d-8af4-22dceb330bde"
source_url: "http://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/BillInfo/default.aspx?BillNumber=SJR0497&GA=112"
source_hash: "62c496ffdb873b63d6d9c2fd404ccf396e53b98e12cc77c8442d66c30455ecca"
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 SJR 497 (112) — General Assembly, Joint Conventions - Calls joint convention on April 12, 2021, to confirm appointment of Jill Bartee Ayers to Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals, Middle Section, and to honor former U.S. Senator and former Tennessee Governor Lamar Alexander. -

## Version chain

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

1. **Current Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/112/Bill/SJR0497.pdf)

## Votes

- FLOOR VOTE: Motion to Adopt 4/8/2021 Passed (1) — **32–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Yager — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-04-08** R/S Concurred, v.v. `passage`
- **2021-04-08** Engrossed; ready for transmission to House
- **2021-04-08** Rules Suspended, Adopted, Ayes 32, Nays 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-08** Filed for introduction `introduction, reading-1`
- **2021-04-09** Signed by Senate Speaker
- **2021-04-09** Enrolled and ready for signatures
- **2021-04-09** Sponsor(s) Added.
- **2021-04-12** Signed by H. Speaker
- **2021-04-13** Signed by Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2021-04-13** Transmitted to Governor for action.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f47b0970-c9b9-4e7d-8af4-22dceb330bde`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Tennessee legislature records).