---
type: "Bill"
title: "Beer - As enacted, authorizes Montgomery County to control the issuance, revocation, and suspension of licenses for the storage, sale, manufacture, and distribution of beer within a park owned by the county that is in the municipal boundaries of Clarksville; clarifies reference to local governmental entity in certain provision regarding beer permits. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 5."
description: "Beer - As enacted, authorizes Montgomery County to control the issuance, revocation, and suspension of licenses for the storage, sale, manufacture, and distribution of beer within a park owned by the county that is in the municipal boundaries of Clarksville; clarifies reference to local governmental entity in certain provision regarding beer permits. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 5."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tn"
legislature: "Tennessee General Assembly"
session: "110"
identifier: "HB 2280"
citation: "Tennessee HB 2280 (110)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Beer"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Green", "Johnson"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 43
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2018-01-31"
last_action: "2018-05-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/78e8248a-dab1-423b-8969-63beb3636bb5"
source_url: "http://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/BillInfo/default.aspx?BillNumber=HB2280&GA=110"
source_hash: "85b0f79303d71662ee497e377ab9400b03b875a646a46d1e0070e7378f3f188b"
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 HB 2280 (110) — Beer - As enacted, authorizes Montgomery County to control the issuance, revocation, and suspension of licenses for the storage, sale, manufacture, and distribution of beer within a park owned by the county that is in the municipal boundaries of Clarksville; clarifies reference to local governmental entity in certain provision regarding beer permits. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 5.

## 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/HB2280.pdf)

## Votes

- LOCAL GOVERNMENT SUBCOMMITTEE: Rec for pass if am by s/c ref. to Local Government Committee 3/21/2018 (4) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- FINANCE, WAYS & MEANS SUBCOMMITTEE: Rec. for pass by s/c ref. to Finance, Ways & Means Committee 4/9/2018 (3) — **0–0** (pass) · lower
- FINANCE, WAYS & MEANS COMMITTEE: Rec. for pass; ref to Calendar & Rules Committee 4/9/2018 (2) — **0–0** (pass) · lower
- CALENDAR & RULES COMMITTEE: H. Placed on Regular Calendar for 4/17/2018 4/10/2018 (1) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE: Rec. for pass. if am., ref. to Finance, Ways & Means Committee 4/3/2018 — **0–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Green — primary (person)
- Johnson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-31** Filed for intro. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2018-02-01** Intro., P1C. `introduction`
- **2018-02-01** Introduced, Passed on First Consideration `introduction`
- **2018-02-01** Filed for introduction `introduction, reading-1`
- **2018-02-05** Assigned to s/c Local Government Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-05** P2C, ref. to Local Government Committee `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-05** Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee
- **2018-02-28** Placed on Senate State and Local Government Committee calendar for 3/6/2018
- **2018-03-06** Action deferred in Senate State and Local Government Committee to 3/13/2018
- **2018-03-07** Placed on Senate State and Local Government Committee calendar for 3/13/2018
- **2018-03-13** Recommended for passage, refer to Senate Calendar Committee
- **2018-03-14** Placed on s/c cal Local Government Subcommittee for 3/21/2018
- **2018-03-21** Placed on cal. Local Government Committee for 3/27/2018
- **2018-03-21** Rec for pass if am by s/c ref. to Local Government Committee `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-27** Action def. in Local Government Committee to 4/3/2018
- **2018-03-28** Placed on cal. Local Government Committee for 4/3/2018
- **2018-04-03** Rec. for pass. if am., ref. to Finance, Ways & Means Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-04** Placed on s/c cal Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee for 4/9/2018
- **2018-04-04** Assigned to s/c Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-06** Placed on Senate Regular Calendar calendar for 4/11/2018
- **2018-04-09** Rec. for pass; ref to Calendar & Rules Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-09** Placed on cal. Finance, Ways & Means Committee for 4/9/2018
- **2018-04-09** Rec. for pass by s/c ref. to Finance, Ways & Means Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-10** H. Placed on Regular Calendar for 4/17/2018
- **2018-04-10** Placed on cal. Calendar & Rules Committee for 4/10/2018
- **2018-04-11** Engrossed; ready for transmission to House
- **2018-04-11** Passed Senate, Ayes 27, Nays 0, PNV 1 `passage`
- **2018-04-12** Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk.
- **2018-04-17** Sponsor(s) Added.
- **2018-04-17** Comp. SB subst.
- **2018-04-17** Placed on Senate Message Calendar calendar for 4/18/2018
- **2018-04-17** Passed H., as am., Ayes 80, Nays 7, PNV 9 `passage`
- **2018-04-17** H. adopted am. (Amendment 1 - HA1140) `amendment-passage`
- **2018-04-17** Subst. for comp. HB.
- **2018-04-18** Concurred, Ayes 23, Nays 2, PNV 2 (Amendment 1 - HA1140) `passage`
- **2018-04-20** Enrolled and ready for signatures
- **2018-04-23** Signed by Senate Speaker
- **2018-04-24** Signed by H. Speaker
- **2018-05-07** Transmitted to Governor for action.
- **2018-05-15** Signed by Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-18** Comp. became Pub. Ch. 944
- **2018-05-18** Pub. Ch. 944
- **2018-05-18** Effective date(s) 05/15/2018

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/78e8248a-dab1-423b-8969-63beb3636bb5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Tennessee legislature records).