republic-os/legislation/us/states/tn/113/hb-1649.md

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Bill	Election Laws - As enacted, requires LEAs and public charter schools of a county to be closed for instruction on presidential primary election days if the county election commission uses such schools as a polling place. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 3, Part 1.	Election Laws - As enacted, requires LEAs and public charter schools of a county to be closed for instruction on presidential primary election days if the county election commission uses such schools as a polling place. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 3, Part 1.	us/states/tn	Tennessee General Assembly	113	HB 1649	Tennessee HB 1649 (113)	bill	Election Laws	enacted	McCalmon	1	23	6	2024-01-08	2024-03-26	openstates	ocd-bill/c1d8d2aa-5f29-4173-8c5d-37b4b6c0f17c	http://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/BillInfo/default.aspx?BillNumber=HB1649&GA=113	ae5d6098cdd03300d1d774982df651d3048ff7e5704b0ef506a32bd15ef0eed6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-tn

Tennessee HB 1649 (113) — Election Laws - As enacted, requires LEAs and public charter schools of a county to be closed for instruction on presidential primary election days if the county election commission uses such schools as a polling place. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 3, Part 1.

Version chain

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

1. Current Version (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• HOUSE LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE: Rec. for pass; ref to Calendar & Rules Committee 2/6/2024 — 0–0 (pass) · lower
• FLOOR VOTE: REGULAR CALENDAR PASSAGE ON THIRD CONSIDERATION 2/22/2024 Passed (1) — 95–0 (pass) · lower
• HOUSE ELECTIONS & CAMPAIGN FINANCE SUBCOMMITTEE: Rec. for pass by s/c ref. to Local Government Committee 1/31/2024 — 0–0 (pass) · lower
• FLOOR VOTE: Motion to Adopt 3/4/2024 Passed (1) — 32–0 (pass) · upper
• HOUSE LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE: Rec. for pass; ref to Calendar & Rules Committee 2/6/2024 (3) — 0–0 (pass) · lower
• HOUSE CALENDAR & RULES COMMITTEE: H. Placed on Regular Calendar for 2/22/2024 2/15/2024 (2) — 0–0 (fail) · lower

Sponsors

• McCalmon — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-08 Filed for introduction filing
• 2024-01-09 Intro., P1C. introduction
• 2024-01-10 Assigned to s/c Elections & Campaign Finance Subcommittee referral-committee
• 2024-01-10 P2C, ref. to Local Government Committee referral-committee
• 2024-01-24 Placed on s/c cal Elections & Campaign Finance Subcommittee for 1/31/2024
• 2024-01-31 Placed on cal. Local Government Committee for 2/6/2024
• 2024-01-31 Rec. for pass by s/c ref. to Local Government Committee committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-02-06 Rec. for pass; ref to Calendar & Rules Committee committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-02-14 Placed on cal. Calendar & Rules Committee for 2/15/2024
• 2024-02-15 H. Placed on Regular Calendar for 2/22/2024
• 2024-02-22 Engrossed; ready for transmission to Sen. receipt
• 2024-02-22 Passed H., Ayes 95, Nays 0, PNV 0 passage
• 2024-02-22 Sponsor(s) Added. sponsorship
• 2024-02-26 Received from House, Passed on First Consideration introduction
• 2024-03-04 Passed Senate, Ayes 32, Nays 0 passage
• 2024-03-04 Senate substituted House Bill for companion Senate Bill. substitution
• 2024-03-05 Enrolled; ready for sig. of H. Speaker. enrolled
• 2024-03-06 Signed by H. Speaker passage
• 2024-03-07 Transmitted to Governor for his action. executive-receipt
• 2024-03-07 Signed by Senate Speaker passage
• 2024-03-15 Signed by Governor. executive-signature
• 2024-03-26 Effective date(s) 03/15/2024
• 2024-03-26 Pub. Ch. 573

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c1d8d2aa-5f29-4173-8c5d-37b4b6c0f17c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Tennessee legislature records).