Total votes
9,517
all sessions
Attendance
95%
453 missed
Higher than 82% of chamber peers
With party
99%
of cast votes
Higher than 83% of chamber peers
Bipartisan score
1%
crosses aisle rarely
Lower than 84% of chamber peers
Sponsored
143
bills & resolutions
Lower than 80% of chamber peers
Committees
0
assignments
9,517 roll-call votes
Voting record
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9,000
voted in favor
Nay
502
voted against
Absent
453
missed votes
Total cast
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87
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Bill
Description
Vote
Result
Tally
Date
HB 1830
Real Property - As enacted, requires short-term rental unit marketplaces to collect and remit local occupancy taxes for short-term rental units secured through the marketplace beginning January 1, 2021; enacts provisions governing classification of certain residential property used as a short-term rental; revises and enacts other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13; Title 56; Title 62; Title 66; Title 67 and Title 68.
Yea
Passed
66–10
Jun 18, 2020
HB 1640
Special License Plates - As enacted, authorizes issuance of a Linemen Power Tennessee new specialty earmarked license plate to operators of vehicles that are used for passenger transport, owned by an entity that is subject to the Rural Electric and Community Services Cooperative Act, and that have a maximum gross weight less than 9,000 pounds. - Amends TCA Title 55.
Yea
Passed
80–0
Jun 18, 2020
SB 2511
Public Defenders - As enacted, reinstates service credits and salary increases that were suspended during 2009-2010 for district public defender investigators. - Amends TCA Title 1 and Title 8, Chapter 14.
Yea
Passed
80–0
Jun 18, 2020
SB 2684
Health Care - As introduced, authorizes healthcare facilities to provide an electronic method for insureds or their representatives to acknowledge and sign the statutorily required notice that the insured agrees to receive medical services by an out-of-network provider and will receive a bill for the amount unpaid by the insured's insurer. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68.
Nay
Passed
58–20
Jun 18, 2020
SB 29
Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, extends compensation for death of emergency responders to emergency medical technicians and paramedics; authorizes local governments to continue to provide health insurance to the surviving spouse and children of an emergency medical technician or paramedic killed in the line of duty. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51, Part 2 and Title 8, Chapter 27.
Yea
Passed
80–0
Jun 18, 2020
HB 1723
Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, authorizes the sale of alcoholic beverages and beer for consumption on the premises of the Memphis Zoo during the zoo's regular operating hours. - Amends TCA Section 57-4-101.
Yea
Passed
58–25
Jun 18, 2020
SB 2777
Children - As introduced, authorizes a “Parents' Day Out” or similar program operated by a religious institution or organization to provide 12-hour per week child care services in whatever block of time desired; requires the department of human services to create a $10 million fund to provide unlicensed care providers in rural counties with assistance in making facility upgrades for licensure; allows care providers in rural counties to provide child care for up to 10 children without being licensed if certain conditions are met. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 71.
Nay
Passed
62–18
Jun 18, 2020
HB 1827
Textbooks - As enacted, revises various provisions regarding textbooks and instructional materials and the state textbook and instructional materials quality commission. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 22.
Yea
Passed
79–0
Jun 18, 2020
HR 372
Memorials, Personal Achievement - Sheriff Jeff Bledsoe, Executive Director of the Tennessee Sheriffs' Association -
Yea
Passed
77–0
Jun 18, 2020
HB 2680
Health Care - As introduced, authorizes healthcare facilities to provide an electronic method for insureds or their representatives to acknowledge and sign the statutorily required notice that the insured agrees to receive medical services by an out-of-network provider and will receive a bill for the amount unpaid by the insured's insurer. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68.
Yea
Passed
82–0
Jun 18, 2020
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