Total votes
9,525
all sessions
Attendance
95%
453 missed
With party
99%
of cast votes
Higher than 76% of chamber peers
Bipartisan score
1%
crosses aisle rarely
Lower than 78% of chamber peers
Sponsored
143
bills & resolutions
Near the chamber average
Committees
0
assignments
9,525 roll-call votes
Voting record
Yea
9,008
voted in favor
Nay
502
voted against
Absent
453
missed votes
Total cast
9,525
across all sessions
Crossed party
94
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Bill
Description
Vote
Result
Tally
Date
SB 2533
Game and Fish Laws - As enacted, extends the exemption from licensure to hunt and fish on farmlands owned by a spouse, parent, or grandparent, to include spouses of children of landowners. - Amends TCA Title 70.
Yea
Passed
91–0
Jun 9, 2020
HB 2225
Environment and Conservation, Department of - As introduced, authorizes the commissioner to commission employees of the department who have completed the required training as law enforcement officers; permits law enforcement officers within the division of parks and recreation to provide assistance outside of state parks and recreation areas. - Amends TCA Section 11-1-101; Section 11-3-107; Section 59-8-308 and Section 59-8-404.
Yea
Passed
88–0
Jun 9, 2020
SB 2773
Tennessee Fish & Wildlife Commission - As introduced, extends the notice period that a commissioner is entitled to prior to a hearing to defend charges that may result in the commissioner's removal from not less than 10 business days before the hearing to not less than 14 business days before the hearing. - Amends TCA Title 70, Chapter 1, Part 2.
Yea
Passed
88–4
Jun 9, 2020
HB 2366
Local Government, General - As enacted, prohibits local governing bodies from adopting or continuing in effect any ordinance, resolution, rule, or regulation regarding the exhibition of livestock; specifies that the prohibition does not apply when such enactment is otherwise authorized by state law or is related to reasonable restrictions regarding time, place, and manner consistent with other similar events or the protection of public health, safety, or welfare. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 44.
Nay
Passed
74–17
Jun 9, 2020
SB 2156
Environment and Conservation, Department of - As introduced, authorizes the commissioner to commission employees of the department who have completed the required training as law enforcement officers; permits law enforcement officers within the division of parks and recreation to provide assistance outside of state parks and recreation areas. - Amends TCA Section 11-1-101; Section 11-3-107; Section 59-8-308 and Section 59-8-404.
Yea
Passed
88–0
Jun 9, 2020
HB 2209
Food and Food Products - As enacted, repeals the Tennessee Egg Law, which establishes a licensure system for certain persons who buy, sell, trade, traffic, or process eggs in Tennessee. - Amends TCA Section 43-1-701; Title 53, Chapter 1, Part 2 and Title 53, Chapter 2.
Yea
Passed
92–0
Jun 9, 2020
SB 2140
Food and Food Products - As enacted, repeals the Tennessee Egg Law, which establishes a licensure system for certain persons who buy, sell, trade, traffic, or process eggs in Tennessee. - Amends TCA Section 43-1-701; Title 53, Chapter 1, Part 2 and Title 53, Chapter 2.
Yea
Passed
92–0
Jun 9, 2020
SB 2029
Contractors - As introduced, authorizes owners of real property to construct certain residential buildings on that property without obtaining a contractor license; requires notice of such construction to be made to the board for licensing contractors, the register of deeds, and subsequent purchasers of the property. - Amends TCA Title 13; Title 62, Chapter 6 and Title 66.
Yea
Passed
75–8
Jun 9, 2020
SB 1938
Drugs, Prescription - As enacted, creates provisions related to prescribing buprenorphine. - Amends TCA Title 53, Chapter 11.
Yea
Passed
90–1
Jun 9, 2020
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