Total votes
9,525
all sessions
Attendance
95%
453 missed
Higher than 84% of chamber peers
With party
99%
of cast votes
Higher than 77% 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 recorded
9,525
across all sessions
Crossed party
94
votes against own party
Matching
9,525
matching current filters
Bill
Description
Vote
Result
Tally
Date
SB 723
Education, Higher - As enacted, enacts the "Campus Free Speech Protection Act." - Amends TCA Title 49.
Nay
Passed
62–29
May 1, 2017
HB 1164
Agriculture - As enacted, revises certain provisions regarding the industrial hemp program. - Amends TCA Title 43, Chapter 1, Part 7; Section 43-26-102 and Section 43-26-103.
Yea
Passed
84–0
May 1, 2017
SB 798
Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, revises certain requirements for infused products; makes other various changes to alcohol-related laws. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 2; Title 57, Chapter 3 and Title 57, Chapter 4.
Yea
Passed
64–20
May 1, 2017
HB 1296
Criminal Procedure - As enacted, increases from $25,000 to $50,000 the threshold amount of a loss sustained by a victim that generally makes the offender ineligible for expunction. - Amends TCA Section 40-32-101.
Yea
Passed
83–4
May 1, 2017
HB 975
State Government - As enacted, requires state government agencies and departments to provide notice to legislators of proposed contracts that will outsource professional facilities management services within such legislators' districts; revises other reporting and other requirements relative to state government. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 9, Chapter 4, Part 53; Title 10; Title 11; Title 12; Title 41; Title 50 and Title 54.
Nay
Passed
53–33
May 1, 2017
SB 413
Physicians and Surgeons - As enacted, enacts the "Visiting Sports Team Act." - Amends TCA Title 63.
Yea
Passed
90–2
May 1, 2017
SB 1077
Weapons - As enacted, clarifies, for purposes of whether possession of a weapon is allowed or prohibited, when certain property is considered to be "in use" for school purposes. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
Nay
Passed
74–17
May 1, 2017
SB 1262
Taxes, Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, extends by one year the manner in which liquor-by-the-drink tax proceeds are distributed to local political subdivisions. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 49; Title 57 and Title 67.
Yea
Passed
78–5
May 1, 2017
SB 469
Real Property - As enacted, prohibits a homeowners' association from adopting or enforcing a dedicatory instrument provision that prohibits, or has the effect of prohibiting, a property owner from displaying the flag of the United States of America or an official or replica flag of any branch of the United States armed forces on the property owner's property; allows certain restrictions regarding display. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 66.
Yea
Passed
90–0
May 1, 2017
SB 740
Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, designates The Plaza in Nashville as a premier type tourist resort for purposes of on-premises consumption of alcoholic beverages. - Amends TCA Section 57-4-102.
Yea
Passed
67–17
May 1, 2017
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