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 cast
9,525
across all sessions
Crossed party
94
votes against own party
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Bill
Description
Vote
Result
Tally
Date
SB 48
Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, authorizes certain historic performing arts centers to sell alcoholic beverages during a performance; authorizes the consumption of alcoholic beverages in the auditoriums of such performing arts centers. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 4.
Yea
Passed
69–16
Apr 10, 2017
HB 1227
Education - As enacted, clarifies that a school may satisfy the summer programming requirement for qualification for a community schools grant by providing four weeks of summer programming during consecutive or nonconsecutive weeks. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 24.
Yea
Passed
95–0
Apr 10, 2017
SB 1216
Education, Higher - As enacted, replaces the Tennessee National Guard Tuition Assistance Act with the Tennessee Support, Training, and Renewing Opportunity for National Guardsmen (STRONG) Act of 2017. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 10.
Yea
Passed
95–0
Apr 10, 2017
HB 541
Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As enacted, creates "Tennessee Rural Mayors Day" to be observed on the first Monday of October each year. - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2.
Yea
Passed
95–0
Apr 10, 2017
HB 931
Public Health - As enacted, repeals obsolete miscellaneous sanitary regulations for workshops, which includes any house, room, or place when used for the purpose of carrying on any process of making or altering, for sale or for wages, any coats, vests, trousers, knee pants, overalls, cloaks, shirts, waists, purses, feathers, artificial flowers, or cigars, or any wearing apparel of any kind whatsoever, intended for sale. - Repeals l TCA Title 68, Chapter 15, Part 1.
Yea
Passed
95–0
Apr 10, 2017
SB 1217
Administrative Procedure (UAPA) - As enacted, authorizes commissioners and chief executive officers of administrative departments to evaluate certain actions by a regulatory board to determine whether the action may constitute a potentially unreasonable restraint of trade. - Amends TCA Title 4.
Yea
Passed
95–0
Apr 10, 2017
HB 1068
Boats, Boating - As enacted, directs TACIR to study the titling of boats. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 10.
Yea
Passed
95–0
Apr 10, 2017
HJR 255
Memorials, Personal Occasion - Mary Emma Reneau, 100th birthday -
Yea
Passed
95–0
Apr 10, 2017
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