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D Tennessee House · District 15 On the 2026 ballot

Rep. Sam McKenzie

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Total votes
17,100
all sessions
Attendance
93%
1,312 missed
Lower than 81% of chamber peers
With party
98%
of cast votes
Lower than 77% of chamber peers
Bipartisan score
1%
crosses aisle rarely
Higher than 75% of chamber peers
Sponsored
132
bills & resolutions
Higher than 83% of chamber peers
Committees
5
assignments
17,100 roll-call votes

Voting record

Yea
15,482
voted in favor
Nay
1,519
voted against
Absent
1,312
missed votes
Total recorded
17,100
across all sessions
Crossed party
178
votes against own party
Matching
17,100
matching current filters
Bill
Description
Vote
Result
Tally
Date
HJR 1013
Memorials, Interns - Daniel Baisier -
Yea
Passed
87–0
Mar 28, 2022
HB 2078
Salaries and Benefits - As enacted, requires employers to pay employees no less than the minimum wage, regardless of the subminimum wage for an employee whose earning or productive capacity is impaired by age, physical, or mental deficiency or injury. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 50.
Yea
Passed
89–0
Mar 28, 2022
HB 2899
Celina - Subject to local approval, increases compensation for aldermen, from $50 to $300, for each regularly scheduled meeting attended, not to exceed $600 per month; compensates aldermen $100 for each special meeting attended; increases in compensation would be effective beginning with the next terms of office. - Amends Chapter 201 of the Private Acts of 1951; as amended and rewritten.
Yea
Passed
87–0
Mar 28, 2022
HR 171
Memorials, Personal Occasion - Betty Colvett, 90th birthday -
Yea
Passed
87–0
Mar 28, 2022
HB 1944
Obscenity and Pornography - As introduced, excludes local education agencies, public schools, and employees and private contractors of LEAs or public schools from the exception to certain obscenity offenses if the LEA, public school, employee, or private contractor possesses obscene material that is harmful to minors on public school premises; prohibits an LEA or public school from making obscene materials or materials harmful to minors available to students in the school libraries controlled by the LEA or public school. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 9 and Title 49.
Nay
Passed
63–26
Mar 28, 2022
HB 2056
Energy - As enacted, establishes certain requirements for solar power facility agreements. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 65; Title 66, Chapter 9, Part 2 and Title 68.
Yea
Passed
91–0
Mar 28, 2022
SB 2401
State Universities - As enacted, creates the Tennessee Center for Nursing Advancement within East Tennessee State University to address issues of nursing workforce needs and makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 8, Part 5; Title 63 and Title 68.
Yea
Passed
89–0
Mar 28, 2022
SJR 1382
Memorials, Academic Achievement - Isabella France, Valedictorian, DeKalb County High School -
Yea
Passed
87–0
Mar 28, 2022
HB 1930
Education - As enacted, authorizes a local board of education or charter school governing body to implement, as part of the LEA's or public charter school's discipline policy, holistic programs of positive behavior reinforcement and reward-based behavior modification systems. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.
Yea
Passed
90–0
Mar 28, 2022
HB 1944
Obscenity and Pornography - As introduced, excludes local education agencies, public schools, and employees and private contractors of LEAs or public schools from the exception to certain obscenity offenses if the LEA, public school, employee, or private contractor possesses obscene material that is harmful to minors on public school premises; prohibits an LEA or public school from making obscene materials or materials harmful to minors available to students in the school libraries controlled by the LEA or public school. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 9 and Title 49.
Nay
Passed
63–24
Mar 28, 2022
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