D Tennessee House · District 15 On the 2026 ballot

Rep. Sam McKenzie

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Session

Total votes

13,756

all sessions

Attendance

93%

1,063 missed

Higher than 75% of chamber peers

With party

98%

of cast votes

Lower than 82% of chamber peers

Bipartisan score

1%

crosses aisle rarely

Higher than 80% of chamber peers

Voting record

Yea

12,495

voted in favor

Nay

1,163

voted against

Absent

1,063

missed votes

Total cast

13,756

across all sessions

Crossed party

143

votes against own party

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Bill

Description

Vote

Result

Tally

Date

SB 1138

Sewage - As enacted, prohibits a municipal sewer system or utility district that has operated a sewerage system outside of the corporate boundaries of the city or town for 25 years or more from ceasing operation of the sewerage system outside the corporate boundaries so long as the sewerage system maintains sufficient capacity; requires a utility system that provides wastewater service to provide a connection to the owner of real property for wastewater service when the utility system meets certain requirements. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 35; Title 7, Chapter 82 and Title 68, Chapter 221.

Nay

Passed

75–23

Apr 21, 2025

HJR 676

Memorials, Recognition - Sawyer Brown, 40th anniversary -

Yea

Passed

91–0

Apr 21, 2025

SB 1115

Correction, Dept. of - As enacted, provides that in a facility operated pursuant to a contract to provide correctional services, or in a facility operated pursuant to a contract with a county to hold state inmates and that county has entered into a contract with a contractor to provide correctional services, if the death rate of inmates at the facility is twice the death rate of an equivalent state-operated facility, then the department must reduce the population at such facility by 10%. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 12; Title 40 and Title 41.

Yea

Passed

98–0

Apr 21, 2025

SB 246

Education, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to convene a working group to study and develop best practices, strategies, and programming for English language learner (EL) educators in this state to utilize in educating EL students enrolled in a public school in this state in any of the grades K-12. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Yea

Passed

91–0

Apr 21, 2025

SB 863

Tennessee Fish & Wildlife Commission - As enacted, directs the commission to promulgate rules to create and issue guide licenses for persons who work as guides at Reelfoot Lake. - Amends TCA Title 11, Chapter 14, Part 1 and Title 70.

Yea

Passed

99–0

Apr 21, 2025

SB 890

Health Care - As enacted, revises present law relative to a patient's electronic health record and requires a health insurance entity to establish and maintain a provider access API and a prior authorization API; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 47; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68.

Yea

Passed

97–0

Apr 21, 2025

HJR 674

Memorials, Recognition - Vietnam War, 50th anniversary of its end -

Yea

Passed

91–0

Apr 21, 2025

HR 120

Memorials, Sports - Eli Turner, Elmore Park Middle School basketball team -

Yea

Passed

91–0

Apr 21, 2025

HB 773

Newspapers and Publications - As enacted, specifies that the website where legal notices must be posted must not require a fee or a subscription for a person to view the website; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 1, Chapter 3.

Yea

Passed

95–0

Apr 21, 2025

HB 69

Election Laws - As enacted, requires the coordinator of elections, in collaboration with the department of safety, prior to January 1, 2028, to create a secure, electronic portal through which each county administrator of elections may access information to verify, prior to processing an applicant's application to register to vote, whether the applicant is a United States citizen based upon records on file at the time of issuance of the most recent driver license or identification card or other credential from the department of safety; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 4; Title 38; Title 39; Title 41 and Title 55.

Nay

Passed

76–23

Apr 21, 2025