D Tennessee House · District 15 On the 2026 ballot

Rep. Sam McKenzie

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Session

Total votes

13,756

all sessions

Attendance

94%

826 missed

Near the chamber average

With party

98%

of cast votes

Lower than 83% 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

826

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

HB 708

Education, State Board of - As enacted, expands the state board's power to subpoena the appearance of persons or the production of items the chair of the state board, or the chair's designee, considers material or relevant to an accountability hearing for a local education agency operating a public school, or a public charter school, receiving a "D" or "F" letter grade. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 3 and Title 49, Chapter 5.

Yea

Passed

18–1

Apr 2, 2025

HB 1373

Education, Dept. of - As enacted, extends the school turnaround pilot program for priority schools administered by the department and that is scheduled to conclude at the end of the 2024-2025 school year to a permanent school turnaround program for priority schools; increases, from five to 15, the maximum number of priority schools that may participate in the school turnaround program. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Yea

Passed

19–0

Apr 2, 2025

HB 1085

Education - As enacted, prohibits a local board of education or public charter school governing body from removing a material from a library collection for the sole reason that the material is religious. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Yea

Passed

17–0

Apr 2, 2025

HB 380

Education, Curriculum - As enacted, requires the state textbook and instructional materials quality commission, in consultation with the department of education, to develop a plan for the commission to review and submit to the state board of education for approval of electronic textbooks and instructional materials for use by virtual schools established by LEAs. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Yea

Passed

18–0

Apr 2, 2025

HB 1344

Education, Higher - As enacted, authorizes, subject to appropriation, an institution of higher education to request to redirect the institution's capital outlay funds for purposes other than those set out in the 2022 appropriations act; makes related revisions. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 9; Title 10; Title 12; Title 49; Title 66 and Title 67.

Yea

Passed

18–0

Apr 2, 2025

HB 1162

Schools, Charter - As enacted, permits a public charter school authorized in the county local education agency for a county in which only one city school system operates to use available buildings or facilities located within the geographic boundaries of the city school system located in the same county if certain conditions are met. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Yea

Passed

19–0

Apr 2, 2025

HB 1002

Education - As enacted, requires, if an approved universal reading screener is administered to pre-k students at an LEA or public charter school, the LEA or public charter school to allow the pre-k teacher whose students were administered the screener to use the results as an approved alternative student growth model or the pre-k/kindergarten portfolio growth model to generate individual growth scores for teachers pursuant to the evaluation guidelines developed by the department of education. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Yea

Passed

19–0

Apr 2, 2025

HB 1281

Education - As enacted, prohibits excusing a student from school to attend a released time course in religious moral instruction during the school year unless certain criteria are met. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 5 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

Yea

Passed

17–0

Apr 2, 2025

HB 638

TennCare - As introduced, prohibits a healthcare provider who participates in the TennCare or CoverKids programs from refusing to provide healthcare services to an enrollee based solely upon the enrollee’s refusal to obtain a vaccine or immunization; prohibits the bureau from reimbursing a healthcare provider in violation of such prohibition; requires the director to adopt rules. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

Nay

Passed

12–8

Apr 1, 2025

HB 1349

Drugs, Prescription - As enacted, requires a county medical examiner to test for, and obtain certain information concerning, the presence of any drugs in a decedent in certain situations; requires the health science center to conduct certain studies regarding drug interactions and submit quarterly reports to the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 53; Title 63 and Title 68.

Nay

Passed

17–5

Apr 1, 2025