Total votes
26,565
all sessions
Attendance
93%
1,873 missed
Lower than 79% of chamber peers
With party
98%
of cast votes
Lower than 86% of chamber peers
Bipartisan score
1%
crosses aisle rarely
Higher than 85% of chamber peers
Sponsored
276
bills & resolutions
Near the chamber average
Committees
4
assignments
26,565 roll-call votes
Voting record
Yea
25,456
voted in favor
Nay
748
voted against
Absent
1,873
missed votes
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Description
Vote
Result
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SB 2723
Gaming - As enacted, creates a five-day window after the effective date of this act for nonprofit organizations seeking to operate an annual event for the annual event period beginning on July 1, 2026, and ending June 30, 2027, to submit its annual event application to the secretary of state. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 17.
Yea
Passed
91–0
Apr 6, 2026
SB 1822
Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires an LEA that operates a public high school that meets certain criteria to permit certain high school students who are enrolled in private schools to participate in interscholastic athletics at the public high school. - Amends TCA Title 49.
Nay
Failed
22–70
Apr 6, 2026
SB 2165
Foster Care - As enacted, requires the department of children's services to provide a copy of a petition to terminate parental rights for a child in the custody of the department to the child's foster parent, if the foster parent has served as the physical placement for the child for a period of nine or more consecutive months; requires the department to provide the required copy within seven days of the filing or being served with the petition. - Amends TCA Section 36-1-113 and Section 37-2-415.
Yea
Passed
77–16
Apr 6, 2026
HB 2649
Bristol - Subject to local approval, revises election provisions for city council and the board of education to comply with changes to general election law; reduces the time after final passage for an ordinance to take effect from 17 days to seven days; changes the due dates for property taxes; creates a department of education. - Amends Chapter 84 of the Private Acts of 1991; as amended.
Yea
Passed
87–0
Apr 6, 2026
SB 591
Criminal Offenses - As enacted, clarifies, for purposes of criminal offenses relative to threats of mass violence on school property or at a school-related activity or failing to report such threats, that a threat of mass violence is credible if the threat causes another to reasonably expect the commission of an act of mass violence. - Amends TCA Title 39.
Yea
Passed
91–0
Apr 6, 2026
SB 2354
Tennessee Fish & Wildlife Commission - As enacted, authorizes a person to possess a raccoon without the payment of the $150 personal possession permit fee if the raccoon is obtained from a legal source and has been vaccinated; the raccoon is non-native and was not captured from the wild; and a possession permit for the raccoon has been issued by TWRA. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 44 and Title 70.
Nay
Failed
22–72
Apr 6, 2026
HB 1254
Law Enforcement - As enacted, requires a prosecuting agency that maintains a Brady list to adopt a policy that meets certain requirements. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 8.
Absent
Passed
75–14
Apr 6, 2026
HB 2018
Immigration - As enacted, requires a memorandum of understanding entered between certain law enforcement agencies and federal officials concerning enforcement of federal immigration laws to include a requirement that the agency accept and honor any immigration detainer received from federal immigration authorities. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 38 and Title 41.
Absent
Passed
72–23
Apr 6, 2026
HB 2408
Telecommunications - As enacted, requires a person or entity that makes telephone solicitations using an automated telephone dialing system to delivery artificial or prerecorded voice messages to residential subscribers in this state to maintain a record of the number of such telephone solicitations made each month; makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18; Title 65 and Title 67.
Yea
Passed
94–0
Apr 6, 2026
SB 2079
Education, Higher - As enacted, divides the appointing authority for the nine voting members of the Tennessee higher education commission among the governor, the speaker of the senate, and the speaker of the house of representatives equally; establishes various tuition and fee limitations and requirements for public institutions of higher education. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 14; Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, Chapter 8 and Title 49, Chapter 9.
Yea
Passed
86–8
Apr 6, 2026
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