R Tennessee House · District 21 On the 2026 ballot

Rep. Lowell Russell

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Session

Total votes

23,063

all sessions

Attendance

99%

273 missed

With party

99%

of cast votes

Lower than 80% of chamber peers

Bipartisan score

0%

crosses aisle rarely

Higher than 75% of chamber peers

Voting record

Yea

22,533

voted in favor

Nay

516

voted against

Absent

273

missed votes

Total cast

23,063

across all sessions

Crossed party

144

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Bill

Description

Vote

Result

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Date

SB 1665

Civil Procedure - As enacted, clarifies that the same immunities from civil liability, adverse action, and disciplinary action, and duties, that apply to this state, state employees, public schools, LEAs, public school students, public school teachers, public school employees, public school contractors, public institutions of higher education, public higher education students, public higher education faculty, public higher education employees, and public higher education contractors with regard to the use of a pronoun consistent with an individual's sex apply when using an honorific that is consistent with an individual's sex. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 50; Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 24 and Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 51.

Yea

Passed

70–18

Apr 21, 2026

SB 1700

Consumer Protection - As enacted, requires the Tennessee advisory commission on intergovernmental relations (TACIR) to conduct a study of the potential regulation of artificial intelligence systems and generative artificial intelligence chatbots in this state. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 37 and Title 47.

Yea

Passed

90–0

Apr 21, 2026

HB 2446

Fire Prevention and Investigation - As enacted, requires the commissioner of commerce and insurance to fulfill certain duties for the volunteer firefighter vehicle grant program, which is established to annually provide grants to select volunteer fire departments to assist with local match requirements for federal grants to purchase vehicles. - Amends TCA Title 68.

Yea

Passed

91–0

Apr 21, 2026

HR 213

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Hailey Renee Butler, Valedictorian, Scott County High School -

Yea

Passed

87–0

Apr 21, 2026

HR 201

Memorials, Personal Occasion - Bill McCabe, 80th birthday -

Yea

Passed

87–0

Apr 21, 2026

SB 2407

Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, clarifies that certain individuals who have not completed the amount of clinical practice required by the educator preparation provider in which the individual is enrolled may receive a temporary clinical permit if all other requirements for the permit are satisfied; allows such an individual who is issued a temporary clinical permit to meet the clinical practice requirements of the EPP in which the individual is enrolled by combining the amount of clinical practice the individual completed before being issued a temporary clinical permit with the amount of time the individual taught under the temporary clinical permit. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5.

Yea

Passed

89–0

Apr 21, 2026

SB 2367

County Government - As enacted, applies the Neighborhood Preservation Act to Tipton County; authorizes Montgomery County and Tipton County to participate in the Tennessee Local Land Bank Program. - Amends TCA Title 5 and Title 13.

Yea

Passed

90–1

Apr 21, 2026

SB 2431

Health Care - As enacted, makes various changes to health-related laws, including, but not limited to, requiring the commissioner of health to prescribe conditions under which processed and verified claims data found on the UB-92 form are made available to the public; revising law relative to critical access hospitals, and revising law relative to certificates of need. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 63 and Title 68.

Yea

Passed

80–4

Apr 21, 2026

SB 1665

Civil Procedure - As enacted, clarifies that the same immunities from civil liability, adverse action, and disciplinary action, and duties, that apply to this state, state employees, public schools, LEAs, public school students, public school teachers, public school employees, public school contractors, public institutions of higher education, public higher education students, public higher education faculty, public higher education employees, and public higher education contractors with regard to the use of a pronoun consistent with an individual's sex apply when using an honorific that is consistent with an individual's sex. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 50; Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 24 and Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 51.

Yea

Passed

67–18

Apr 21, 2026

SB 2145

Orders of Protection - As enacted, allows a person to file a petition for a lifetime order of protection against a person who was convicted of certain offenses in another jurisdiction; provides that venue for such a petition is in the county where the respondent resides or, if the respondent is not a resident of this state, the county where the petitioner resides. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 39.

Yea

Passed

89–0

Apr 21, 2026