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R Tennessee House · District 30 On the 2026 ballot

Rep. Esther Helton-Haynes

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Total votes
23,601
all sessions
Attendance
98%
373 missed
Near the chamber average
With party
99%
of cast votes
Near the chamber average
Bipartisan score
0%
crosses aisle rarely
Near the chamber average
Sponsored
166
bills & resolutions
Near the chamber average
Committees
2
assignments
23,601 roll-call votes

Voting record

Yea
23,134
voted in favor
Nay
398
voted against
Absent
373
missed votes
Total cast
23,601
across all sessions
Crossed party
46
votes against own party
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HB 1673
Utilities, Utility Districts - As enacted, makes various changes to laws regarding utilities, including the procedure for consolidation of utilities and continuing education requirements for members of utility governing bodies. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 34; Title 7, Chapter 82; Title 9, Chapter 21 and Title 68, Chapter 221.
Yea
Passed
91–0
Apr 6, 2026
HB 2081
Children - As enacted, adds the commissioner of mental health and substance abuse services, and one at large member with experience advocating for children, to the Tennessee second look commission; revises certain severe and aggravated child abuse offenses to include offenses involving strangulation; authorizes a court to order a child's custodian to submit certain documentation of compliance with preventative pediatric care consistent with the periodicity schedule of the American Academy of Pediatrics in certain situations; authorizes the department of children's services to initiate a visit to ascertain the wellbeing of a child if such documentation contains allegations of abuse or neglect. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40.
Yea
Passed
11–0
Apr 6, 2026
HJR 1276
Memorials, Professional Achievement - Sharon Kozlowski, Centennial High School Teacher of the Year -
Yea
Passed
90–0
Apr 6, 2026
SJR 983
Memorials, Sports - Wyatt Epley, AAU state wrestling champion -
Yea
Passed
90–0
Apr 6, 2026
SJR 995
Memorials, Sports - Kennedi Winbush -
Yea
Passed
90–0
Apr 6, 2026
HB 1985
Professions and Occupations - As enacted, adds that a managed services provider that provides direct sales, installation, or maintenance service for an IP camera connected to the managed services provider's network; derives less than 25 percent of the managed services provider's gross annual revenue from those services; and provides proof of employee vetting satisfactory to the commissioner is specifically excluded from the requirements of the Alarm Contractors Licensing Act. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 32.
Yea
Passed
94–0
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.
Yea
Passed
78–14
Apr 6, 2026
SJR 977
Memorials, Sports - Da'Mori Lytch, TCCAA Player of the Year -
Yea
Passed
90–0
Apr 6, 2026
HB 1956
Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, expands the prohibition, from stage 4 advanced metastatic cancer or metastatic blood cancer to any cancer, against a health benefit plan that provides coverage for cancer requiring the use of a step therapy protocol before the health benefit plan provides coverage for an approved prescription drug to an enrollee who has received a diagnosis of cancer. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
Yea
Passed
90–1
Apr 6, 2026
SJR 996
Memorials, Recognition - 250th Celebration of the Revolutionary War Veterans buried in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and surrounding areas -
Yea
Passed
90–0
Apr 6, 2026
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