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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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Vote
Result
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Date
SB 1061
Education, Higher - As enacted, requires the department of correction, in partnership with the Tennessee higher education commission and the board of regents, to develop and submit to the general assembly an annual report detailing the higher education opportunities available to eligible incarcerated individuals in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 41; Title 49 and Title 50.
Yea
Passed
94–0
Apr 10, 2019
HB 1505
Lebanon - Subject to local approval, removes the mayor pro tem as the successor to the mayor when the mayor's office becomes vacant; authorizes the council to declare a vacancy in the office of mayor and appoint a person to fill the remainder of the term. - Amends Chapter 644 of the Private Acts of 1911; as amended.
Yea
Passed
84–0
Apr 10, 2019
SB 578
Public Defenders - As enacted, creates the district public defender appellate division, including authorization for six appellate attorney positions. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 14.
Yea
Passed
84–0
Apr 10, 2019
SB 918
Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As enacted, allows the East Tennessee regional agribusiness marketing authority to develop, market, and promote facilities for warehousing, distribution, light manufacturing, and agribusiness purposes, and enter lease purchase agreements by a two-thirds (2/3) majority vote by the board, and removes tax exempt status for any ETRAMA property sold under a lease purchase agreement. - Amends TCA Title 64, Chapter 10, Part 1.
Yea
Passed
84–0
Apr 10, 2019
HB 1271
Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As enacted, extends the exemption from sales and use tax on trailers used to transport livestock when such trailer is sold to a qualified farmer or nurseryman to also exempt such sales of trailers used to transport farm products, nursery stock, or equipment, supplies or products used in agriculture, or for other agricultural purposes relating to the operation and maintenance of a farm. - Amends TCA Title 55 and Title 67.
Yea
Passed
85–0
Apr 10, 2019
SB 1519
Lebanon - Subject to local approval, increases from 2 percent to 5 percent the privilege tax that may be levied on the occupancy by a transient of a hotel in Lebanon, subject to a two-thirds vote of the Lebanon city council approving the increase. - Amends Chapter 208 of the Private Acts of 1980.
Yea
Passed
84–0
Apr 10, 2019
SB 557
Annexation - As enacted, specifies that property owners, rather than just residents, of a territory proposed for annexation may vote in the referendum on the question of annexation; limits provision for property owners to vote based on ownership to no more than two persons per an individual tract of property, regardless of number of owners of the property. - Amends TCA Title 6, Chapter 51, Part 1.
Yea
Passed
85–8
Apr 10, 2019
HB 1089
Annexation - As enacted, specifies that property owners, rather than just residents, of a territory proposed for annexation may vote in the referendum on the question of annexation; limits provision for property owners to vote based on ownership to no more than two persons per an individual tract of property, regardless of number of owners of the property. - Amends TCA Title 6, Chapter 51, Part 1.
Yea
Passed
85–8
Apr 10, 2019
SB 1491
Motor Vehicles - As enacted, exempts certain motor vehicle dismantlers and recyclers from the requirement to keep certain records of transactions of buying or selling automobile parts. - Amends TCA Section 55-17-109; Title 55, Chapter 3, Part 2 and Title 55, Chapter 5, Part 1.
Yea
Passed
84–0
Apr 10, 2019
HB 930
Taxes, Sales - As enacted, extends expiration date of reporting requirement to department of revenue by wholesalers of food, candy, or nonalcoholic beverages regarding net sales of such products to retailers from July 1, 2019, to July 1, 2022; revises other provisions related to required reports. - Amends TCA Section 67-6-410.
Yea
Passed
95–0
Apr 10, 2019
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