Rep. Ed Butler
Total votes
10,835
all sessions
Attendance
95%
524 missed
Near the chamber average
With party
99%
of cast votes
Lower than 79% of chamber peers
Bipartisan score
0%
crosses aisle rarely
Higher than 77% of chamber peers
Sponsored
107
bills & resolutions
Higher than 91% of chamber peers
Committees
2
assignments
10,835 roll-call votes
Voting record
Yea
10,407
voted in favor
Nay
345
voted against
Absent
524
missed votes
Total cast
10,835
across all sessions
Crossed party
84
votes against own party
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Bill
Description
Vote
Result
Tally
Date
SB 93
Barbers and/or Cosmetologists - As enacted, creates an eyelash specialist license; authorizes the establishment of eyelash services shops in accordance with requirements for other licensed shops; authorizes schools to offer courses of instruction that consist of 50 percent of the hours needed for an eyelash specialist license to be obtained from apprenticing; requires certain rule promulgation by the board of cosmetology and barber examiners. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 3; Title 62, Chapter 4 and Title 62, Chapter 76.
Absent
Passed
67–15
Apr 10, 2023
SB 743
Education - As enacted, clarifies that public charter schools and the state board of education are prohibited from employing individuals found by the department of children's services to have committed an act of child abuse in the same manner as other educational entities; clarifies that the state board is prohibited from granting, reactivating, or restoring an educator license or temporary teaching permit for such individuals; adds the state board and public charter schools to the list of educational entities to which the department is required to make certain disclosures when one of its employees is alleged to have committed an act of child abuse. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5.
Yea
Passed
93–0
Apr 10, 2023
HB 786
Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, creates a new pathway for honorably discharged veterans to receive an occupational teaching license. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5.
Yea
Passed
90–0
Apr 10, 2023
HB 706
Public Employees - As enacted, makes changes to the present law relative to reemployment after retirement from public employment. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 36, Part 8.
Yea
Passed
94–0
Apr 10, 2023
SB 1408
Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As enacted, allows an eligible independent postsecondary institution and certain private, nonprofit technical schools to charge dual enrollment students tuition or fees in an amount that exceeds the amount of the student's dual enrollment grant. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.
Yea
Passed
94–0
Apr 10, 2023
SB 537
Adoption - As enacted, adds to the grounds upon which initiation of termination of parental or guardianship rights may be based that the parent has been confined in a correctional or detention facility of any type, by order of the court as a result of one or more criminal acts, under a sentence of six or more years, and one or more other grounds in current law exists. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37.
Yea
Passed
77–15
Apr 10, 2023
HB 1565
Smithville - Subject to local approval, removes prohibition on persons convicted of malfeasance or misfeasance in office, felonies, or crimes involving moral turpitude from being an employee of the city for ten years after the conviction; reduces, from a 2/3 majority to a simple majority, the required vote by the council for approving and removing mayoral appointments; authorizes the city board to appoint and promote city employees. - Amends Chapter 486 of the Private Acts of 1941; as amended and rewritten.
Yea
Passed
76–12
Apr 10, 2023
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