R Tennessee House · District 43 On the 2026 ballot

Rep. Paul Sherrell

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Session

Total votes

24,160

all sessions

Attendance

98%

521 missed

Higher than 75% of chamber peers

With party

99%

of cast votes

Near the chamber average

Bipartisan score

1%

crosses aisle rarely

Near the chamber average

Voting record

Yea

23,451

voted in favor

Nay

559

voted against

Absent

521

missed votes

Total cast

24,160

across all sessions

Crossed party

197

votes against own party

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Bill

Description

Vote

Result

Tally

Date

HB 2532

Education - As enacted, revises education law, including, but not limited to, increasing, from 25,000 to 35,000, the maximum number of education freedom scholarships that may be awarded to eligible students. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Absent

Passed

-

Apr 13, 2026

SB 2441

Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires an LEA to close a virtual school not meeting certain requirements for continued operation; requires the department of education to maintain and publish on the department's website a list of providers that operated or managed a virtual school that was closed for not meeting the requirements for continued operation; makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Absent

Passed

-

Apr 13, 2026

HB 2532

Education - As enacted, revises education law, including, but not limited to, increasing, from 25,000 to 35,000, the maximum number of education freedom scholarships that may be awarded to eligible students. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Absent

Passed

-

Apr 13, 2026

SB 1369

Health Care - As enacted, revises law relative to the operation of acute care hospitals. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 68; Title 71 and Chapter 985 of the Public Acts of 2024.

Absent

Passed

-

Apr 13, 2026

HB 2069

Local Government, General - As introduced, requires proposed contingent fee contracts for legal services between a political subdivision of this state and a private-sector attorney to be approved by the attorney general and reporter prior to execution of the contract. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 8 and Title 29.

Absent

Passed

-

Apr 9, 2026

SB 1302

Safety, Dept. of - As enacted, removes present law that requires an offender sentenced to a period of incarceration for a DUI to begin their sentence within 30 days of conviction or, if space is not immediately available in the appropriate municipal or county jail or workhouse within such time, as soon as such space is available; requires, instead, the sentencing court to determine when such an offender is required to commence service of their sentence. - Amends TCA Title 55 and Title 65.

Absent

Passed

-

Apr 7, 2026

SB 2434

Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates the Class C misdemeanor offense of knowingly using an unmanned aircraft over the grounds of a school. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 49.

Absent

Passed

-

Apr 7, 2026

HB 2343

Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, revises law relative to leave for teachers. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Absent

Passed

-

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

-

Apr 6, 2026

SB 2153

Health, Dept. of - As enacted, authorizes the department to establish and administer an early childhood mental health home visiting program as a voluntary, evidence-based and home-based intervention to promote the mental health, developmental progress, and family stability of children from birth to five years of age and their families. - Amends TCA Title 33 and Title 68, Chapter 1.

Absent

Passed

-

Apr 2, 2026