R Tennessee House · District 49 On the 2026 ballot

Rep. Mike Sparks

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Session

Total votes

23,901

all sessions

Attendance

94%

1,537 missed

Lower than 99% of chamber peers

With party

99%

of cast votes

Lower than 90% of chamber peers

Bipartisan score

1%

crosses aisle rarely

Higher than 88% of chamber peers

Voting record

Yea

22,565

voted in favor

Nay

501

voted against

Absent

1,537

missed votes

Total cast

23,901

across all sessions

Crossed party

212

votes against own party

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Bill

Description

Vote

Result

Tally

Date

SB 2102

Public Utility Commission - As enacted, requires, for an electric utility providing services outside the corporate limits of the home municipality, expansion of the utility board to provide representation on the board for such outside locality. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 12; Title 13; Title 54; Title 64; Title 65; Title 68 and Title 69.

Absent

Passed

-

Apr 20, 2026

HB 1690

Motor Vehicles - As enacted, prohibits the initial issuance of registration of a motor vehicle if the vehicle has not met the requirements of the Financial Responsibility Law of 1977, which provides insurance and financial responsibility requirements for motor vehicle operators; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 55 and Title 56.

Absent

Passed

-

Apr 20, 2026

HB 1881

Education - As enacted, revises the assessment testing requirements for students who participate in the education savings account (ESA) program. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 12; Title 48; Title 49 and Title 67.

Absent

Passed

-

Apr 20, 2026

SB 2690

Appropriations - As enacted, makes appropriations for the fiscal years beginning July 1, 2025, and July 1, 2026. -

Absent

Failed

-

Apr 16, 2026

SB 2690

Appropriations - As enacted, makes appropriations for the fiscal years beginning July 1, 2025, and July 1, 2026. -

Absent

Passed

-

Apr 16, 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 16, 2026

SB 2454

Appropriations - As enacted, authorizes direct and continuing appropriations by certain airport authorities for the issuance of debt that is not a liability of the state and the payment of debt service thereon. - Amends TCA Title 9.

Absent

Passed

-

Apr 16, 2026

HB 1034

Contracts - As enacted, requires a court to apply rebuttable presumptions when determining the reasonableness in time of a restrictive covenant sought to be enforced after the termination of an employment or business relationship; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 50; Title 63 and Title 68.

Absent

Passed

-

Apr 16, 2026

HB 2272

Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, changes present law concerning common ownership of entities involved in the alcoholic beverages industry. - Amends TCA Title 57.

Absent

Passed

-

Apr 14, 2026

HB 1514

Local Government, General - As enacted, clarifies that the general assembly occupies the entire field of the regulation of shopping carts, including their purchase, use, taxation, manufacture, ownership, sale, storage, and transportation, to the exclusion of all county or metropolitan government laws, ordinances, resolutions, enactments, or regulations; prohibits a county or metropolitan government, or any agency, department, or official of a county or metropolitan government, from adopting an ordinance, resolution, or other regulation requiring a business to adopt a shopping cart policy of any nature or imposing a fee or fine on a business related to shopping carts. - Amends TCA Title 5, Chapter 1 and Title 6, Chapter 54.

Absent

Passed

-

Apr 14, 2026