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

HB 2616

Open Meetings - As enacted, authorizes a governing body to conduct an executive session for the purpose of interviewing applicants for employment as director-level staff of the body without providing public notice of such session. - Amends TCA Title 8.

Absent

Passed

-

Apr 14, 2026

HB 555

Criminal Offenses - As enacted, increases from a Class E felony to a Class D felony the offense of burglary of a conveyance. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

Absent

Passed

-

Apr 14, 2026

HB 1652

Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, establishes new premier type tourist resorts, restaurants, community theaters, clubs, retirement centers, premises, and commercial passenger boat companies that can offer liquor by the drink; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 57.

Absent

Passed

-

Apr 14, 2026

SJR 48

General Assembly, Review Or Ratification of Rules - Ratifies the increase of the 911 surcharge rate to $1.86 as approved by the Tennessee Emergency Communications Board. -

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 1840

Statutes of Limitations and Repose - As enacted, requires prosecution for vehicular homicide committed on or after July 1, 2026, to commence within 10 years from the date the offense occurs. - Amends TCA Title 28; Title 39 and Title 40.

Absent

Passed

-

Apr 8, 2026

HB 1932

Taxes, Real Property - As enacted, revises standards for the length of the redemption period for a property subject to a tax sale based on whether the period of delinquency is three years or less or is more than three years. - Amends TCA Section 67-5-2701.

Absent

Passed

-

Apr 7, 2026

HB 2569

Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As enacted, lowers the age of an inpatient from 65 to 50 or older when a hospital, each year from October 1 through March 1, must offer immunization against influenza disease prior to discharge; requires a hospital to offer immunization against pneumococcal disease to an inpatient aged 50 or older prior to discharge. - Amends TCA Title 68.

Absent

Passed

-

Apr 7, 2026

SJR 48

General Assembly, Review Or Ratification of Rules - Ratifies the increase of the 911 surcharge rate to $1.86 as approved by the Tennessee Emergency Communications Board. -

Absent

Passed

-

Apr 7, 2026

SB 1473

Courts, Municipal - As enacted, prohibits a municipality from remediating a property maintenance violation if the cost may negatively impact the municipality's financial position, or if the cost is budgetarily prohibitive; specifies that, in addition to assessing remediation costs against a property owner in the form of a lien, a municipality may recover remediation costs through all other legal means. - Amends TCA Title 6; Title 7; Title 13; Title 16, Chapter 18 and Title 29, Chapter 3.

Absent

Passed

-

Apr 6, 2026