D Tennessee House · District 51 On the 2026 ballot

Rep. Aftyn Behn

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Session

Total votes

4,774

all sessions

Attendance

89%

354 missed

Near the chamber average

With party

97%

of cast votes

Higher than 85% of chamber peers

Bipartisan score

2%

crosses aisle rarely

Lower than 87% of chamber peers

Voting record

Yea

3,744

voted in favor

Nay

667

voted against

Absent

354

missed votes

Total cast

4,774

across all sessions

Crossed party

116

votes against own party

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Bill

Description

Vote

Result

Tally

Date

HB 783

Housing - As enacted, authorizes local governments to regulate sober living homes for recovery from alcohol, drug, and substance abuse to the extent such regulation complies with the Fair Housing Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13 and Title 33. Against party

Nay

Passed

80–8

Apr 16, 2025

SB 207

Agriculture, Dept. of - As enacted, establishes a fund for the development and implementation of programs that benefit Tennesseans by preserving farmland and forestland, including a grant program for conservation easements. - Amends TCA Title 43, Chapter 1, Part 1.

Yea

Passed

84–8

Apr 16, 2025

SJR 446

Memorials, Sports - Chattanooga Mocs, 2025 NIT champions -

Yea

Passed

96–0

Apr 16, 2025

SB 688

Education, State Board of - As enacted, expands the state board's power to subpoena the appearance of persons or the production of items the chair of the state board, or the chair's designee, considers material or relevant to an accountability hearing for a local education agency operating a public school, or a public charter school, receiving a "D" or "F" letter grade. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 3 and Title 49, Chapter 5.

Nay

Passed

67–20

Apr 16, 2025

HB 1050

Nuisances - As enacted, revises nuisance laws. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13; Title 16; Title 29; Title 39; Title 67 and Title 68.

Yea

Passed

86–3

Apr 16, 2025

SB 602

Education - As enacted, requires the department of education to develop guidelines and criteria for determining how long a student must have been present in a teacher's classroom before the student's record is attributable to the teacher for purposes of evaluating the teacher; authorizes an LEA or public charter school to compensate the estate of a teacher who, on the teacher's death, was in the employ of the LEA or public charter school for the teacher's unused and accrued annual and sick leave in the same manner that the estates of deceased state employees are compensated under present law. - Amends Chapter __ of the Public Acts of 2025 (1st Ex. Sess. – SB 6001 / HB 6004); and TCA Title 4, Chapter 49; Title 8 and Title 49.

Yea

Passed

89–2

Apr 16, 2025

HJR 658

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Marisela Ventura Alonso, Salutatorian, Morristown-Hamblen High School East -

Yea

Passed

96–0

Apr 16, 2025

SB 1202

Bonding, Surety and Professional - As enacted, authorizes the surety on a bail bond to petition the court for release from their obligations as surety if the principal forfeits. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 13; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41; Title 56; Title 62 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 8. Against party

Nay

Passed

86–7

Apr 16, 2025

SB 161

Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires each board of education for an LEA that operates at least one high school to adopt and implement a policy to authorize a high school student to serve as an advisory, nonvoting representative on the board during meetings that are open to the public. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 2.

Yea

Passed

86–1

Apr 16, 2025

HB 910

Human Rights - As enacted, schedules the Tennessee human rights commission for termination on July 1, 2025, and transfers the commission's duties concerning discrimination in employment, housing, public accommodations, malicious harassment, the Civil Rights Act of 1990, the "Tennessee Anti-Slapp Act," and education to the attorney general and reporter. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8 and Title 68.

Nay

Passed

73–23

Apr 16, 2025