D Tennessee House · District 51 On the 2026 ballot

Rep. Aftyn Behn

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Session

Total votes

4,774

all sessions

Attendance

59%

3,037 missed

Higher than 75% of chamber peers

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

3,037

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

SB 415

Education - As enacted, creates an advisory committee on innovations in K-12 education. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 49.

Nay

Passed

75–25

Apr 22, 2025

HR 138

Memorials, Recognition - Dyersburg State Community College, SOAR Awards College of the Year -

Yea

Passed

96–0

Apr 22, 2025

SB 714

Education - As enacted, requires an educational oversight board to be created for an LEA that meets certain criteria and is established to annually conduct a comprehensive needs assessment of the LEA to determine the factors that may be contributing to the LEA meeting such criteria; requires the oversight board to develop a transformation plan that identifies performance and operational goals for the LEA and benchmarks for assessing the LEA's progress toward meeting such goals; makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 49.

Yea

Failed

26–67

Apr 22, 2025

SB 869

Licenses - As enacted, creates a bait privilege license to allow hunting or taking of whitetail deer using bait on privately owned or privately leased land. - Amends TCA Title 70.

Nay

Passed

79–19

Apr 22, 2025

SB 1089

Courts, Municipal - As enacted, increases from $1.00 to $2.00 the amount of funds from the court costs collected in municipal court cases that must be forwarded by the municipal court clerk to the state treasurer for deposit and credited to the account for the administrative office of the courts for the sole purpose of defraying the administrative director's expenses in providing training and continuing education courses for municipal court judges and municipal court clerks. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 18 and Title 17, Chapter 3.

Nay

Passed

83–20

Apr 22, 2025

SB 950

Education - As enacted, creates a federal education deregulation cooperation task force to prepare Tennessee for the potential of deregulation of federal laws, regulations, requirements, and guidance for K-12 education. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Nay

Passed

77–24

Apr 22, 2025

HJR 698

Memorials, Recognition - Captain Larry L. Taylor American Legion Post 293 in Signal Mountain -

Yea

Passed

100–0

Apr 22, 2025

SJR 519

Memorials, Recognition - Ava Kelly -

Yea

Passed

100–0

Apr 22, 2025

SB 1084

Human Rights - As enacted, enacts the "Dismantling DEI Departments Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8 and Title 49, Chapter 7.

Yea

Failed

24–77

Apr 22, 2025

SB 1019

Education, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to allocate the state share of the Tennessee investment in student achievement formula funds generated by student members of a public charter school in the prior school year directly to the public charter school instead of allocating such funds to the local education agency in which the public charter school is located. - Amends Chapter __ of the Public Acts of 2025 (1st Ex. Sess. – SB 6001 / HB 6004); and TCA Title 49, Chapter 13 and Title 49, Chapter 3.

Nay

Passed

74–23

Apr 22, 2025