D Tennessee House · District 53 On the 2026 ballot

Rep. Jason Powell

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Session

Total votes

26,002

all sessions

Attendance

90%

2,817 missed

Lower than 84% of chamber peers

With party

98%

of cast votes

Lower than 84% of chamber peers

Bipartisan score

1%

crosses aisle rarely

Higher than 84% of chamber peers

Voting record

Yea

23,039

voted in favor

Nay

2,490

voted against

Absent

2,817

missed votes

Total cast

26,002

across all sessions

Crossed party

292

votes against own party

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Bill

Description

Vote

Result

Tally

Date

HB 1624

Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates a criminal offense of knowingly violating a no contact order issued as part of a defendant's sentence or conditions of probation or parole following conviction for certain criminal offenses in which the alleged victim of the offense is a domestic abuse victim; punishes a violation as a Class A misdemeanor. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

Yea

Passed

9–0

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.

Yea

Passed

62–22

Apr 7, 2026

HJR 1291

Memorials, Retirement - Coach Johnny Morgan -

Yea

Passed

85–0

Apr 7, 2026

HB 483

District Attorneys - As enacted, authorizes the attorney general to conduct a study of a district attorney general's disposition of charges and other ancillary matters within the 30th judicial district; authorizes the attorney general to petition the supreme court for appointment of a district attorney general pro tem if a district attorney general in this state has peremptorily and categorically refused to prosecute criminal offenses based on an unjustifiable and unconstitutional standard, without regard to facts or circumstances or taken other official action that constitutes a failure or refusal to prosecute according to the law. - Amends TCA Title 8.

Nay

Passed

7–2

Apr 7, 2026

HB 599

Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates a Class A misdemeanor for knowingly giving, selling, lending, delivering, or otherwise transferring a firearm to a person when the transferor knows or reasonably should know that the person receiving the firearm is prohibited from purchasing or possessing a firearm under state or federal law. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

Yea

Passed

18–0

Apr 7, 2026

SB 1477

Special License Plates - As enacted, makes various revisions to law relative to license plates, including, but not limited to, creating new specialty earmarked license plates and cultural license plates, granting extensions to certain license plates, and making other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.

Yea

Passed

93–0

Apr 6, 2026

SB 1478

Highways, Roads and Bridges - As enacted, makes various revisions to law relative to the naming of certain roads and bridges. - Amends TCA Title 54.

Yea

Passed

95–0

Apr 6, 2026

HJR 1216

Memorials, Recognition - Club America, Nolensville High School -

Nay

Passed

74–14

Apr 6, 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

56–26

Apr 6, 2026

HJR 1215

Memorials, Recognition - Club America, Independence High School -

Nay

Passed

79–11

Apr 6, 2026