D Tennessee House · District 53 On the 2026 ballot

Rep. Jason Powell

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Session

Total votes

25,250

all sessions

Attendance

90%

2,293 missed

With party

98%

of cast votes

Lower than 84% of chamber peers

Bipartisan score

1%

crosses aisle rarely

Higher than 85% of chamber peers

Voting record

Yea

22,381

voted in favor

Nay

2,442

voted against

Absent

2,293

missed votes

Total cast

25,250

across all sessions

Crossed party

286

votes against own party

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Bill

Description

Vote

Result

Tally

Date

HB 2106

Education, Higher - As enacted, caps at $10 million per fiscal year the total amount of funds in the lottery for education account that may be transferred to the Tennessee Promise scholarship special reserve account. - Amends TCA Section 49-4-708.

Yea

Passed

96–0

Apr 20, 2026

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.

Nay

Passed

78–15

Apr 20, 2026

HJR 1493

Memorials, Personal Achievement - Jacob Adam "Jake" Pedigo -

Yea

Passed

96–0

Apr 20, 2026

HR 198

Memorials, Personal Occasion - Reverend Al Green, 80th birthday -

Yea

Passed

96–0

Apr 20, 2026

HB 2667

Grundy County - Subject to local approval, creates the Southern Cumberland Plateau Regional Water and Wastewater Authority. -

Yea

Passed

96–0

Apr 20, 2026

HB 2111

Correctional Programs - As enacted, creates the state families of incarcerated individuals advisory board within the department of correction for the purposes of assisting the families of incarcerated individuals. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 41.

Yea

Passed

90–0

Apr 20, 2026

HB 2219

Immigration - As enacted, requires the sheriff of each county to enter into an agreement under an available federal 287(g) program, and expands the powers of the board of control of the Tennessee corrections institute. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 8; Title 16; Title 17; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 41.

Yea

Failed

21–74

Apr 20, 2026

HB 2663

Tullahoma - Subject to local approval, allocates 3.8 percent of each annual operating budget, but not less than $1.5 million, to the maintenance of streets and roads within the city limits of the City of Tullahoma. - Amends Chapter 553 of the Acts of 1903.

Yea

Passed

96–0

Apr 20, 2026

HB 1708

Motor Vehicles - As enacted, adds certain language comprehension requirements for certain driver licenses; requires documentation as a U.S. citizen or lawfully permitted in the U.S. for certain vehicle registrations; requires documentation as a U.S. citizen for certain driving and related licenses. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4; Title 55, Chapter 50 and Title 65, Chapter 15.

Yea

Failed

14–79

Apr 20, 2026

SB 2658

Utilities, Utility Districts - As enacted, authorizes, during a state of emergency that is based on a natural emergency, an emergency utility worker to travel upon public roads and enter areas subject to curfew or restricted access orders when such access is necessary to perform emergency utilities restoration activities; provides that an emergency utility worker, and the emergency utility worker's employer, are immune from civil liability for injury, death, or property damage resulting from an act or omission of the emergency utility worker committed in good faith while engaged in emergency utilities restoration activities during a state of emergency declared that is based on a natural emergency. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 29; Title 39 and Title 58.

Yea

Passed

89–2

Apr 20, 2026