Rep. Doc Kumar
Total votes
22,093
all sessions
Attendance
89%
2,435 missed
Lower than 92% of chamber peers
With party
99%
of cast votes
Lower than 90% of chamber peers
Bipartisan score
0%
crosses aisle rarely
Higher than 87% of chamber peers
Sponsored
273
bills & resolutions
Near the chamber average
Committees
3
assignments
22,093 roll-call votes
Voting record
Yea
21,459
voted in favor
Nay
391
voted against
Absent
2,435
missed votes
Total cast
22,093
across all sessions
Crossed party
139
votes against own party
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Bill
Description
Vote
Result
Tally
Date
HB 654
Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, revises certain protocols for mental health and substance abuse services. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Title 71.
Yea
Passed
5–0
Mar 5, 2025
HB 494
Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, enacts the "Voluntary Portable Benefit Plan Act"; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 50 and Title 65, Chapter 15, Part 3.
Yea
Passed
18–0
Mar 5, 2025
HB 1304
Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, requires a health benefit plan issuer to provide no later than 30 days after a health benefit plan issuer receives a written request for a claims experience report from a plan, plan sponsor, or plan administrator, the report to the requesting party; prohibits coverage by a commercial risk insurance policy of farm risks or real or personal property used in farming from being considered in determining whether property is classified as farm or agricultural property under another law or rule in this state; revises provisions relating to reinsurance and risk insurance; revises provisions relating to the readability, content, and style of life and health insurance policies. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Section 68-1-115.
Yea
Passed
5–0
Mar 5, 2025
HB 18
TennCare - As introduced, directs the bureau to establish a temporary TennCare benefits program to provide medical assistance on a temporary basis to certain individuals who do not qualify for enrollment in TennCare, CoverKids, or a successor program; requires the bureau to submit a waiver to the federal centers for medicare and medicaid services by December 31, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.
Nay
Failed
4–14
Mar 5, 2025
HB 1318
Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, extends the Access Tennessee health insurance program from June 30, 2025, to June 30, 2030. - Amends TCA Section 56-7-2916.
Yea
Passed
5–0
Mar 5, 2025
HB 1045
Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, clarifies that the exemption from claims of creditors for the net amount payable under a policy of life insurance or under an annuity contract upon the life of a person made for the benefit of, or assigned to, the spouse, children, or dependent relatives of the person includes claims through execution, attachment, seizure, and garnishment, and that use of exempt funds does not change the classification of the funds used from exempt to nonexempt. - Amends TCA Title 56.
Yea
Passed
5–0
Mar 5, 2025
HB 712
Disability and Aging, Dept. Of - As enacted, directs the commissioner and the director of TennCare to develop guidelines for service providers for hiring qualified family members as a family caregiver; specifies that the department and the bureau of TennCare shall not prohibit qualified individuals from employment as a family caregiver at a service provider agency based on certain listed criteria. - Amends TCA Title 52 and Title 71.
Yea
Passed
7–0
Mar 4, 2025
HB 155
Death - As enacted, removes the limitation that a death must have been anticipated for a registered nurse to make the actual determination and pronouncement of death if a deceased was a patient or resident at a nursing home, hospital, or assisted-care living facility. - Amends TCA Title 68.
Yea
Passed
19–0
Mar 4, 2025
HB 201
TennCare - As introduced, requires the bureau of TennCare to reimburse certain public or private ground-based ambulance services that bill for transports at a rate not less than 67.5 percent of the federal medicare program's allowable charge for participating providers for emergency services and 100 percent of the federal medicare program's allowable charge for participating providers for nonemergency services. - Amends TCA Title 71.
Yea
Passed
6–0
Mar 4, 2025
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