R Tennessee House · District 66 On the 2026 ballot

Rep. Doc Kumar

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Session

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

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

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Date

HB 1000

TennCare - As enacted, makes revisions regarding determining when the annual coverage assessment is implemented and imposed; sets limits on the expenditures for directed payments to hospitals in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.

Yea

Passed

6–0

Mar 4, 2025

HB 1226

Infectious Diseases - As enacted, deletes all references to the world health organization; requires a pandemic to be declared by the federal centers for disease and prevention control, rather than the world health organization, with a subsequent declaration of a state of emergency by the governor for the governor to have exclusive jurisdiction to issue executive orders and directives related to the pandemic until the pandemic ceases to exist. - Amends TCA Title 7 and Title 68.

Yea

Passed

16–3

Mar 4, 2025

HB 15

TennCare - As introduced, authorizes the governor to expand medicaid eligibility solely for the purpose of providing treatment for a patient with a diagnosis of sickle cell disease in accordance with the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and to negotiate with the centers for medicare and medicaid services with respect to the terms of such expansion. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 71, Chapter 5.

Yea

Passed

5–2

Mar 4, 2025

HB 1156

Children - As introduced, deletes the responsibility of a parent or legal guardian to ensure that such person's child receives vaccines as recommended by guidelines of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or the American Academy of Pediatrics. - Amends TCA Title 37.

Yea

Passed

10–0

Mar 4, 2025

HB 150

TennCare - As introduced, requires the bureau to reimburse a public or private air ambulance service that bills for transports and has a base of operations in this state that provides a covered emergency or nonemergency service to a TennCare recipient at a rate not less than 67.5 percent of the federal medicare program's allowable charge for participating providers. - Amends TCA Title 68 and Title 71.

Yea

Passed

7–0

Mar 4, 2025

HJR 80

Naming and Designating - Designates May 2025 as "National Hypertension Month" and advocates for greater access to innovative therapies. -

Yea

Passed

17–0

Mar 4, 2025

HB 1319

Health Care - As enacted, extends the CoverKids program from June 30, 2025, to June 30, 2030. - Amends TCA Section 71-3-1113.

Yea

Passed

6–0

Mar 4, 2025

HB 186

Medical Occupations - As enacted, requires the board of medical examiners to register an applicant as a registered surgical assistant if the applicant maintains current credentials as a surgical assistant issued by the American Board of Surgical Assistants and satisfies other necessary requirements; removes December 31, 2019, as the deadline by which an applicant for registration as a surgical assistant must register with the board in order to be registered on the basis of certain practical experience. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 6.

Yea

Passed

19–0

Mar 4, 2025

HB 1074

Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, removes the requirement that a provider notify a patient of communication between the provider and a health insurance entity or healthcare facility concerning additional information needed to process a prior authorization request for the patient; removes the requirement that an utilization review agent notify the enrollee and the provider or healthcare facility when additional information is needed from the enrollee, provider, or healthcare facility to make a determination on the request for prior authorization. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Title 63, Chapter 1.

Yea

Passed

20–0

Mar 4, 2025

HB 1236

Human Resources, Department of - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Health SNAP Act," which requires the department to submit a request for a waiver from the United States department of agriculture's food and nutrition service to seek authorization to prohibit the use of SNAP benefits for the purchase of candy and soft drinks. - Amends TCA Title 71.

Yea

Passed

16–3

Mar 4, 2025