R Tennessee House · District 66 On the 2026 ballot

Rep. Doc Kumar

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Total votes

24,402

all sessions

Attendance

89%

2,435 missed

With party

99%

of cast votes

Near the chamber average

Bipartisan score

0%

crosses aisle rarely

Near the chamber average

Voting record

Yea

23,682

voted in favor

Nay

477

voted against

Absent

2,435

missed votes

Total cast

24,402

across all sessions

Crossed party

147

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Bill

Description

Vote

Result

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Date

HB 1835

Human Services, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to apply for federal grants and other federal funds available to the state through the federal summer electronic benefits transfer (SEBT) for children program during any year in which the program is offered, for the purpose of providing nutrition assistance through SEBT during the summer months for each eligible child. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 71.

Yea

Passed

17–0

Mar 24, 2026

HB 1495

Welfare - As enacted, makes various changes to law relative to respite care services, including, but not limited to, increasing the number of hours an adult may attend a limited respite care services program from 12 to 16 hours in any one week, and authorizing such a program to provide care services for up to 20 adults at the same time, rather than 15. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 2.

Yea

Passed

16–2

Mar 24, 2026

HB 1061

Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, prohibits an out-of-network ambulance service provider from balance billing an enrollee in a health benefit plan for emergency ambulance services; establishes allowable billable costs for such services. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7 and Title 68, Chapter 140.

Yea

Passed

15–0

Mar 24, 2026

HB 853

Children - As enacted, clarifies that a child's parent, legal guardian, or legal custodian may, to the extent allowable by federal law, access and review all health and medical records of the child, including those records related to treatments available to unemancipated minors without parental consent; makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 36; Title 37; Title 49; Title 63 and Title 68.

Yea

Passed

11–7

Mar 24, 2026

HB 1534

Health, Dept. of - As introduced, authorizes the commissioner to utilize Title V funds, to the extent permitted by federal law, to establish a program to provide funds to women whose pregnancies have ended in stillbirth for the purposes of offsetting burial or disposition costs of the stillborn child's remains and educational scholarships for such women; authorizes the commissioner to seek any necessary federal waiver or authorization to create such program. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 68.

Yea

Passed

19–0

Mar 24, 2026

HB 398

Death - As enacted, authorizes, as of January 1, 2027, a licensed paramedic to make an actual determination and pronouncement of death; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 29; Title 33; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

Yea

Passed

21–0

Mar 24, 2026

HB 2162

TennCare - As introduced, authorizes the comptroller of the treasury to submit the annual actuarial study of the TennCare program and participating managed care organizations, along with any related oral and written comments, to the designated legislative committees and offices in an electronic format. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

Yea

Passed

17–0

Mar 24, 2026

HB 2337

Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As enacted, requires the attorney general, in making a decision as to whether to object to a public benefit hospital conveyance transaction, to consider whether the proceeds will be controlled as funds independently of the acquiring or related entities; makes certain exemptions. - Amends TCA Title 48, Chapter 68 and Title 68, Chapter 11.

Yea

Passed

20–0

Mar 24, 2026

HJR 1142

Memorials, Recognition - Valerie June -

Yea

Passed

82–0

Mar 23, 2026

HB 2113

State Symbols - As enacted, designates and adopts cast iron cookware as the official frontier cookware of this state. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3.

Yea

Passed

82–0

Mar 23, 2026