R Tennessee House · District 77 On the 2026 ballot

Rep. Rusty Grills

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Session

Total votes

19,883

all sessions

Attendance

95%

1,102 missed

Near the chamber average

With party

98%

of cast votes

Near the chamber average

Bipartisan score

1%

crosses aisle rarely

Near the chamber average

Voting record

Yea

19,096

voted in favor

Nay

672

voted against

Absent

1,102

missed votes

Total recorded

19,883

across all sessions

Crossed party

292

votes against own party

Matching

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Bill

Description

Vote

Result

Tally

Date

HJR 109

General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Joey Jacobs, Board of Trustees, Middle Tennessee State University -

Yea

Passed

94–0

Apr 26, 2021

SB 788

Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires each LEA to have an open enrollment period in which a parent or guardian of a student may seek to transfer the parent's or guardian's student to a school in the LEA that the student is not zoned to attend. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

Yea

Passed

89–5

Apr 26, 2021

HB 1591

Education - As enacted, requires, if an appeal of a mandatory retention in third grade based on a student's scores on the ELA portion of the student's TCAP test is filed, it must be filed by the student's parent or guardian; requires an LEA or public charter school to include information about third grade retention in information the LEA or charter school must send to a student's parent upon determining that the student has a significant reading deficiency. - Amends Chapter 1 of the Public Acts of 2021 (1st Ex. Sess.); Chapter 3 of the Public Acts of 2021 (1st Ex. Sess.) and TCA Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 9; and Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 31.

Yea

Passed

94–0

Apr 26, 2021

SJR 162

General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Dr. Joseph Walker III, Board of Trustees, Tennessee State University -

Yea

Passed

94–0

Apr 26, 2021

HJR 241

General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Gary Luck, Austin Peay State University, Board of Trustees -

Yea

Passed

94–0

Apr 26, 2021

SB 1611

Wine & Wineries - As enacted, authorizes a winery direct shipper that produces or manufactures less than 270,000 liters of wine per calendar year to ship up to 54 liters of wine to an individual per calendar year. - Amends TCA Section 57-3-207 and Section 57-3-217. Against party

Nay

Passed

82–4

Apr 26, 2021

SJR 150

General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Keri McInnis, Board of Trustees, Austin Peay State University -

Yea

Passed

94–0

Apr 26, 2021

HB 654

Comptroller, State - As enacted, replaces the requirement that if a witness cannot be found, a copy of a subpoena issued by the comptroller of the treasury to the witness be left at the place of residence of the witness with the requirement that a copy of the subpoena be mailed by first-class mail to the last known address of the witness; adds, as an alternative to hand delivery of a subpoena, that the subpoena be mailed to the witness by certified mail, return receipt requested. - Amends TCA Section 8-4-203.

Yea

Passed

94–0

Apr 26, 2021

SB 915

Appeal and Review - As enacted, creates a right of appeal in an action brought against this state, a department or agency of this state, or an official of this state in their official capacity that challenges the constitutionality of a state statute, whereby the state may appeal as of right from an interlocutory order of a circuit or chancery court of this state that grants, continues, or modifies an injunction or denies a motion to dissolve or modify an injunction. - Amends TCA Title 1; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 20; Title 27; Title 28; Title 29; Title 47 and Title 49.

Yea

Passed

64–28

Apr 26, 2021

SJR 567

Memorials, Retirement - Ed Miller, 4th Judicial District Public Defender -

Yea

Passed

94–0

Apr 26, 2021