R Tennessee House · District 77 On the 2026 ballot

Rep. Rusty Grills

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Session

Total votes

19,130

all sessions

Attendance

95%

748 missed

With party

98%

of cast votes

Near the chamber average

Bipartisan score

1%

crosses aisle rarely

Near the chamber average

Voting record

Yea

18,348

voted in favor

Nay

667

voted against

Absent

748

missed votes

Total cast

19,130

across all sessions

Crossed party

291

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Bill

Description

Vote

Result

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Date

SB 596

Education - As enacted, allows LEAs and private or church-related schools to use excess instructional time accumulated during the school year for serious outbreaks of illness affecting or endangering students or staff without requiring approval from the commissioner of education to do so. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 30.

Yea

Passed

96–0

Mar 22, 2021

HB 3

Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires that a student's gender for purposes of participation in a public middle school or high school interscholastic athletic activity or event be determined by the student's sex at the time of the student's birth, as indicated on the student's original birth certificate. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Yea

Passed

71–23

Mar 22, 2021

SB 228

Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires that a student's gender for purposes of participation in a public middle school or high school interscholastic athletic activity or event be determined by the student's sex at the time of the student's birth, as indicated on the student's original birth certificate. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Yea

Passed

71–16

Mar 22, 2021

SB 787

Industrial Development - As enacted, requires each member of a board of directors of an industrial development corporation to complete a conflict-of-interest statement; requires the Tennessee Ethics Commission to post on its website a sample conflict of interest statement. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 53.

Yea

Passed

96–0

Mar 22, 2021

HB 770

Education - As enacted, makes various changes to the Special Education Behavioral Supports Act, including the use of isolation and physical holding restraints. - Amends TCA Section 37-1-120 and Title 49, Chapter 10, Part 13.

Yea

Passed

97–0

Mar 22, 2021

SB 1274

Revenue, Dept. of - As enacted, establishes taxpayer protections for taxpayers relying on guidance issued by the department. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 1.

Yea

Passed

96–0

Mar 22, 2021

HB 783

Juvenile Offenders - As enacted, requires the juvenile court clerk and the department of mental health and substance abuse services to report certain juvenile justice information to the administrative office of the courts each month; deletes certain reporting to the council of juvenile and family court judges. - Amends TCA Title 37.

Yea

Passed

96–0

Mar 22, 2021

SB 495

Water Authorities - As enacted, increases from $100 to $300 the maximum per diem payment to a member of the board of commissioners of a water and wastewater treatment authority for attending a board meeting, not to exceed six board meetings per calendar year. - Amends TCA Section 68-221-618.

Yea

Passed

96–0

Mar 22, 2021

HB 992

TennCare - As enacted, enacts "Terrence's Law," which requires the bureau to conduct an annual review of all medications and forms of treatment for sickle cell disease, and services for enrollees with a diagnosis of sickle cell disease that are eligible for coverage under the medical assistance program; requires the bureau to solicit and consider input from the public when conducting the annual review; requires annual report to the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

Yea

Passed

94–0

Mar 22, 2021

SB 442

Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates the Class E felony of possessing a telecommunication device inside a penal institution; specifies that the first violation of such an offense is punishable only by a fine and the second or subsequent violation is punishable only by a fine of $3,000. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 16, Part 2.

Yea

Passed

95–0

Mar 22, 2021