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D Tennessee House · District 85 On the 2026 ballot

Rep. Jesse Chism

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Total votes
23,476
all sessions
Attendance
95%
1,287 missed
Near the chamber average
With party
98%
of cast votes
Lower than 91% of chamber peers
Bipartisan score
1%
crosses aisle rarely
Higher than 91% of chamber peers
Sponsored
186
bills & resolutions
Higher than 87% of chamber peers
Committees
3
assignments
23,476 roll-call votes

Voting record

Yea
21,694
voted in favor
Nay
1,678
voted against
Absent
1,287
missed votes
Total cast
23,476
across all sessions
Crossed party
337
votes against own party
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Bill
Description
Vote
Result
Tally
Date
HB 1816
Drugs, Prescription - As enacted, requires the Tennessee opioid abatement council to allocate funds held in the opioid abatement fund in a certain manner. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 38 and Title 41.
Yea
Passed
13–0
Apr 8, 2026
HJR 1301
Memorials, Death - Gayle Duncan Gilmer -
Yea
Passed
95–0
Apr 8, 2026
HR 186
Memorials, Retirement - Reuben Henry Sanders, House Sergeant at Arms -
Yea
Passed
95–0
Apr 8, 2026
HB 1463
Flags - As enacted, requires any flag flown over the state capitol building to be flown at half-staff from sunrise to sunset in observance of Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day each December 7. - Amends TCA Section 4-1-406.
Yea
Passed
21–0
Apr 8, 2026
SB 1302
Safety, Dept. of - As enacted, removes present law that requires an offender sentenced to a period of incarceration for a DUI to begin their sentence within 30 days of conviction or, if space is not immediately available in the appropriate municipal or county jail or workhouse within such time, as soon as such space is available; requires, instead, the sentencing court to determine when such an offender is required to commence service of their sentence. - Amends TCA Title 55 and Title 65.
Yea
Passed
82–10
Apr 7, 2026
SJR 958
Memorials, Recognition - Jerry Beavers - Against party
Yea
Passed
81–10
Apr 7, 2026
HB 1550
Education - As enacted, expands the prescribed forms of epinephrine that an LEA or nonpublic school is authorized to administer when a student is believed to be experiencing a life-threatening allergic or anaphylactic reaction to any prescribed form of epinephrine, not just epinephrine auto-injectors. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 68, Chapter 140, Part 5.
Yea
Passed
28–0
Apr 7, 2026
SB 2232
Public Funds and Financing - As enacted, specifies the conditions that must be satisfied for monies from the governor's response and recovery fund to be provided to eligible local governmental entities and to eligible individuals in qualifying counties following an emergency or disaster. - Amends TCA Section 9-4-216.
Yea
Passed
85–4
Apr 7, 2026
HB 2029
Dieticians and Nutritionists - As enacted, enacts the "Dietetics and Nutrition Practice Act." - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 63.
Yea
Passed
29–0
Apr 7, 2026
SB 1981
Workers Compensation - As enacted, adds a requirement that an award of attorneys' fees and costs incurred when an employer unreasonably denies a workers' compensation claim or unreasonably fails to timely initiate any of the benefits associated with the claim must be based on a finding by the workers' compensation judge that the employer's conduct was unreasonable; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 6.
Yea
Passed
94–0
Apr 7, 2026
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