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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 recorded
23,476
across all sessions
Crossed party
337
votes against own party
Matching
23,476
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Bill
Description
Vote
Result
Tally
Date
HR 349
Memorials, Recognition - Jade Fuller, Teens4Equality -
Yea
Passed
70–1
Jun 15, 2020
HB 2929
Franklin - Subject to local approval, authorizes the city to extend the terms of leases for real property owned by the city from thirty years or less to up to fifty years or less. - Amends Chapter 79 of the Acts of 1903; as amended.
Yea
Passed
70–1
Jun 15, 2020
HR 347
Memorials, Recognition - Nya Collins, Teens4Equality -
Yea
Passed
70–1
Jun 15, 2020
HR 344
Memorials, Recognition - Zee Thomas, Teens4Equality -
Yea
Passed
70–1
Jun 15, 2020
HB 1008
Education, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the commissioner to develop a transition plan for the purpose of planning the return, no earlier than the 2024-2025 school year, of schools in the ASD to the LEAs from which the schools were removed; requires the commissioner to submit the plan to the education committees of the senate and house by January 1, 2021; clarifies that a school that has been placed in the ASD must remain in the ASD until the school is authorized to return to its LEA according to the transition plan. - Amends TCA Title 49.
Nay
Passed
64–23
Jun 15, 2020
SJR 1341
Memorials, Death - Micheal Ann Russell -
Yea
Passed
70–1
Jun 15, 2020
SJR 1340
Memorials, Death - Loyd King -
Yea
Passed
70–1
Jun 15, 2020
SB 1247
Education, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the commissioner to develop a transition plan for the purpose of planning the return, no earlier than the 2024-2025 school year, of schools in the ASD to the LEAs from which the schools were removed; requires the commissioner to submit the plan to the education committees of the senate and house by January 1, 2021; clarifies that a school that has been placed in the ASD must remain in the ASD until the school is authorized to return to its LEA according to the transition plan. - Amends TCA Title 49.
Nay
Passed
64–23
Jun 15, 2020
HB 2928
Ashland City - Subject to local approval, authorizes the mayor to designate a financial director to assist with the budget and manage all financial affairs of the city; authorizes city recorder to have a designee in the city recorder's absence at meetings. - Amends Chapter 121 of the Private Acts of 2004; as amended.
Yea
Passed
70–1
Jun 15, 2020
HB 1548
Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As introduced, designates the month of April as "Health and Beauty Month." - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2.
Yea
Failed
44–4
Jun 11, 2020
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