D Tennessee House · District 85 On the 2026 ballot

Rep. Jesse Chism

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Session

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

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

SB 2585

TennCare - As enacted, enacts "Cooper's Law," which requires a participating provider to strive to process hospital presumptive eligibility applications within the first 24 hours of the date of admission, when practicable. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 68 and Title 71.

Nay

Passed

64–21

Jun 10, 2020

HB 2830

TennCare - As enacted, enacts "Cooper's Law," which requires a participating provider to strive to process hospital presumptive eligibility applications within the first 24 hours of the date of admission, when practicable. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 68 and Title 71.

Nay

Passed

64–21

Jun 10, 2020

SB 2354

Child Custody and Support - As introduced, removes custody, visitation, or inheritance rights for a parent who has been convicted of statutory rape, aggravated statutory rape, statutory rape by an authority figure, or lesser included offenses of rape, from which crime the child was conceived. - Amends TCA Title 36.

Yea

Passed

90–0

Jun 10, 2020

SJR 1301

Memorials, Heroism - Dr. Dawn Richards and Dr. Elizabeth Forrester -

Yea

Passed

89–0

Jun 10, 2020

HB 2653

Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates a Class A misdemeanor of disseminating a photograph of an inmate at a state penal institution that was taken during a visitation period. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40; Title 41 and Title 47.

Yea

Passed

90–0

Jun 10, 2020

SB 1616

Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, revises the period of time after a local board of education or director of schools makes an initial offer of employment to a person for a teaching position that the person has to accept or reject the offer of employment, if the offer is made between June 1 and April 1. - Amends TCA Section 49-5-406.

Yea

Failed

24–60

Jun 10, 2020

SJR 1300

Memorials, Recognition - Hospice of Chattanooga, 40th anniversary -

Yea

Passed

89–0

Jun 10, 2020

SJR 1311

Memorials, Retirement - Chief Master Sergeant Scott Roberts, Tennessee Army National Guard -

Yea

Passed

89–0

Jun 10, 2020

SJR 1316

Memorials, Retirement - Donald Webb -

Yea

Passed

89–0

Jun 10, 2020

SJR 1306

Memorials, Professional Achievement - Christa Nidiffer, Kingsport City Schools Grades Pre-K-4 Teacher of the Year -

Yea

Passed

89–0

Jun 10, 2020