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 89% of chamber peers

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

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Date

HB 2292

County Officers - As enacted, prohibits a constable from exercising law enforcement powers and authority if the constable fails to complete currently required in-service education; creates a Class C misdemeanor, subject to fine of $50, for a constable violating this prohibition; stipulates that each day of a violation constitutes a separate offense. - Amends TCA Title 1; Title 2; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 12; Title 16; Title 25; Title 26; Title 29; Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41; Title 47; Title 49; Title 53; Title 55; Title 57; Title 62; Title 65; Title 66; Title 67; Title 70 and Title 71.

Yea

Passed

93–0

Jun 1, 2020

HB 2292

County Officers - As enacted, prohibits a constable from exercising law enforcement powers and authority if the constable fails to complete currently required in-service education; creates a Class C misdemeanor, subject to fine of $50, for a constable violating this prohibition; stipulates that each day of a violation constitutes a separate offense. - Amends TCA Title 1; Title 2; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 12; Title 16; Title 25; Title 26; Title 29; Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41; Title 47; Title 49; Title 53; Title 55; Title 57; Title 62; Title 65; Title 66; Title 67; Title 70 and Title 71.

Yea

Passed

93–0

Jun 1, 2020

HB 2496

Education, Higher - As enacted, allows, under certain conditions, the advisory boards of the University of Tennessee institutions and state university boards to meet electronically or by other means of communication without a physical quorum present at the location of the meeting given in the meeting notice; changes from April 15 to May 31 the date by which the faculty member and the student member must be appointed to a University of Tennessee institution advisory board. - Amends TCA Section 8-44-108; Section 49-9-501 and Section 49-7-151.

Yea

Passed

93–0

Jun 1, 2020

SB 2739

State Employees - As enacted, permits the state, through the attorney general, to seek an injunction against a person who commits harassment against a state employee. - Amends TCA Title 50.

Yea

Passed

93–0

Jun 1, 2020

HB 2805

State Government - As introduced, prohibits state entities subject to review under the Tennessee governmental entity review law from promulgating rules or adopting policies to exempt members of such entities from rulemaking or policy requirements solely by virtue of their status as members. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 1.

Yea

Passed

93–0

Jun 1, 2020

HB 2120

Correctional Programs - As enacted, authorizes TRICOR to enter contractual agreements with counties and cities to provide work training programs for prisoners incarcerated in county and city jails. - Amends TCA Title 41, Chapter 22, Part 4.

Yea

Passed

93–0

Jun 1, 2020

SB 1575

Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As enacted, makes a person ineligible for a political subdivision's former retirement plan in the TCRS if the person is hired after the political subdivision changes to any other plan offered by the retirement system; requires that any person wishing to establish service credit in the retirement system must establish such service under the terms of the retirement system plan that existed at the time the service was established and not at the time the service was rendered. - Amends TCA Section 8-35-253 and Section 8-37-214.

Yea

Passed

93–0

Jun 1, 2020

SB 2348

Education - As introduced, creates the robotics education task force to research opportunities for expansion of robotics education programs in the kindergarten through grade 12 curriculum. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Yea

Passed

93–0

Jun 1, 2020

HB 2099

Boards and Commissions - As introduced, authorizes state agencies attached to the division of regulatory boards and the division of health-related boards to conduct emergency meetings by teleconference when called by the presiding officer or upon petition by a majority of the members of such agencies. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 44, Part 1; Title 62 and Title 63.

Yea

Passed

93–0

Jun 1, 2020

HB 2488

Financial Disclosure - As introduced, reduces the number of filing dates for campaign finance disclosures to quarterly in election years and semiannually in non-election years. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 10.

Yea

Passed

87–5

Jun 1, 2020