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 1173

Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, allows the owner of a prearrangement insurance policy, and not just the beneficiary, to irrevocably assign the policy or policy benefits to a funeral establishment if the insurance company issuing the policy does not offer a funeral trust, or only offers a funeral trust for an additional charge. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Title 62, Chapter 5, Part 4.

Absent

Passed

91–0

Apr 15, 2019

SJR 375

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Clayton Guy Runions, Fourth Top Graduate, Lewis County High School -

Yea

Passed

97–0

Apr 15, 2019

SB 971

Election Laws - As enacted, establishes requirements for person or organization that has not been designated by the county election commission to conduct supplemental voter registration drives that attempts to register 100 or more people to vote; revises and adds various provisions governing elections. - Amends TCA Title 2.

Nay

Passed

70–26

Apr 15, 2019

SB 808

Education - As enacted, transfers, from the state board of education to the department of education, the authority to accept and administer federal funds for the purpose of promoting public education; designates the department of education as the state board for career and technical education; grants the department of education the authority to administer annual appropriations made for career and technical education; revises other related provisions. - Amends TCA Section 49-1-202; Title 49, Chapter 11; Section 49-3-201; Section 49-3-302 and Section 49-3-318.

Yea

Passed

96–0

Apr 15, 2019

SB 806

Criminal Procedure - As enacted, splits the electronic monitoring indigency fund into two accounts to be used to pay for ignition interlock devices for indigent defendants and to pay, subject to local matching funds, for transdermal monitoring devices, other alcohol and drug monitoring devices, and global positioning monitoring devices for indigent defendants. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40; Title 55 and Title 69, Chapter 9.

Yea

Passed

96–0

Apr 15, 2019

HR 84

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Stephen David Morris, Jr., Salutatorian, Evangelical Christian School -

Yea

Passed

97–0

Apr 15, 2019

HB 499

Education, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to develop rules, to be adopted by the state board of education, that include procedures for providing instruction to students incarcerated in juvenile detention centers for a minimum of four hours each instructional day. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 49.

Yea

Passed

95–0

Apr 15, 2019

SJR 398

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Joshua Osborne, Salutatorian, Stewart County High School -

Yea

Passed

97–0

Apr 15, 2019

SB 636

DUI Offenses - As enacted, adds physician assistants to the list of medical practitioners who are qualified to draw blood from a motor vehicle operator for evidentiary purposes in a DUI investigation. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 4.

Yea

Passed

97–0

Apr 15, 2019

HB 9

Tobacco, Tobacco Products - As enacted, authorizes local governments to prohibit, by local resolution or ordinance adopted by two-thirds vote, smoking on the grounds of any playground owned or operated by the local government. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17.

Yea

Passed

52–44

Apr 15, 2019