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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
HB 736
Education - As enacted, authorizes a local education agency (LEA) to: provide career-based experiences to the LEA's high school students; allow the students to participate in any available career-based experiences; and establish partnerships with industry and local businesses to provide career-based experiences to such students. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.
Yea
Passed
93–0
Apr 15, 2019
HB 1079
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
SJR 399
Memorials, Death - Tom Hill -
Yea
Passed
97–0
Apr 15, 2019
SB 567
Taxes, Hotel Motel - As enacted, authorizes Coffee County to levy a privilege tax of up to 2.5 percent upon the privilege of occupancy by a two-thirds vote of its governing body. - Amends TCA Section 67-4-1425.
Yea
Passed
78–10
Apr 15, 2019
SJR 382
Memorials, Personal Achievement - Larry Hensley, Best Man of Lewis County -
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
72–25
Apr 15, 2019
HB 1083
Schools, Charter - As enacted, revises the requirements for revocation of a public charter school's charter based on having been identified as a priority school. - Amends TCA Section 49-13-122.
Yea
Passed
77–17
Apr 15, 2019
HB 952
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
HB 252
State Government - As enacted, requires agencies to ensure the provision of appropriate accommodations in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if the agency requires a person applying for a license to engage in an occupation, trade, or profession in this state to take an examination; not applicable to an examination mandated and administered pursuant to federal law. - Amends TCA Title 4.
Yea
Passed
96–0
Apr 15, 2019
SB 350
Taxes, Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, extends by one year the manner in which liquor-by-the-drink tax proceeds are distributed to local political subdivisions. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 49; Title 57 and Title 67.
Yea
Passed
89–1
Apr 15, 2019
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