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D Tennessee House · District 85 On the 2026 ballot

Rep. Jesse Chism

Compare
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
matching current filters
Bill
Description
Vote
Result
Tally
Date
SJR 395
Memorials, Interns - Autumn Cole -
Yea
Passed
97–0
Apr 15, 2019
HJR 455
Memorials, Interns - Samantha Elaine Bennett -
Yea
Passed
97–0
Apr 15, 2019
SB 62
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
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
72–24
Apr 15, 2019
HB 196
Local Education Agencies - As enacted, reduces, from no less than four to no more than four, the number of high school students who may serve on a local board of education as advisory, nonvoting members; deletes the requirement that half of the high school students selected to serve on the board must be enrolled in the college preparatory track and half must be enrolled in the technology track. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 2.
Yea
Passed
97–0
Apr 15, 2019
HB 1517
Sumner County - As introduced, revises Financial Management Modernization System of the County of Sumner, Tennessee of 2012, also known as the 2012 Finance Act, as it relates to participation of the county school system under the Act. - Amends Chapter 70 of the Private Acts of 2012.
Yea
Passed
97–0
Apr 15, 2019
SB 1058
Education - As enacted, revises various provisions of the Tennessee Community Schools Act. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 24.
Yea
Passed
97–0
Apr 15, 2019
HJR 454
Memorials, Sports - Pat Landreth, International Women's Boxing Hall of Fame -
Yea
Passed
97–0
Apr 15, 2019
HB 196
Local Education Agencies - As enacted, reduces, from no less than four to no more than four, the number of high school students who may serve on a local board of education as advisory, nonvoting members; deletes the requirement that half of the high school students selected to serve on the board must be enrolled in the college preparatory track and half must be enrolled in the technology track. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 2.
Yea
Passed
97–0
Apr 15, 2019
SJR 391
Memorials, Academic Achievement - Savannah Chaffin, Salutatorian, Red Boiling Springs High School -
Yea
Passed
97–0
Apr 15, 2019
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