D Tennessee House · District 86 On the 2026 ballot

Rep. Justin Pearson

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Session

Total votes

5,232

all sessions

Attendance

66%

1,876 missed

Lower than 91% of chamber peers

With party

89%

of cast votes

Higher than 85% of chamber peers

Bipartisan score

5%

crosses aisle rarely

Lower than 87% of chamber peers

Voting record

Yea

3,268

voted in favor

Nay

1,052

voted against

Absent

1,876

missed votes

Total cast

5,232

across all sessions

Crossed party

447

votes against own party

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Bill

Description

Vote

Result

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Date

SB 937

Education - As enacted, prohibits a public school, LEA, or teacher, employee, or contractor of a public school or LEA from requiring a student, teacher, employee, or contractor of the public school or LEA to provide the individual's preferred pronouns; makes related revisions. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 9, Chapter 8; Title 29, Chapter 20 and Title 49.

Yea

Failed

22–69

Apr 16, 2025

SB 763

Tobacco, Tobacco Products - As enacted, requires the department of revenue to maintain a directory on its website that lists all vapor products certified as authorized to be sold in this state; levies certain privilege taxes. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5; Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 15; Title 47, Chapter 25; Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 10 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 26.

Yea

Passed

87–4

Apr 16, 2025

SB 1400

Criminal Offenses - As enacted, revises present law concerning driving under the influence. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 55.

Nay

Passed

69–17

Apr 16, 2025

HJR 670

Memorials, Recognition - Bobbie Patray -

Nay

Passed

72–21

Apr 16, 2025

HB 783

Housing - As enacted, authorizes local governments to regulate sober living homes for recovery from alcohol, drug, and substance abuse to the extent such regulation complies with the Fair Housing Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13 and Title 33.

Absent

Passed

80–8

Apr 16, 2025

SB 207

Agriculture, Dept. of - As enacted, establishes a fund for the development and implementation of programs that benefit Tennesseans by preserving farmland and forestland, including a grant program for conservation easements. - Amends TCA Title 43, Chapter 1, Part 1.

Yea

Passed

84–8

Apr 16, 2025

SB 688

Education, State Board of - As enacted, expands the state board's power to subpoena the appearance of persons or the production of items the chair of the state board, or the chair's designee, considers material or relevant to an accountability hearing for a local education agency operating a public school, or a public charter school, receiving a "D" or "F" letter grade. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 3 and Title 49, Chapter 5.

Nay

Passed

67–20

Apr 16, 2025

HB 1050

Nuisances - As enacted, revises nuisance laws. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13; Title 16; Title 29; Title 39; Title 67 and Title 68.

Yea

Passed

86–3

Apr 16, 2025

SB 602

Education - As enacted, requires the department of education to develop guidelines and criteria for determining how long a student must have been present in a teacher's classroom before the student's record is attributable to the teacher for purposes of evaluating the teacher; authorizes an LEA or public charter school to compensate the estate of a teacher who, on the teacher's death, was in the employ of the LEA or public charter school for the teacher's unused and accrued annual and sick leave in the same manner that the estates of deceased state employees are compensated under present law. - Amends Chapter __ of the Public Acts of 2025 (1st Ex. Sess. – SB 6001 / HB 6004); and TCA Title 4, Chapter 49; Title 8 and Title 49.

Yea

Passed

89–2

Apr 16, 2025

SB 1202

Bonding, Surety and Professional - As enacted, authorizes the surety on a bail bond to petition the court for release from their obligations as surety if the principal forfeits. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 13; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41; Title 56; Title 62 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 8. Against party

Nay

Passed

86–7

Apr 16, 2025