R Tennessee House · District 97 On the 2026 ballot

Rep. John Gillespie

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Session

Total votes

15,926

all sessions

Attendance

93%

948 missed

With party

99%

of cast votes

Near the chamber average

Bipartisan score

0%

crosses aisle rarely

Near the chamber average

Voting record

Yea

15,502

voted in favor

Nay

370

voted against

Absent

948

missed votes

Total cast

15,926

across all sessions

Crossed party

108

votes against own party

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Bill

Description

Vote

Result

Tally

Date

HJR 1359

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Adrian Guevara Ramon, Top Ten Senior, Marshall County High School -

Yea

Passed

89–0

Apr 14, 2026

HB 2196

Local Government, General - As enacted, authorizes Putnam County and incorporated cities within the county 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 7, Chapter 51, Part 26.

Yea

Passed

28–0

Apr 14, 2026

HJR 1370

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Austin Haffner, Top Ten Senior, Cornersville High School -

Yea

Passed

89–0

Apr 14, 2026

HB 2258

Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As enacted, enacts the "The Jeff Burkhart Act," which adds counties to the forms of local government that may establish a self-financing central business improvement district under the "Central Business Improvement District Act of 1990." - Amends TCA Title 5 and Title 7, Chapter 84, Part 5.

Yea

Passed

29–0

Apr 14, 2026

HJR 1376

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Kyleigh Neill, Top Ten Senior, Cornersville High School -

Yea

Passed

89–0

Apr 14, 2026

HB 2616

Open Meetings - As enacted, authorizes a governing body to conduct an executive session for the purpose of interviewing applicants for employment as director-level staff of the body without providing public notice of such session. - Amends TCA Title 8.

Yea

Passed

61–24

Apr 14, 2026

HJR 1384

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Sydney Rehring, Valedictorian, Ooltewah High School -

Yea

Passed

89–0

Apr 14, 2026

HB 2277

Education - As enacted, makes various revisions to education law, including, but not limited to, requiring each public school to annually submit to the department of education a list of all local assessments administered to students, requiring the department to publish the percentage of students who attain proficiency for the English language arts portion of the TCAP, and establishing the assessment review board to annually review the TCAP tests administered to students in the most recent school year. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 49.

Yea

Passed

11–0

Apr 14, 2026

HJR 1392

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Kendra Peyton Bonine, Salutatorian, Central High School -

Yea

Passed

89–0

Apr 14, 2026

HJR 1386

Memorials, Recognition - LifeSpring Community Health, 20th anniversary -

Yea

Passed

89–0

Apr 14, 2026