R Tennessee House · District 97 On the 2026 ballot

Rep. John Gillespie

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Session

Total votes

16,583

all sessions

Attendance

90%

1,750 missed

Lower than 93% of chamber peers

With party

99%

of cast votes

Near the chamber average

Bipartisan score

0%

crosses aisle rarely

Higher than 75% of chamber peers

Voting record

Yea

16,154

voted in favor

Nay

375

voted against

Absent

1,750

missed votes

Total cast

16,583

across all sessions

Crossed party

114

votes against own party

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Bill

Description

Vote

Result

Tally

Date

SB 729

Guardians and Conservators - As enacted, specifies, for purposes of the appointment of a conservator, the county of residence of a person incarcerated in a department of correction facility as the county in which the facility is located and the county of residence of a person involuntarily hospitalized in an institution of the department of mental health and substance abuse services as the county in which the institution is located. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 34, Chapter 3 and Title 71.

Yea

Passed

92–0

Mar 29, 2021

HB 786

Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, creates an exception to the offense of unlawful carrying of a firearm, if a person meets age requirements, lawfully possesses the handgun, and is in a place that the person is lawfully present; revises other firearm statutes. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14, Part 1; Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13 and Title 40, Chapter 35.

Nay

Failed

15–78

Mar 29, 2021

SB 994

Privacy, Confidentiality - As enacted, makes the personally identifying information provided by an individual as part of the individual’s use of, or participation in, a government-sponsored or -supported property alert service or program confidential. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5.

Yea

Passed

92–0

Mar 29, 2021

SB 66

Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the second look commission to June 30, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 37, Chapter 3, Part 8.

Yea

Passed

92–0

Mar 29, 2021

HB 828

Health, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department, in collaboration with other public and private healthcare agencies, to incorporate information about Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias into its existing public health programs and services. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.

Yea

Passed

92–0

Mar 29, 2021

HJR 347

Memorials, Sports - Clay County High School girls' basketball team -

Yea

Passed

92–0

Mar 29, 2021

HB 716

Landlord and Tenant - As enacted, prohibits the governing body in a county in which the Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act applies from enacting or enforcing regulations in conflict with, or in addition to, the Act; changes the applicability of the Act so that a county that is not under the Act now will not come under the Act even if the county's population increases to be more than 75,000 in subsequent years. - Amends TCA Title 66, Chapter 28.

Yea

Passed

91–0

Mar 29, 2021

HR 33

Memorials, Sports - Oneida High School Lady Indians basketball team -

Yea

Passed

92–0

Mar 29, 2021

SB 765

Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, creates an exception to the offense of unlawful carrying of a firearm, if a person meets age requirements, lawfully possesses the handgun, and is in a place that the person is lawfully present; revises other firearm statutes. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14, Part 1; Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13 and Title 40, Chapter 35.

Nay

Failed

15–78

Mar 29, 2021

HB 1006

Juvenile Offenders - As enacted, expands the unruly act of illegal use of a communication device by a minor to include possessing or transmitting an image of sexual activity involving a minor. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 1, Part 1; Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 5 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 10.

Yea

Passed

92–0

Mar 29, 2021