R Tennessee Senate · District 11 On the 2026 ballot

Sen. Bo Watson

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Total votes

14,467

all sessions

Attendance

94%

768 missed

Near the chamber average

With party

99%

of cast votes

Near the chamber average

Bipartisan score

crosses aisle rarely

Lower than 76% of chamber peers

About Sen. Bo Watson

Sen. serving Tennessee District 11. Member of the Republican party. Has been in office 19 years · 8 months. Serves on 8 committees, including Finance, Ways and Means, Select Rules and Pensions.

Sworn in

Jan 9, 2007

19 years · 8 months

Closest ally

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How Bo votes, broken down

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Criminal Justice 44% / 56%

12 support · 15 oppose

Healthcare 59% / 41%

10 support · 7 oppose

Budget & Taxes 92% / 8%

12 support · 1 oppose

Technology 100% / 0%

3 support · 0 oppose

Education 67% / 33%

14 support · 7 oppose

Housing 60% / 40%

3 support · 2 oppose

Labor & Employment 33% / 67%

2 support · 4 oppose

Transportation 100% / 0%

1 support · 0 oppose

Veterans 100% / 0%

3 support · 0 oppose

Immigration 11% / 89%

1 support · 8 oppose

Environment 33% / 67%

2 support · 4 oppose

Energy 0% / 100%

0 support · 1 oppose

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Recent legislative activity

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SB 2317Education - As enacted, requires the department of education to implement a pilot program to evaluate whether administering fewer district- and state-mandated assessments results in students achieving greater academic success; adds an additional method by which a student who is not proficient in ELA, as determined by the student's achieving a performance level rating of “approaching” on the ELA portion of the student's most recent TCAP test, may be promoted. - Amends TCA Title 49. in committee

3 months ago

SB 2166Banks and Financial Institutions - As enacted, clarifies that the service of transmitting money from a location originating in this state to a location outside of the United States or its territories is a taxable service and that such a tax is generally levied on the amount of money transmitted; requires revenues generated from such a tax to be allocated to certain funds and purposes. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 38; Title 39; Title 45; Title 47; Title 49 and Title 67. in committee

3 months ago

SB 2061Children - As enacted, establishes the children's digital protection fund within the state treasury. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 4, Part 2. signed

3 months ago

SB 2072Education - As enacted, enacts the "Better Spending, Better Schools Act of 2026." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 49 and Title 67. in committee

3 months ago

SB 2062Human Services, Dept. of - As enacted, enacts the "Promising Futures Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 43; Title 49; Title 57; Title 67 and Title 71. in committee

3 months ago

SB 2157Tourism - As enacted, requires the department of tourist development to promulgate rules designating tourism development zones in this state as economic protection zones; places certain limitations on a local government blocking streets or other rights-of-way in a tourism development zone; clarifies that the Tennessee highway patrol has concurrent law enforcement authority with local law enforcement agencies within a tourism development zone in this state. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 67. in committee

3 months ago

SB 2316Economic and Community Development - As enacted, vacates and reconstitutes the board of directors of the Tennessee Technology Development Corporation. - Amends TCA Title 4. in committee

3 months ago

SB 2160Local Government, General - As enacted, authorizes counties with a metropolitan form of government, by resolution of their governing bodies, to levy a tax on the retail sale of food and food ingredients for human consumption within the county at a rate less than the local option sales tax rate or exempt the retail sale of such food and food ingredients from the local option sales tax; deletes obsolete provisions relating to the timing for reducing the membership of metropolitan councils. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 67, Chapter 6. in committee

3 months ago

SB 2351Education - As enacted, makes various changes and additions to present law concerning public education. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 49, Chapter 13; Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 3 and Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 3. in committee

3 months ago

SB 2081Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, expands the prohibition, from stage 4 advanced metastatic cancer or metastatic blood cancer to any cancer, against a health benefit plan that provides coverage for cancer requiring the use of a step therapy protocol before the health benefit plan provides coverage for an approved prescription drug to an enrollee who has received a diagnosis of cancer. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71. in committee

3 months ago