R Tennessee Senate · District 11 On the 2026 ballot

Sen. Bo Watson

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Session

Total votes

23,676

all sessions

Attendance

94%

1,301 missed

Near the chamber average

With party

99%

of cast votes

Near the chamber average

Bipartisan score

0%

crosses aisle rarely

Lower than 76% of chamber peers

Voting record

Yea

23,471

voted in favor

Nay

174

voted against

Absent

1,301

missed votes

Total cast

23,676

across all sessions

Crossed party

130

votes against own party

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Bill

Description

Vote

Result

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Date

HB 318

Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the statewide planning and policy council for the department of mental health and substance abuse services to June 30, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 33, Chapter 1, Part 4.

Yea

Passed

31–0

Mar 1, 2021

SB 124

Child Abuse - As enacted, permits school child abuse coordinators, school teachers, school officials, and other school personnel to provide information relevant to suspected child abuse or child sexual abuse to the child's parents when required by federal law or regulation, the parent to whom the notification is made is not alleged to be the perpetrator or in any way complicit in the abuse or neglect, and the notification is done in conjunction with the department of children's services. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 16.

Yea

Passed

31–0

Mar 1, 2021

SB 58

Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the Mid-Cumberland human resource agency to June 30, 2026. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 13, Chapter 26.

Yea

Passed

31–0

Mar 1, 2021

HB 342

Criminal Offenses - As enacted, requires a law enforcement officer to notify the department of children's services when a person under 18 years of age is taken into custody for suspicion of committing the offense of prostitution. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 5.

Yea

Passed

31–0

Mar 1, 2021

SB 723

Adoption - As enacted, removes the adoption contact veto registry and revises other provisions governing adoption. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 1 and Section 68-3-313.

Yea

Passed

31–0

Mar 1, 2021

HB 403

Marriage - As enacted, adds former members of the general assembly who filed notice with the office of vital records while serving in the general assembly to the list of persons authorized to solemnize marriages. - Amends TCA Section 36-3-301.

Yea

Passed

31–0

Mar 1, 2021

HB 140

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

31–0

Mar 1, 2021

HB 289

Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the Southeast Tennessee human resource agency to June 30, 2027. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 13, Chapter 26.

Yea

Passed

31–0

Mar 1, 2021

HB 326

Child Custody and Support - As enacted, removes custody, visitation, or inheritance rights for a parent who has been convicted of aggravated statutory rape, statutory rape by an authority figure, or lesser included offenses of rape, from which crime the child was conceived. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 6.

Yea

Passed

31–0

Mar 1, 2021

HB 266

Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the South Central Tennessee human resource agency to June 30, 2027. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 13, Chapter 26.

Yea

Passed

31–0

Mar 1, 2021