R Tennessee Senate · District 11 On the 2026 ballot

Sen. Bo Watson

Contact Email Phone Official site ↗

Compare

Session

Total votes

26,263

all sessions

Attendance

94%

1,175 missed

With party

99%

of cast votes

Lower than 86% of chamber peers

Bipartisan score

0%

crosses aisle rarely

Near the chamber average

Voting record

Yea

26,037

voted in favor

Nay

195

voted against

Absent

1,175

missed votes

Total cast

26,263

across all sessions

Crossed party

145

votes against own party

This page

26,263

matching current filters

Bill

Description

Vote

Result

Tally

Date

SB 1758

Notary Public - As enacted, revises various provisions regarding electronic acknowledgments and enacts the "Online Notary Public Act". - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 66.

Yea

Passed

30–0

Apr 18, 2018

SB 270

Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As enacted, exempts certain active, volunteer firefighters and rescue squad members from payment of the regular registration fee at the time of renewal for license plate issued to the volunteer firefighter or rescue squad member; authorizes a county legislative body to waive the motor vehicle tax for motor vehicles receiving the exemption from the registration fee, if the waiver is approved in the same manner as the adoption of the motor vehicle tax. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.

Yea

Passed

29–0

Apr 18, 2018

SB 1877

Forfeiture of Assets - As enacted, requires comptroller to audit use of civil asset forfeiture proceeds by local law enforcement agencies and judicial district drug task forces during regular audit of local government; requires department of safety to publish uses of forfeiture proceeds by department and results of comptroller's audit on department's website. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 4 and Title 40, Chapter 33, Part 2.

Yea

Passed

8–0

Apr 18, 2018

HB 2049

Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, increases, from five days to any accumulated, the amount of sick leave that may be used by an educator who is a member of any reserve component of the United States armed forces when called into active duty. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 33 and Title 49, Chapter 5.

Yea

Passed

33–0

Apr 17, 2018

SB 1502

Education - As introduced, requires driver education courses to include an area of instruction on the impact of talking and texting on a mobile phone on a student's driving abilities. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49.

Yea

Passed

11–0

Apr 17, 2018

HB 2432

Public Contracts - As enacted, authorizes state procurement agencies to enter into an energy performance or guaranteed energy savings contract using alternative procurement or contracting vehicles for purposes of developing and implementing up to five energy performance or guaranteed energy savings contract pilot projects for state-owned buildings and facilities. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 12.

Yea

Passed

31–0

Apr 17, 2018

SB 2474

Licenses - As enacted, exempts certain low-income persons from initial licensure fees imposed by certain health related boards and professional regulatory boards. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 6, Part 3; Title 23, Chapter 3; Title 49; Title 56; Title 62; Title 63 and Title 68.

Yea

Passed

11–0

Apr 17, 2018

SB 2297

Fairs - As enacted, revises the composition of the state fair board and one of the board's powers. - Amends TCA Title 4; Section 5-9-102 and Title 43.

Yea

Passed

31–0

Apr 17, 2018

SB 619

Water Pollution - As enacted, requires each local board of education to develop a policy to implement a program to reduce the potential sources of lead contamination in drinking water in public schools that incorporates periodic, not to exceed biennial, testing of lead levels in drinking water sources at school facilities that were constructed prior to January 1, 1998. - Amends TCA Title 49; Title 68 and Title 69.

Yea

Passed

11–0

Apr 17, 2018

HB 2217

Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As enacted, allows for the angel investor tax credit being measured by the value of an indirect or direct cash investment by an angel investor against the Hall income tax liability of the angel investor. - Amends TCA Section 67-2-125.

Yea

Passed

33–0

Apr 17, 2018