R Tennessee Senate · District 11 On the 2026 ballot

Sen. Bo Watson

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Session

Total votes

23,663

all sessions

Attendance

94%

1,175 missed

With party

99%

of cast votes

Lower than 88% of chamber peers

Bipartisan score

0%

crosses aisle rarely

Near the chamber average

Voting record

Yea

23,459

voted in favor

Nay

173

voted against

Absent

1,175

missed votes

Total cast

23,663

across all sessions

Crossed party

130

votes against own party

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Bill

Description

Vote

Result

Tally

Date

SB 1270

Health Care - As enacted, requires the emergency medical services board to establish standards for a community paramedic through promulgation of rules. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 140, Part 3.

Yea

Passed

9–0

Mar 22, 2017

SB 639

Health Care - As enacted, authorizes a healthcare provider to satisfy one hour of continuing education requirements in exchange for one hour of volunteer healthcare services. - Amends TCA Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

Yea

Passed

8–0

Mar 22, 2017

SB 329

Professions and Occupations - As enacted, establishes provisions governing licensure of engineers for certain persons with a master's degree from an approved institution who have passed Fundamentals of Engineering Examination. - Amends TCA Section 62-2-401.

Yea

Passed

8–0

Mar 21, 2017

SB 1369

Tobacco, Tobacco Products - As enacted, authorizes municipalities located in Putnam County to prohibit, by local ordinance, smoking on the grounds of an urban park center. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17.

Absent

Passed

6–0

Mar 21, 2017

SB 726

Uniform Commercial Code - As enacted, creates a streamlined process for certain public officials to contest Uniform Commercial Code financing statements that they believe to lack any legal basis. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 9, Part 5.

Yea

Passed

9–0

Mar 21, 2017

SB 195

Health Care - As enacted, adds healthcare services provided to a patient at a public elementary or secondary school to the current definition of telehealth services for which health insurance entities are required to reimburse in a manner that is consistent with reimbursement for in-person encounters; requires that the public elementary or secondary school be staffed by a healthcare service provider and equipped to engage in such services. - Amends TCA Title 56; Section 63-1-155 and Title 71.

Yea

Passed

8–0

Mar 21, 2017

SB 1167

Codes - As enacted, authorizes the state fire marshal to inspect an owner's building upon the owner's request to determine if the building meets the statewide safety standards even if the building is located in a county or municipality that has opted out of the statewide safety codes. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 120.

Yea

Passed

9–0

Mar 21, 2017

SB 1322

Economic and Community Development, Dept. of - As enacted, removes requirement that agencies receiving public funding to assist businesses with sales volumes of $200,000 or less, or with fewer than 15 employees, must annually file a report with the department detailing the agencies' success with assisting such businesses; removes requirement that the office of minority business enterprise, or other division, must file a report with the commissioner compiling the agencies' filed data and must annually report the results of the data to the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3.

Yea

Failed

7–0

Mar 21, 2017

SB 144

Charitable Institutions - As enacted, permits a nonprofit organization desiring financial assistance from a county or municipality to file, in lieu of completing and filing an annual audit, an annual report of receipts and expenditures in a form prescribed by the comptroller of the treasury; requires such report to be prepared and certified by the nonprofit's CFO; subjects such report to audit by the department of audit. - Amends TCA Section 5-9-109 and Section 6-54-111.

Yea

Passed

8–0

Mar 21, 2017

SB 1040

Historical Sites and Preservation - As introduced, enacts the "Historic Rehabilitation Investment Incentive Act." - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 4.

Yea

Passed

9–0

Mar 21, 2017