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

Near the chamber average

With party

99%

of cast votes

Near the chamber average

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

This page

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Bill

Description

Vote

Result

Tally

Date

SJR 154

Memorials, Personal Achievement - Jackson Sevier Phillips, Eagle Scout -

Yea

Passed

32–0

Mar 2, 2017

SJR 153

Memorials, Public Service - Linda Vannatta -

Yea

Passed

32–0

Mar 2, 2017

HJR 140

Memorials, Professional Achievement - Bev Johnson, 30th anniversary with 1070 WDIA-AM -

Yea

Passed

32–0

Mar 2, 2017

SJR 144

Memorials, Recognition - Food City 300 NASCAR Series Race at Bristol Motor Speedway, 35th anniversary -

Yea

Passed

32–0

Mar 2, 2017

SJR 146

Memorials, Recognition - Roan Mountain State Park, State Park of the Year -

Yea

Passed

32–0

Mar 2, 2017

SB 709

Drugs, Prescription - As enacted, requires the commissioners of health and mental health and substance abuse services to produce guidelines on nonresidential buprenorphine treatment by January 1, 2018, and to annually update those guidelines. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 1.

Yea

Passed

9–0

Mar 1, 2017

SJR 35

General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Recognizes pornography as a public health hazard leading to a broad spectrum of individual and public health impacts and societal harms. -

Yea

Failed

9–0

Mar 1, 2017

SB 461

Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As enacted, expands to include pharmacists in the prohibition on discrimination by managed health insurance issuers against optometrists, ophthalmologists, podiatrists, and chiropractors solely on the basis of their license or certification, if such providers are acting within the scope of their license or certification. - Amends TCA Section 56-32-129.

Yea

Passed

5–0

Feb 28, 2017

SB 116

Education, Higher - As enacted, authorizes the board of regents, the trustees of the University of Tennessee, and state university board of each public institution of higher education to adopt policies regulating smoking on property owned or operated by the institution; provided, that such policies do not permit smoking in any location where smoking is otherwise prohibited by law. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 39, Chapter 17; Title 39, Chapter 15 and Title 49.

Yea

Passed

6–0

Feb 28, 2017

SJR 111

General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Urges banning state-sponsored travel to states that have banned such travel to Tennessee. -

Absent

Passed

6–2

Feb 28, 2017