Sen. Bo Watson
Total votes
26,488
all sessions
Attendance
94%
1,505 missed
Lower than 78% of chamber peers
With party
99%
of cast votes
Lower than 86% of chamber peers
Bipartisan score
0%
crosses aisle rarely
Higher than 84% of chamber peers
Sponsored
707
bills & resolutions
Near the chamber average
Committees
8
assignments
26,488 roll-call votes
Voting record
Yea
26,258
voted in favor
Nay
199
voted against
Absent
1,505
missed votes
Total cast
26,488
across all sessions
Crossed party
149
votes against own party
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Bill
Description
Vote
Result
Tally
Date
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
31–0
Mar 27, 2017
SB 1211
Safety, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the division of protective services to provide police services for all state office buildings; requires the division to oversee the state facility protection officer program in conjunction with the commissioner of safety or the commissioner's designee; requires that certain officer commissions be issued only to persons assigned to property owned or leased by the state. - Amends TCA Section 4-3-2006 and Section 4-3-2019.
Yea
Passed
29–0
Mar 27, 2017
SB 710
Libraries - As enacted, revises provisions related to the operation of local libraries and the state regional library system; specifies terms for board service. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 1; Title 10, Chapter 3; Title 10, Chapter 5; Title 10, Chapter 8; Title 10, Chapter 1 and Title 40, Chapter 39.
Yea
Passed
29–0
Mar 27, 2017
SB 240
Boards and Commissions - As enacted, authorizes the governor to appoint persons to fill positions on certain boards from lists of nominees submitted by interested groups, instead of requiring appointments to be made from such lists. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 13, Part 2; Title 63, Chapter 13, Part 3 and Title 63, Chapter 23, Part 1.
Yea
Passed
29–0
Mar 27, 2017
HB 81
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
30–0
Mar 27, 2017
SB 1201
Privacy, Confidentiality - As enacted, makes confidential the identities of vendors providing the state with goods and services used to protect certain electronic, communication, and data storage systems; authorizes a governmental entity receiving such goods and services to vote to make the identities of such vendors confidential; revises exception as to who may receive such confidential information. - Amends TCA Section 10-7-504.
Yea
Passed
30–0
Mar 27, 2017
SJR 257
Memorials, Personal Occasion - Lessie Virginia Jackson, 100th birthday -
Yea
Passed
28–0
Mar 27, 2017
SJR 249
Memorials, Recognition - Smoky Mountain Field School, 40th anniversary -
Yea
Passed
28–0
Mar 27, 2017
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