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 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
SB 700
Highways, Roads and Bridges - As enacted, extends for two years the provision, that was set to expire July 1, 2017, allowing counties to provide 2 percent matching funds for state-aid highway funds rather than 25 percent. - Amends TCA Section 54-4-404.
Yea
Passed
9–0
Mar 21, 2017
SB 707
Industrial Development - As enacted, authorizes, in certain circumstances, transfer of parcels of property located on a remediation site in Oak Ridge to the industrial development board consistent with the terms of the conveyance. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 53 and Title 67, Chapter 5.
Yea
Passed
9–0
Mar 21, 2017
SB 611
Funeral Directors and Embalmers - As enacted, specifies that a licensed funeral establishment is not prohibited from preparing any remains for disposition or performing, or offering to perform, commemorative services, if the commemorative services are performed in compliance with applicable laws and rules. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 5 and Title 68.
Yea
Passed
9–0
Mar 21, 2017
SB 1190
Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, requires captive insurance companies to pay certain penalties and interest on the late payment of premium taxes; authorizes certain captive insurance companies to apply for and operate under a letter of dormancy; provides for the conversion of protected cells and pure captive insurance companies; revises certain compensation provisions regarding examinations of insurance companies. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 1, Part 4 and Title 56, Chapter 13.
Yea
Passed
9–0
Mar 21, 2017
SB 704
TennCare - As enacted, enacts the "Ground Ambulance Service Provider Assessment Act." - Amends TCA Title 56; Title 68 and Title 71.
Yea
Passed
9–0
Mar 21, 2017
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