R Tennessee Senate · District 11 On the 2026 ballot

Sen. Bo Watson

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Session

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 85% of chamber peers

Bipartisan score

0%

crosses aisle rarely

Near the chamber average

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 547

Consumer Protection - As enacted, clarifies that the consumer protection violation of failing to disclose a security breach of personal consumer information applies to a breach of unencrypted data or encrypted data when the encryption key has also been acquired by an unauthorized person. - Amends TCA Title 47.

Yea

Passed

9–0

Mar 7, 2017

SB 549

Insurance, Motor Vehicles - As enacted, makes various changes to the vehicle insurance verification program, including extending the time owners have to comply with notice of noncompliance and revising fee provisions. - Amends TCA Section 55-12-210 and Section 55-12-211.

Yea

Passed

9–0

Mar 7, 2017

SB 545

Motor Vehicles - As enacted, specifies certain services provided by a motor vehicle manufacturer under a service contract that are not considered to be insurance. - Amends TCA Section 56-2-126.

Yea

Passed

9–0

Mar 7, 2017

SB 138

Utilities, Utility Districts - As enacted, requires members of certain utility boards of commissioners to meet training and continuing education requirements; provides that failure to meet such requirements could result in the ineligibility to receive certain financial assistance, or for members to be reelected or reappointed. - Amends TCA Section 7-34-115; Section 7-35-409; Section 7-82-307; Section 7-82-308; Section 68-221-1305; Section 68-221-605 and Section 68-221-1206.

Yea

Passed

11–0

Mar 7, 2017

SB 209

Veterans - As enacted, authorizes private employers to give hiring preference to honorably discharged veterans, spouses of veterans with service-connected disabilities, unremarried widows or widowers of veterans who died of service-connected disabilities, and unremarried widows or widowers of members of the military who died in the line of duty. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 1, Part 1.

Yea

Passed

9–0

Mar 7, 2017

SB 114

Taxes, Real Property - As enacted, authorizes local governing bodies, by a two-thirds vote, to prorate the 2016 tax assessment for a homeowner's real property or business owner's personal property, if the property was damaged as a result of a FEMA certified disaster between September 1, 2016, and December 31, 2016; expires on December 31, 2017. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5 and Title 67, Chapter 6.

Yea

Passed

9–0

Mar 7, 2017

SB 289

Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, allows an employer to pre-enroll employees in a group income protection insurance policy if certain disclosure requirements are satisfied by the employer and the policy meets certain requirements. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7.

Yea

Passed

9–0

Mar 7, 2017

SB 458

Drugs, Prescription - As enacted, authorizes local education agencies and nonpublic schools to maintain opioid antagonists in schools. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 63.

Yea

Passed

11–0

Mar 7, 2017

SB 1217

Administrative Procedure (UAPA) - As enacted, authorizes commissioners and chief executive officers of administrative departments to evaluate certain actions by a regulatory board to determine whether the action may constitute a potentially unreasonable restraint of trade. - Amends TCA Title 4.

Yea

Passed

8–0

Mar 7, 2017

SB 1194

Barbers and/or Cosmetologists - As enacted, removes licensure requirement for persons whose occupation or practice is confined solely to shampooing. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 3 and Title 62, Chapter 4.

Yea

Passed

8–0

Mar 7, 2017