R Tennessee Senate · District 13 On the 2026 ballot

Sen. Dawn White

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Session

Total votes

3,910

all sessions

Attendance

43%

4,433 missed

Near the chamber average

With party

99%

of cast votes

Near the chamber average

Bipartisan score

crosses aisle rarely

Near the chamber average

About Sen. Dawn White

Sen. serving Tennessee District 13. Member of the Republican party. Has been in office 7 years · 10 months. Serves on Education and Judiciary.

Sworn in

Nov 6, 2018

7 years · 10 months

Closest ally

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How Dawn votes, broken down

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Criminal Justice 31% / 69%

36 support · 80 oppose

Education 66% / 34%

83 support · 43 oppose

Budget & Taxes 48% / 52%

27 support · 29 oppose

Labor & Employment 55% / 45%

12 support · 10 oppose

Technology 83% / 17%

5 support · 1 oppose

Healthcare 90% / 10%

26 support · 3 oppose

Transportation 80% / 20%

4 support · 1 oppose

Immigration 39% / 61%

14 support · 22 oppose

Environment 30% / 70%

7 support · 16 oppose

Energy 50% / 50%

3 support · 3 oppose

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Recent legislative activity

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SB 677Education, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to provide at least one professional development course that provides asynchronous instruction on the use of artificial intelligence in the classroom and that is made available, at no cost, to teachers in grades 6-12; requires such teachers to complete at least one department-approved professional development course on the use of artificial intelligence in the classroom by the later of August 1, 2028, or within two years of becoming licensed as a teacher in this state. - Amends TCA Title 49. signed

3 months ago

SB 2403Education - As enacted, makes various revisions to education law, including, but not limited to, requiring each public school to annually submit to the department of education a list of all local assessments administered to students, requiring the department to publish the percentage of students who attain proficiency for the English language arts portion of the TCAP, and establishing the assessment review board to annually review the TCAP tests administered to students in the most recent school year. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 49. signed

3 months ago

SB 2145Orders of Protection - As enacted, allows a person to file a petition for a lifetime order of protection against a person who was convicted of certain offenses in another jurisdiction; provides that venue for such a petition is in the county where the respondent resides or, if the respondent is not a resident of this state, the county where the petitioner resides. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 39. signed

3 months ago

SB 2407Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, clarifies that certain individuals who have not completed the amount of clinical practice required by the educator preparation provider in which the individual is enrolled may receive a temporary clinical permit if all other requirements for the permit are satisfied; allows such an individual who is issued a temporary clinical permit to meet the clinical practice requirements of the EPP in which the individual is enrolled by combining the amount of clinical practice the individual completed before being issued a temporary clinical permit with the amount of time the individual taught under the temporary clinical permit. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5. signed

3 months ago

SB 2404Education - As enacted, creates an early educator workforce development resource task force. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49. signed

3 months ago

SB 2659Telecommunications - As enacted, requires a person or entity that makes telephone solicitations using an automated telephone dialing system to delivery artificial or prerecorded voice messages to residential subscribers in this state to maintain a record of the number of such telephone solicitations made each month; makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18; Title 65 and Title 67. in committee

3 months ago

SB 2106Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, prohibits an educator from engaging in any sexually related behavior with certain students enrolled, graduated, or withdrawn from school; requires violations to be reported to the state board of education. - Amends TCA Title 49. signed

3 months ago

SB 2141Education, Higher - As enacted, removes various dates by which various reports must be submitted by various entities; makes various changes to the Tennessee student assistance award; requires new and existing transfer pathways to be reviewed on a rotating basis; authorizes the Tennessee higher education commission to conduct private meetings for certain purposes; makes various other changes related to financial aid and higher education. - Amends TCA Title 43, Chapter 6, Part 5 and Title 49. signed

3 months ago

SB 1738Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As enacted, exempts a military service member who is stationed out of state on military orders from paying the additional registration fee imposed on all-electric vehicles. - Amends TCA Section 55-4-116 and Section 55-6-107. signed

3 months ago

SB 1737Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates the offense for a person to knowingly travel, with intent to commit theft of another person's cash, from a commercial business; a financial institution; or an automated teller machine, on the same path or route as another person without substantial deviation from that path or route while in possession of two or more criminal instruments. - Amends TCA Title 39. in committee

4 months ago