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R Tennessee Senate · District 13 On the 2026 ballot

Sen. Dawn White

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Total votes
25,779
all sessions
Attendance
100%
80 missed
Lower than 94% of chamber peers
With party
99%
of cast votes
Near the chamber average
Bipartisan score
1%
crosses aisle rarely
Near the chamber average
Sponsored
65
bills & resolutions
Higher than 93% of chamber peers
Committees
2
assignments
25,779 roll-call votes

Voting record

Yea
25,445
voted in favor
Nay
289
voted against
Absent
80
missed votes
Total cast
25,779
across all sessions
Crossed party
169
votes against own party
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SB 2688
Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services, Dept. of - As introduced, directs the department to conduct a study, utilizing existing resources, on the effectiveness of state programs incentivizing students to pursue careers in mental health care; requires the study to include an analysis of similar programs in contiguous states and recommendations for the general assembly on creating a successful program in this state; requires a report to the general assembly by December 31, 2024. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 49 and Title 63.
Yea
Passed
6–1
Apr 2, 2024
SB 2782
Public Health - As enacted, creates a civil cause of action against any person who intentionally recruits, harbors, or transports an unemancipated minor within this state for the purpose of receiving a prohibited medical procedure, regardless of where the medical procedure is to be procured. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 36; Title 37; Title 39 and Title 68.
Yea
Passed
7–1
Apr 2, 2024
SB 2062
Criminal Offenses - As enacted, enacts the "Back the Blue Act," which increases the penalty for assault against a law enforcement officer from a Class A misdemeanor with a mandatory minimum 30-day sentence and $5,000 fine to a Class E felony with a mandatory minimum 60-day sentence and $10,000 fine. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.
Yea
Passed
5–3
Apr 2, 2024
SJR 1108
Memorials, Congress - Urges Congress to enact reforms to federal permitting policies to accelerate deployment of new energy infrastructure. -
Yea
Passed
11–0
Apr 2, 2024
SB 2547
Unclaimed Property - As introduced, allows the treasurer to file the annual report regarding the total amount and value of abandoned or unclaimed property with certain executive and legislative branch officials electronically. - Amends TCA Title 43; Title 44; Title 47; Title 48 and Title 66.
Yea
Passed
6–0
Apr 2, 2024
SB 2182
Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As enacted, authorizes an industrial development corporation created by a housing opportunity county or by a municipality within the boundaries of the housing opportunity county or jointly by any combination of such entities to construct and install public infrastructure for qualified residential developments or contract with a private party for the construction and installation of such public infrastructure, and to accept and make certain loans and grants relative to such purposes. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13 and Title 48.
Yea
Passed
11–0
Apr 2, 2024
SB 1969
Mental Illness - As enacted, requires the court that finds a person incompetent to stand trial for a criminal offense due to intellectual disability to also determine whether the person is subject to involuntary care and treatment at the hearing in which the person is declared incompetent; states that the district attorney general is not required to file a complaint to require involuntary care and treatment for a person who is found incompetent to stand trial due to intellectual disability in order to commit the person. - Amends TCA Section 33-5-403.
Yea
Passed
7–1
Apr 2, 2024
SB 2253
Healthcare Liability - As enacted, provides that in health care liability actions, the common law collateral source rule is abrogated and the damages awarded may include, in addition to others, certain actual economic losses suffered by the claimant. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 26.
Yea
Passed
5–1
Apr 2, 2024
SB 2517
Judicial Districts - As enacted, creates one additional circuit court in the 4th judicial district, creates one additional trial court in the 19th judicial district; eliminates part VII of the circuit court in the 13th judicial district; and eliminates part IX of the criminal court in the 13th judicial district. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 2.
Yea
Passed
5–3
Apr 2, 2024
SB 2426
Taxes - As introduced, enacts the "Allied Investments in Tennessee Act." - Amends TCA Title 67.
Yea
Passed
10–0
Apr 2, 2024
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