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R Tennessee Senate · District 15 On the 2026 ballot

Sen. Paul Bailey

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Total votes
24,772
all sessions
Attendance
94%
1,591 missed
Near the chamber average
With party
99%
of cast votes
Near the chamber average
Bipartisan score
0%
crosses aisle rarely
Near the chamber average
Sponsored
1,196
bills & resolutions
Higher than 90% of chamber peers
Committees
3
assignments
24,772 roll-call votes

Voting record

Yea
24,628
voted in favor
Nay
126
voted against
Absent
1,591
missed votes
Total cast
24,772
across all sessions
Crossed party
70
votes against own party
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Bill
Description
Vote
Result
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Date
SB 2529
Highway Signs - As enacted, requires the department of transportation to install signs or markers displaying language or an appropriate symbol indicating to motorists that a rest area or welcome center has an adult-sized changing table; requires the department to publish on its website the locations of rest areas and welcome centers that have an adult-sized changing table. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3; Title 12 and Title 54.
Yea
Passed
30–0
Mar 23, 2026
SB 2700
Greenbrier - Subject to local approval, increases salary of aldermen from $120 per month to $300 per month, with no such increase to apply to an incumbent prior to the end of the term for which the elected official was selected; establishes purchasing limits in accordance with state law rather than by specific amounts in charter. - Amends Chapter 207 of the Private Acts of 1996; as amended and rewritten.
Yea
Passed
30–0
Mar 23, 2026
SB 2354
Tennessee Fish & Wildlife Commission - As enacted, authorizes a person to possess a raccoon without the payment of the $150 personal possession permit fee if the raccoon is obtained from a legal source and has been vaccinated; the raccoon is non-native and was not captured from the wild; and a possession permit for the raccoon has been issued by TWRA. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 44 and Title 70.
Yea
Passed
29–0
Mar 23, 2026
HB 1663
Human Resources, Department of - As enacted, excludes a person or entity that operates a family child care home and obtains a United States department of defense certificate to operate from being subject to licensure as long as such family child care home provides child care services only to an eligible patron. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 3.
Yea
Passed
29–0
Mar 23, 2026
HJR 1059
Memorials, Recognition - Philippine-American Friendship Day, 80th anniversary -
Yea
Passed
29–0
Mar 23, 2026
SR 344
Memorials, Recognition - Safespace, 50th anniversary -
Yea
Passed
29–0
Mar 23, 2026
HJR 1092
Memorials, Death - Henry Shere Queener, Jr. -
Yea
Passed
29–0
Mar 23, 2026
HB 1645
Tipton County - Subject to local approval, authorizes the legislative body of Tipton County to designate a division of the county's general sessions court as the environmental court to hear cases involving the alleged violation of any ordinance relating to health, housing, fire, land subdivision, building, or zoning. -
Yea
Passed
30–0
Mar 23, 2026
SB 2326
Real Property - As enacted, requires a homeowners' association that collects assessments for common expenses to obtain and maintain a blanket fidelity bond to insure the homeowners' association against losses resulting from theft or dishonesty committed by the officers, directors, or persons employed by the homeowners' association, or committed by any managing agent or employees of the managing agent. - Amends TCA Title 66.
Yea
Passed
30–0
Mar 23, 2026
SB 2318
Schools, Charter - As enacted, allows private postsecondary institutions, including those that are religiously affiliated, to operate a public charter school; allows such institutions to apply to the local board of education or directly to the Tennessee public charter school commission to open a public charter school and to give an enrollment preference to children of the institution's employees or members of its governing body in the same manner afforded to public institutions of higher education. - Amends TCA Title 49.
Yea
Passed
25–5
Mar 23, 2026
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