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Sen. Paul Bailey

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Session

Total votes

22,107

all sessions

Attendance

94%

1,417 missed

Near the chamber average

With party

99%

of cast votes

Near the chamber average

Bipartisan score

0%

crosses aisle rarely

Lower than 76% of chamber peers

Voting record

Yea

21,988

voted in favor

Nay

101

voted against

Absent

1,417

missed votes

Total cast

22,107

across all sessions

Crossed party

58

votes against own party

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Bill

Description

Vote

Result

Tally

Date

SB 463

Comptroller, State - As enacted, requires the administrative head of a department, agency, or institution that has been audited by the comptroller to submit a corrective action plan within 30 days of the issuance of the audit report; empowers certain standing committees to take action in the event of noncompliance with respect to an audit by a department, agency, or institution. - Amends TCA Section 8-4-109.

Yea

Passed

8–0

Feb 28, 2017

SB 228

Election Laws - As enacted, expands the time period, from not more than 60 days nor less than 10 days to not more than 90 days nor less than 10 days, in which the county election commission must appoint election officials before an election; permits election officials to volunteer to provide services without compensation. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 4.

Yea

Passed

8–0

Feb 28, 2017

SB 1201

Privacy, Confidentiality - As enacted, makes confidential the identities of vendors providing the state with goods and services used to protect certain electronic, communication, and data storage systems; authorizes a governmental entity receiving such goods and services to vote to make the identities of such vendors confidential; revises exception as to who may receive such confidential information. - Amends TCA Section 10-7-504.

Yea

Passed

8–0

Feb 28, 2017

SB 681

Public Contracts - As enacted, clarifies that the statutory amount of the bond required from contractors on all public works contracts in excess of $100,000 is the minimum amount for the bond. - Amends TCA Section 12-4-201.

Yea

Passed

7–0

Feb 28, 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

6–0

Feb 28, 2017

SB 889

State Symbols - As enacted, designates Oak Ridge Playhouse as an official state community theater. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3.

Yea

Passed

8–0

Feb 28, 2017

SB 127

Business and Commerce - As introduced, prohibits state and local governments from taking discriminatory action against a business based on that business's internal policies. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 48; Title 61; Title 62 and Title 67.

Yea

Passed

5–1

Feb 28, 2017

SB 390

Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, designates the Sewanee Inn in Franklin County as a premier type tourist resort for the purposes of on-premises consumption of alcoholic beverages; also so designates a certain commercially operated facility in Cumberland County and the new Restoration Hardware store in Nashville. - Amends TCA Section 57-4-102.

Yea

Passed

8–0

Feb 28, 2017

SB 86

Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the state building commission to June 30, 2020. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 15 and Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2.

Yea

Passed

31–0

Feb 27, 2017

SB 223

Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As enacted, extends to federal holidays, in addition to Saturdays and Sundays, the days on which motor vehicles registered as antique motor vehicles may be driven for general transportation purposes. - Amends TCA Section 55-4-111.

Yea

Passed

9–0

Feb 27, 2017