R Tennessee Senate · District 15 On the 2026 ballot

Sen. Paul Bailey

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Session

Total votes

22,107

all sessions

Attendance

93%

1,314 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

Voting record

Yea

21,988

voted in favor

Nay

101

voted against

Absent

1,314

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 464

Bail, Bail Bonds - As enacted, makes changes to the law relative to professional bondsmen and agents of insurance companies making appearance bonds of a criminal nature. - Amends TCA Title 40.

Yea

Passed

33–0

Apr 14, 2025

SJR 416

Memorials, Sports - University of Memphis Athletic Department -

Yea

Passed

33–0

Apr 14, 2025

SJR 409

Memorials, Recognition - South Knox Elementary School, 2024 National ESEA Distinguished School -

Yea

Passed

33–0

Apr 14, 2025

SB 614

Education - As introduced, requires, if a local government adopts a budget that includes the required maintenance of effort for education funding but fails to appropriate or allocate the full amount budgeted to the LEA, the local government, in the following fiscal year, to appropriate and allocate the unfunded portion to the LEA; specifies that the maintenance of local funding effort required for a fiscal year following a fiscal year in which the local government failed to appropriate or allocate the full amount budgeted to the LEA must be determined based on the amount budgeted to the LEA for the previous fiscal year instead of the amount actually appropriated or allocated to the LEA by the local government. - Amends TCA Section 49-3-314. Against party

Nay

Passed

24–5

Apr 14, 2025

HJR 587

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Ana Martinez Monroy, Salutatorian, Douglass High School -

Yea

Passed

33–0

Apr 14, 2025

SB 670

Water Pollution - As enacted, requires the division of water resources in the department of environment and conservation, in collaboration with U.S. army corps of engineers, as necessary, to annually report information concerning compensatory mitigation provisions in aquatic resource alteration permits issued during the prior fiscal year to the governor, the comptroller of the treasury, and the chairpersons of the commerce committees; and to establish four categories of isolated wetlands for regulatory purposes; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 11, Chapter 14, Part 4; Title 66; Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 4 and Title 69.

Yea

Passed

27–6

Apr 14, 2025

SB 955

Health Care - As enacted, enacts the "Medical Ethics Defense Act." - Amends TCA Title 63.

Yea

Passed

26–6

Apr 14, 2025

SB 728

Motor Vehicles - As enacted, authorizes utility terrain vehicles to operate on county roads and state highways throughout the state, subject to certain restrictions. - Amends TCA Title 55.

Yea

Passed

31–1

Apr 14, 2025

SB 657

Criminal Offenses - As enacted, adds organized retail crime and possession or employment of a firearm during the commission of or attempt to commit a dangerous felony to the definition of racketeering activity; clarifies that carjacking is a racketeering activity. - Amends TCA Title 39.

Yea

Passed

27–6

Apr 14, 2025

HB 1060

Game and Fish Laws - As enacted, increases the fee that county clerks and other agents are authorized to collect from purchases of hunting and fishing licenses from $1.00 to $3.00 for annual licenses and $.50 to $3.00 for temporary licenses. - Amends TCA Section 70-2-106.

Yea

Passed

30–1

Apr 14, 2025