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D Tennessee Senate · District 19 · Former member

Sen. Thelma Harper

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Total votes
3,823
all sessions
Attendance
95%
202 missed
Higher than 80% of chamber peers
With party
99%
of cast votes
Higher than 77% of chamber peers
Bipartisan score
1%
crosses aisle rarely
Lower than 80% of chamber peers
Sponsored
39
bills & resolutions
Lower than 77% of chamber peers
Committees
0
assignments
3,823 roll-call votes

Voting record

Yea
3,776
voted in favor
Nay
37
voted against
Absent
202
missed votes
Total recorded
3,823
across all sessions
Crossed party
32
votes against own party
Matching
3,823
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Bill
Description
Vote
Result
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Date
SB 568
Annexation - As enacted, deletes the limitation allowing non-contiguous annexation by resolution to occur only in a county having a population according to the most recent decennial census that is greater than 44.5 percent and 50,000 of its population in the preceding decennial census. - Amends TCA Title 6, Chapter 51, Part 1.
Nay
Failed
2–18
Mar 7, 2018
SB 1529
Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the department of correction for two years to June 30, 2020; requires the department to appear before the government operations joint evaluation committee on judiciary and government no later than December 31, 2018, to update the committee on the department's progress in addressing the findings set forth in the November 2017 performance audit report. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 4, Chapter 3.
Yea
Passed
8–0
Mar 7, 2018
SB 2508
Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As enacted, specifies that nothing in the present law that applies generally to post-employment benefits for public officers and employees prohibits a local education agency from participating in any other post-employment benefits investment trust created pursuant to the Other Post-Employment Benefit Investment Trust Act of 2006. - Amends TCA Title 8.
Yea
Passed
9–0
Mar 6, 2018
SB 2531
Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, exempts printers and monitors that are $200 or less per item from sales tax on the annual sales tax holiday; increases, from $1,500 to $2,000, the maximum sales price for a computer to qualify as exempt on the annual sales tax holiday; exempts school calculators with a sales price of $150 or less from sales tax on the sales tax holiday. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.
Yea
Passed
10–0
Mar 6, 2018
SB 2258
Controlled Substances - As enacted, revises various provisions of law regarding the scheduling of controlled substances and their analogues and derivatives, including updated identifications of drugs categorized in Schedules I–V; authorizes sentence reduction credits for prisoners who successfully complete intensive substance use disorder treatment program. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4; Title 41, Chapter 21, Part 2; Title 53 and Title 63.
Yea
Passed
10–0
Mar 6, 2018
SB 1612
Appropriations - As enacted, specifies that for purposes of determining compliance with the constitutional provision regarding the rate of growth of appropriations (the Copeland cap) that funds allocated to the reserve for revenue fluctuations will not be included as appropriations from state tax revenues and that funds expended from the reserve for revenue fluctuations to offset shortfalls in state tax revenue will not be included as appropriations from state tax revenues. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 4.
Yea
Passed
10–0
Mar 6, 2018
SB 2236
Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Visual Content Modernization Act of 2018". - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 49 and Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 50.
Yea
Passed
10–0
Mar 6, 2018
SB 1168
Children's Services, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to maintain case manager staffing levels so that case manager caseloads do not exceed an average of 20 active cases relating to initial assessments or an average of 20 children monitored and supervised per case manager. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 5.
Yea
Passed
28–0
Mar 5, 2018
SB 1795
Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, exempts certain types of insurance from filing requirements of commercial risk insurers; revises the disclaimer that must be included in an application or policy that is issued to an exempt commercial risk policyholder. - Amends TCA Title 56.
Yea
Passed
26–0
Mar 5, 2018
SB 1690
Election Laws - As enacted, allows voter who was issued an absentee ballot to vote a provisional ballot. - Amends TCA Section 2-6-301 and Section 2-7-112.
Yea
Passed
28–0
Mar 5, 2018
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