R Tennessee Senate · District 2

Sen. Doug Overbey

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Session

Total votes

1,933

all sessions

Attendance

94%

100 missed

With party

99%

of cast votes

Higher than 76% of chamber peers

Bipartisan score

1%

crosses aisle rarely

Lower than 83% of chamber peers

Voting record

Yea

1,889

voted in favor

Nay

21

voted against

Absent

100

missed votes

Total cast

1,933

across all sessions

Crossed party

19

votes against own party

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Bill

Description

Vote

Result

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Date

SB 1217

Administrative Procedure (UAPA) - As enacted, authorizes commissioners and chief executive officers of administrative departments to evaluate certain actions by a regulatory board to determine whether the action may constitute a potentially unreasonable restraint of trade. - Amends TCA Title 4.

Yea

Passed

26–0

Mar 16, 2017

SB 391

Bail, Bail Bonds - As enacted, deletes requirement that an affidavit of a jailer, warden, or officer be furnished to a court to avoid forfeiture of any appearance or bail bond and instead declares that no forfeiture or conditional forfeiture of any appearance or bail bond shall be rendered where evidence of the defendant's incarceration is furnished to the court. - Amends TCA Section 40-11-201.

Yea

Passed

7–0

Mar 15, 2017

SB 120

Criminal Offenses - As enacted, enacts the "Organized Retail Crime Prevention Act." - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14, Part 1.

Yea

Passed

7–0

Mar 15, 2017

SB 823

Election Laws - As introduced, clarifies that the county election commissions have the duty to purge the permanent registration records of certain voters unless otherwise prohibited by federal law. - Amends TCA Section 2-2-132.

Yea

Passed

8–0

Mar 14, 2017

SB 1223

Law Enforcement - As enacted, requires a blood test for the presence of the hepatitis and AIDS/HIV viruses to be administered to an arrested person if requested by a law enforcement officer, TBI employee, firefighter, EMT-paramedic, or EMT who may have been exposed to the virus; specifies that the test is for any hepatitis virus, rather than just hepatitis B. - Amends TCA Section 68-10-116.

Yea

Passed

8–0

Mar 14, 2017

SJR 77

General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Expresses support for conversion of Medicaid funding to a block grant and opposes expansion of Medicaid under the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Pub. L. No. 111-148. -

Yea

Passed

9–0

Mar 14, 2017

SB 1248

District Attorneys - As introduced, creates 51 additional assistant district attorney general, secretarial, victim-witness coordinator, and criminal investigator positions effective October 1, 2017, in districts to be recommended by the district attorneys general conference; requires a report of the recommended districts be filed with the speakers of the senate and house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 2.

Yea

Passed

8–0

Mar 14, 2017

SJR 88

Constitutional Amendments - As introduced, proposes amendment to Article VI, Section 5 to provide for appointment of an attorney general and reporter for the state by joint vote of the general assembly. - Against party

Nay

Failed

4–4

Mar 14, 2017

SB 677

Child Custody and Support - As enacted, eliminates the accrual of interest on child support arrearages unless the court makes a written finding that interest will continue to accrue; in making such finding, the court must set the rate at which interest will accrue after consideration of any factors the court deems relevant, which rate may be no more than 4 percent per year. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 5.

Absent

Passed

6–0

Mar 14, 2017

SB 1226

District Attorneys - As introduced, reinstates a one-year service compensation step for assistant district attorneys that was statutorily suspended in 2003. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 16.

Yea

Passed

8–0

Mar 14, 2017