Total votes
8,423
all sessions
Attendance
86%
1,176 missed
With party
98%
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Higher than 77% of chamber peers
Bipartisan score
1%
crosses aisle rarely
Lower than 83% of chamber peers
Sponsored
494
bills & resolutions
Lower than 77% of chamber peers
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assignments
8,423 roll-call votes
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Yea
8,301
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102
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Absent
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Description
Vote
Result
Tally
Date
SB 1394
Education - As enacted, requires the department of education to review all current laws and policies related to exclusionary discipline practices in public schools for students in pre-kindergarten through kindergarten and to develop guidelines and standards for alternatives to exclusionary discipline practices based on the findings of the review; establishes other related requirements. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 10; Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 5 and Title 49, Chapter 6.
Yea
Passed
9–0
Apr 5, 2017
SB 733
Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires each school safety team to conduct at least one armed intruder drill annually. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 8.
Yea
Passed
8–0
Apr 5, 2017
SB 831
Education - As introduced, enacts the "K-12 Block Grant Act," which distributes block grants to each LEA to improve the quality of education; appropriates $250 million from excess state tax revenues over collected in fiscal years 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 for K-12 block grants. - Amends TCA Title 9 and Title 49.
Yea
Passed
5–3
Apr 5, 2017
SB 583
Tennessee Higher Education Commission - As enacted, returns the appointment of the executive director of the Tennessee higher education commission from the governor to the commission. - Amends TCA Section 49-7-205.
Yea
Passed
6–0
Apr 5, 2017
SB 562
Education, Higher - As enacted, creates the Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). - Amends TCA Section 4-3-733 and Title 49, Chapter 7.
Yea
Passed
9–0
Apr 5, 2017
SB 635
Education, Higher - As introduced, authorizes the governing body of each public institution of higher education to determine the qualifications that students must possess to be eligible for payment of in-state tuition. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, Chapter 8 and Title 49, Chapter 9.
Yea
Passed
5–1
Apr 5, 2017
SB 584
Education - As enacted, revises various provisions of the Individualized Education Act. - Amends TCA Title 49.
Yea
Passed
8–0
Apr 5, 2017
SB 987
Education - As introduced, removes requirement that an eligible student be previously enrolled in a public school for two semesters prior to receiving an individualized education account, attend a Tennessee school for the first time, or receive an account in the previous school year in order to be considered eligible to receive an individualized education account. - Amends TCA Title 49. Against party
Nay
Passed
6–2
Apr 5, 2017
SB 401
Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, revises provisions governing the money teachers receive for classroom instruction materials. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 3.
Yea
Passed
8–0
Apr 5, 2017
SB 404
Local Education Agencies - As introduced, allows LEAs to choose whether to do payroll deduction of professional employees' organization dues; requires LEAs making payroll deduction of dues for one professional employees' organization to make payroll deduction of dues available to members of any professional employees' organization; requires an employee to request such deduction; allows an employee to rescind the authorization for a payroll deduction of dues at any time. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 5.
Yea
Passed
5–0
Apr 5, 2017
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