Total votes
8,423
all sessions
Attendance
86%
1,176 missed
With party
98%
of cast votes
Higher than 76% 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
Committees
0
assignments
8,423 roll-call votes
Voting record
Yea
8,301
voted in favor
Nay
102
voted against
Absent
1,176
missed votes
Total cast
8,423
across all sessions
Crossed party
107
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Description
Vote
Result
Tally
Date
SB 598
Education - As enacted, requires LEAs to ensure schools provide parents and guardians with information about influenza and the effectiveness of vaccination at the beginning of each school year; requires nonpublic schools to provide parents and guardians with information about influenza and the effectiveness of vaccination at the beginning of each school year. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 50 and Title 49, Chapter 6.
Yea
Passed
8–0
Mar 8, 2017
SB 379
Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, revises compensation provisions and other provisions regarding substitute teachers. - Amends TCA Section 49-3-312.
Yea
Passed
9–0
Mar 8, 2017
SB 232
Education, State Board of - As enacted, requires the board to create an endorsement in computer science for all teachers who demonstrate sufficient content knowledge in the course material. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 3 and Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 5.
Yea
Passed
9–0
Mar 8, 2017
SB 161
School Vouchers - As introduced, enacts the "Opportunity Scholarship Pilot Program." - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1.
Yea
Passed
9–0
Mar 8, 2017
SB 1012
Students - As enacted, allows a student to be excused from a school athletic event if the event occurs on an official school holiday, observed day of worship, or religious holiday and the parent or legal guardian provides prior written notice of the student's absence; authorizes an unforeseen emergency as exception to the parent or legal guardian providing prior written notice of the student's absence from the athletic event. - Amends TCA Section 49-6-1002.
Yea
Passed
9–0
Mar 8, 2017
SB 1216
Education, Higher - As enacted, replaces the Tennessee National Guard Tuition Assistance Act with the Tennessee Support, Training, and Renewing Opportunity for National Guardsmen (STRONG) Act of 2017. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 10.
Yea
Passed
9–0
Mar 8, 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.
Absent
Failed
4–0
Mar 8, 2017
SB 662
Students - As enacted, revises provisions governing physical activity requirements for students. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.
Yea
Passed
8–0
Mar 8, 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
11–0
Mar 7, 2017
SB 114
Taxes, Real Property - As enacted, authorizes local governing bodies, by a two-thirds vote, to prorate the 2016 tax assessment for a homeowner's real property or business owner's personal property, if the property was damaged as a result of a FEMA certified disaster between September 1, 2016, and December 31, 2016; expires on December 31, 2017. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5 and Title 67, Chapter 6.
Yea
Passed
9–0
Mar 7, 2017
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