D Tennessee Senate · District 21 On the 2026 ballot

Sen. Jeff Yarbro

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Session

Total votes

24,152

all sessions

Attendance

94%

1,120 missed

Near the chamber average

With party

99%

of cast votes

Near the chamber average

Bipartisan score

1%

crosses aisle rarely

Higher than 89% of chamber peers

Voting record

Yea

22,589

voted in favor

Nay

1,246

voted against

Absent

1,120

missed votes

Total cast

24,152

across all sessions

Crossed party

78

votes against own party

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Bill

Description

Vote

Result

Tally

Date

SB 393

Education, Higher - As enacted, transfers rulemaking authority under the Jacob Nunley Act and under the provisions governing the Hepatitis B waiver form at institutions of higher education from THEC to the governing boards of each public institution of higher learning; requires the governing board of each public institution of higher learning, in consultation with the department of health, to promulgate rules regarding immunization requirements for students enrolled within each respective institution. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6 and Title 49, Chapter 7.

Yea

Passed

33–0

Mar 6, 2017

SB 1195

Education - As enacted, requires the department of education to develop, and the state board to adopt, rules to ensure the education of students incarcerated in detention centers licensed by the department of children's services by the LEA in which the detention center is located. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 5, Part 1; Title 37, Chapter 5, Part 5 and Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 30.

Yea

Passed

33–0

Mar 6, 2017

SB 1074

Special License Plates - As enacted, authorizes issuance of an emergency license plate to constables. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4, Part 2.

Yea

Passed

9–0

Mar 6, 2017

SB 996

Traffic Safety - As enacted, requires a motor vehicle to yield the right-of-way by making a lane change, if possible, or reduce speed and proceed with due caution when approaching a stationary motor vehicle that is giving signal by use of flashing lights and located on the shoulder, emergency lane, or median. - Amends TCA Title 55.

Yea

Passed

8–0

Mar 6, 2017

SB 242

Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the board for licensing healthcare facilities one year to June 30, 2020. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2 and Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 2.

Yea

Passed

33–0

Mar 6, 2017

SJR 48

Constitutional Conventions - Appoints commissioners to the planning convention for a prospective Article V convention. - Bipartisan

Nay

Passed

27–2

Mar 6, 2017

SB 709

Drugs, Prescription - As enacted, requires the commissioners of health and mental health and substance abuse services to produce guidelines on nonresidential buprenorphine treatment by January 1, 2018, and to annually update those guidelines. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 1.

Yea

Passed

33–0

Mar 6, 2017

SB 524

Education, State Board of - As enacted, requires the state board to adopt a policy allowing American sign language courses to satisfy the foreign language credits required for graduation. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 10.

Yea

Passed

33–0

Mar 6, 2017

SB 428

Funeral Directors and Embalmers - As enacted, removes social security number from the information that a funeral establishment must include on the permanent identification device attached to a dead human body prior to interment and from the permanent identification device placed in the crematory urn before the remains are placed in the urn. - Amends TCA Section 62-5-313.

Yea

Passed

33–0

Mar 6, 2017

SB 1304

Traffic Safety - As enacted, expands the yellow dot motor vehicle medical information program to traffic stops and not just motor vehicle accidents; requires department of transportation to cooperate with veterans services organizations in publicizing yellow dot program. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 20, Part 3.

Yea

Passed

9–0

Mar 6, 2017