D Tennessee Senate · District 21 On the 2026 ballot

Sen. Jeff Yarbro

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Session

Total votes

26,775

all sessions

Attendance

94%

1,120 missed

With party

99%

of cast votes

Near the chamber average

Bipartisan score

1%

crosses aisle rarely

Higher than 82% of chamber peers

Voting record

Yea

24,966

voted in favor

Nay

1,492

voted against

Absent

1,120

missed votes

Total cast

26,775

across all sessions

Crossed party

82

votes against own party

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Bill

Description

Vote

Result

Tally

Date

SB 2320

Campaigns and Campaign Finance - As enacted, clarifies that expenditures of campaign funds to enhance security for an officeholder's personal residence are not deemed for personal use and that such expenditures are limited to home security consultation, home security equipment, home security monitoring services, safe rooms, and the use of security guards at an officeholder's personal residence for non-campaign purposes; clarifies that such expenditures must not exceed $12,000 per calendar year and must be disclosed as "residential security." - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 10.

Yea

Passed

30–1

Apr 21, 2026

SB 2405

Law Enforcement - As enacted, establishes a Tennessee safe initiative task force, which is administratively attached to the Tennessee bureau of investigation. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 38 and Title 39.

Nay

Passed

9–2

Apr 21, 2026

SJR 1145

Memorials, Recognition - Health Information Technology Week -

Yea

Passed

9–0

Apr 21, 2026

SB 900

Criminal Procedure - As enacted, prohibits a defendant charged with certain offenses from being released on the defendant's personal recognizance or upon execution of an unsecured bond. - Amends TCA Title 40.

Nay

Passed

8–2

Apr 21, 2026

SB 2462

District Attorneys - As introduced, revises the data that district attorneys general are required to include in the annual report submitted to various officials and the public; requires the clerk of every court having jurisdiction over misdemeanor and felony cases to provide the district attorneys general conference direct and unlimited access to the clerk's case management or reporting system for the purposes of complying with the district attorneys general conference's and district attorneys general's statutory reporting requirements. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 8.

Yea

Passed

11–0

Apr 21, 2026

HB 1205

Physicians and Surgeons - As enacted, makes various changes relative to the authority of a physician or podiatrist to prescribe, dispense, or administer medication to the provider's own self or immediate family; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 39; Title 53; Title 63 and Title 68.

Yea

Passed

30–3

Apr 21, 2026

HB 2542

Unemployment Compensation - As enacted, removes a requirement that work be deemed suitable for a claimant if certain criteria are met and a claimant's gross weekly wages equal or exceed certain threshold percentages of the claimant's weekly wage for insured work for the quarter of the base period when the claimant's wages were greatest. - Amends TCA Section 50-7-303.

Nay

Passed

27–6

Apr 21, 2026

SR 399

Memorials, Recognition - Necrotizing Enterocolitis (NEC) Awareness Day, May 17 -

Yea

Passed

11–0

Apr 21, 2026

SB 2317

Education - As enacted, requires the department of education to implement a pilot program to evaluate whether administering fewer district- and state-mandated assessments results in students achieving greater academic success; adds an additional method by which a student who is not proficient in ELA, as determined by the student's achieving a performance level rating of “approaching” on the ELA portion of the student's most recent TCAP test, may be promoted. - Amends TCA Title 49. Bipartisan

Yea

Passed

9–1

Apr 21, 2026

SB 2293

Tobacco, Tobacco Products - As enacted, expands the definition of "consumable material" to include natural and synthetic liquid nicotine solutions and liquid nicotine analogues for purposes of the taxation of vapor products containing such material; requires the alcoholic beverage commission to issue the fines for the offense of selling or offering for sale a vapor product for retail sale in this state to anyone under 21. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17; Title 43; Title 57 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 10.

Yea

Passed

11–0

Apr 21, 2026