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Sen. Bill Powers

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Total votes

3,933

all sessions

Attendance

43%

4,447 missed

Near the chamber average

With party

99%

of cast votes

Near the chamber average

Bipartisan score

crosses aisle rarely

Near the chamber average

About Sen. Bill Powers

Sen. serving Tennessee District 22. Member of the Republican party. Has been in office 7 years · 4 months. Serves on 5 committees, including Select Calendar, Education and Finance, Ways and Means.

Sworn in

Apr 25, 2019

7 years · 4 months

Closest ally

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How Bill votes, broken down

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Criminal Justice 34% / 66%

31 support · 60 oppose

Budget & Taxes 50% / 50%

28 support · 28 oppose

Education 69% / 31%

71 support · 32 oppose

Labor & Employment 46% / 54%

11 support · 13 oppose

23 support · 3 oppose

Veterans 100% / 0%

7 support · 0 oppose

Transportation 100% / 0%

8 support · 0 oppose

Immigration 41% / 59%

13 support · 19 oppose

Environment 26% / 74%

6 support · 17 oppose

Energy 50% / 50%

3 support · 3 oppose

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SB 1667Motor Vehicles - As enacted, prohibits the initial issuance of registration of a motor vehicle if the vehicle has not met the requirements of the Financial Responsibility Law of 1977, which provides insurance and financial responsibility requirements for motor vehicle operators; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 55 and Title 56. signed

3 months ago

SB 1668Local Government, General - As enacted, authorizes municipalities and metropolitan governments to adopt a tiered system of monetary penalties for repeated violations of the same municipal ordinance by the same person or entity within a 12-month period. - Amends TCA Title 6 and Title 7. signed

3 months ago

SB 2450Newspapers and Publications - As enacted, requires the Tennessee advisory commission on intergovernmental relations (TACIR) to conduct a study to determine if newspapers of general circulation remain the most efficient and effective manner for governments to provide the public with transparent and accessible information. - Amends TCA Title 1, Chapter 3 and Title 8, Chapter 44. signed

3 months ago

SB 2410Housing - As enacted, establishes the community workforce housing innovation pilot program to be administered by the Tennessee housing development agency; authorizes the agency to provide loans to an applicant for construction or rehabilitation of workforce housing in each of the three grand divisions; requires the housing to be affordable to natural persons or families who meet certain criteria. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 53; Title 13; Title 48, Chapter 101, Part 3; Title 56 and Title 67. in committee

3 months ago

SB 2442Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As enacted, enacts the "The Jeff Burkhart Act," which adds counties to the forms of local government that may establish a self-financing central business improvement district under the "Central Business Improvement District Act of 1990." - Amends TCA Title 5 and Title 7, Chapter 84, Part 5. in committee

3 months ago

SB 1670Military - As enacted, recognizes the United States space force as a distinct branch of the United States armed forces by adding the space force to definitions and provisions related to the military. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 6; Title 8; Title 36; Title 39; Title 40; Title 49; Title 55; Title 58; Title 62; Title 63 and Title 66. signed

3 months ago

SB 2441Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires an LEA to close a virtual school not meeting certain requirements for continued operation; requires the department of education to maintain and publish on the department's website a list of providers that operated or managed a virtual school that was closed for not meeting the requirements for continued operation; makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 49. signed

3 months ago

SB 1816Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, adds the bottling of distilled spirits to the definition of "manufacture" for purposes of licensing and regulation of the manufacturing of alcoholic beverages. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 3. signed

4 months ago

SB 1817Local Education Agencies - As enacted, revises law relative to LEAs providing enrollment and services to certain students who are the dependent children of service members. - Amends TCA Title 49. signed

4 months ago

SB 2447Professions and Occupations - As enacted, authorizes graduates of certain accredited engineering technology curriculums to apply for and become registered as engineers, provided, that such persons have prior engineering experience and meet certain examination requirements. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 62, Chapter 2, Part 4. in committee

4 months ago