R Tennessee Senate · District 22

Sen. Bill Powers

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Total votes

21,674

all sessions

Attendance

99%

107 missed

Near the chamber average

With party

99%

of cast votes

Near the chamber average

Bipartisan score

0%

crosses aisle rarely

Near the chamber average

Voting record

Yea

21,552

voted in favor

Nay

99

voted against

Absent

107

missed votes

Total recorded

21,674

across all sessions

Crossed party

45

votes against own party

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Bill

Description

Vote

Result

Tally

Date

HB 1386

Public Employees - As enacted, revises and adds to the provisions governing petitions for such deputies and assistants and disputes regarding the hiring or salary of such a deputy or assistant. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 20.

Yea

Passed

8–1

Mar 24, 2021

SB 1154

Education - As introduced, requires the commissioner of education to file the commissioner's annual report concerning K-12 education by October 1 of each year instead of by November 1. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Yea

Passed

9–0

Mar 24, 2021

SB 1613

Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As introduced, requires county clerks to retain $3.00 of the $11.00 fee for noting liens, encumbrances, or mortgages on a certificate of title; requires that the retained funds be earmarked for office supplies and equipment related to the notations. - Amends TCA Section 55-6-101.

Yea

Passed

9–0

Mar 24, 2021

HB 529

Education, Curriculum - As enacted, requires an LEA or public charter school to notify a student's parent or guardian prior to commencing instruction of a sexual orientation or gender identity curriculum; permits a parent or guardian to excuse the parent's or guardian's student from a sexual orientation or gender identity curriculum, and prohibits the LEA or charter school from penalizing an excused student. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 13.

Yea

Passed

7–2

Mar 24, 2021

SB 793

Veterans Services, Dept. of - As enacted, enacts the "Major Trevor Joseph Act," which requires the department to provide burial services for a person who died while on active duty with the armed forces and is being interred in a state veterans cemetery on a date requested by the family members of the person if the department is given notice of the burial at least 72 hours in advance of the burial. - Amends TCA Title 46, Chapter 6 and Title 58.

Yea

Passed

8–0

Mar 24, 2021

HB 537

Basic Education Program (BEP) - As introduced, increases the number of BEP funded full-time public school nurse positions from one for every 3,000 students to one for every 750 students; increases the number of full-time public school nurses considered sufficient for the public school nurse program to adequately provide services from one nurse for every 3,000 students to one nurse for every 750 students. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 68, Chapter 1, Part 12.

Yea

Passed

9–0

Mar 24, 2021

HB 840

Basic Education Program (BEP) - As introduced, requires the BEP formula to fund one full-time response to instruction and intervention (RTI²) position per 1,000 students or one full-time RTI² position for each LEA, whichever is greater. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Yea

Passed

9–0

Mar 24, 2021

SR 18

General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Nisha Powers, Tennessee Board of Regents -

Yea

Passed

8–0

Mar 24, 2021

SJR 169

General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Allen Carter, University of Tennessee Knoxville Advisory Board -

Yea

Passed

9–0

Mar 24, 2021

HB 442

Veterans Services, Dept. of - As enacted, enacts the "Major Trevor Joseph Act," which requires the department to provide burial services for a person who died while on active duty with the armed forces and is being interred in a state veterans cemetery on a date requested by the family members of the person if the department is given notice of the burial at least 72 hours in advance of the burial. - Amends TCA Title 46, Chapter 6 and Title 58.

Yea

Passed

8–0

Mar 24, 2021