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 cast

21,674

across all sessions

Crossed party

45

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Bill

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Vote

Result

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Date

HB 734

Nurses, Nursing - As enacted, requires the board for licensing health care facilities to promulgate emergency rules no later than July 1, 2021, to permit persons who qualified as temporary nurse aides on or after the beginning date of the national public health emergency declared January 31, 2020, to become certified as nursing assistants in this state and be placed on the nurse aide registry. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 49; Title 63 and Title 68.

Yea

Passed

30–0

Mar 22, 2021

SJR 295

Memorials, Professional Achievement - Victoria Smith, Grades Pre-K-4 Teacher of the Year, Norman Smith Elementary School -

Yea

Passed

32–0

Mar 22, 2021

SJR 273

Memorials, Professional Achievement - Ellen Scruggs, Rossview Elementary School Grades PreK-4 Teacher of the Year -

Yea

Passed

32–0

Mar 22, 2021

SB 1156

Education - As enacted, requires, if an appeal of a mandatory retention in third grade based on a student's scores on the ELA portion of the student's TCAP test is filed, it must be filed by the student's parent or guardian; requires an LEA or public charter school to include information about third grade retention in information the LEA or charter school must send to a student's parent upon determining that the student has a significant reading deficiency. - Amends Chapter 1 of the Public Acts of 2021 (1st Ex. Sess.); Chapter 3 of the Public Acts of 2021 (1st Ex. Sess.) and TCA Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 9; and Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 31.

Yea

Passed

30–0

Mar 22, 2021

SB 201

Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As enacted, designates June 19 of each year as "Juneteenth," a day of special observance. - Amends TCA Title 15.

Yea

Passed

30–0

Mar 22, 2021

SB 473

Motor Vehicles - As enacted, eliminates the condition that a first lienholder or the first lienholder's designee may only file an application for a motor vehicle temporary lien with the secretary of state when a manufacturer's statement of origin or an existing certificate of title on a motor vehicle is unavailable. - Amends TCA Section 55-3-126.

Yea

Passed

30–0

Mar 22, 2021

HB 712

Driver Licenses - As enacted, requires that a Class H or hardship license issued to a minor holding a Class P license or instructional permit expires on the date the Class P license or instructional permit expires. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50.

Yea

Passed

30–0

Mar 22, 2021

HB 401

Workers Compensation - As enacted, authorizes the court of workers' compensation claims to award additional attorneys' fees and costs incurred when an employer wrongfully denies a claim or wrongfully fails to timely initiate benefits to which the employee or dependent is entitled for injuries that occur between July 1, 2021, and June 30, 2023. - Amends TCA Section 50-6-226.

Yea

Passed

30–0

Mar 22, 2021

HB 605

Real Estate Agents and Brokers - As enacted, authorizes direct payments to be made to a business entity solely owned by a broker, affiliate broker, or other licensee licensed by the real estate commission formed for the purpose of receiving compensation for the broker, affiliate broker, or other licensee. - Amends TCA Title 48; Title 62 and Title 66.

Yea

Passed

30–0

Mar 22, 2021

SJR 300

Memorials, Professional Achievement - Jessica Drudy, Montgomery Central High School Grades 9-12 Teacher of the Year -

Yea

Passed

32–0

Mar 22, 2021