Total votes
21,674
all sessions
Attendance
99%
107 missed
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With party
99%
of cast votes
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Bipartisan score
0%
crosses aisle rarely
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Sponsored
560
bills & resolutions
Near the chamber average
Committees
5
assignments
21,674 roll-call votes
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21,552
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99
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Absent
107
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Total cast
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Result
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Date
SB 115
Driver Licenses - As enacted, disqualifies for life persons convicted of a human trafficking offense from obtaining a commercial driver license; requires lifetime suspension of commercial driver license for persons convicted of a human trafficking offense. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 3 and Title 55, Chapter 50.
Yea
Passed
9–0
Mar 17, 2021
SB 365
Education, Higher - As enacted, extends and expands provisions regarding the process of selecting persons to fill certain positions at a public institution of higher education in this state. - Amends TCA Section 49-7-154.
Yea
Passed
9–0
Mar 17, 2021
SB 1046
Motor Vehicles - As enacted, expands the definitions of Class I off-highway vehicles and all-terrain vehicles to include those off-highway vehicles with a total dry weight up to 3,500 pounds; clarifies that the width of such vehicles must be measured from the outside of the tire rim to the outside of the tire rim. - Amends TCA Title 11; Title 47 and Title 55.
Yea
Passed
9–0
Mar 17, 2021
HB 402
Motor Vehicles - As enacted, expands the definitions of Class I off-highway vehicles and all-terrain vehicles to include those off-highway vehicles with a total dry weight up to 3,500 pounds; clarifies that the width of such vehicles must be measured from the outside of the tire rim to the outside of the tire rim. - Amends TCA Title 11; Title 47 and Title 55.
Yea
Passed
9–0
Mar 17, 2021
HB 86
Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As enacted, reduces the lower gross weight threshold for freight vehicles that are required to pay the registration tax of $1,019 from 56,000 pounds to 55,000 pounds; removes authority for nonresidents to apply directly to department of revenue for off-highway vehicle permits; authorizes issuance of decals instead of new plates upon expiration of special purpose plates for manufacturers, dealers, transporters, and nonprofit organizations. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.
Yea
Passed
9–0
Mar 17, 2021
HB 755
Textbooks - As enacted, revises various provisions governing textbooks and instructional materials; prohibits public school teachers and principals from using or permitting the use of textbooks and instructional materials created to align exclusively with the Common Core State Standards or that are marketed or otherwise identified as Common Core textbooks or materials. - Amends TCA Section 49-6-2203 and Section 49-6-2206.
Yea
Passed
9–0
Mar 17, 2021
SB 1178
Motor Vehicles - As enacted, specifies three segments of state highways located in Unicoi County where operation of off-highway vehicles will be authorized. - Amends TCA Section 55-8-185.
Yea
Passed
9–0
Mar 17, 2021
HB 1591
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
9–0
Mar 17, 2021
HB 92
Utilities, Utility Districts - As enacted, authorizes the department of transportation to notify by electronic transmission, owners of utility facilities that occupy rights-of-way of any highway on which construction related to the relocation of a utility facility is proposed. - Amends TCA Section 54-5-853.
Yea
Passed
9–0
Mar 17, 2021
SB 914
Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires an LEA to provide voter registration information by hand delivery, mail, or email to the LEA's students who are 18 years of age on or before a date of election. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 12.
Yea
Passed
5–3
Mar 17, 2021
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