Total votes
21,421
all sessions
Attendance
99%
97 missed
With party
99%
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Bipartisan score
0%
crosses aisle rarely
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Sponsored
87
bills & resolutions
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Committees
5
assignments
21,421 roll-call votes
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21,299
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99
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Vote
Result
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Date
SB 1116
School Transportation - As enacted, increases, from four years to six years, the maximum period of time that a contractual agreement between a director of schools and a school transportation employee and between a board of education and a person owning equipment for transportation services is authorized. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 21.
Yea
Passed
9–0
Mar 3, 2021
SB 268
Driver Licenses - As enacted, adds the NAVPERS-660 honorable discharge certificate to the list of documents that may be submitted by an honorably discharged veteran who requests to have the "veteran" designation on a driver license. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50, Part 3.
Yea
Passed
8–0
Mar 3, 2021
SB 722
Children's Services, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department, working jointly with the higher education commission, the board of regents, and public institutions of higher education, to establish a foster care youth outreach pilot program at a minimum of five public institutions of higher education. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 49.
Yea
Passed
9–0
Mar 3, 2021
HB 842
Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires each high school to designate an apprenticeship training program contact; requires the department of education to compile and publish a list of the apprenticeship program contacts. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 49; Title 62 and Title 67.
Yea
Passed
8–1
Mar 3, 2021
HB 139
Children's Services, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department, working jointly with the higher education commission, the board of regents, and public institutions of higher education, to establish a foster care youth outreach pilot program at a minimum of five public institutions of higher education. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 49.
Yea
Passed
9–0
Mar 3, 2021
SB 769
Textbooks - As enacted, prohibits the state textbook and instructional materials quality commission, state board of education, and public schools from recommending, approving, or using textbooks and instructional materials and supplemental 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; provides for withholding of funds if teacher or principal intentionally violates prohibition on such textbooks and materials. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 22.
Yea
Passed
9–0
Mar 3, 2021
SB 230
Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, enacts the "Teacher's Discipline Act," which establishes requirements and procedures for teachers to discipline students in the teachers' classrooms, including relocation of a student. - Amends TCA Title 49.
Yea
Passed
8–1
Mar 3, 2021
SB 738
Education - As enacted, makes various changes to the Special Education Behavioral Supports Act, including the use of isolation and physical holding restraints. - Amends TCA Section 37-1-120 and Title 49, Chapter 10, Part 13.
Yea
Passed
9–0
Mar 3, 2021
SB 406
Traffic Safety - As introduced, revises exemption that authorizes municipalities having a population of 10,000 or less to enforce traffic laws on a contiguous portion of an interstate highway within the boundaries of the municipality if there are at least two entrance ramps and two exit ramps so that the contiguous portion no longer needs to be solely within the boundaries of the municipality. - Amends TCA Title 55.
Yea
Passed
8–0
Mar 3, 2021
SB 293
Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, removes residency requirements for a person applying for a retail liquor license. - Amends TCA Section 57-3-204.
Yea
Passed
9–0
Mar 2, 2021
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