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R Tennessee Senate · District 22

Sen. Bill Powers

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Total votes
21,421
all sessions
Attendance
99%
97 missed
With party
99%
of cast votes
Near the chamber average
Bipartisan score
0%
crosses aisle rarely
Near the chamber average
Sponsored
87
bills & resolutions
Near the chamber average
Committees
5
assignments
21,421 roll-call votes

Voting record

Yea
21,299
voted in favor
Nay
99
voted against
Absent
97
missed votes
Total cast
21,421
across all sessions
Crossed party
43
votes against own party
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Description
Vote
Result
Tally
Date
SJR 461
Memorials, Interns - Cleveland Buchanan Wilson -
Yea
Passed
33–0
Apr 21, 2025
SJR 451
Memorials, Academic Achievement - Amelia Van der Hengst, Valedictorian, South Haven Christian School -
Yea
Passed
33–0
Apr 21, 2025
HB 134
Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires, beginning August 1, 2027, each LEA and public charter school to prohibit food or beverage items that contain Allura Red AC, which is Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 25956-17-6 and also known as Red 40, to be sold, offered for sale, or provided to students on school property through the school nutrition program provided by the LEA, public charter school, or a third party expressly authorized by the LEA or public charter school. - Amends TCA Title 49.
Yea
Passed
33–0
Apr 21, 2025
SB 602
Education - As enacted, requires the department of education to develop guidelines and criteria for determining how long a student must have been present in a teacher's classroom before the student's record is attributable to the teacher for purposes of evaluating the teacher; authorizes an LEA or public charter school to compensate the estate of a teacher who, on the teacher's death, was in the employ of the LEA or public charter school for the teacher's unused and accrued annual and sick leave in the same manner that the estates of deceased state employees are compensated under present law. - Amends Chapter __ of the Public Acts of 2025 (1st Ex. Sess. – SB 6001 / HB 6004); and TCA Title 4, Chapter 49; Title 8 and Title 49.
Yea
Passed
33–0
Apr 21, 2025
SR 210
Memorials, Academic Achievement - Sharon Valentina Cardenas Useche, Valedictorian, Overton High School -
Yea
Passed
33–0
Apr 21, 2025
SB 186
State Inmates - As enacted, increases the accreditation stipend provided to eligible counties for each convicted felon housed by the county. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 29; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 41.
Yea
Passed
10–0
Apr 21, 2025
SR 222
Memorials, Academic Achievement - Sa'nya Harris, Salutatorian Sheffield High School -
Yea
Passed
33–0
Apr 21, 2025
HB 1434
Hardeman County - Subject to local approval, increases, from 85 percent to 92 percent, the assumed property tax collection rate in setting the general tax rate for the county general fund and creating a county budget that covers expenditures for the next appropriation year. - Amends Chapter 68 of the Private Acts of 1937; as amended.
Yea
Passed
32–0
Apr 21, 2025
SR 234
Memorials, Academic Achievement - Lillie Cate Allen, Salutatorian, Hillsboro High School -
Yea
Passed
33–0
Apr 21, 2025
HB 542
Utilities, Utility Districts - As enacted, makes revisions to present law relative to utilities. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 13, Chapter 7; Title 65 and Title 68.
Yea
Passed
24–6
Apr 21, 2025
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