R Tennessee Senate · District 23 On the 2026 ballot

Sen. Kerry Roberts

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Session

Total votes

27,633

all sessions

Attendance

96%

1,043 missed

Lower than 84% of chamber peers

With party

99%

of cast votes

Lower than 91% of chamber peers

Bipartisan score

0%

crosses aisle rarely

Higher than 88% of chamber peers

Voting record

Yea

27,199

voted in favor

Nay

256

voted against

Absent

1,043

missed votes

Total cast

27,633

across all sessions

Crossed party

214

votes against own party

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Description

Vote

Result

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Date

SB 1757

Election Laws - As enacted, authorizes, if a candidate changes treasurers and notifies the registry of election finance of the change, the candidate to continue to use print communication that includes the identification of the former treasurer until the print communication is exhausted. - Amends TCA Title 2.

Yea

Passed

8–0

Mar 31, 2026

SB 2162

Open Meetings - As enacted, authorizes a governing body to conduct an executive session for the purpose of interviewing applicants for employment as director-level staff of the body without providing public notice of such session. - Amends TCA Title 8. Against party

Nay

Passed

6–2

Mar 31, 2026

SB 2428

Veterans - As introduced, requires local governmental entities to invite honorably discharged veterans who apply for employment or promotion to interview; requires preference be given to such veteran if the minimum qualifications and the skills, abilities, competencies, and knowledge of the veteran and any another applicant being interviewed for the position are equal; requires state and local application forms to provide the option for an applicant to declare veteran status. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51; Title 8, Chapter 30, Part 3 and Title 58, Chapter 2.

Absent

Failed

3–3

Mar 31, 2026

SB 777

Election Laws - As introduced, specifies that the reasonable period for candidates to remove signs, posters, or placards advocating their candidacy is two weeks after the election instead of three weeks. - Amends TCA Title 2.

Yea

Passed

6–3

Mar 31, 2026

SB 2591

County Government - As introduced, prohibits an employee of a local government from serving on the legislative body of the local government for which the employee works. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 12 and Title 49.

Yea

Passed

5–3

Mar 31, 2026

SB 1045

Real Property - As introduced, prohibits the state or a local or municipal government from requiring a builder or developer of real property to pay for the building or development of infrastructure that is nonessential to the development, maintenance, or growth of the builder's development property. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13; Title 54 and Title 66.

Yea

Passed

8–1

Mar 31, 2026

SB 2581

County Boundaries - As introduced, increases from 90 days to 100 days the amount of time that a joint committee on county consolidation has following its receipt of a petition of consolidation to report its findings and recommendations on the feasibility of consolidation of the petitioning county with another county. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 12 and Title 67.

Yea

Passed

7–0

Mar 31, 2026

SB 2283

Tourism - As enacted, requires revenue that is received by a municipality and that is used to fund a destination marketing entity engaged in tourism promotion on behalf of the municipality be released to the destination marketing entity no later than 120 days after the municipality approves its final budget. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 67.

Yea

Passed

8–0

Mar 31, 2026

SB 1760

Real Property - As enacted, authorizes a tax increment agency to enter into a taxpayer agreement relative to a plan area after obtaining a written statement executed by each holder of an existing, previously recorded mortgage or deed of trust on the property securing indebtedness and in which each holder consents to the taxpayer agreement and indicates that the assessment does not constitute an event of default under the existing mortgage or deed of trust. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 23 and Title 67, Chapter 5.

Yea

Passed

8–0

Mar 31, 2026

SB 1804

Correction, Dept. of - As enacted, requires a county incurring expenses pursuant to a criminal prosecution to provide an invoice of the expenses imposed on the county to the department; requires, within 60 days of receiving an invoice, the department to pay the amount of the invoiced expenses permitted by law to the county. - Amends TCA Title 40 and Title 41.

Yea

Passed

9–0

Mar 31, 2026