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Sen. Kerry Roberts

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Total votes

24,462

all sessions

Attendance

97%

657 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

24,071

voted in favor

Nay

216

voted against

Absent

657

missed votes

Total cast

24,462

across all sessions

Crossed party

179

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Bill

Description

Vote

Result

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Date

SB 461

Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As enacted, expands to include pharmacists in the prohibition on discrimination by managed health insurance issuers against optometrists, ophthalmologists, podiatrists, and chiropractors solely on the basis of their license or certification, if such providers are acting within the scope of their license or certification. - Amends TCA Section 56-32-129.

Yea

Passed

5–0

Feb 28, 2017

SB 116

Education, Higher - As enacted, authorizes the board of regents, the trustees of the University of Tennessee, and state university board of each public institution of higher education to adopt policies regulating smoking on property owned or operated by the institution; provided, that such policies do not permit smoking in any location where smoking is otherwise prohibited by law. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 39, Chapter 17; Title 39, Chapter 15 and Title 49.

Yea

Passed

6–0

Feb 28, 2017

SB 433

Courts, Juvenile - As enacted, revises provisions governing certain juvenile-related reporting requirements. - Amends TCA Title 37.

Yea

Passed

9–0

Feb 28, 2017

SB 551

Sentencing - As enacted, increases classification of offense of patronizing prostitution from a Class B to a Class A misdemeanor. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 3 and Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 5.

Yea

Passed

9–0

Feb 28, 2017

SB 690

Sentencing - As enacted, adds public employees to the list of those ineligible for suspended prosecution and pretrial diversion for a misdemeanor offense committed in the course of the person's employment, under the same provisions currently applicable to elected and appointed state and local officials so charged. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 15.

Yea

Passed

7–0

Feb 28, 2017

SB 221

Probation and Parole - As enacted, establishes procedures to govern the release of a parolee whose parole has been revoked and who has been reincarcerated as the result of being charged with an offense committed while on parole if that charge is dismissed. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 28.

Yea

Passed

9–0

Feb 28, 2017

SB 1206

Mental Illness - As enacted, establishes procedures to be followed by the trial court for the diagnosis, evaluation, and initial treatment of persons found not guilty by reason of insanity for first degree murder or certain other Class A felonies. - Amends TCA Section 33-7-303.

Yea

Passed

9–0

Feb 28, 2017

SB 285

Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As enacted, permits the TBI to collect a $250 fee when a blood alcohol or drug concentration test is administered by law enforcement and tested by the TBI for the offenses of reckless driving and simple possession or casual exchange of a controlled substance. - Amends TCA Section 55-10-413.

Yea

Passed

9–0

Feb 28, 2017

SB 1229

Statutes and Codification - As enacted, codifies the Acts of the 2016 regular and extraordinary sessions. -

Yea

Passed

9–0

Feb 28, 2017

SB 428

Funeral Directors and Embalmers - As enacted, removes social security number from the information that a funeral establishment must include on the permanent identification device attached to a dead human body prior to interment and from the permanent identification device placed in the crematory urn before the remains are placed in the urn. - Amends TCA Section 62-5-313.

Yea

Passed

6–0

Feb 28, 2017