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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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Bill

Description

Vote

Result

Tally

Date

SB 102

Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the Tennessee council for career and technical education four years to June 30, 2021. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2 and Title 49, Chapter 11.

Yea

Passed

9–0

Mar 29, 2017

SB 1145

General Assembly - As introduced, reestablishes the legislative oversight committees on TennCare, children's services, and correction. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 40; Title 41 and Title 71.

Yea

Passed

9–0

Mar 29, 2017

SB 1252

Children - As enacted, amends the requirements for what is to be included in a petition filed in juvenile court; clarifies the requirement that a court conducting a termination of parental rights hearing admit evidence pursuant to the Tennessee Rules of Evidence. - Amends TCA Section 36-1-113; Section 37-1-120; Section 37-1-129 and Section 37-1-183.

Yea

Passed

8–0

Mar 28, 2017

SB 473

Professions and Occupations - As enacted, enacts the "Freedom to Prosper Act" to limit the circumstances under which local government entities may regulate certain occupations. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 56, Chapter 1, Part 3; Title 62 and Title 63.

Yea

Failed

2–0

Mar 28, 2017

SB 1171

TennCare - As introduced, requires healthcare payors participating in an alternative payment system to disclose certain information to physicians; requires physicians to use best efforts not to disclose cost information to certain persons. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 71.

Yea

Passed

8–0

Mar 28, 2017

SB 816

Criminal Offenses - As enacted, gives immunity from civil or criminal liability to a person for making a report to law enforcement of suspicious activity or behavior if the report is based on articulable suspicion. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 8.

Yea

Passed

8–0

Mar 28, 2017

SB 1243

Courts, Juvenile - As enacted, requires expunction of certain juvenile records upon motion; requires an adjudicating court to inform a child of the need to file a motion for expunction of a juvenile record; requires the administrative office of the courts to create a motion that can be completed by a child; requires juvenile court clerks to make the model expunction motion available to all children. - Amends TCA Section 37-1-153.

Yea

Passed

9–0

Mar 28, 2017

SB 1241

Sentencing - As enacted, increases penalty for unlawfully possessing a firearm with a prior conviction for a felony involving use of force or violence from Class C felony to Class B felony; increases from Class D felony to Class C felony penalty for person unlawfully possessing firearm with prior felony drug offense. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13 and Title 40, Chapter 35, Part 3.

Yea

Passed

8–1

Mar 28, 2017

SJR 263

General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Keith Jordan, Tennessee Regulatory Authority -

Yea

Passed

7–0

Mar 28, 2017

SB 1214

Workers Compensation - As enacted, renames the second injury fund to subsequent injury and vocational recovery fund and authorizes the bureau to use money from the fund to provide vocational recovery assistance to employees with certain limitations; revises certain provisions regarding electing to be exempt from the law; and revises various procedural provisions regarding appeals of workers' compensation orders. - Amends TCA Section 9-8-307; Section 29-20-401 and Title 50, Chapter 6.

Yea

Passed

9–0

Mar 28, 2017