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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Bill

Description

Vote

Result

Tally

Date

SB 1170

Health Care - As enacted, creates the state palliative care and quality of life task force. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 63 and Title 68.

Yea

Passed

8–0

Mar 22, 2017

SB 386

Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, permits the use of certain defenses to unlawful possession or carrying of a weapon by a person with a prior conviction for a felony involving the use of force, violence, deadly weapon, or drugs if convictions have been expunged or the person's rights of citizenship have been restored. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1308 and Title 40, Chapter 29, Part 1.

Absent

Passed

5–2

Mar 22, 2017

SB 1155

TennCare - As introduced, reestablishes the TennCare advisory commission. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 71.

Yea

Passed

8–0

Mar 22, 2017

SB 1117

Criminal Offenses - As introduced, expands the offense of reckless endangerment to include a person's reckless failure to render inoperable or safely secure or lock a firearm, resulting in a child under 13 years of age gaining possession of the firearm and injuring or killing the child or another. - Amends TCA Section 39-13-103.

Nay

Failed

3–6

Mar 22, 2017

SB 669

Controlled Substances - As enacted, requires that any person treated for a drug-related overdose with an opioid antagonist by a first responder be taken to a medical facility by emergency medical services for evaluation, unless the person is competent to refuse medical treatment and chooses to refuse treatment. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 1, Part 1.

Yea

Passed

6–3

Mar 22, 2017

SB 445

Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, creates a private cause of action for a party that is adversely affected by a local ordinance, resolution, policy, rule, or other enactment on firearms that is preempted by state law; restricts certain actions by local government in regard to handgun carry permittees. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 20 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

Yea

Passed

7–2

Mar 22, 2017

SB 682

Criminal Procedure - As introduced, adds the offense of aggravated burglary to the list of offenses ineligible for judicial diversion. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13; Title 39, Chapter 15 and Title 40, Chapter 35.

Yea

Passed

9–0

Mar 22, 2017

SB 807

Criminal Offenses - As introduced, reduces from 1,000 feet to 500 feet the drug-free school zone surrounding real property comprising a public or private elementary school, middle school, secondary school, preschool, or child care agency or public library, recreational center, or park. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-432. Against party

Yea

Failed

3–5

Mar 22, 2017

SB 1016

Coroners - As enacted, removes the Tennessee medical examiner advisory council from its wind down period so it will not terminate on June 30, 2017; extends council to June 30, 2019; renames and restructures the council. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2 and Title 38, Chapter 7, Part 2.

Yea

Passed

8–0

Mar 22, 2017

SB 449

Professions and Occupations - As enacted, requires state governmental entities that establish or adopt guides to practice to do so through the promulgation of rules. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 49; Title 62; Title 63; Title 68; Title 69 and Title 70.

Yea

Passed

8–0

Mar 22, 2017