Total votes
28,015
all sessions
Attendance
96%
1,085 missed
Near the chamber average
With party
98%
of cast votes
Lower than 93% of chamber peers
Bipartisan score
1%
crosses aisle rarely
Higher than 90% of chamber peers
Sponsored
773
bills & resolutions
Near the chamber average
Committees
6
assignments
28,015 roll-call votes
Voting record
Yea
27,495
voted in favor
Nay
497
voted against
Absent
1,085
missed votes
Total cast
28,015
across all sessions
Crossed party
292
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Description
Vote
Result
Tally
Date
SB 622
Highways, Roads and Bridges - As introduced, extends, from 10 to 15 days, the period of time in which the department of transportation must notify the owner of personal property encroaching on the right of way of a highway that the department removed the encroachment. - Amends TCA Title 54.
Yea
Passed
8–0
Mar 29, 2017
SB 299
Highways, Roads and Bridges - As introduced, authorizes TDOT to impose tolls on low-emission and energy-efficient vehicles and single occupancy vehicles that use managed/toll lanes on interstates; dedicates use of toll revenue to maintenance of managed/toll lanes; makes other related revisions. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 54; Title 55; Title 64 and Title 65.
Nay
Failed
3–4
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 389
Taxes, Hotel Motel - As enacted, authorizes the City of McMinnville, by ordinance adopted by a two-thirds vote, to levy an occupancy tax of not more than 2.5 percent on the privilege of staying in any hotel or motel in McMinnville; the ordinance must set forth the manner of collection and administration of the privilege tax; requires that all proceeds received by the municipality from the tax be used for tourism development. - Amends amend TCA Section 67-4-1425.
Yea
Passed
11–0
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 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
11–0
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
SB 1215
Telecommunications - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Broadband Accessibility Act." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 7; Title 7, Chapter 59, Part 3; Title 65, Chapter 25 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 20.
Yea
Passed
11–0
Mar 28, 2017
SB 1245
Criminal Procedure - As enacted, reduces from $350 to $180 the expunction fee for criminal convictions; revises allocation of fee proceeds. - Amends TCA Section 8-21-401 and Title 40.
Yea
Passed
9–0
Mar 28, 2017
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