Total votes
8,952
all sessions
Attendance
92%
693 missed
With party
99%
of cast votes
Higher than 77% of chamber peers
Bipartisan score
0%
crosses aisle rarely
Lower than 83% of chamber peers
Sponsored
560
bills & resolutions
Lower than 77% of chamber peers
Committees
0
assignments
8,952 roll-call votes
Voting record
Yea
8,885
voted in favor
Nay
57
voted against
Absent
693
missed votes
Total cast
8,952
across all sessions
Crossed party
39
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Bill
Description
Vote
Result
Tally
Date
SB 864
Education, Curriculum - As enacted, enacts the "Senator Douglas Henry Tennessee History Act". - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49.
Yea
Passed
8–0
Apr 5, 2017
SB 574
Education, Curriculum - As enacted, revises provisions governing the standards recommendations committees. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 3.
Yea
Passed
6–0
Apr 5, 2017
SB 263
Schools, Charter - As enacted, authorizes a chartering authority to require a charter school sponsor to pay to the chartering authority an application fee of up to $2,500 with each charter school application the charter school files. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 13.
Yea
Passed
8–0
Apr 5, 2017
SB 998
Education - As enacted, recognizes students who earn a composite score of 19 on the ACT, or an equivalent score on the SAT, and who also earn a capstone industry certification as promoted by the department of education, as a Tennessee Tri-Star Scholar upon graduation; requires schools to recognize the student as a Tennessee Tri-Star Scholar at the school's graduation ceremony. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 60.
Yea
Passed
9–0
Apr 5, 2017
SB 631
Education, Curriculum - As introduced, requires students to complete one year of instruction in American government and one year of instruction in Tennessee history between grades 7 and 12 to receive a high school diploma, with various exceptions. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.
Yea
Passed
9–0
Apr 5, 2017
SB 248
Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires, beginning with the 2018-2019 school year, each LEA to make available to its high school students opportunities to take at least four early postsecondary opportunities. - Amends TCA Title 49.
Yea
Passed
9–0
Apr 5, 2017
SB 732
Education, Higher - As enacted, revises provisions governing complaint investigations and resolutions under the State Authorization Reciprocity Agreement (SARA) Act. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 15.
Yea
Passed
7–0
Apr 5, 2017
SB 1394
Education - As enacted, requires the department of education to review all current laws and policies related to exclusionary discipline practices in public schools for students in pre-kindergarten through kindergarten and to develop guidelines and standards for alternatives to exclusionary discipline practices based on the findings of the review; establishes other related requirements. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 10; Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 5 and Title 49, Chapter 6.
Yea
Passed
9–0
Apr 5, 2017
SB 733
Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires each school safety team to conduct at least one armed intruder drill annually. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 8.
Yea
Passed
8–0
Apr 5, 2017
SB 831
Education - As introduced, enacts the "K-12 Block Grant Act," which distributes block grants to each LEA to improve the quality of education; appropriates $250 million from excess state tax revenues over collected in fiscal years 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 for K-12 block grants. - Amends TCA Title 9 and Title 49. Against party
Nay
Passed
5–3
Apr 5, 2017
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