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
votes against own party
This page
8,952
matching current filters
Bill
Description
Vote
Result
Tally
Date
SB 536
Education - As introduced, requires the office of research and education accountability to study the Response to Instruction and Intervention framework and submit a report on its implementation in elementary schools to the members of the education committee of the senate and the education administration and planning committee of the house of representatives no later than July 1, 2018. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 3; Title 49, Chapter 5 and Title 49, Chapter 6. Bipartisan
Nay
Failed
4–4
Apr 5, 2017
SB 587
Education, Higher - As enacted, establishes certain requirements regarding records of the state university and community college system and the University of Tennessee system relative to investment programs. - Amends TCA Title 49.
Yea
Passed
8–0
Apr 5, 2017
SB 249
Education - As introduced, requires the department of education to form a partnership with a national nonprofit education organization to increase the offerings of rigorous high school classes that prepare students for college and that provide college credit through examination; requires, subject to appropriations, the state to fund payment of college credit examination fees and career and technical certification or licensure examination fees. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 3 and Title 49, Chapter 6.
Yea
Passed
7–1
Apr 5, 2017
SB 585
Education, Higher - As enacted, revises the application process for dual enrollment grants; revises provisions governing state employees taking up to four courses per academic year at any state-supported college or university, college of applied technology, or the Tennessee Foreign Language Institute without paying tuition charges, maintenance fees, student activity fees, registration fees, or online course fees for courses taken through the regents online degree programs. - Amends TCA Title 49.
Yea
Passed
9–0
Apr 5, 2017
SB 217
Local Education Agencies - As enacted, authorizes an LEA to develop and adopt, in consultation with the appropriate local law enforcement agency, a policy that authorizes a school security officer employed by the LEA to patrol within a one-mile radius of the security officer's assigned school, but not to exceed the boundaries of the assigned school's LEA. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.
Yea
Passed
9–0
Apr 5, 2017
SB 400
Education - As introduced, creates a pilot program to provide grants to elementary and middle schools to implement the Leader in Me® pilot program. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 2.
Yea
Passed
8–0
Apr 5, 2017
SB 859
Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, authorizes the BEP to provide funding that allows all first time teachers in the state to receive $500 for classroom instructional supplies. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 3.
Yea
Passed
8–0
Apr 5, 2017
SB 381
School Transportation - As introduced, requires any bus ordered or purchased on or after July 1, 2018, to be equipped with a restraint system; requires any bus that is currently used to transport students be equipped with a restraint system by July 1, 2023. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 21 and Title 55, Chapter 9, Part 6.
Yea
Passed
7–0
Apr 5, 2017
SB 1152
Education, Curriculum - As enacted, designates the week of September 17 as "Celebrate Freedom Week" in public schools; requires the department of education to provide LEAs with grade appropriate internet resources and materials for instruction for use during such week; establishes other related requirements. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 10.
Yea
Passed
9–0
Apr 5, 2017
SB 1418
Education - As enacted, revises various provisions concerning the Tennessee council for career and technical education. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 11, Part 2.
Yea
Passed
9–0
Apr 5, 2017
Ask Maddy
·
AI policy assistant
Ask Maddy about Dolores R. Gresham
Scope: TN
Hi! I can help you understand Dolores R. Gresham's legislative record. What would you like to know?
Try one of these
i
Maddy answers using official bill text and legislative records. Always verify before sharing.
Sources cited inline