R Tennessee Senate · District 28

Sen. Joey Hensley

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Total votes

24,890

all sessions

Attendance

98%

532 missed

Near the chamber average

With party

97%

of cast votes

Near the chamber average

Bipartisan score

crosses aisle rarely

Near the chamber average

About Sen. Joey Hensley

Sen. serving Tennessee District 28. Member of the Republican party. Has been in office 13 years · 8 months. Serves on 4 committees, including Finance, Ways and Means, Education and Health and Welfare.

Sworn in

Jan 8, 2013

13 years · 8 months

Closest ally

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How Joey votes, broken down

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Criminal Justice 58% / 42%

15 support · 11 oppose

Education 50% / 50%

17 support · 17 oppose

Budget & Taxes 92% / 8%

12 support · 1 oppose

Technology 33% / 67%

1 support · 2 oppose

Healthcare 85% / 15%

11 support · 2 oppose

Labor & Employment 33% / 67%

Transportation 100% / 0%

1 support · 0 oppose

Environment 10% / 90%

1 support · 9 oppose

Immigration 9% / 91%

1 support · 10 oppose

Energy 0% / 100%

0 support · 1 oppose

Last activity

Recent legislative activity

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SB 599State Government - As enacted, terminates the James K. Polk Memorial Association and requires the Tennessee historical commission to enter into good faith negotiations for the purchase and transfer of the James K. Polk Home in Columbia. - Amends TCA Title 4. signed

3 months ago

SB 2385Tennessee Investment in Student Achievement (TISA) - As enacted, requires the TISA review committee to study and include in its annual report recommendations for how this state may revise the ways in which it identifies economically disadvantaged students to ensure this state is accurately identifying the students in need of additional resources and recommendations for how this state may better support economically disadvantaged students through the TISA. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1 and Title 49, Chapter 3. in committee

3 months ago

SB 1847Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, lowers the standard for the use of deadly force to protect property. - Amends TCA Title 39. signed

3 months ago

SB 2318Schools, Charter - As enacted, allows private postsecondary institutions, including those that are religiously affiliated, to operate a public charter school; allows such institutions to apply to the local board of education or directly to the Tennessee public charter school commission to open a public charter school and to give an enrollment preference to children of the institution's employees or members of its governing body in the same manner afforded to public institutions of higher education. - Amends TCA Title 49. signed

3 months ago

SB 821Education, Curriculum - As enacted, establishes a pilot program that provides grants to local education agencies to advance substance abuse and violence prevention programs. - Amends TCA Title 49. signed

3 months ago

SB 1912Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires each LEA and public charter school to adopt an internet acceptable use policy; makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 49. in committee

3 months ago

SB 2388Criminal Procedure - As enacted, revises present law that authorizes the attorney general to bring an action to enforce compliance with the Tennessee Abortion-Inducing Drug Risk Protocol Act or intervene as a matter of right in a case in which the constitutionality of such act is challenged. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40. in committee

3 months ago

SB 2412Abortion - As enacted, revises present law that authorizes the attorney general to bring an action to enforce compliance with the Tennessee Abortion-Inducing Drug Risk Protocol Act or intervene as a matter of right in a case in which the constitutionality of such act is challenged; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 18; Title 29, Chapter 39 and Title 63, Chapter 6, Part 11. signed

3 months ago

SB 2366Physicians and Surgeons - As enacted, requires the board of medical examiners to issue a provisional foreign training license of two years, which may be extended for an additional one year, to an internationally trained physician who has successfully completed the examination described in current law upon finding sufficient evidence that the internationally trained physician has met certain listed criteria; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 63. signed

3 months ago

SB 2352Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, states that if the possession of a handgun is restricted or prohibited at a county courthouse, then the sheriff of the county may provide secure storage lockers for those individuals who are lawfully carrying a firearm to store the firearm in separate secured, lockable storage units at or near a designated public entrance to the building or structure at no cost to the individual. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 7; Title 8, Chapter 8 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13. in committee

3 months ago